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Inquiry finds proper maintenance might have prevented 2009 North Sea helicopter disaster

Sunday, March 16, 2014 A Fatal Accident Inquiry (FAI) ruled on Thursday a helicopter crash into the North Sea might have been prevented had proper maintenance procedures been followed. All sixteen on board died when the aircraft went down off the Scottish coast. After a hearing in Aberdeen, Sheriff Principal Derek Pyle found Bond Offshore […]

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Microsoft without Bill Gates at the helm

Friday, June 27, 2008 After 33 years of managing software giant Microsoft, founder Bill Gates will retire from day-to-day management today. Gates will retain the title of Chairman but without executive functions and will only report for work once a week. The man who took a gut feeling of seeing personal computers in every household, […]

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Prime Minister of Italy Silvio Berlusconi assaulted

Sunday, December 13, 2009 Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is in San Raffaele Hospital overnight in Milan following an assault during an autograph session at the end of a rally. The 73 year-old media mogul received a punch in the face from an assailant who police named as 42 year-old Massimo Tartaglia, a local man […]

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Formula One set to see standardised engines

Wednesday, December 10, 2008 Formula One looks set to enter an era of standardised engines. The FIA is meeting with teams in Monte Carlo and is expected to approve the use by some teams of a standardised power unit provided by Cosworth, an automotive engineering company, from 2010 onwards. The move to a standard engine, […]

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4 Steps To A Good Credit Score

By Alana Johnson In the olden days, our credit worthiness was based on a method of ‘good faith’ and a handshake. Those days are long gone. The ‘good faith’/handshake method has been replaced by an elusive 3-digit code known as our FICO score. Our FICO score is determined by various factors and depending on where […]

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Iranian news agency reproduces The Onion article

Saturday, September 29, 2012 The Fars News Agency (FNA), an Iranian news agency, yesterday reported an article from US satirical news website The Onion as fact. The article reports “a Gallup poll” suggesting “the overwhelming majority of rural white Americans” would prefer to vote for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, the President of Iran, as opposed to US […]

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Teeth Whitening Aberdeenshire

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