Florida student charged and expelled after ‘science experiment’ goes awry

The experiment on school grounds ended with Wilmot, 16, led away to a juvenile detention facility in handcuffs, expelled and charged as an adult with felony possession of a weapon and making or discharging a destructive device, with a possible penalty of up to 20 years in jail.
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Norwegian Aid Money Goes to Lobbying in the U.S.

Norwegian Peacebuilding Resource Centre, an independent organization established by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 2008, posted an internal report dated May 2012. The report, which Aftenposten has gained access to, states that NOK 250 million of the aid budget was used for almost 40 organizations in the United States, while only NOK 128 million went to developing countries in need last year
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‘Rain Man’ claims Libor scandal ‘goes much higher’

Many anonymous traders are implicated in the tall stack of documents regulators published this week detailing Royal Bank of Scotland Group PLC’s attempts to rig the lending benchmark known as Libor. But only one trader is cited by name: a 33-year-old so brainy yet socially awkward that colleagues nicknamed him “Rain Man.”
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