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* To Israel now, where urgent intervention is needed. New parents Lior and Vardit Adler have chosen a name for their daughter: Like, in honour of the Facebook feature. "When I posted her name on Facebook, I got 40 'likes'," a proud Mr Adler has told the Maariv newspaper."That's a lot considering I've only 100 friends." A full 100?
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* You know what they say. Two's a coincidence, three's a trend. So imagine the outrage when it was discovered a nine-year-old boy had been caught driving under the influence in Cumbria – hot on the heels of a 10-year-old in Northumbria and a 12-year-old in Cleveland. Trend alert! So disappointing to learn he was, in fact, 19. Cumbria Constabulary and their "system errors".
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