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20,000 climate activists march through central London

Around 20,000 people marched through central London on Saturday to demand action on climate change, police said, as rallies took place in other cities.
The demonstration organizers called for a tough agreement on reducing emissions at the forthcoming Copenhagen summit.
The London rally was organized by the group Stop Climate Chaos, a coalition of non-governmental organizations including [...]

109 dead in Russian nightclub blaze

At least 109 people were killed and dozens injured overnight to Saturday when a blaze sparked by indoor fireworks swept through a nightclub, in one of the deadliest tragedies to hit Russia in recent years.
Flames ripped through the Lame Horse nightclub in the Ural city of Perm as around 230 people celebrated the popular venue’s [...]

GOP congressman: Climate change debate is ’scientific fascism’

Leaked climate e-mails make waves in Congress
A row over leaked emails from a British scientist hinting at a global warming cover-up has reached the US Congress, where climate change skeptics are seeking to thwart key legislation.
British Professor Phil Jones has stood aside as director of the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia, [...]

‘Church of Tiger’ Web site disbands over golfer’s ’sins’

The transgressions of Tiger Woods have proved too much to take for one of the golf superstar’s most fanatical fans who is now disbanding a church set up in praise of the sports icon.
John Ziegler, the pastor of the “First Church of Tiger Woods” — www.tigerwoodsisgod.com — has announced in a statement on the blog [...]

Some like it pot? Home movie shows Marilyn Monroe toking

A home movie purporting to show Marilyn Monroe smoking a marijuana joint has surfaced some five decades after being shot at a gathering with friends in New Jersey.
Collector Keya Morgan uncovered the color footage while researching an documentary which he says will prove Monroe was murdered in August 1962.
The reel-to-reel film, which has no sound, [...]