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Stockton-On-Tees, a small city in northeastern England, has only one claim to fame: the first railway tracks were made and laid in the city in 1822, and the first train ran on those tracks in 1825

"I wish to make it clear before I cross-examine the three claimants that the [British Government] does not dispute that each of the claimants suffered torture and other ill-treatment at the hands o

It is imaginable that Hugo Chavez, Venezuela's strongman ruler since 1998, will lose the presidential election next Monday.

"Double tap" is what mobsters do when they put somebody down. One bullet in the heart, one in the head.