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On the hunt for China’s child snatchers

Chinese children snatched and sold Over 2,000 trafficked children have been rescued since China's government began a crackdown on the trade in stolen children earlier this year. But as the BBC's Damian Grammaticas reports from Beijing, many thousands of children are being snatched off the streets to be sold every year and most are never recovered.

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Spot The Difference

Google image search results for the Tiananmen Square protest in both China and the U.S. Not that this is anything we didn't know, but it's striking to see it laid out side by side. ( Via Reddit .) Contribute: Add an image, link, video or comment

Meet the Hot Boyfriend David Geffen Took to Obama’s State Dinner

It’s well known that movie mogul David Geffen is Obama’s Gay Friend . This was reinforced by tonight’s state dinner, where Geffen sat at Obama’s table. Oh, and Geffen’s plus one was there, too: His hunky, 26-year-old boyfriend.

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Obama will go to Copenhagen: Pledge firm emissions cuts

WASHINGTON — President Obama will travel to Copenhagen at the start of the United Nations conference on climate change on Dec. 9 just before flying to Oslo to accept the Nobel Peace Prize, White House officials said Wednesday.

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Obama pushes human rights in meetings with Chinese

BEIJING – President Barack Obama is pushing China on human rights, telling President Hu Jintao the U.S. believes all men and woman have “certain fundamental rights.” Obama met with his counterpart during two meetings Tuesday and pushed for improved treatment of Chinese ethnic and religious minorities

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30 Seconds To Mars Almost Didn’t Finish ‘Kings And Queens’ Video

Jared Leto-directed short film ‘The Ride’ premieres online Thursday morning.

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30 Seconds To Mars Almost Didn’t Finish ‘Kings And Queens’ Video

No Friends Were Punk’d By This Angel

Demi Moore , Ashton Kutcher and Jennifer Aniston all appeared in a 24-hour play last night in NYC . The plays are comprised of six 10-minute performances in which the actors don’t see the scripts until 12-hours before stage call.

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80% say climate change at least as important as defense

http://www.10waystosavetheworld.net/climate-as-important-as-defence Tackling climate change is either as important or more important than strengthening national defences – that’s the view of nearly 80% of the world’s consumers according to a survey from HSBC. The HSBC Climate Confidence Monitor 2009 questioned people from Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Malaysia, Mexico, the UK and the USA to gauge their attitudes and behaviour regarding climate change. The results show that overall, 37 per cent believe that strengthening national defences should be a lower priority than dealing with climate change, while 41 per cent think they are equally important and only 22% believe national defences should take precedence over climate change measures.

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Enormous Jellyfish sinks Japanese fishing boat

The boat was capsized off Chiba in Japan, as its three-man crew was trying to haul in a net containing dozens of huge Nomura’s jellyfish. Four years after they last reared their slimy heads, and for reasons that remain mysterious, an armada of the gelatinous giants has gathered in the Yellow Sea off China and the Korean peninsula

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Owl City: The Biggest ‘Total Nobody’ With A Top 10 Single And Album

‘The past six months have been nothing but a colorful, brilliant blur,’ Adam Young tells MTV News of his ‘Fireflies’-driven success. By James Montgomery Owl City Photo: Universal Republic Adam Young has stocked freezers at Hy-Vee , loaded packages for UPS, and built shipping containers for Coca-Cola.

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