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Lady Gaga tops MTV Europe Awards (AFP)

November 7th, 2010

Americans cleaned up at the MTV Europe Awards in Madrid, as Lady Gaga, pictured in August 2010, picked up three top prizes and awards crowned Katy Perry, Canadian teen idol Justin Bieber and half a dozen US outfits.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Tim Mosenfelder)AFP - Americans cleaned up at the MTV Europe Awards in Madrid, as Lady Gaga picked up three top prizes and awards crowned Katy Perry, Canadian teen idol Justin Bieber…

Death toll from Asian floods tops 100 (AP)

October 6th, 2010

A family stand near damaged houses at a village affected by flash flood in Wasior, Papua province, Indonesia, Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2010. Heavy rain unleashed flash floods and mudslides, killing dozens of people in a remote corner of the country that rescuers were still struggling to reach days after the storms began, officials and witnesses said Tuesday. (AP Photo/Abdul Muin)AP - Helicopters dropped food to isolated villages and security forces helped search for survivors as the number of people killed by floods and landslides across Asia climbed Wednesday to…

US tops list of unpaid London traffic toll fees (AP)

June 28th, 2010

AP - Britain’s Foreign Office named the United States embassy Monday as the worst offender among diplomatic missions that have racked up 36 million pounds ($54 million) in disputed traffic…

BP shares fall; lost market value tops $100 bln (AP)

June 25th, 2010

AP - BP shares fell more than 4 percent in New York Friday. If the decline holds, BP will have lost more than $100 billion in market value since a…

Rio flood toll tops 100 as record downpours ease (AP)

April 7th, 2010

Firefighters carry the body a man who died in a landslide in the Morro dos Prazeres area of the Santa Teresa neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro, Wednesday, April 7, 2010. The heaviest rains in Rio de Janeiro's history triggered landslides Tuesday that killed at least 95 people as rising water turned roads into rivers and paralyzed Brazil's second-largest city.  (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)AP - Flooding and mudslides from the heaviest deluge ever recorded in Rio killed at least 100 people and left many more homeless, officials said Wednesday as the rains finally…