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Dreamliner makes international debut

Dreamliner makes international debut

The Boeing 787 — that super plane about to enter fleets around the world — made its first international debut by flying non-stop from Seattle to Farnborough, United Kingdom. The big beauty of a bird will be on display for Monday and Tuesday at the Farnborough Air Show and then will pack up and...
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Best for last: Nine injured at Pamplona Bull run, see video

Best for last: Nine injured at Pamplona Bull run, see video

The last day of the Pamplona, Spain, Bull Run ended up to be the most injury filled day out of the event. For the past week and a half, drunken men — and it seems to be almost exclusively men — have lined up along a cobble stone street and waited for 12 bulls...
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More goring details from Pamplona

More goring details from Pamplona

Day 7 of the bull run in Pamplona, Spain, has already ended and yet another person had the horn of one of the 12 bulls pierce his skin — this is known as being gored. Goring is not fun, according to people who have had it happened to them. But that was the only...
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Five more hurt in Pamplona

Five more hurt in Pamplona

Day four went a little easier on those stupid brave enough to run with the bulls. According to media reports, five more people where hurt but no one had a horn stuck their chest, thigh or neck, which occurred during the first three days of drunken people running a 850 meter road with 12...
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The goring life in Pamplona

The goring life in Pamplona

Day 3: And the casualties are mounting. One man was gored in the thigh and six more were seriously injured during the third of nine days of the running of the bulls in Pamplona, Spain, according to media reports. It was the highest injury total for a single day so far. That brings the...
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Bulls 8, Humans 0: Two gored, four more injured Thursday

Bulls 8, Humans 0: Two gored, four more injured Thursday

Here’s a joke to start out the day. An Irishman and a Spainard walk onto the a street. A bull gores them. After the second bull run of 2010 in Pamplona, Spain, the bulls now have a running total of eight people injured enough to visit the hospital. Thursday, two men were gored and...
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Pamplona, Spain: Bulls 2; Humans 0

Pamplona, Spain: Bulls 2; Humans 0

Run as fast as you can, and maybe, just maybe, nobody gets hurt. Who are we kidding? Somebody is going to get hurt in Pamplona, Spain — they always do this time of the year. For the next nine days, casualties are going to start mounting. This morning at 8 a.m., two people were...
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Den Haag Hilton is just like the one in The Hauge

Den Haag Hilton is just like the one in The Hauge

Sure some of the Hilton Hotel properties are a little above some traveler’s budgets — but not everyone ones’. And if you’re in a far away from home, spending the extra cash might be worth it. Hipster doesn’t always mean poor. Sometimes enjoying the finer things in life means spending some money on them....
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A smorgasbord of love: Sweden’s royal wedding takes place today

A smorgasbord of love: Sweden’s royal wedding takes place today

Ahh, love is in the air and the Swedish royal family seems to be doing just about every thing to muck it up. Crown Princess Victoria plans to tie the knot today with Clark Kent Look-a-Like Daniel Westling in the first royal wedding since some prince in Denmark married some French girl in 2008....
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Smoking ban in Spain starts next year, kind of, well not really

Smoking ban in Spain starts next year, kind of, well not really

Spain is kicking butt. On January 1, 2011 — smoking is banned. Kind of… But don’t worry, any self respecting hipster will still be able to grab a PBR (in Spain it’s called Sangria) and light up a fag and never notice the ban, kind of like the no smoking in German airports, except...
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