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Gay Couples Happier and Healthier if Legally Accepted [EXCLUSIVE]

In an effort to continue busting myths that surround homosexual and bisexual lifestyles, researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health suggesting that same-sex marriages could cut the number of mental and physical illnesses experienced by those in these relationships.

Barefoot Bandit to Spend 7 Years in Prison

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Colton Harris Moore, better known perhaps as the Barefoot Bandit (so named after a famous crime spree that he committed barefoot), has been sentenced to 7-and-a-half years in prison, after he pleaded guilty on Friday in a Washington state court, on all 33 charges against him.
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Fake Woman Doctor Arrested After Injecting Silicone into Man's Genitals, Killing him

Soon after the case of fake doctor Oneal Ron Morris was busted, a series of cases have started coming to light of other doctors, apparently practicing illegal cosmetic plastic surgeries. The latest case is that of a woman doctor who killed a 22-year-old man after injecting his penis with silicone during pumping party, said police on Friday, according to a report in the Daily Mail.
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Swiss and U.S. Officials Inch Closer to a Tax-Row Deal: Reports

Swiss and U.S. officials have met in recent days in Berne, Switzerland, to try to end a long-running dispute over wealthy Americans using secret Swiss accounts to dodge taxes, and they seem to be getting closer to a deal, two newspapers reported Sunday.
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Hospital fire kills at least 84 in eastern India

A fire tore through a seven-story private hospital in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata before dawn Friday, killing at least 84 people, most of them intensive care patients who were asleep and suffocated in the fumes.
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Judge Refuses Release of Harlem Boy Who Hit Woman With Shopping Cart

Family Court Judge Susan Larabee refused to release the 12-year-old boy who pushed a shopping cart from the fourth-floor walkway outside a Target store in Harlem, striking 47-year-old mother and philanthropist Marion Hedges and putting her into a coma, from minimum security jail because of his history of erratic behavior.
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Two dead in Virginia Tech shooting

A gunman killed a police officer and another person on Thursday at Virginia Tech University, the site of one of the worst shooting rampages in U.S. history, school officials said.
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Dowry Cases Increase: Ministry

The Ministry of Women & Child Development has revealed that dowry cases, as defined under the Dowry Prohibition Act, 1961, are increasing in India.
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Canadian imams to speak out against honor killing

Canadian imams plan to condemn the misguided notion of so-called honor killings in their Friday sermons this week, responding to the high-profile trial of a father accused of murdering his three teenage daughters, allegedly because they shamed his Afghan family.

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