October 22, 2009
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Colombian cocaine kingpin gets 45 years in US jailMIAMI – A court in Miami sentenced Colombian drug kingpin Diego Montoya to 45 years in prison following his guilty plea on trafficking, murder and racketeering charges.Montoya, 48, whose Norte del Valle cartel once supplied well over half the Colombian cocaine smuggled into the United States and Europe, had agreed to serve the time as part of a plea deal back in August.Once an FBI top-ten fugitive, he also signed a document detailing his rise to the top of Colombia's cocaine underworld.Prosecutors estimate that between 1990 and 2004, Norte del Valle exported more than 1.2 million pounds (500 tonnes) of cocaine, worth in excess of 10 billion dollars, from Colombia to the United States. Read M...
October 22, 2009
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MATHURA, India – A Delhi-bound Indian express train ploughed into the back of another near the Taj Mahal town of Agra early Wednesday, killing up to 21 and injuring more than 20, police said.Local police said 21 had died while railway officials put the toll at 13 from the early morning crash on tracks outside the town of Mathura, 50 kilometres (30 miles) north of Agra in northern India.Rescuers, working with mechanical cutters amid a huge crowd of onlookers, battled to free people trapped in a badly mangled carriage that bore the brunt of the collision.The engine of one train had rammed inside the last carriage of a train in front, reserved for the disabled and luggage. Bloodied bodies and people were pulled from the wreckage before being ferried to local hospitals."The number of dead from...
October 22, 2009
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History of the United StatesThe first known inhabitants of what is now the United States are believed to have arrived over a period of several thousand years beginning sometime prior to 15,000–50,000 years ago by crossing Beringia into AlaskaSolid evidence of these cultures settling in what would become United States territory is dated to around 14,000 years ago.Research has revealed much about the early Native American in North America. Christopher Columbus' men were the first documented settlers from the Old World to land in the territory of what is now the United States when they arrived in Puerto Rico during their second voyage in the year 1493. Juan Ponce de León, who arrived in Florida in 1513, is credited as being the first European...
October 22, 2009
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About the Delicious Bookmark Add-onThe Delicious Bookmarks Add-on enhances your existing Firefox bookmarking system with a new set of tools to help you create, manage and search your bookmarks.From now on all your bookmarks will be instantly accessible both in your Firefox browser and from your bookmarks page on the Delicious website. This means that any changes you make to your bookmarks in either location will be synchronized. For example adding or deleting a Delicious bookmark in Firefox will add or delete it from your bookmarks page on Delicious. Learn more...Here's what you need to know to get the most out of this powerful new tool. Read M...
October 22, 2009
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In Fraud Case, a Deal That Lost MillionsRaj Rajaratnam, the authorities say, masterminded one of the biggest insider-trading schemes in a generation.But if Mr. Rajaratnam was trading on insider information, apparently he was not very good at it.A close examination of the trades that led to his arrest last week reveals a startling fact: In all, Mr. Rajaratnam lost millions from what prosecutors characterize as illegal trading.One bad trade, in the shares of the chip maker Advanced Micro Devices, cost his hedge fund, the Galleon Group, $30 million. That loss more than wiped out the profits that prosecutors claim Mr. Rajaratnam and his accomplices reaped with their scheme.Read M...
October 22, 2009
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