Hyukkyu/superglue huggingface dataset:
Premise: In 1979, the very first cases of AIDS appeared in New York. Cases of the disease that had never been seen prior to 1979, but is now considered more deadly than the bubonic plague, continued to surface in California and New York, almost exclusively in homosexual men.
Hypothesis: AIDS spreads in Africa.
Premise: Injections of human stem cells seem to directly repair some of the damage caused by spinal cord injury, according to research that helped partially paralyzed mice walk again.
Hypothesis: Anderson and colleagues used fetal neural stem cells, a type that are slightly more developed than embryonic stem cells because they're destined to make cells for the central nervous system.
Premise: Stolen Warhol works recovered: Amsterdam police said Wednesday that they have recovered stolen lithographs by the late U.S. pop artist Andy Warhol worth more than $1 million. Dali's paintings are still missing.
Hypothesis: Millions of dollars of art were recovered, including works by Dali.
Premise: Alternately known as brash, emotional and brilliant, the maverick Kasparov could be a formidable opponent in the realm of politics.
Hypothesis: Don Brash is the leader of the New Zealand National Party.
Premise: Officials in Pakistan say parliamentary elections will be delayed until next month. VOA correspondent Nancy-Amelia Collins in Islamabad reports the Pakistan Election Commission says the delay is due to the destruction of election offices and materials in violence that broke out last week after Benazir Bhutto's assassination. Chief election commissioner Qazi Mohammed Farooq says the elections originally scheduled for January 8 are being postponed and will be held next month. "The polling will now be held on 18th February, 2008 instead of 8th January 2008," he said.
Hypothesis: Islamabad is a city in Pakistan.
Premise: As his jubilant nation cheered, Yunus told reporters in the capital of Dhaka that he wants "to work to create some more new things in the world" and would use the award money to start a company to produce inexpensive yet nutritious food for poor people and set up an eye hospital to treat impoverished patients.
Hypothesis: Yunus wants to start a company.
Premise: The exchanges resulted in greatly improved financial, oil, fisheries, and military issues, but Great Britain consistently refused to address the issue of sovereignty over the Falklands.
Hypothesis: Great Britain continues to refuse to discuss sovereignty issues.
Premise: Iraqi militants said Sunday they would behead Kim Sun-Il, a 33-year-old translator, within 24 hours unless plans to dispatch thousands of South Korean troops to Iraq were abandoned.
Hypothesis: translator kidnapped in Iraq
Premise: New York Times reporter Judith Miller broke her media silence by writing a column the newspaper published on Sunday. Her lengthy story recounted two testimonies, September 30 and October 12, she gave to a U.S. federal grand jury seeking information on the source of the Valerie Plame leak. The column described the testimony as one that relied heavily on her reporting notes given to special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald between her first and second  appearances.
Hypothesis: Judith Miller works for the New York Times.
Premise: It found that binge drinking in women aged 18 to 44 increased in the United States by 13 percent between 1999 and 2002.
Hypothesis: Female binge drinking rose 13 percent in three years.
Premise: The solar system is much more complicated now, astronomers say, than in 1930 when Clyde Tombaugh added Pluto to the inventory of wandering lights circling the Sun.
Hypothesis: Pluto was discovered by Clyde Tombaugh.
Premise: Sierra was arrested on December 2 outside a local bar, and is being held without bond. Police claim that after they arrived, she first assaulted an officer then attempted to bribe him by offering to perform a sex act on him. Only two weeks earlier she had pleaded no contest to charges of battery and possessing cocaine. If she is convicted of all the new charges, she could be imprisoned for up to 11 years, which would mean she would have the baby whilst still in prison. Sierra earlier pled not guilty to all charges.
Hypothesis: Jessica Sierra once reached the finals of "American Idol".
Premise: Kozlowski and the company's former chief financial officer, Mark Swartz, were sentenced, on Monday, to up to 25 years in prison.
Hypothesis: Two former bosses of US manufacturer, Tyco, have been sentenced to up to 25 years in jail for stealing more than $150m (£m) from the company.
Premise: One year after shareholders approved a massive expansion in its pool of stock options, eBay is asking for more.
Hypothesis: Shareholders approved expansion for one year.
Premise: Sara Jane Moore, 77, who tried to assassinate Former United States President Gerald Ford in 1975 was paroled from prison in California this afternoon. Moore tried to assassinate Ford outside of the St. Francis Hotel in downtown San Francisco on January 15, by firing one shot, which missed because a bystander grabbed Moore's arms just seconds before she fired the gun. The bullet missed hitting Ford in the head by inches.
Hypothesis: Sara Jane Moore is no longer in prison.
Premise: Sweden-based airline Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS) said it will reduce payrolls by 8,600 jobs as part of its "Core SAS" restructuring plan. The airline will cut 3,000 staff directly and eliminate 5,600 by divesting business ventures, reducing the workforce by 40% to 14,000. The restructuring  comes after SAS posted losses of 6.32 billion Swedish krona in 2008. The company is also to sell airBaltic and Spanair and its stakes in Air Greenland,  BMI, Estonian Air, Skyways Express, Spirit Airlines and Trust. Spanair is to be sold for €1. The company intends to switch to concentrating on its core  Nordic market.
Hypothesis: European Airlines are cutting jobs.
Premise: In late 2006, Aneta Krawczyk accused the party's leader Andrzej Lepper of having offered her political favours for sex in 2001, and then said he had been the father of her youngest child. She said the same of Lepper's close collaborator and MP, Stanislaw Lyzwinski, and accused him of rape and sexual abuse. She also said that Popecki, who had been Lyzwinski's aide, had tried to induce a miscarriage by giving her a labour-inducing drug called oxytocin.
Hypothesis: Andrzej Lepper is no longer the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development.
Premise: A man has died after riding the Expedition Everest roller coaster at Walt Disney World's Animal Kingdom in Orlando, Florida. The man, identified as Jeffery Reed, 44 from Navarre, was given CPR after being pulled off the ride unconscious, and was taken in an ambulance to Celebration Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Reed had no external signs of injuries, and police are investigating to determine whether or not Reed may have had any pre-existing medical conditions. An autopsy is to be performed on the body, but details have not yet been released.
Hypothesis: Walt Disney World is in Florida.
Premise: Total coal stocks with the thermal power stations came down to 9.6 million tonnes on March 3, 2003 from 11 million tonnes on October 1, 2002.
Hypothesis: Coal stocks rise.
Premise: Talks between the Boston Globe and its unions continued past a midnight deadline amid threats that the newspaper could be closed within weeks. Its owner, The New York Times, said it would file a notice with the government on Monday that it would shut the paper if there was no agreement on cost cuts. The owners want the unions to agree to $20m (£13.4m) in money saving measures. Guaranteed jobs for life are expected to be a sticking point, with the unions saying they are not negotiable.
Hypothesis: The Boston Globe is owned by The New York Times.
Premise: González Márquez, Felipe is a Spanish political leader. After joining what was then the Spanish Socialist Workers' party, González became its secretary-general and revived it from the moribund position into which it had fallen under Franco.
Hypothesis: Felipe González is the President of Spain.
Premise: Hunting reef sharks is now banned throughout Maldivian waters. The government decision has made the Indian Ocean archipelago the first nation in the region to outlaw the practice. Shark numbers have plummeted in the Maldives in recent years because a significant minority of fishermen target sharks for their lucrative fins, which are used in shark-fin soup, a luxury Asian dish. Once its fins have been cut off, the shark is often returned to the sea where it suffocates over many painful hours.
Hypothesis: Due to the decreasing number of sharks, Maldives have banned the hunt of reef sharks.
Premise: Benjamin Vanderford, 22, said he posted the 55-second clip, which shows a knife sawing against his neck, on an online file-sharing network in May.
Hypothesis: Mr Vanderford said he filmed his own mock execution in a friend's garage to show how the media could be fooled.
Premise: Accompanied by Sioux prayers and the keening of Scottish bagpipes, a plain cotton shirt was returned to South Dakota this past summer.
Hypothesis: A Sioux ghost shirt was returned by a Scottish museum.
Premise: Jean-Claude Trichet, the European Central Bank president, made it clear, on Wednesday, that he would oppose unwarranted political attempts to remove Antonio Fazio: the Bank of Italy governor, engulfed in controversy over his handling of bank takeover bids.
Hypothesis: Antonio Fazio works for the Bank of Italy.
Premise: The United States government has filed a civil lawsuit against BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc. (BPXA) alleging that the company "violated federal clean air and water laws" by "illegally discharging" more than 200,000 gallons crude oil during two oil spills in 2006 on Alaska's North Slope in Prudhoe Bay. BPXA previously pleaded guilty to one count of criminal negligence in illegally discharging the oil and paid US$20 million in damages. As a result of the plea, the lawsuit was filed saying that they "failed" to prepare for such a disaster by implementing "certain [sic] spill prevention measures" as the law requires.
Hypothesis: Prudhoe Bay is situated in North Slope.
Premise: Christoffer's family was identified only as an Air Force family living in Southern California.
Hypothesis: Air Force is an organisation based in Southern California.
Premise: That film wasn't too successful, but then 'WarGames,' which was successful, came out right when I won the Tony for 'Brighton Beach' in 1983.
Hypothesis: The film "WarGames" was shot in 1983.
Premise: In 1997, insurance companies paid out $51.6 billion for prescription drugs.
Hypothesis: Insurance companies cover prescription drugs.
Premise: Tony Shalhoub won best actor in a comedy for "Monk", and James Spader won best actor in a drama for "Boston Legal."
Hypothesis: James Spader won best actor for "Boston Legal."
Premise: On Sunday December 14, 2008, an Iraqi journalist for an Egyptian Newspaper named Muntazer al-Zaidi was tackled by authorities after he threw his shoes at former United States president George W. Bush during a press conference in Baghdad. Bush had made a surprise last visit to Iraq to sign a new security pact brokered by Iraq and the U.S. Bush ducked as the flying shoes zipped past him, barely missing the now former U.S. president.
Hypothesis: A man threw a shoe at the Prime Minister.
Premise: The law once required settlers to clear 80% of their land in two years to win ownership.
Hypothesis: Before the late 1980's some nations even gave land and tax credit to individuals and companies slashing, burning, and exploiting the forest.
Premise: In an interview with the Sci Fi Wire, Robert Shaye, co-chairman of New Line and executive producer of The Lord of the Rings, said that New Line does not want to do any films, including The Hobbit, with Mr Jackson in the future. "I do not want to make a movie with somebody who is suing me. It will never happen during my watch." "I don't care about Peter Jackson anymore. He wants to have another $100 million or $50 million, whatever he's suing us for," Mr Shaye said.
Hypothesis: New Line wants to work with Peter Jackson.
Premise: Martin was taken to New Orleans Ochsner Foundation Hospital, where nurse Jinny Resor said he was treated for dehydration.
Hypothesis: Jinny Resor is employed at Ochsner Foundation Hospital.
Premise: Saddam Hussein was being treated with "dignity and respect."
Hypothesis: Saddam Hussein was being treated as a dignitary.
Premise: John Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono, approved this museum as the world's first museum to honor John Lennon.
Hypothesis: Yoko Ono is John Lennon's widow.
Premise: At a low-key ceremony, Albanian and British officials agreed to bury all outstanding differences caused by the 'Corfu Channel incident'.
Hypothesis: The dispute between Albania and the UK about the Corfu incident lasted a long time.
Premise: Rather than deterring crime, capital punishment actually increases the level of brutality in society.
Hypothesis: Capital punishment is a deterrent to crime.
Premise: By buying local companies, Philip Morris and its subsidiary inherit informal trade contacts cultivated under Soviet rule that may help to smooth any future moves east.
Hypothesis: American tobacco companies used state tobacco monopoly liberalization.
Premise: The comments made by Wells today, regarding the commissioner of baseball, do not in any way reflect the views of the club, Sox said in a statement.
Hypothesis: David Wells' comments drew a quick response from the players' union and the commissioner's office.
Premise: The agency identified five of the men as Palestinians, four of whom lived in East Jerusalem and held Jerusalem identity cards allowing them to move about Israel.
Hypothesis: They included Palestinian residents of east Jerusalem, who carry identity cards allowing them free movement in Israel.
Premise: South African President Thabo Mbeki, the main mediator in Côte d'Ivoire's peace process, said on Sunday that Pretoria is heightening its intervention in the West African nation to pave the way for elections later this year.
Hypothesis: Pretoria is located in Côte d'Ivoire.
Premise: Rising house and stock prices have made many people feel more wealthy and have helped to support consumer spending, a key ingredient of the economy's good health.
Hypothesis: A long spell of low interest rates and low risks for investors has especially encouraged investment in homes.
Premise: Protest votes as citizens of the 25 EU nations punished their governments for everything from high unemployment to involvement in Iraq.
Hypothesis: Citizens of the 25 EU nations are punished by their governments for everything.
Premise: Maine knows he killed Lennon and that he is also a child molester. During the '92 election George Bush admitted twice on TV "Nobody likes who shot John... I know the media is fascinated with this story but..."
Hypothesis: John Lennon was killed in 1992.
Premise: Bogota, 4 May 88 - The dissemination of a document questioning Colombia's oil policy, is reportedly the aim of the publicity stunt carried out by the pro-Castro Army Of National Liberation, which kidnapped several honorary consuls, newsmen, and political leaders.
Hypothesis: The Army Of National Liberation are supporters of Castro.
Premise: Preliminary results from the National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL), released 15 December 2005 by the US National Center for Education Statistics, indicate gains and losses in literacy among minority adults between 1992 and 2003.  The nationally representative study among US adults age 16 and older found the over-all average prose and document literacy remained relatively unchanged, but quantitative literacy improved 8 points (on a scale of 500.) Results among minorities were mixed, with White and Asian/Pacific Islander minorities scoring significantly higher than Hispanic or Black ethnicities; Hispanic subjects in particular had sharp decreases in prose and document literacy (-9% and -8%, respectively) and quantitative illiteracy remained unchanged with 50% of subjects scoring at less than basic literacy levels.
Hypothesis: The National Assessment of Adult Literacy is a project held by the US National Center for Education Statistics.
Premise: Mercedes-Benz USA (MBUSA), headquartered in Montvale, New Jersey, is responsible for the sales, marketing and service of all Mercedes-Benz and Maybach products in the United States.
Hypothesis: MBUSA is based in New Yersey.
Premise: Sunday Express, a tabloid newspaper from the UK reported an anonymous source claiming to be an insider to merger talks between Wells Fargo Bank and Barclays Bank. The rumoured merger would be a radical break in the kinds of mergers Wells Fargo has done and has said it will continue to do (it is assumed that Wells with the higher market capitalization would be the buyer). Wells Fargo has previously shown no desire to engage in retail banking outside the United States, and has only expanded internationally in its Consumer Finance business and with certain business services.
Hypothesis: Barclays Bank is one of the UK tabloid newspapers.
Premise: Born in 1946, into a family many of whose members belonged to liberal professions, Radwa Ashour studied English Literature at Cairo University. She is now Professor of English Literature at Ain Shams University, a novelist, the wife of Palestinian poet Mourid Al-Barghouti and Umm Tamim.
Hypothesis: Rwada Ashour is a Palestinian poet.
Premise: Robert Szabo concludes that circumcision, as practiced by Muslims, would be the most immediately effective intervention for reducing HIV transmission since it is done before men are sexually active.
Hypothesis: It is incorrect to assert that circumcision prevents HIV infection.
Premise: The 500,000 eligible, Muslim voters are likely to reward Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder's Social Democrats (SPD) in the September 18 parliamentary election, for its anti-Iraq war position and pro-Muslim policies.
Hypothesis: Gerhard Schroeder belongs to the Social Democrats.
Premise: A priest who served in the Diocese of Metuchen in the mid-1980s has been sentenced to life in prison for sexually abusing a Massachusetts boy.
Hypothesis: Pedophile gets life in prison
Premise: The treaty requires that members comply with guidelines on deficits, public debt and other fiscal benchmarks by the end of 1997 if they are to qualify for taking part in the introduction of a new, single European currency in 1999.
Hypothesis: The European single currency was introduced in 1999.
Premise: Yoko Ono, widow of murdered Beatles star John Lennon, has plastered the small German town of Langenhagen with backsides.
Hypothesis: Yoko Ono was John Lennon's wife.
Premise: Nicholas Cage's wife, Alice Kim Cage, gave birth Monday, to Kal-el Coppola Cage, in New York City, said the actor's Los Angeles-based publicist, Annett Wolf.
Hypothesis: Kal-el Coppola Cage is the son of Nicholas Cage.
Premise: Anna Politkovskaya was found shot dead on Saturday in a lift at her block of flats in the Russian capital, Moscow.
Hypothesis: Anna Politkovskaya was murdered.
Premise: Strong support was given to water conservation, recycling and demand reduction options, while storage augmentation (dam building) was rejected on the grounds that there would not be sufficient water to fill any new dams.
Hypothesis: Dam building prevents life-threatening situations.
Premise: Côte d'Ivoire, once a haven of stability in West Africa and the world's top cocoa producer, has been split in two since a failed coup against Gbagbo in September 2002, pitting rebels from the Muslim-dominated north against the Christian-populated south.
Hypothesis: Côte d'Ivoire is located in Africa.
Premise: The common binding of Catholic faith did little to prevent the Bavarians from slaughtering fellow believers in the 19th century under Prussian Protestant officers.
Hypothesis: 19 Bavarians are Catholic.
Premise: The presidents of Ecuador and Peru say they have agreed to work together to try to find a peaceful solution to their long-running border dispute.
Hypothesis: Peru debates border region with Ecuador.
Premise: Two weeks ago, China became the first nation to operate a maglev railway commercially, when officials inaugurated a 30-kilometer-long line between downtown Shanghai and the city's airport.
Hypothesis: Maglev is commercially used.
Premise: The Democrats' success in the 2006 elections means changes at the top in the House and Senate.
Hypothesis: Democrats won the 2006 elections.
Premise: The United Nations last night elected eight judges for the international war crimes tribunal that will try those accused of murders and other atrocities in former Yugoslavia since 1991.
Hypothesis: 11 judges in the Yugoslavia war tribunal were sworn in at the World court.
Premise: Although most Palestinians crossed into Egypt in order to shop and see relatives, Palestinian officials say that the recent border chaos enabled smugglers to bring drugs and weapons into Gaza.
Hypothesis: Egyptian and Palestinian border guards failed repeatedly in efforts to end the chaos and to close the border.
Premise: After the press conference, I met up with a Microsoft guy, John Traynor: senior director of segment marketing for the mobile devices division.
Hypothesis: John Traynor is an executive of Microsoft.
Premise: A Yorkshire pub affected by flooding in 2007 has been named CAMRA's National Pub of the Year for 2008. The Kelham Island Tavern in Sheffield's Kelham Island Quarter was in a "semi derelict" state when it was purchased in 2001. After it was re-opened in 2002 by licensee Trevor Wraith and manager Lewis Gonda, business quickly picked up and the pub has been awarded Sheffield CAMRA's local Pub of the Year award for the past four years. The pub won the award despite six weeks of closure a year and a half ago when the pub's cellar and floor were affected by the flooding of the River Don and the nearby Kelham goit. The pub also received Yorkshire CAMRA's Pub of the Year award in 2004 and 2007.
Hypothesis: The Kelham Island Tavern is situated in Sheffield.
Premise: George Hawi's assassination came on the heels of the conclusion of the last round of parliamentary elections, which saw a coalition of opposition candidates led by Saad Hariri, son of former Prime Minister of Lebanon Rafik Hariri , capture a majority of seats.
Hypothesis: Saad Hariri was elected Prime Minister of Lebanon.
Premise: A man suspected of stealing a million-dollar collection of hundreds of ancient Nepalese and Tibetan art objects in New York 11 years ago was arrested Thursday at his South Los Angeles home, where he had been hiding the antiquities.
Hypothesis: A man suspected of stealing a million-dollar collection of Nepalese and Tibetan art objects in New York was arrested.
Premise: Between 1978 and 1982, 32 states acknowledged the medical benefits and attempted to make cannabis available, but possession remains a federal offence. Among the states where marijuana is legally used for medical purposes are California, Oregon, Washington, Alaska, Arizona, and Nevada.
Hypothesis: In the Netherlands, people can legally have 32 grams of cannabis in their possession.
Premise: The ecological problems stem in large part from the fact that the brackish water and productive coastal wetlands and natural areas are often supplied with nutrient-rich irrigation return water, sometimes from rice farming. The Ebro Delta and its wetlands suffer similar water quality problems since they lie around the fringes of the large Delta farm region.
Hypothesis: The Ebro Delta is used for farming.
Premise: Also Friday, five Iraqi soldiers were killed and nine wounded in a bombing, targeting their convoy near Beiji, 150 miles north of Baghdad, the Iraqi military said.
Hypothesis: Three Iraqi soldiers also died Saturday when their convoy was attacked by gunmen near Adhaim.
Premise: The west has preferred to focus on endangered animals, rather than endangered humans. African elephants are hunted down and stripped of tusks and hidden by poachers. Their numbers in Africa slumped from 1.2m to 600,000 in a decade until CITES - the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species - banned the trade in ivory.
Hypothesis: The African elephant population was decimated by poachers.
Premise: Alleged terrorists today, killed Dolores Hinostroza, the mayor of Mulqui district, shooting her five times.
Hypothesis: The mayor of Mulqui district was murdered with a firearm.
Premise: IKEA offers fantastic and affordable solutions for your home furnishing needs.
Hypothesis: Ikea is a home.
Premise: The President George Bush administration, on Friday, ordered the sale of 30 million barrels of crude oil from the government's emergency stockpile in order to halt runaway oil prices triggered by Hurricane Katrina.
Hypothesis: The Bush administration will release 30 million barrels of crude oil from U.S. reserves.
Premise: The son of Italy's last king returned to his homeland Monday, ending more than a half-century of exile. Victor Emmanuel and his family landed at a military airport in Rome in a private plane and headed immediately for an audience with Pope John Paul II.
Hypothesis: Italian royal family returns home.
Premise: Anna Nobili, 38, spent years working as an exotic dancer and striptease artist at Milan night clubs but now she's a Catholic nun who describes herself a "ballerina for God". The Daily Mail reports that Sr Anna Nobili, a lap dancer turned nun is to perform a religious dance in front of an audience of Catholic cardinals and bishops. She swapped string bikinis and high heels for a nun's habit after a visit to the shrine of St Francis in Assisi, a place of pilgrimage for millions of Catholics in Umbria, in 2002.
Hypothesis: Anna Nobili is a nun.
Premise: In conversations with Ms. Robbins, it is understood that Armstrong Environmental Inc. has been retained by past or present owners or some combination of these parties.
Hypothesis: Ms Robbins is a co-owner of Armstrong Environmental Inc.
Premise: US military forces are evacuating U.S. citizens and citizens of 72 other countries from Liberia at the request of the U.S.
Hypothesis: U.S. Military evacuated U.S. citizens.
Premise: If toxic waste containg cyanide is not disposed of properly, it may drain into ponds, streams, sewers, and reservoirs.
Hypothesis: Leaks into environment are caused by bad disposal of toxic waste containing cyanide.
Premise: The mine would operate nonstop seven days a week and use tons of cyanide each day to leach the gold from crushed ore.
Hypothesis: A weak cyanide solution is poured over it to pull the gold from the rock.
Premise: Even though the charges were dropped on January 22, 2006, his Nobel Prize reception continues to provoke mixed feelings of pride and anger among Turks. On the other hand, as Pamuk intended, the criminal case brought international attention to freedom of speech in Turkey. In his Nobel speech, he defined literature as:  ... what a person creates when he shuts himself up in a room, sits down at a table, and retires to a corner to express his thoughts - that is, the meaning of literature... When a writer shuts himself up in a room for years on end, with this gesture he suggests a single humanity, a world without a centre.
Hypothesis: Pamuk won a Nobel Prize.
Premise: Prosecutors in South Africa are set to announce whether they will drop corruption charges against African National Congress leader Jacob Zuma. Mr Zuma is widely expected to become the country's next president after elections later this month. He is accused of graft, racketeering and money-laundering in connection with an arms deal signed with western companies in 1999. The 66-year-old denies the charges and says they are part of a political plot. Mr Zuma was first charged in 2005, but has yet to face trial.
Hypothesis: Jacob Zuma is 66 years old.
Premise: It would create an underclass of illiterate and impoverished residents, deprived of basic skills, including English-language skills, necessary for the integration of immigrant children into our society and our work force.
Hypothesis: Language skills are a means of social integration.
Premise: The Argentinian propaganda made the Gurkhas out to be evil savages who ate their PoW's. However instead of causing the Argentinian conscripts fight to the end, it caused them to run away, the Gurkhas never saw more than brief token resistance.
Hypothesis: The Gurkhas come from Nepal.
Premise: Arsenal sneaked a 1-0 victory over Birmingham at Highbury, taking advantage of Stephen Clemence's own-goal in the 81st minute.
Hypothesis: Arsenal lost to Birmingham.
Premise: Sources in Tegucigalpa reported that many Latin American countries are gearing up to face Hurricane "Mitch".
Hypothesis: South American countries are preparing for "Mitch"
Premise: When complete, over 2 million people are expected to be displaced. After wiping out the least desirable shanties, next in line for demolition are the illegal "well-off" shanties and neighborhoods, according to the legal and bureaucratic motions that have been executed toward cleaning up Mumbai's appearance by lowering the dominance of shanties, which make up 62 percent of Mumbai's housing.
Hypothesis: 200,000 shanties have been demolished.
Premise: According to the Spanish daily, this type of bacterium is prevalent in hospitals throughout the world, but the incidence of infection in Madrid hospitals is lower than the Spanish average. The head of the Neonatal Unit at 12 de Octubre Hospital, Carmen Pay's, explained that the bacterium is very adaptable "and keeps on learning". The father of the dead baby, an Ecuadorian named Angel Marcelo, was quoted as saying that the progress of the baby had at first been "tremendous", and that he had even been taken off the respirator, but that a few days later he began to cough up blood, dying soon afterwards.
Hypothesis: The Spanish daily is set in Madrid.
Premise: JERUSALEM, April 2 (Xinhua) -- Israel's new Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman was questioned by police on Thursday over several criminal allegations, local news service Ynet reported.  National Fraud Unit investigators questioned the deputy premier, who is suspected of bribery, money laundering, fraud and breach of trust, for over seven hours, and another round is in the cards, said the report.  "Lieberman answered all of the questions he was asked, and will continue to do so in the future," his attorney Yaron Kostelitz was quoted as saying.
Hypothesis: Avigdor Lieberman is the Foreign Minister of Israel.
Premise: A matching fingerprint was discovered on the strap.
Hypothesis: A matching fingerprint was excavated from the strap.
Premise: Sharon warns Arafat could be targeted for assassination.
Hypothesis: prime minister targeted for assassination
Premise: The fight originated when Gilson Ramos da Silva, 21, a.k.a. "Gilson Aritana," a member of the ADA ("Amigos do Bairro") gang led other members into the "morro da Mineira" (Miner Hill) to sell drugs, Ricardo Teixeira Dias, a local police official said. The region is controlled by rival gang Comando Vermelho (Red Command), which does not approve of other gangs selling drugs in the region. Comando Vermelho members started attacking the rival members of ADA to protect their turf.
Hypothesis: Ramos da Silva killed 11 people.
Premise: It's a vote of confidence that the momentum is going to continue, Doyle said . The momentum also appears to be moving south . The Mexican election is the latest indication that the free-market reforms that have swept Latin America during the past decade are gaining political acceptance . In Brazil , prices rose sharply , reacting to the Mexico vote and to new polls favorable to free-market presidential candidate Fernando Henrique Cardoso .
Hypothesis: Fernando Henrique Cardoso is a presidential candidate.
Premise: Two bombs planted near an Islamic school in Pakistan killed eight people and injured 42 others yesterday in the latest outbreak of violence gripping the southern port of Karachi.
Hypothesis: 42 people killed in Karachi bomb attack.
Premise: Wal-Mart has received a lot of negative publicity recently, including allegations that it used illegal workers and made employees work without pay during lunch breaks, as well as complaints that it generally underpays employees.
Hypothesis: Wal-Mart faces allegations for underpaying employees.
Premise: Passions surrounding Germany's final match at the Euro 2004 soccer championships turned violent when a woman stabbed her partner in the head because she didn't want to watch the game on television.
Hypothesis: A man was stabbed because of a soccer game.
Premise: The 10-day-old "test-tube" baby elephant born at Colchester Zoo has found a name, thanks to the internet!
Hypothesis: baby elephant born
Premise: Baghdad had announced that it will stop cooperating with UNSCOM completely but indicated that it will not ask for their departure.
Hypothesis: Baghdad announced the complete halt in their cooperation with UNSCOM, and said also, that it will ask them to leave.
Premise: Fariba Ahmedi, a woman MP from Khandahar who was present at Ahmed-jan's funeral told the Associated Press, "The enemy of Afghanistan killed her, but they should know it will not derail women from the path we are on. We will continue on our way,". Sonja Bachmann, a U.N. political officer who knew Ahmed-jan well told the New York Times that Ahmed-jan "did a good job, she worked in a very low-key way and worked hard to raise awareness about women's issues."
Hypothesis: Fariba Ahmedi was friends with Sonja Bachmann.
Premise: Bukowski attracted the attention of John Martin who founded Black Sparrow Press in 1965 specifically to publish him.
Hypothesis: John Martin is the founder of Black Sparrow Press.
Premise: A statement said to be from al Qaida, claimed the terror group had killed one American and kidnapped another in Riyadh.
Hypothesis: A U.S. citizen working in Riyadh has been kidnapped after a colleague in the same company was shot dead yesterday.
Premise: This weekend, March 25 and 26, was a big weekend in the Ottawa area for Canadian Idol want a Be's. Canadian Idol is a national singing competition that is organized by CTV Inc. a Canadian broadcasting communications company for Canadian citizens. The television show, greatly based on "American Idol," has been on going for several seasons. In the past auditions have been know to have line-ups of thousands of people, however, this year after taking a tour around the new location it appears that line ups were manageable. Having the auditions at the St. Laurent Shopping mall [1] makes this easier said Idol's security coordinator Rick Paciorek.[2] Organizers have decided to change the way the auditions will "rock and roll."
Hypothesis: Canadian Idol is a competition for singers.
Premise: Fears were growing last night for the safety of a 'distressed' mother who has disappeared with her disabled nine-year-old daughter. Florist Jude Richmond, whose customers include the Royal Family, was last seen carrying cerebral palsy sufferer Millie Whitehead-Richmond as they left home on Sunday night. Mrs Richmond, 41, was said to have been devastated after splitting from her husband and business partner, Nicholas Richmond, earlier this year.  Police believe she became increasingly depressed after the split. She is said to be in a 'very vulnerable state of mind' at the time of her disappearance.
Hypothesis: Jude Richmond is a florist.
Premise: A recently created Danish clothing company is selling on the internet T-shirts in order to support the clandestine radio station of the Colombian guerrilla group Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) and the graphical workshop of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP). In fact the money will be used by these groups to carry on their terrorist activities. FARC activities include kidnappings, masacres, bombs, extortions and the drug trade. Fighters and Lovers is selling the T-shirts at 170 DKK (US$27.6), from which 35 DKK (US$5.7) are to be destinated to support both armed groups.
Hypothesis: Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia teamed up with Fighters and Lovers.
Premise: South African President Thabo Mbeki, the main mediator in Cote d'Ivoire's peace process, said, on Sunday, that Pretoria is heightening its intervention in the West African nation in order to pave the way for elections later this year.
Hypothesis: Thabo Mbeki is a citizen of Cote d'Ivoire.
Premise: By 2010 the following countries have the potential to produce more oil than they have ever produced before: Saudi Arabia,  Iraq, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Kazakhstan and Bolivia.
Hypothesis: Kuwait produces more oil than any other country.
Premise: Loki Torrent, a site that tracks links to BitTorrent files, was sued by the motion picture industry for copyright infringement on December 14, 2004, but has decided to mount a legal defense. The site operators have set up a legal defense fund in order to raise the $30,000 per month they estimate will be necessary to cover legal costs. The suit was filed in a U.S. District Court in Texas on behalf of Columbia Pictures - a major movie studio. The lawsuit is part of the MPAA campaign to crack down on Internet piracy.
Hypothesis: Loki Torrent was sued for manslaughter.
Premise: With Washington hinting it might soften its tough stance to break the deadlock, top US negotiator, Christopher Hill, said the two sides needed to review the situation.
Hypothesis: Christopher Hill works for the US.
Premise: Consumers who take any of the contaminated pills could suffer minor stomach discomfort or possible cuts to the mouth and throat, the FDA said, adding that the risk of serious injury was remote.
Hypothesis: Contaminated pills could cause minor stomach discomfort or possible cuts to the mouth and throat.
Premise: The measures currently in force include a travel ban on senior government figures, but France has invited Mr. Mugabe to a Franco-African summit in Paris next month, angering several countries.
Hypothesis: France angered a number of countries, by inviting Mr. Mugabe to attend a Franco-African summit in Paris.
Premise: In Greek mythology Mount Olympus was the home of the gods and the site of the throne of Zeus, the chief deity.
Hypothesis: Mount Olympus is in Greece.
Premise: Now, President Barack Obama, discussing his plans for health care, has vowed to find "a cure" for cancer in our time and said that, as part of the economic stimulus package, he would increase federal money for cancer research by a third for the next two years. Cancer has always been an expensive priority. Since the war on cancer began, the National Cancer Institute, the federal government's main cancer research entity, with 4,000 employees, has alone spent $105 billion. And other government agencies, universities, drug companies and philanthropies have chipped in uncounted billions more.
Hypothesis: The headquarters of the National Cancer Institute are in Seattle.
Premise: Last month, native bird trappers have snared and caught the Luzon Buttonquail (Turnix worcesteri or Worcester's buttonquail) in Dalton Pass, a cold and wind-swept bird passageway in the Caraballo Mountains, in Nueva Vizcaya, located between Cordillera Central and Sierra Madre mountain ranges, in Northern Luzon. The rare species, previously known to birders only through drawings based on dead museum specimens collected several decades ago, was identified in a documentary filmed in the Philippines called Bye-Bye Birdie."
Hypothesis: Luzon Buttonquail is a rare species from the Philippines.
Premise: Yunus, who shared the 1.4 million prize Friday with the Grameen Bank that he founded 30 years ago, pioneered the concept of "microcredit." It allows very poor people, who don't qualify for traditional loans, to get loans of as little as a few dollars without collateral. The banks' shareholders are the impoverished people it supports.
Hypothesis: Yunus founded the Grameen Bank 30 years ago.
Premise: Journalists of the concealed BBC, that was made happen through advisers of London industralists, asked Slavkov.
Hypothesis: BBC undercover reporters, posing as consultants acting for London businessmen, ask Slavkov.
Premise: With $549 million in cash as of June 30, Google can easily afford to make amends.
Hypothesis: Some 30 million shares have been assigned to the company's workers.
Premise: Women are poorly represented in transactions financed by mortgage bonds.
Hypothesis: Women are poorly represented in parliament.
Premise: Confidential scriptural materials allegedly stolen from a church were not "trade secrets" as defined by California statute.
Hypothesis: Trade secrets were stolen.
Premise: Tens of thousands of Colombians and Venezuelans attended a free concert Sunday, held on a bridge linking the two countries. It was organized by Grammy-winning rock artist Juanes to celebrate the end of the diplomatic crisis between Colombia, Venezuela, and Ecuador, and to further improve peaceful relations within the region. The "Peace Without Borders" concert was staged atop the Simón Bolívar bridge, which connects the Colombian town of Cúcuta with the Venezuelan town of San Antonio del Táchira. "It would have been much more practical and simple to do it in a city," Juanes told the Miami Herald, "but the border is a symbol of peace between all countries. And this message is for everyone, all the countries in Latin America and the U.S. as well."
Hypothesis: Ecuador is now allies with Colombia and Venezuela.
Premise: The Beetle has achieved an unbelievable cult status across the world, not least because its creation marked the launch of what has since become the largest car company in Europe.
Hypothesis: Europe produces the 'Beetle'.
Premise: Immediately after 1990, however, Swedish fertility plummeted in another unique movement, and had fallen to 1.5 children per woman in 1998 and in 1999. This is the lowest birth rate in Sweden ever-although above the European average.
Hypothesis: Sweden is the European country with the highest birth rate.
Premise: Thousands of troops are being deployed to secure the city of Bogor, where Bush is to hold talks with his Indonesian counterpart, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono.
Hypothesis: Bush is scheduled to visit the city of Bogor.
Premise: Blue Mountain Lumber said today it may have to relocate a $30 million project offshore in the wake of an Environment Court decision that blocked it from a planned development site on the Coromandel.
Hypothesis: Blue Mountain Lumber will locate a development site on the Coromandel.
Premise: Côte d'Ivoire's President Laurent Gbagbo promulgated new election laws on July 14, including the creation of an independent electoral commission to oversee the presidential vote, which is slated for October 30.
Hypothesis: New elections in Côte d'Ivoire will take place on July 14.
Premise: Also ruled out, for the moment, is any tie-up with a new alliance of Social Democrat dissidents and former communists known as the Left Party, which garnered 8.7%.
Hypothesis: It seems unlikely that there will be a coalition between Gerhard Schroeder's Social Democrats and Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union.
Premise: Fourteen guests and five crew remained ill and in isolation when the ship arrived at Port Everglades, Fla., according to a statement from Carnival Cruise Lines, a brand of Carnival Corp.
Hypothesis: The Carnival Cruise Lines is a brand of Carnival Corp.
Premise: Addressing a function organized here by the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC), Anand said, the greatest and most urgent challenges of human rights in India were in the areas of maternal and child care, child education, child labor, child abuse and protection of minorities and weaker sections.
Hypothesis: Amnesty International takes care of human rights.
Premise: The Nobel committee said in a statement that "lasting peace cannot be achieved unless large population groups find ways in which to break out of poverty."
Hypothesis: The Nobel committee plans to help people break out of poverty.
Premise: Armed police were deployed at UCL Hospital, near Warren Street tube station, after reports of a suspect entering the hospital. There was speculation that one of the bombers may have been injured and sought treatment at the hospital. A Scotland Yard spokesman had said "We are dealing with an incident at University College Hospital and we have armed officers deployed there. We cannot go in any further detail at this stage." A UCL spokeswoman confirmed that an email had been sent to staff asking them to be on the lookout for the suspect. At 16:00 a spokesman for the Metropolitan police confirmed that the incident was over, but armed police returned to the hospital 30 minutes later to search the premises. Police have now also confirmed this is unrelated to the explosions.
Hypothesis: Police report there has been an explosion in the tube station.
Premise: The decision by Uzbekistan was the latest development in diplomatic fallout with Washington over U.S. criticism about a violent crackdown against anti-government protestors last May.
Hypothesis: Uzbekistan protests against Washington.
Premise: World leaders expressed concern on Thursday that North Korea will quit six-party nuclear disarmament talks and will  bolster its nuclear weapons arsenal.
Hypothesis: World leaders have condemned North Korea for pulling out of talks.
Premise: Humans have won notable battles in the war against infection - and antibiotics are still powerful weapons - but nature has evolution on its side, and the war against bacterial diseases is by no means over.
Hypothesis: Bacteria is winning the war against antibiotics.
Premise: The Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet printed an article about the "intolerance page".
Hypothesis: Dagbladet is a Norwegian newspaper.
Premise: Bombs exploded in two Turkish cities Thursday only days before Turkey plays host to a NATO summit.
Hypothesis: Turkey plays host to suicide bombers.
Premise: In Africa today, the majority of infected people acquire HIV by the time they are in their 20s or 30s and, on average, die within ten years.
Hypothesis: 20-30 percent of people infected with HIV live in Africa.
Premise: Prime Minister Jos Manuel Duro Barroso resigns. He is to assume the presidency of the European Commission later in the year (the European Parliament approves him on July 22).
Hypothesis: New Portuguese prime minister is elected.
Premise: Stefano Falconi, director of finance at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), has joined Carnegie Mellon as its vice president for administration and chief financial officer. Falconi succeeds Jeff Bolton, who left the university last July to become chief financial officer at the Mayo Foundation in Rochester, Minn.
Hypothesis: The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) appoints Stefano Falconi as chief financial officer.
Premise: Japanese drug makers are now trying to build comprehensive independent operations in research and development, production and marketing.
Hypothesis: There are companies that have split the management of their Research and Development processes.
Premise: Nancy Vine, who sells tickets at the Big Sky drive-in, seven nights a week, is a daughter of Donald and Dorothy LeGros - part of the extended family that operates the drive-in.
Hypothesis: Nancy Vine is in business with Donald and Dorothy LeGros.
Premise: He determined that there were 1,678 illegal votes cast in the election, but he said Republicans had provided no real proof that illegal votes benefited Gregoire.
Hypothesis: Most of the illegal votes cast in the election went to Gregoire.
Premise: Fest : "In the Name of the Father" an Academy Award contender starring Daniel Day-Lewis as a man wrongly convicted for an IRA bombing, won the Golden Bear Award for best picture Monday at the Berlin International Film Festival.
Hypothesis: The Berlin International Film Festival awards the Golden Bear.
Premise: Announced early Wednesday morning at Nokia's GoEvent, in a plan to expand the company's revenue, Finland-based company Nokia Inc. is developing a mobile phone similar to its rival iPhone, which will be available in the near future for Nokia customers. The phone is expected to be available by 2008. Most of the features are the same as the iPhone's. They include music, games, and many other features, even ones that the iPhone may not have. Ovi (in Finnish meaning "Door") will be the door for more than 2 million songs and games available for download on the new device. Users will be able to download wirelessly in their own home or anywhere there is access to a computer.
Hypothesis: Nokia is a company based in Finland.