 | | CNN | |  | British hostages: Pirates will kill us A couple kidnapped from their yacht by pirates pleaded for their lives in a video, warning that their Somali captors were losing patience and could kill them if ransom isn't paid.
| Prosecutor: Knox taunted, killed victim Accompanied by two smitten men, a resentful Amanda Knox toyed with a knife and plunged it into her roommate's neck, a prosecutor charged in closing arguments.
| Plea deal reached in Wal-Mart trial A woman accused of cutting a Wal-Mart line and striking police officers reached a plea deal after taking the stand and denying all charges in the racially charged case.
| Suspect in slayings dies in shootout A suspect in the killing of five people in Arkansas last week has been killed in a shootout with officers, authorities said.
| Winfrey announces end of 'Oprah' Oprah Winfrey knows how to keep viewers on the edge of their seats.
| California students protest fee hike Authorities arrested dozens of angry students at the University of California, Davis, campus late Thursday after they refused to vacate the school's administration building in protest of a 32-percent tuition hike.
| Right-wing activists storm TV station A band of right-wing activists ransacked an Indian television station in the country's financial hub of Mumbai in an assault their party said was an act of retaliation against the channel's "bias" against their veteran leader.
| Arrests in human fat ring in Peru Peruvian authorities say they have arrested four members of a gang that specialized in selling fat obtained from dead humans.
| Google OS: End of the hard drive? Google today unveiled more details of Chrome OS, a lightweight, browser-based operating system for netbooks.
| 'New Moon' sets midnight record The second installment in the "Twilight" saga, starring Robert Pattinson as vampire Edward Cullen, Kristen Stewart as his star-crossed love and Taylor Lautner as the wolfboy who loves her, has already ripped through a box office record.
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| The Australian | |  | Mussolini's blood, brain 'for sale on eBay' on online auction website eBay before the company pulled the ad posted by an anonymous seller. 6:56AM From correspondents in Rome ITALIAN dictator Benito Mussolini's blood and brain went on sale for €15,000
| Clive Palmer float of his company Resourcehouse in Hong Kong next week. Matt Chambers BILLIONAIRE Clive Palmer plans to start spruiking a $US3 billion
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