With three days left in one of the most tightly contested elections in decades, Quebec's electoral officer yesterday reversed his decision to allow Muslim women to vote without having to lift their face veils to identify themselves.

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Why she's brainy: Finished high school with a 4.0 GPA. Attended Harvard University where she completed a Bachelor's degree in Psychology. Also engaged in graduate studies at Hebrew University. Speaks Hebrew, French and Japanese fluently.

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Calling it a historic day for the gay and lesbian community in both Los Angeles and the United States, officials opened the 104-unit affordable housing complex, built around a pool and open courtyard and complete with an activity center and disabled facilities.

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…military sources report that Middle East and Persian Gulf nations as well as the US and UK are bracing for further Iranian marine, air or terrorist operations in Iraq and other places in reprisal for the sanctions measure before the UN Security Council in New York. On the ready too are the Saudi armed forces and some Israeli air and naval units.

According to Iranian sources the 15 British Royal navy seamen and marines which an Iranian warship seized with their commando craft Friday, March 23, will be put on trial.

London insists the UK marines routinely inspecting merchant vessels for smuggled goods were on the Iraqi side of the divided Shat al Arb waterway which flows into the Persian Gulf. Tehran accuses them of entering Iranian waters.

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Software filters work much better than a 1998 federal law designed to keep pornography away from children on the Internet, a federal judge ruled Thursday in striking down the measure on free-speech grounds.

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Pittsburgh among cities to see increase after terror attacks as religious leaders try to paint positive image

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FILM star James Woods, who plays a lawyer in the TV drama Shark, has revealed how he turned detective to uncover astonishing evidence on the 9/11 terror attacks for the FBI.

He helped to prove that the hijackers staged at least one trial run before the attacks.

The actor has also helped agents to establish that the terrorist cells were in direct contact  before September 11 – a breakthrough which ripped apart the stories of several suspects.

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Climate change envoy's carbon footprint is 30 times British average.  Diplomat John Ashton is under fire after it was revealed that he has flown more than 80,000 miles since his appointment last June.

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Not long ago it would have been unthinkable: a Sunni sheik allying himself publicly with American forces in a xenophobic city at the epicenter of Iraq's Sunni insurgency.

Today, there is no mistaking whose side Sheik Abdul Sattar al-Rishawi is on. Outside his walled home, a U.S. tank is on permanent guard beside a clutch of towering date palms and a protective dirt berm.

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Navy SEAL trainees from class No. 259 undergo surf conditioning at the Special Warfare Center at the Naval Amphibious Base on San Diego Bay.

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The handbags are designed to look beautiful, with pretty flowers and feathers everywhere, but they hide a secret: A previous life as womens' bras

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Russia's supreme court announced that it had liquidated the small Republican party, claiming that it had violated electoral law by having too few members. The party is one of very few left in Russia that criticises President Vladimir Putin.

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"I understand the Iranians. The manner in which you negotiate with them is highly dependent on the specifics of the issue. And in this case, where their sovereignty has been violated by tea-loving imperialists, a deft touch is critical.”

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Scientists have created the world's first human-sheep chimera - which has the body of a sheep and half-human organs.

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The violence began when a French employee at a natural gas liquefaction plant being constructed by Yemen LNG in the coastal city of Balhaf threw a copy of the Koran, Islam's holy book, on the ground, a move that angered Yemeni workers at the plant site.

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Many still feel as though "consumption" is a bad thing. They bemoan the "commercialism of Christmas". They lament the directionless "brand identities" that promise a euphoric experience, only to leave us hollow with an incredible lack of substance. I say this is the wrong way to accept Capitalism as an ideal for living. In order to fully appreciate the fredoms that Capitalism brings us as an ideology, Capitalism must be embraced as a balance of consumption and hard work.

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We could have easily lost WWII if…

• The Nazis didn’t hound Einstein and other scientists out of Germany.
• If German scientists developed the A-Bomb first delivered by V2s.