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Elena is close to make her choice in a new sneak peek of "The Vampire Diaries" season 3 finale. Waking up from sleep, she tells Matt she's sorry for stringing him along in the past, and realizes that she makes the same mistake with Stefan and Damon. "I have to let one of them go," so the mortal beauty says. "Which one?" a curious Matt asks, but before Elena gives

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A U.S. drone aircraft killed nine suspected militants on Saturday in Pakistan's North Waziristan region near the Afghan border, Pakistani security officials said. The controversial drone program, a key element in U.S. counter-terrorism efforts, is highly unpopular in Pakistan where it is considered a violation of sovereignty which causes unacceptable civilian casualties. In Saturday's strike,

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British lawmakers want to rename one of London's most famous landmarks -- known to tourists around the world as "Big Ben" -- after Queen Elizabeth II, for her Diamond Jubilee. The Queen marks 60 years on the throne in 2012, and politicians believe that naming St. Stephen's Tower, the clock tower at the Houses of Parliament, in her honor would be a fitting tribute to her years of

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He has promised an equal number of men and women in cabinet, and to reintroduce a ministry of women's rights. But will François Hollande be the president who finally took on the pervasive sexism in French politics, if as polls predict he wins Sunday's presidential election? The Socialist frontrunner, who was on Friday leading by at least five points in the final opinion polls of an

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There has been a great deal of austerity-bashing -- that is to say Germany-bashing -- this French election season. Buoyed by his success in the first round, socialist contender Francois Hollande declared last Thursday: "It is not for Germany to decide for the rest of Europe." Vowing to reset Europe on a growth path, he said, "we're not just any country, we can change the situation

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Rihanna is celebrating an unprecedented feat yet again. The Barbados beauty collects 4.9 million views with her music video for latest single "Where Have You Been" in just 24 hours after the clip made its way out on the internet. By getting almost 5 million views, Riri surpasses Nicki Minaj who previously held the record with her "Stupid Hoe" video. Back then, the female

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Japan shuts down its last working nuclear power reactor this weekend just over a year after a tsunami scarred the nation and if it survives the summer without major electricity shortages, producers fear the plants will stay offline for good. The shutdown leaves Japan without nuclear power for the first time since 1970 and has put electricity producers on the defensive. Public opposition to

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Just a few days after "The Dark Knight Rises" released its final trailer, another highly anticipated superhero movie, "The Amazing Spider-Man", debuts its own latest promo video. Compared to the previously released trailers, this fresh one puts its focus on Peter Parker's effort to unveil the secret surrounding the disappearance of his parents. Also highlighted in the video

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Argentina's Congress nationalized the country's biggest oil company, YPF, by an overwhelming lower house vote on Thursday that underscored broad popular support for a measure that threatens to scare off foreign investment. The Chamber of Deputies voted 207-32 in favor of expropriating YPF, clearing the way for President Cristina Fernandez to sign the bill into law. The Senate last week

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A number of European leaders say they plan to boycott the Euro 2012 football tournament next month in Ukraine to protest the alleged mistreatment of the country's former prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko, who is currently in jail.  A new report also raises concerns about the conduct of the Ukrainian police, just as the country prepares for the arrival of soccer fans from across Europe. May

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When Norwegian ferry captain Jon Olsen asked the young policeman to cover his gun so as not to upset children on an island summer camp last July, he could hardly have expected that within minutes the officer would turn into a mass murderer. Olsen told Anders Behring Breivik's trial on Thursday how Breivik, wearing a police uniform, had obliged and covered the gun in a plastic bag, saying he

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A U.S. drone hit an al Qaeda training site in southern Yemen, killing 13 suspected militants, three security officials said. The airstrike Wednesday is one of a series of attacks on al Qaeda hideouts expected in Abyan province in the next two weeks, the officials said. They will target Jaar, Lowder and Zinjibar districts. At least two U.S. drone strikes are conducted daily since mid-April in

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A US Pentagon contractor that was involved in building Guantánamo Bay is on a shortlist of seven private consortiums bidding for a £1.5bn contract to run key policing services in the West Midlands and Surrey. The Texas-based, Kellogg Brown & Root, which was sold off by the controversial Halliburton corporation in 2007, is part of a consortium which has made it to the final shortlist for a

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A new promo for "Falling Skies" season 2 sheds the light on Tom's fate after he boarded an alien spacecraft in the first season finale. The 2-minute sneak peek shows that the former Boston University history professor is dropped off along with other humans in an alien ship and rejoins the 2nd Mass. It seems that Tom asks what the alien did to his son when he's on the ship, but he

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The Chinese activist who left the refuge of the U.S. Embassy in Beijing said Thursday that he regrets the move and now wants U.S. officials to help get him and his family to the United States. "I want them to protect human rights through concrete actions," Chen Guangcheng told CNN from his hospital room in Beijing. "We are in danger. If you can talk to Hillary, I hope she can

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Shakira releases a music video for her latest single "Addicted to You". The Colombian singer flaunts her hot bod in a number of revealing outfits that accentuate her curves. She writhes on a bed and on a pile of leaves, soaks wet in a bathtub, and shakes her hip while taking a stroll up the hills in a small dusty town. "Addicted to You" is lifted from Shakira's seventh

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Jenelle Evans has finally gone under the knife for a breast augmentation. The "Teen Mom 2" star underwent breast implant surgery at the Wilmington Plastic Surgery center on Wednesday, May 2, and is now recovering at home with her boyfriend Kieffer Delp and best friend Allison Elise tending to her needs. Before the procedure, the 20-year-old reality star took to Twitter to share a

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French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Socialist Francois Hollande clashed repeatedly in their only television debate but the conservative incumbent failed to land a knockout blow to shake his challenger's lead for Sunday's runoff. Hollande, ahead in opinion polls by six to 10 points, seemed calm and unflappable during the nearly three-hour debate on Wednesday while Sarkozy, struggling to catch

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Vying to be an "American Idol", Hollie Cavanagh, Jessica Sanchez, Joshua Ledet, Phillip Phillips and Skylar Laine had to take on British songs on Wednesday, May 2. With Steven Van Zandt being billed as a guest mentor, each of the Top 5 additionally performed a song from the 1960s in the first round. Hollie came out first and belted out "River Deep, Mountain High" by Ike &

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The Chinese activist who walked out of the U.S. Embassy in Beijing on Wednesday after what officials said was a decision he had made on his own said Thursday that he regrets the move and now wants U.S. officials to help get him and his family to the United States. "I want them to protect human rights through concrete actions," Chen Guangcheng told CNN from his hospital room in Beijing

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The daughter of deposed Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi asked international prosecutors to begin investigating her father's and brother's deaths as possible war crimes in a letter submitted Wednesday to the United Nations Security Council. Aisha Gadhafi, who fled to Algeria in August 2011, asked International Criminal Court Prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo last year to open an investigation. The

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Back in the olden days, when WiFi and Bluetooth were just a glimmer in the eye of IEEE, another short-range wireless communications technology ruled supreme: Infrared Data Association, or IrDA for short. IrDA was awful; early versions were only capable of kilobit-per-second speeds, and only over a distance of a few feet. Trying to get my laptop and mobile phone to link up via IrDA was, to date,

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Insurgents killed at least seven people and wounded 17 others, mostly children, in Kabul Wednesday, just two hours after U.S. President Barack Obama left Afghanistan following a brief, unannounced visit. A suicide car bomber and militants disguised as women attacked a heavily secured compound housing hundreds of international workers on the eastern outskirts of the capital.  Afghan

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Kings of Leon's Jared Followill, like his brother Caleb Followill, is off the market. The bass guitarist has proposed to model Martha Patterson on April 11 at his home in Nashville, his representative confirmed. They will split their time between Nashville and Los Angeles. "...We're all excited for the newly engaged couple," the rep said about the first engagement report from Just

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WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says the Secret Service has found no basis to allegations its agents hired strippers and prostitutes in El Salvador last year. The allegations were made by an anonymous source on a Seattle television station. They emerged after the service was embroiled in a prostitution scandal involving agents' conduct in

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