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• WTF... abbreviation on car plates makes Americans blush

  - 2008-06-26

  WASHINGTON AFP — OMG! What is that on my car's license plate? That's the question asked by 10,000 drivers who registered their vehicles in North Carolina last year and got registrations starting with "WTF." Long just an innocuous combination of three letters, like OMG ("Oh my God!") WTF...

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• Plane makes emergency landing on busy US highway

  - 2008-06-17

  MIAMI AFP — A small aircraft made an emergency landing on a busy Florida highway, managing somehow not to clip nearby cars as it rolled to a stop, US media reported Tuesday. The plane touched down around midday on Interstate 95 in Florida's Volusia County, some 300 kilometers (180...

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• Quake shakes central Colombia, seven dead

  - 2008-05-24

  BOGOTA AFP — A strong earthquake struck central Colombia Saturday, killing at least seven people and sending thousands of panicky residents into Bogota's streets, authorities said. The quake shook this Andean capital for several seconds. State geological agency Ingeominas put the strength of the quake, which hit at 1920...

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• Chanel chooses car park roof for 'mobile' art show

  - 2008-02-26

  HONG KONG AFP — Top fashion brand Chanel unveiled a global art exhibition in Hong Kong Tuesday, choosing the distinctly unglamourous setting of a car park roof. The show, featuring works based on Chanel's emblematic quilted handbags, opens to the public on Wednesday and is housed in a giant,...

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• Schumacher raises interest in touring car championship

  - 2008-02-19

  BERLIN AFP — Hans Werner, boss of the German Touring Car DTM Championships, says the interest in Ralph Schumacher's debut season has already boosted ticket sales and generated extra media interest. The 32-year-old German signed for Mercedes on Monday to race in this year's DTM championships, whose 12-race season...

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• Mercedes-Benz sales hit record 1.29 million units in 2007

  - 2008-01-08

  FRANKFURT AFP — German car maker Mercedes-Benz said Tuesday that the performance of its newest C class line had pushed 2007 sales to a record 1.29 million vehicles despite a slumping domestic market. Overall sales gained 2.0 percent compared with the figure for 2006, parent company Daimler said in...

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• Al-Qaeda urges attacks on Bush during Mideast tour: website

  - 2008-01-06

  DUBAI AFP — An American member of Al-Qaeda urged Islamist militants to target US President George W. Bush "with bombs" during his trip to the Middle East next week, in a message posted online on Sunday. Bush should be welcomed "not with flowers and applause, but with bombs and...

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• Aussie street racers to see cars crashed by govt

  - 2007-11-11

  SYDNEY AFP — Street racers in Australia will soon see their beloved cars being deliberately smashed by the authorities in videos posted on the Internet. The often flashy, souped-up vehicles will be wrecked in crash tests under laboratory conditions, the New South Wales state government announced. "Video footage...

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• ETA targets government building in failed car bomb

  - 2007-09-10

  MADRID AFP — Spanish security forces defused Monday an ETA car bomb targeting a government building, officials said, the day after the armed Basque separatist group warned it would "keep striking." "Fortunately ETA failed with their bomb, which did not explode because of a malfunction," Jose Antonio Ulecia, the...

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• Four killed in Russian Caucasus blast

  - 2007-08-31

  MOSCOW AFP — At least four people died Friday when an explosion rocked the town of Nazran in the Russian Caucasus but there were conflicting reports about whether it was a car-bomb or simply a collision. The RIA Novosti and Interfax news agencies quoted law enforcement sources as saying...

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