#1 — BBC | US in Afghanistan failure warning
The US mission in Afghanistan will “likely result in failure” unless troops are increased within a year, the top general there has said in a report.
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#2 — BBC | Cuba rocks to huge peace concert
Havana has hosted the biggest open-air concert since the 1959 revolution, featuring some 15 top Latin American, Spanish and Cuban performers.
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#3 — BBC | Mad Men wins Emmy for second year
Mad Men, the period show about the advertising industry, has won an Emmy for best TV drama for the second year running, at a ceremony in Los Angeles.
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#4 — Fox | ACORN CEO ‘Outraged’ by Behavior of Employees in Prostitute Tapes
ACORN’s top officer said Sunday that she was “outraged” by the content of hidden-camera videotapes showing her organization’s employees offering advice to undercover filmmakers posing as a pimp and prostitute, as she pledged to “reform” the inner workings of the activist group.
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#5 — Fox | Libya’s Al-Qaddafi Denied Posh NYC Townhouse for U.N. Visit
Agents for Libyan leader Muammar al-Qaddafi were met with a strong-arm from a real-estate broker they approached to rent a posh townhouse on Manhattan’s Upper East Side for his visit to the city this week.
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#6 — DM | Fears over supercat danger
They may be the country’s most popular pet, but the UK’s seven million moggies now face bigger, tougher rivals on their territory.
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#7 — DM | What HAVE we done to the British family?
It’s the most destructive crisis of our age - a generation of violent, illiterate, lawless young men living outside civilised society.
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#8 — Times | John Gotti Jr trial set to begin in New York
It took prosecutors four trials to convict John Gotti as the godfather of the American mafia, earning him a reputation as “the Teflon Don”. Today his son, accused of taking over New York’s biggest crime family, starts his fourth trial in five years after beating the rap three times, just like his father.
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#9 — Telegraph | Michael Faraday voted Britain’s greatest inventor
Michael Faraday, the scientist whose discoveries led to the development of the electric motor, has been hailed as the greatest inventor in British history, a survey revealed today.
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#10 — Telegraph | Moctezuma: the leader who lost an empire
Moctezuma was a proven military commander yet in just two years his rule and the supremacy of his Mexica people collapsed, conquered by a few hundred Spanish adventurers. Greg Neale investigates the story of two worlds in collision.
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