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Latest Pompeii collapse: Garden wall gives way - Yahoo! News

ROME – A stretch of garden wall ringing an ancient house in Pompeii gave way Tuesday after days of torrential rain, the latest structure to collapse at the popular archaeological site.

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France's "Battle of the Misses": Flesh v. Decorum - Yahoo! News

PARIS (Reuters) – In her trademark black and white hat and severe pancake make-up, 78-year-old Genevieve de Fontenay has reigned supreme over the Miss France beauty contest for more than half a century.

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Filmmaker Zucker pays tribute to Leslie Nielsen - Yahoo! News

(David Zucker, along with brother Jerry Zucker and Jim Abrahams, cast Leslie Nielsen, then known for his dramatic work, as a deadpan doctor in "Airplane!" (1980), launching Nielsen's "second career" in such classic comedies as the trio's "Naked Gun" films. Nielsen died Sunday of complications from pneumonia, aged 84.)

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Ireland's bailout boosts banks, inflames taxpayers - Yahoo! News

DUBLIN – Ireland's international bailout boosted its bank stocks Monday but outraged many hard-pressed taxpayers, who questioned why the government's pension reserves must be ravaged as part of a deal that burdens the whole country with the mistakes of a rich elite.

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Oregon Muslim leaders fear retribution after plot - Yahoo! News

CORVALLIS, Ore. – Patrols around mosques and other Islamic sites in Portland have been stepped up as Muslim leaders expressed fears of retribution, days after a Somali-American man was accused of trying to blow up a van full of explosives during the city's Christmas tree lighting ceremony.

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Staggering Picasso trove turns up in France - Yahoo! News

PARIS – A retired French electrician and his wife have come forward with 271 undocumented, never-before-seen works by Pablo Picasso estimated to be worth at least 60 million euros ($79.35 million), an administrator of the artist's estate said Monday.

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Progress made on protecting sharks, groups say - Yahoo! News

PARIS – An international conservation conference in Paris made progress Saturday on protecting sharks but didn't do anything to save the Atlantic bluefin tuna, which has been severely overfished to feed the market for sushi in Japan, environmental groups said.

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Eyes on interest rate in crunch Irish rescue talks - Yahoo! News

DUBLIN (Reuters) – Ireland entered the final hours of negotiations for emergency EU and IMF loans on Saturday with attention focused on the interest rate its taxpayers will be forced to pay to bail out their government and their banks.

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Report: NY actor says he killed 'demon' in his mom - Yahoo! News

NEW YORK – An actor accused of hacking his mother to death with a sword felt like the character Neo from the movie "The Matrix" — "hearing voices and feeling powerful" — before the attack, he said in a newspaper interview published Friday.

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