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Stoned Yet Popular
Toronto, Canada: Toronto's embattled mayor Rob Ford has admitted to smoking crack cocaine, and has been videotaped threatening to kill someone. This has resulted in most of his authority being stripped away. But despite all that Ford is still more popular among his constituents than American leaders are among theirs. Ford, who admitted to using crack in a "drunken stupor" on Nov. 5, has an approval rating of 42 percent, which is up from the 39 percent he had before he admitted to smoking cocaine.
Presenter Strips to Keep Promise
Paris, France: Doria Tillier is a woman of her word. The 27-year-old French news broadcaster promised ahead of a decisive World Cup game between the French national team and Ukraine that she would present the weather naked if France won the match and qualified for the World Cup. Trailing 2-0 from the first leg, French football team Les Bleus became the first side to overturn a two-goal deficit in a qualifying play-off against Ukraine. When the time came for the fateful broadcast, Tillier at first seemed to have found a way out – presenting the weather not "a poil" (nude in French), but in Poil, a small village in central France. But she did in the end strip down, running naked across a local field with the camera shooting from a distance.
Prayers for Latvian Roof Disaster Victims
Riga, Latvia: People embrace during a minute of silence held at the Maxima supermarket site in Riga, Latvia on November 25, 2013, four days after the roof of the building caved in on shoppers. The small Baltic state of two million are grieving over the tragedy, Europe's third worst roof disaster in 30 years. Latvian police are pursuing three theories of what caused the disaster, killing at least 54 people: building design, construction method and new roof additions.
Justice Served
New Delhi, India: An Indian court on Monday found a dentist couple guilty of murdering their 14-year-old daughter and a servant five years ago. Aarushi Talwar was found with her throat slit at the family home in Noida, an affluent town of new shopping malls and offices near Delhi, in 2008. A day later, the body of the family servant, Hemraj, was discovered. Rajesh and Nupur Talwar were convicted in a local court in Ghaziabad, near Noida, and remanded in custody ahead of sentencing on Tuesday.
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