Somali Pirates Say They'll Sink Ukraine Ship If Ransom Not Paid (Bloomberg)
Oct. 13 (Bloomberg) -- Somali pirates who seized a Ukrainian ship with a cargo of battle tanks said they'll sink it if the $20 million ransom they've demanded isn't paid by tomorrow.
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PNG workers "paid to die" (TVNZ)
Papua New Guinea workers have been "paid to die" instead of being supplied with protective gear against volcanic ash fallout, officials claim.
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David Cox: The curious case of The House Bunny, Hugh Hefner and the cash paid to Playboy (Guardian Unlimited)
David Cox: The House Bunny shows Playboy mogul Hugh Hefner to be a leading light of feminist rights. New research reveals that the studio actually paid him. Shurely shome mishtake?
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Paid character customisation for WOW News (EuroGamer)
Blizzard has revealed that World of Warcraft will offer some sort of paid character customisation in the future. Production director J. Allen Brack confirmed the news during a small press conference at BlizzCon 2008, according to WarCry . Details, however, are still being figured out.
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Seattle tech comapny Marchex paid by an ex-employee (BizJournals)
Nearly three months after accusing two former employees in federal court of running deceptive and competing websites, Seattle tech company Marchex Inc. says that one of the pair has paid back the company.
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BBC face of credit crunch Robert Peston has paid off his mortgage (Daily Mirror)
The BBC's face of the credit crunch Robert Peston is out of the worst of the storm as he has paid off the mortgage on his £1million house.
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PNG workers 'paid to die' in Rabaul (AAP via Yahoo!7 News)
Papua New Guinea workers have been "paid to die" instead of being supplied with protective gear against volcanic ash fallout.
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Low-paid retail workers drain health care funds (East Valley Tribune)
Though Arizona has benefited from the second-highest retail growth rate in the country during the past decade, low-paid retail employees have drained state coffers by being prime users of the health care program for the poor.
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Tributes paid after man killed in stolen car crash (Edinburgh Evening News)
TRIBUTES have been paid to a 25-year-old man killed when two stolen cars ploughed into a block of flats as he was walking home from a night out.
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'Shahrukh only paid lipservice to hockey' (HT via Yahoo! India News)
"Neither Shahrukh Khan nor Yashraj Films paid attention to my repeated requests for help," said former Indian hockey team goalkeeper Mir Ranjan Negi on whose life Bollywood movie'Chak De India was made.
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