Thugs posed as cops to rob Brooklyn home: police

Two dapper thugs posed as cops to rob a Brooklyn home, police said.The duo forced their way into a Bedford-Stuyvesant residence near Atlantic Avenue and Herkimer Street about 5:30 p.m. Jan. 16, snatching a laptop and cash.One suspect is about 6 feet tall, and wore a suit and glasses. His accomplice, who dangled a fake shield around his neck, also wore a...

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Mayor Bloomberg says to lose weight you have to eat less

Meet Mayor Bloomberg, diet guru.Only you're probably not going to like his advice for losing weight -- just eat less."If you eat less than 2,000 calories you'll lose weight," the mayor said on his weekly WOR radio show today. "If you eat more than 2,000 calories, you'll gain weight. Now some things metabolize more quickly than others. And everyone says...

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Barnes & Noble posts third-quarter loss as Nook costs mount

The digital business is weighing on Barnes & Noble Inc., the largest traditional US bookseller.The company posted on Thursday a loss in the fiscal third quarter, hurt by weak sales during the all-important holiday quarter for its Nook e-book readers as well as at its bookstores. Nook revenue fell 26 percent, and the company has begun cutting costs at...

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Miss Delaware Teen USA resigns on same day alleged porn tape surfaces

YouTube and @Melissa_M_King via TwitterThe porn video allegedly showing Miss Delaware Teen USA Melissa King (left) and a picture of King wearing her official sash (right).Miss Delaware Teen USA, Melissa King, has turned in her crown after a sex tape emerged allegedly staring the 18-year-old beauty."The Miss Delaware Teen USA pageant has received a resignation...

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Helicopter prison escape foiled in Greece after massive gun battle

trikalavoice.grA helicopter is seen hovering over a prison in Greece as Panagiotis Vlastos attempts a daring escape.ATHENS, Greece — A helicopter swooped down on a prison courtyard Sunday as armed men on board fired on guards and lowered a rope to help a convicted killer make his fourth attempt to escape from a Greek prison.But the plot was foiled after...

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Israel, US successfully test anti-missile system

JERUSALEM — Israel and the US on Monday carried out a successful test of the next-generation Arrow 3 missile defense system, for the first time sending an interceptor into outer space, where it could destroy missiles fired from Iran.The Arrow 3 is part of a multilayered system that Israel is developing to protect against a range of missile threats, from...

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Elderly man fatally shot in Brooklyn home

An elderly man was shot and killed inside a home in Brooklyn this morning, police said.The 72-year-old man suffered a single gunshot wound to the neck and was discovered inside the Gates Avenue building in Bushwick around 2:25 a.m., cops said.The victim was rushed to Woodhull Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.The man, whose name has not been released,...

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North Korea warns US commander in South Korea of 'miserable destruction' if US goes ahead with drills

PYONGYANG, North Korea — North Korea warned the top American commander in South Korea on Saturday of "miserable destruction" if the U.S. military presses ahead with routine joint drills with South Korea set to begin next month.Pak Rim Su, chief of North Korea's military delegation to the truce village of Panmunjom inside the Demilitarized Zone, sent the...

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United drops Boeing 787 from flying planes through June 5

Getty ImagesA grounded Boeing 787 Dreamliner jet operated by United Airlines is parked at LAX.United Airlines cut the grounded Boeing 787 from its flying plans at least until June and postponed its new Denver-to-Tokyo flights on Thursday, as airlines continued to tear up their schedules while the plane is out of service.Investigators are still trying to...

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Couple hoping to obtain class-action status for lawsuit filed against Carnival over stranded cruise ship

MIAMI — A couple are hoping to obtain class-action status for a lawsuit they've filed against Carnival Cruise Lines following an engine-room fire that stranded a ship for days in the Gulf of Mexico.The suit filed Monday by Matt and Melissa Crusan of Oklahoma seeks to represent the more than 3,000 passengers who were on the Carnival Triumph when the fire broke out on Feb. 10.A judge must approve the...

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Sen. Golden backs Lhota for mayor

The dean of New York City’s Republican elected officials is backing Joe Lhota for mayor, The Post has learned.“I’m a Lhota guy. Joe Lhota is the only guy who has a chance to win,” said state Sen. Martin Golden (R-Brooklyn).And Golden predicted that most — if not all — of the city’s eight elected GOP lawmakers will end up supporting Lhota.“A lot of the elected...

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Google's stock price breaks $800 for 1st time

SAN FRANCISCO — Google's stock price topped $800 for the first time Tuesday amid renewed confidence in the company's ability to reap steadily higher profits from its dominance of Internet search and prominence in the increasingly important mobile device market.The milestone comes more than five years after Google's shares initially hit $700. Not long after...

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148 years later, slavery officially over in Mississippi

Abraham Lincoln's historic battle to end slavery has finally ended, 148 years after the 13th Amendment was first passed.The landmark event happened earlier this month when Mississippi became the final state to officially ratify the amendment, which ended slavery.The remarkable oversight was found because Dr. Ranjan Batra, an associate professor of neurobiology...

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'I've killed my baba,' Pistorius sobbed to friend moments after girlfriend shot

Oscar Pistorius sobbed to his best friend: “My baba, I’ve killed my baba — God take me away” moments after his girlfriend was shot, it emerged last night. The panicking 26-year-old Blade Runner called pal Justin Divaris before alerting emergency services to the early hours shooting of model Reeva Steenkamp, it was claimed. Justin told how he sped to Pistorius’s luxury home and said the star sobbed...

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Pope Benedict said in August strength was diminishing; Vatican says conclave to elect next pope might start before March 15

BERLIN — Pope Benedict XVI said last August that his strength was diminishing and "not much more" could be expected from him as pontiff, according to a German journalist who interviewed him for a 2010 book in which Benedict said popes should in some circumstances consider resigning.Journalist Peter Seewald recalled in an article for German weekly Focus...

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Funeral is held for SI mom killed in Turkey

A New Yorker killed while vacationing alone in Turkey is being remembered as a good-hearted and joyful person.A funeral was being held Friday on Staten Island for Sarai Sierra, a mother of two.The service began with a prayer and "Amazing Grace" played by pipers from the transit system. Sierra's husband is a bus driver.Her body was found Feb. 2 in Istanbul,...

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Jury takes 17 minutes to convict former limo owner of killing baby mama

It took a Manhattan jury only a lightning-fast 17 minutes yesterday to convict a former limo owner from Orlando, Fla. of shooting his baby mama dead as she slept in her Jefferson Houses bedroom in 2009.Edward Demirdjian, 57, slaughtered pretty Sherra Morgenstern so he could keep custody of their toddler daughter and cash in on a $250,000 insurance policy,...

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11 injured in Harlem bus accident

A car crashed head-on with a stopped MTA bus this morning after it collided with another car -- injuring 11 people, authorities said.The M10 bus was at a bus stop at 6:45 a.m. on Broadway and West 135th Street when an SUV came at the bus head on, the MTA said.A livery cab was heading north down Broadway and when it tried to make a U-turn it clipped an SUV,...

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Man mines Mars

NASA's Mars Curiosity next to the tiny hole it drilled in the surface of the red planet. The hole, drilled in the white area near the bottom of the photo above is 1.6 centimeters across and 2 centimeters deep.For the first time ever human beings have drilled into a planet other than Earth, and you can see the fruits of that labor in an amazing panoramic shot from NASA's Mars Curiosity rover.On Feb....

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Giants player Diehl pleads guilty to drunk driving after smashing into 2 parked cars last summer

Ellis KaplanDavid Diehl pleaded guilty today to driving while drunk after watching a soccer match in the city last summer.A boozy NFL offensive lineman pleaded guilty this morning to drunk driving after a soccer match last summer. David Diehl, 31, dodged up to a year in jail when he admitted to a Queens judge that he drove a black BMW into two parked cars...

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