Barack Obama sounded like the Democratic presidential nominee on a visit to the November election battleground of Florida on Wednesday, praising rival Hillary Clinton and targeting Republican foe John McCain. Clinton also visited Florida, where she pressed ahead with her uphill Democratic race.
Deep-sea explorers said on Friday they have salvaged what could be the richest shipwreck treasure in history, bringing home 17 tonnes of 400-year-old silver and gold coins from an undisclosed site in the Atlantic Ocean with an estimated value of -million. ”For this colonial era, I think [the find] is unprecedented,” said a rare-coin expert.
A United States federal judge, miffed at the inability of opposing attorneys to agree on even the slightest details of a lawsuit, ordered them to settle their latest dispute with the hand-gesture game of ”rock, paper, scissors”. The argument was over a location to take the sworn statement of a witness in an insurance lawsuit.
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Roy Jones will battle fellow American Antonio Tarver for the third time on Saturday as the two boyhood rivals square off for supremacy in boxing’s light heavyweight division. Jones (49-3, 38 KOs) and Tarver (23-3, 19 KOs) meet in a 12-round main event which Jones hopes will restore his legacy as a boxing champion.
A concert that was to feature an on-stage suicide of a terminally ill person has been postponed because the website that was to broadcast the event was attacked. The website for the band Hell on Earth was attacked on Saturday evening by a flood of data from computers somewhere in Hong Kong.