The couple ordered a cab from Ipswich Taxis on a Sunday afternoon and phoned the office when it did not turn up.

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In Connecticut, a judge ordered a divorcing couple to swap Facebook and dating site passwords so they can look for evidence relevant to custody of their children.

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Judge Boal also ordered a hearing to consider custody for the couple's two children.

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So I ordered the device online and received it within a couple of days.

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Last year, the government ordered a time change, then reversed itself a couple of days later, causing chaos.

ECONOMIST: Libya

It has ordered six bulk carriers from a Japanese yard and a couple of smaller container ships from a Korean one.

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Since the Windows 8 release was only a couple of weeks away, I pre-ordered the system through Amazon and forgot about them.

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At the palace, Mustafa has ordered Lindoro and Elvira to marry, and the servant Zulma tells the couple they should give in and make the best of it.

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Judge Bevan sentenced the couple to six months in jail, suspended for two years, and ordered them to do 150 hours of unpaid work each.

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That survey was requested by America's Congress nearly a decade ago, and was stimulated in part by the dramatic images of Comet Shoemaker-Levy, whose collision with Jupiter in 1994 generated a great deal of public awareness of the risk of asteroid impacts. (A couple of Hollywood films exploring doomsday scenarios also swayed opinion.) In 2005 Congress ordered the survey that is about to start.

ECONOMIST: The American Association for the Advancement of Science