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Syfy cancels Warehouse 13

The fifth season of Warehouse 13 — which will return for only six episodes in 2014 — will be its last, Syfy announced today. “Warehouse 13 has been an incredible signature series for us,” said Mark Stern, Syfy’s President, Original Content, in a statement. “We are grateful to the loyal …

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What’s the score for 50?

About 50 to 60 people were injured Saturday when a driver described by witnesses as an elderly man drove his car into a group of hikers marching in a parade in a small Virginia mountain town. Washington County director of emergency management Pokey Harris said no fatalities had been reported. …

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WW3 anyone?

In a move considered aggressive by US and European officials, Russia has sent at least 12 warships to patrol waters near its naval base in Tartous, Syria. The deployment appears to be a warning to Israeli and Western officials against military intervention in Syria’s bloody civil war, which has now …

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Daft Punk don’t turn up in Wee Waa

How do you get away with holding a much-hyped global album launch party in a location so unlikely that the world’s media sits up and takes notice – and get away with not showing up? Many fans we spoke to just prior to Daft Punk’s hugely-hyped Random Access Memories album …

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SAMCRO takes over the Vatican

Catholic Church officials have been likened to outlaw motorcycle gangs, drug cartels and people smugglers in an explosive speech delivered at a legal conference in Victoria. Lawyer and lobbyist Bryan Keon-Cohen said the church, currently at the centre of a royal commission into the handling of child sex abuse complaints, …

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Kai the hitchhiker arrested for murder

Kai the hitchhiker, who captivated the Internet in February with an act of heroism and a contagiously entertaining local TV interview, is now a murder suspect in New Jersey. Union County law enforcement has issued an arrest warrant for him for the murder of Joseph Galfy, Jr., in Clark, N.J., according …

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Australian government start web filtering in secret

The Federal Government has confirmed its financial regulator has started requiring Australian Internet service providers to block websites suspected of providing fraudulent financial opportunities, in a move which appears to also open the door for other government agencies to unilaterally block sites they deem questionable in their own portfolios. The …

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Ea dropping online passes from all future titles

EA is doing away with its Online Pass program from this point forward, a decision the video game publisher says is partially based on player response. “Yes, we’re discontinuing Online Pass,” EA senior director of corporate communications John Reseburg confirmed to GamesBeat in an e-mail. “None of our new EA titles …

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