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Not entirely unpredictably someone set fire to a load of it.]]></description><comments>5</comments><score>415</score><crdate>2/18/2008 5:59:03 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-02-18T17:59:03+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>63884</id><url>http://www.plime.com/entertainment/l/63884/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Fire raging at Universal Studios ]]></title><description><![CDATA[A large fire is burning at the world-famous Universal Studios in Los Angeles, California.]]></description><comments>0</comments><score>180</score><crdate>6/1/2008 11:46:49 AM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-06-01T11:46:49+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>43652</id><url>http://www.plime.com/world/l/43652/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Senegal woman sets herself on fire in Rome protest]]></title><description><![CDATA[Kebe Peinda Gotha set herself on fire at Rome's city hall on Friday in an apparent protest over a visit to Italy by Senegal's President Abdoulaye Wade. <a class="plime" href="/redir.p?http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&amp;sl=it&amp;u=http://www.ansa.it/opencms/export/site/notizie/rubriche/daassociare/visualizza_new.html_40976734.html&amp;sa=X&amp;oi=translate&amp;resnum=13&amp;ct=result&amp;prev=/search%3Fq%3DKebe%2BGotha%26num%3D30%26hl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26sa%3DG" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">Here</a> is a auto-translated article from an Italian paper]]></description><comments>3</comments><score>199</score><crdate>12/8/2007 10:16:38 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2007-12-08T22:16:38+01:00</atomdate></link><link><id>75812</id><url>http://www.plime.com/world/l/75812/1/</url><title><![CDATA[Thousands of travellers stranded after Channel tunnel fire]]></title><description><![CDATA[Thousands of travellers were stranded tonight after a fire on the Channel tunnel led to the suspension of all rail services on the undersea route.<br/><br/>(da' Chunnel)]]></description><comments>1</comments><score>125</score><crdate>9/11/2008 5:15:37 PM</crdate><rssdate></rssdate><atomdate>2008-09-11T17:15:37+01:00</atomdate></link></items></xml>