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Target CEO steps down 5 months after data breach

Target’s CEO has become the first boss of a major corporation to lose his job over a breach of customer data, showing how responsibility for computer security now reaches right to the top.

 
Islamic extremist leader threatens to sell Nigerian girls

Th islamic leader of extremist group Boko Haram, whose name means “Western education is sinful,” is threatening to sell the 300 kidnapped Nigeria schoolgirls into slavery.

 
Bachelor party cut short after dead body found in RV

A group of men on their way to the Kentucky Derby for a bachelor party made a gruesome discovery after they pulled their rented RV over in southeastern Minnesota: a body inside the vehicle’s exterior cargo compartment.

 
8 circus aerial acrobats free fall in freak accident

A group of Ringling Bros. and Barnum and Bailey performers plummeted 25 to 40 feet in a “larger-than-life” circus act, causing critical injury.

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Oklahoma wildfire forces 1,000 to flee; 1 reported dead

Firefighters facing another hot and windy forecast worked Monday to battle a large wildfire in central Oklahoma that destroyed at least six homes and left one person dead after a controlled burn spread out of control.