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Google Sued Over 'Click Fraud'

A seller of online marketing tools said on Wednesday it sued Google Inc, charging that the Web search giant has failed to protect users of its advertising programme from "click fraud," costing them at least $5 million.

Click Defense Inc filed its lawsuit, which also seeks class action status, on June 24 in US District Court in San Jose, California.

Click fraud is not "fraud" as defined under the law. Rather, it is an industry term used to describe the deliberate clicking on Web search ads by users with no plans to do business with the advertiser.

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Bride-To-Be Shot Down By Terrorists In Kashmir

A 20-year-old girl was shot dead just a night before her wedding along with her mother and a neighbour in Jammu and Kashmir's Udhampur district.

The incident occurred late Wednesday when a group of terrorists opened indiscriminate fire at two adjoining houses in Mahakund village in the district, about 200 km north of Jammu, said army spokesperson Lt Col D K Badola.

The attack killed Shagufta Bee, 20, her mother Fatu Begum, 40, and neighbour, Abdul Aziz. Shagufta was to get married Thursday, Badola said.

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Fly To The Set Of X-Men 3 To Have Lunch With Halle Berry!

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Woman Wins Right To Drop Top

Elizabeth Book, the stay-at-home mom with a rose tattoo, has won the right to bare her breasts in her ongoing fight to go shirtless anywhere men can.

On Saturday at noon, the 40-something "top-free" revolutionary plans to demonstrate her right to protest by dropping her top at the Peabody Auditorium next to three statues of women nude from the waist up.

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Gravediggers Throw Party At Cemetery

The mourning parents of a traffic accident victim who visited their son's grave near Antwerp on Friday evening were shocked to find the local gravediggers enjoying their annual barbecue at the graveyard.

Workers at the cemetery in Merksem had music playing and their children were running around near the graves, De Morgen newspaper said on Wednesday.

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Somebody's Sure To Notice This...

A Taiwan stock trader mistakenly bought T$7.9 billion ($251 million) worth of shares with a mis-stroke of her computer, meaning her company is looking at a paper loss of more than $12 million and she is looking for a new job.

The trader with Fubon Securities mis-keyed in a small order from Merrill Lynch Monday, creating confusion when many small firms inexplicably surged the 7 percent trading limit.

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Prince Harry Tested For Bloodline

Britain's royal family forced the late Princess Diana to blood test her younger son, Prince Harry, to prove he was not the offspring of an affair with an army officer, according to a newspaper report today.

Diana, who died in 1997, did not tell Harry why his blood was being taken, the Sun newspaper said in extracts from a book by Simone Simmons, an "energy healer" billed as a former close friend and confidante of the princess.

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Iranian Court Orders Man To Be Blinded

An Iranian court has sentenced a man to have his eyes surgically removed for a crime he committed as a teenager 12 years ago. Amnesty International has condemned the sentence, reported in the Iranian daily Etemaad, but local human rights groups say these unusual punishments are hardly ever executed.

Reformists and dissidents fear human rights could suffer under the new administration of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, but they believe the new abuses will be political crackdowns. Punishments such as stoning have become much less common, since Iran's Islamic judiciary agreed to suspend such sentences as part of a human rights dialogue with the EU.

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