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Three men arrested under suspicion of organising dog fights in southern Finland

Wednesday, August 15, 2007 File:240-dogFighting.jpg Three Finnish men have been arrested as part of an investigation by the Finnish National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) into apparent illegal dogfights in various locations in the south of the country. Dog fights, in which two dogs are pitted head-to-head for the entertainment of spectators and for gambling, is illegal in Finland, and is covered by Finland's animal protection laws, as dogs often sustain severe or even fatal injuries. It is believed this case also involved gambling, thus rendering the suspects, if convicted

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Four UK retailers call in administrators during the week of Christmas

Monday, December 29, 2008 Four UK retailers The Officers Club, Whittard of Chelsea, Zavvi and Adams Childrenswear have called in administrators during the Christmas week in 2008. On Tuesday, December 23, the menswear retailer The Officers Club's administrators PricewaterhouseCoopers decided to close 32 of the 150 stores immediately. PricewaterhouseCoopers also announced that TimeC 1215 limited had bought 118 of the stores for an undisclosed fee. TimeC 1215 is backed by David Charlton, chief executive of The Officers Club. This deal saves around 900 jobs. The Officers Club

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Several Tips For Creating A Massage Room}

Click Here To Know More About: Jars And Bottles Bottle Caps Several Tips for Creating a Massage Room by Alton M TerrellIt has been proven that massage provided therapeutic benefits for over the last two decades. That is why today a massage therapy comes in high demand. Actually, it is not difficult task if you want to create a massage room which can meet your needs and also provide a pleasing atmosphere. At this time, this article is going to give you some tips that will guide you to create a massage room. So, just take a look at the following tips. The fi

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Cleveland, Ohio clinic performs US’s first face transplant

Thursday, December 18, 2008 A team of eight transplant surgeons in Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, USA, led by reconstructive surgeon Dr. Maria Siemionow, age 58, have successfully performed the first almost total face transplant in the US, and the fourth globally, on a woman so horribly disfigured due to trauma, that cost her an eye. Two weeks ago Dr. Siemionow, in a 23-hour marathon surgery, replaced 80 percent of her face, by transplanting or grafting bone, nerve, blood vessels, muscles and skin harvested from a female donor's cadaver. The Clinic surgeons, in Wednesday's news

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USPTO partially confirms validity of Amazon “1-click patent”

Tuesday, October 9, 2007 Today, the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) issued an office action, which confirmed the patentability of claims 6 to 10 of the Amazon 1-Click patent, US 5,960,411. The patent examiner, however, rejected claims 1 to 5 and 11 to 15. Amazon now has up to six months to amend the rejected claims to overcome the examiner's rejection, provide arguments to demonstrate that the examiner is in error and/or provide evidence to demonstrate the patentability of their claims. During this period, the entire patent is still considered valid under

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Fitzpatrick family offers reward in search for missing Mijas teenager

Monday, February 18, 2008 The family of Amy Fitzpatrick, an Irish expat who disappeared from Mijas, Spain on New Year’s Night, has announced a reward for reliable information which could lead to finding the missing teenager. The news came in a statement from Dave Mahon, the partner of Amy’s mother, Audrey, who said all information would be treated in the strictest confidence, and calling on anyone who may have a possible lead to contact either the family or the Civil Guard. In the statement Mahon said that "a substantial reward is on offer to anyone who can provide reliabl

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Tips On How To Clean Up Junk Files On Windows}

Submitted by: Robert Corter As your computer ages, your hard drive will be filled up with files that are considered as junk. Because of this, the performance of your Windows computer will slow down since your system will have to work hard in finding the data that needs to be accessed. Removing these unwanted files from your computer will improve your system functions. Junk files are basically the temporary and duplicate files, unused shortcuts, and browsed cache data that are generated by an internet browser, a program, or by a Windows operating system after your compu

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This is the category for Panama, a country in Central America. See also the Panama Portal. Refresh this list to see the latest articles. 16 December 2014: Freighter hits fishing boat in Gulf of Suez; thirteen dead 21 April 2014: Wikinews interviews Paúl M. Velazco about new yellow-shouldered bat species 15 November 2010: Somali piracy: Kenyan navy kills three, Chinese ship hijacked, British couple freed 25 March 2010: Private guard kills Somali pirate in Gulf of Aden 29 December 2009: Somali pirates capture two ships 4 July 2009: Honduras interim government rejects or

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US raids Iran ‘liaison office’, Russia says it is unacceptable

Friday, January 12, 2007 The U.S. armed forces detained five Iranians working at a "liaison office" located in Erbil, Iraq before dawn on Friday. Sources said that the U.S. forces first landed their helicopters around the building, then broke through the office's gate, disarmed the guards, confiscated some documents and certain objects, arrested five suspected terrorists, and then left for an undisclosed location. However, there was no raid on the Iranian Consulate General as earlier reported. Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman told Agence France-Presse that the building rai

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Toothpaste fills cavities without drilling

Thursday, February 24, 2005 A paste containing synthetic tooth enamel can seal small cavities without drilling. Kazue Yamagishi and colleagues at the FAP Dental Institute in Tokyo say that the paste can repair small cavities in 15 minutes. Currently, fillers don't stick to such small cavities so dentists must drill bigger holes. Hydroxyapatite crystals, of which natural enamel is made, bond with teeth to repair tiny areas of damage. Yamagishi and colleagues have tested their paste on a lower premolar tooth that showed early signs of decay. They found that the synthetic ena