WASHINGTON, Dec 6 — Republican firebrand Sarah Palin invaded the city she loves to hate yesterday and rubbed shoulders with the herd of journalists she usually holds in disdain.
Palin was the guest speaker at the annual winter dinner of the Gridiron Club of leading Washington journalists — a venue at which many potential presidential candidates have made an appearance, including Barack Obama a few years ago.
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LONDON, Dec 6 — Chelsea manager Carlo Ancelotti is confident his Premier League leaders have no reason to worry despite seeing their five-point gap cut to two yesterday after losing 2-1 at Manchester City.
Strikes from Emmanuel Adebayor and Carlos Tevez ensured an end to Chelsea’s run of five league wins with five clean sheets, while second-placed Manchester United kept up the pressure with a resounding 4-0 win at West Ham United.
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MANILA, Dec 4 — Philippine soldiers using metal detectors, sniffer dogs and an excavator unearthed more than a dozen crates of bullets today in the mansion of a local mayor linked to last week’s massacre of 57 people, a spokesman said.
Hundreds of army and combat-trained police units searched the houses of local mayor Andal Ampatuan Jr, main suspect in the country’s worst election-related violence, and his father for evidence.
A third house was being searched, an army spokesman said.
"MANILA, Dec 4 — Philippine soldiers using metal detectors, sniffer dogs and an excavator unearthed more than a dozen crates of bullets today in the mansion of a local mayor linked to last week’s massacre of 57 people, a spokesman said.
Hundreds of army and combat-trained police units searched the houses of local mayor Andal Ampatuan Jr, main suspect in the country’s worst election-related violence, and his father for evidence.
A third house was being searched, an army spokesman said.
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ROME, Nov 16 — Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi, in Rome for a UN food summit, spent several hours in the company of 200 Italian women recruited by an agency and tried to convert them to Islam, Italian media reported today.
LOS ANGELES, Nov 17 — Pop star Janet Jackson holds Michael Jackson’s personal doctor responsible for her brother’s sudden death and has told ABC News that a day does not go by when she doesn’t think about her late sibling.
‘He was the one that was administering,’ Janet Jackson said about Houston-based physician Dr. Conrad Murray. ‘I think he is responsible.’
Murray, who was hired to treat Michael Jackson in the months before Jackson died on June 25 of a drug overdose, is currently a target in the manslaughter investigation of the ‘Thriller’ singer’s death.
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TOKYO, Nov 17 — Japan’s former Olympic marathon gold medallist Naoko Takahashi has decided to become a vegetable farmer.
The 37-year-old, who won gold at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, will start her own farm on Japan’s northern island of Hokkaido, Japanese media reported today.
“It’s a new challenge for me,” Takahashi said, dressed in an orange farming suit and rubber boots and posing for pictures holding an onion and a giant radish.
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