10 legit ways to get cheaper rail fares

“Independent rail expert Barry Doe details 10 popular journeys on which you can save money by asking for your ticket in the right way.”

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Portugal’s parliament has voted to legalise abortion on demand, after a referendum failed to settle the issue in the mainly Catholic country.
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“A woman who went into a vegetative state in November of 2000 awoke this week for three days, spoke with her family and a local television station before slipping back on Wednesday. “I’m fine,” Christa Lilly told her mother on Sunday — her first words in eight months. She has awakened four other times for briefer periods.”
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according to CNN Website A former member of the U.S. Navy formerly known as Paul R. Hall, 31, was arrested Wednesday in Phoenix, Arizona, on charges of espionage and providing material support to terrorists, the Department of Justice said.

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According to CNN at least two people woke up Wednesday on their way to becoming millionaires.

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16 years after an amateur videographer George Holliday, filmed the beating of Rodney King by the Los Angeles police officers on the night of March 3 1991,the French Constitutional Council has approved a law that criminalizes the filming or broadcasting of acts of violence by people other than professional journalists.
If you are publishing such images you could face up to five years in prison and a fine of €75,000.Cerise sur le gâteau, the French government has also proposed a certification system for Web sites, blog hosters, mobile-phone operators and Internet service providers, identifying them as government-approved sources of information if they adhere to certain rules.
Please noted that the LA police officers were acquited at the end on April 29, 1992.

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An Indonesian jetliner Boeing 737-400 owned by state airline Garuda was carrying 140 people burst into flames as it landed on Java island Wednesday, trapping a number of people inside the burning plane, the airline and witnesses said.There are at least 95 confirmed survivors.”It is a terrible tragedy,Many lives have been lost and our love and sympathy and condolences go to those who are suffering distress and grief.”said Prime Minister John Howard.10 Australians were aboard the plane mainly diplomatic staff and journalists who were traveling from the capital, Jakarta, ahead of Foreign Affairs Minister Alexander Downer and Attorney-General Phillip Ruddock, who had been due to attend a function later Wednesday.

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“A powerful earthquake has struck the Indonesian island of Sumatra, killing at least 70 people and flattening hundreds of buildings.
The US Geological Survey said the quake had a magnitude of 6.3, and was centred near the town of Padang.” Read More at BBC NEWS

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Google chief executive Eric Schmidt said Monday that Google and Apple are continuing to collaborate on many new initiatives. “Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said Monday that Google and Apple Inc.
are working together on “many more” new projects, which he did not identify. Schmidt made his comments at a technology conference in San Francisco. Schmidt was addressing a question concerning rumors that Apple and Google were working on a tablet-style personal computer. Without commenting specifically on the rumor, Schmidt said Google and Apple are “doing more and more things together. We have similar goals, similar competitors.” Already, Google’s search features are to be standard on the iPhone, a cell phone Apple plans to release soon. Schmidt is also on Apple’s board of directors “
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Long story short: If you downloaded WordPress 2.1.1 within the past 3-4 days, your files may include a security exploit that was added by a cracker, and you should upgrade all of your files to 2.1.2 immediately.Longer explanation: This morning we received a note to our security mailing address about unusual and highly exploitable code in WordPress. The issue was investigated, and it appeared that the 2.1.1 download had been modified from its original code. We took the website down immediately to investigate what happened.

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“The Copyright Royalty Board decision on the royalties for to be paid by Internet Radio stations for streaming music during the years 2006-2010 was released to the participants in the proceeding today. And the rates are going up significantly over the next few years. More importantly, especially for smaller entities, there are no royalty rates based on a percentage of revenue as were in effect for small webcasters under the Small Webcasters Settlement Act. Instead, all royalties are given as a per performance number, i.e. a payment for each song every time a listener hears that song”

2006 - $.0008 per performance

2007 - $.0011 per performance

2008 - $.0014 per performance

2009 - $.0018 per performance

2010 - $.0019 per performance

The minimum fee is $500 per channel per year. There is no clear definition of what a “channel” is for services that make up individualized playlists for listeners.

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Tornadoes have killed at least 20 people in the southern US states of Alabama, Georgia and Missouri.

Victims included at least eight people killed when a tornado ripped through an Alabama school building, and two dead when a hospital was hit in Georgia. Read More

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