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Court approves release of German terrorist after 26 years
Berlin - A former leader of Germany's terrorist Red Army Faction (RAF), Christian Klar, is to be...
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Taiwan-China Meeting At APEC Summit Marks Milestone
Taipei - China's decision to allow Taiwan's former vice president Lien Chan to attend the APEC...
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Job Cuts Loom As German Auto Industry Battles Slump
Berlin - There's a saying in Germany that when Daimler coughs, the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg...
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Thailand stages royal funeral procession for king's sister
Bangkok - Providing a rare glimpse of Thailand's royal pageantry and rituals, the funeral...
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Thais Flock To Royal Ground For Princess' Funeral
Bangkok - Thais from all walks of life and provinces near and far flocked to Bangkok's Sanam Luang...
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Cheers, warnings greet detention of Taiwan ex-president
Taipei - Many people in Taiwan on Wednesday welcomed the detainment of former President Chen...
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Dalai Lama's Envoys Travel to China for Talks
New Delhi - Envoys of the Dalai Lama, the exiled Tibetan spiritual leader, were travelling to...
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Legality of US Strike in Syria Debatable
Washington - The US raid against a top al-Qaeda operative this week in Syria was the latest effort...
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Russians prefer the more "approachable" Obama
Moscow - John McCain's US presidential campaign begged at the enemy's door this week when a wayward...
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PG Project Makes Available The Personal Genome Of Volunteers
The genomes of 10 people, volunteers in the
Harvard Medical School’s
Personal Genome Project,...
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As Store Shelves Go Bare, Kremlin Whitewashes Credit Crisis
Moscow - Nothing could be a more visual throwback to the scarcity of Soviet days then the yawning...
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World's rarest species of palm on verge of extinction in Bangladesh
Dhaka - The full-blooming rachis shoots skyward from the top of the rarest species of wild palm in...
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Three Researchers Win Nobel Prize For Bioluminescent Cells
The Nobel Prize for chemistry is shared this year by three
US-based scientists, one of them...
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Obama seeks 30-minute ads as McCain steps up attacks
Washington - Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is buying up rare 30-minute advertising...
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The 2008 Nobel For Physics Shared By Three Reseachers
The Nobel committee offered the 2008 Nobel Prize for Physics
to two Japanese scientists and a...
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Three European Scientists Won The 2008 Nobel Prize For Medicine
One German and two French scientists won
the 2008 Nobel prize in medicine for their work in...
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To Patch - or Not to Patch - Your Way through Ramadan
Cairo - Many Egyptians are perplexed as fierce debate erupts among scholars on whether smokers and...
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Exposure To Air Pollution Harms Patients With Coronary Artery Disease
Exposure to traffic fumes increases the
risk of heart attack, or strokes and potentially fatal...
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US Campaign Rhetoric Shows Resurgent "Culture Wars"
San Francisco - The United States might be fighting wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but back on home...
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Shock and Dismay in Britain at "Airliner Bombing" Verdicts
London - The outcome of Britain's "liquid bomb plot" trial in which eight Islamic...
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Four Hurricanes Were Announced for September
This September
may come with four hurricanes, including two that will become major
storms,...
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Polar Bears Found in Open Water Due To Global Warming
The National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC) reported that
the Arctic sea ice extent presently...
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Pakistan Faces Serious Challenges after Musharraf
Islamabad - Crowds gathered in the streets, dancing to the frenzy of drum beats, distributing...
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The Bigfoot Hunters Lost Their Credit?
They who called themselves "Bigfoot hunters"
claimed they had found the dead body of the...
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“Last Lecture” Author, Randy Pausch, Dies Of Cancer
Computer science professor Randy Pausch, of the Carnegie Mellon University,
whose last lecture...
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Girls Are Just As Good As Boys At Math, Study Says
Is there a real difference between the intellectual abilities
of girls and boys at Math? For many...
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6.8 Earth Quake Jolts Northern Japan Injuring 102 People
A powerful earthquake struck Japan on early Thursday morning injuring as much as 102 people and...
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U.S. Supreme Court Strikes Down Handgun Ban
After having the decisive vote on issues regarding the Guantanamo Bay inmates, the death penalty...
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Columbia Professor from Noose Case Fired for Plagiarism
A professor from Columbia University who became known after
she denounced that a noose was hanging...
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Texas: Prison Officials Stop Execution
Tuesday night, Charles Dean Hood, from Texas, should have been executed, but he got
lucky, as...
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People
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Stephen Hawking Appointed To Canadian Research Post
Stephen Hawking is one of today’s brilliant minds, being well known by his fascinating studies...
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Biggs Suicide, Indifferent Viewers Partly To Blame
Abraham Biggs Jr. gained notoriety by regrettable means. He
was one of a few people to broadcast...
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Michael Crichton, Author of Jurassic Park, Dies of Cancer at 66
Michael Crichton, aged 66, died in Los Angeles on Tuesday. According to the release issued by his...
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Patrick Swayze Is a Fighter both on the Film Set and in Real Life
Patrick Swayze is a true fighter. Less than a year after
being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer,...
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Extra Money Paid To John Edwards’s Former Mistress
The Associated Press reported that Rielle Hunter, the ex-mistress of John Edwards, was paid $14,000...
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Police Says Jerry Lewis Cited For Gun In Luggage
Funny man Jerry Lewis was making his way through security at Las Vegas' McCarran International...
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Comedian Jerry Lewis Detained at Las Vegas Airport for Carrying Gun
Friday, Jerry Lewis, the well-known comedian, was detained
by the police for a short period of...
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Randy Pausch, the Inspirational Professor from Carnegie Mellon, Dies
Randy Pausch, who became famous with his “Last Lecture”
series, becoming a YouTube phenomenon,...
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Inspirational Professor Randy Pausch Died Today at 47
Randy Pausch, the former Professor of Computer Science, Human-Computer Interaction, and Design at...
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Donda West’s Exact Cause of Death to Remain a Mystery
The precise cause of Kanye West’s mother’s death could not be determined although there was no sign...
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German Composer Karlheinz Stockhausen Dies
One of the world's most important and controversial composers, who pioneered electronic music,...
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Dr. Adams Abruptly Interrupts "Larry King Live"
The Beverly Hills plastic surgeon that operated on rapper Kanye West’s mother one day before...
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Nancy Grace Expected To Be Released From Hospital
The Headline News anchor’s condition improved after she was hospitalized on Sunday due to...
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Grieving Kanye West Cancels Gig for Victoria's Secret
Rapper Kanye West, who is in mourning after the sudden death of his mother Donda West, has...
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Donda West's Doctor Had A Troubled Medical Past
Plastic surgeon Jan Adams, who operated on musician Kanye West’s mother one day before she...
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Kanye West’s Mother Dies In LA Hospital (Update)
The rapper’s mother and manager Donda West, 58, who also served as chief executive of West Brands...
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Kanye West’s Mother, Donda West, Dies
Kanye West’s mother, Donda West, the former chairwoman of Chicago State University's
English...
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Hunter Tylo's Teenage Son Drowns
The 19-year-old son of soap star Hunter Tylo died in a swimming pool accident last week.
Michael...
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The Famous French Mime Marcel Marceau Dies At Age 84
Marcel Marceau, the French world-famous mime, has died in Paris at age 84, his
relative announced...
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News Legend, Hal Fishman Left An Irreplaceable Anchor Position
The 75 year news legend, Hal Fishman passed away on Tuesday,
3 a.m., in less than a week after...
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Serbian-American Charles Simic the U.S. Poet Laureate
The Yugoslav-born poet Charles
Simic has been announced by the Library of Congress to be the new...
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Jim Broadbent In Fourth Indiana Jones Movie
British actor Jim Broadbent announced that he has joined the cast of the fourth Indiana Jones...
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Technology
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Sun’s Co-Founder Decides On Moving To A New Company
Andreas von Bechtolsheim, the co-founder and chief architect
of computer hardware company Sun...
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Study Concludes Internet Users Present Improved Brain Activity
Apart from the well-known and appreciated uses of the
Internet, there might be another one, as...
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The Elderly Should Be Encouraged to Surf the Web
A study which is due to appear in the American Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry shows that surfing...
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Artificial Intelligence Entity Fools People Into Thinking It’s Human
Have we crossed the boundaries between humans and machines? This
is the question one might ask...
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Artificial Intelligence Has Yet To Learn
At the annual Turing Test held at University of Reading in the U.K., five artificial conversational...
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Data instead of paper and ink: E-books growing in popularity
Frankfurt - Relaxing on the couch and browsing through a
weighty tome - for many, that sounds...
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AAI: There Is A Procompetitive Side To The Google-Yahoo Deal
While the Google – Yahoo partnership is still under the
Department of Justice scrutiny, the...
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Web’s Founder Concerned with How to Improve its Creation
The man credited with creating the web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, is concerned with the fact that the...
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Large Hadron Collider Raises Much Concern
Next
Wednesday, scientists at the European Organization for Nuclear Research
(CERN) laboratory in...
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United States Are Slowly Losing Internet Traffic Hegemony
America discovered the Internet, but couldn’t keep it a secret. The American dominance in the field...
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Speech recognition software: Good supplement to keyboard
It may have sounded like science fiction 20 years ago, but it's now reality: computers listen to...
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Copyright LawsuitI Against Veoh Dismissed
A lawsuit, similar to the ones filed by copyright holders
against YouTube, MySpace, and others,...
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Cameras monitor your every step in China's most watched city
Shenzhen, China - It's nightfall in China's most watched city. Women nervously draw tight their...
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Hillcrest Labs Challenges Nintendo Giant Over Wii Remote Patents
A small Rockville technology
company requested a U.S.
trade panel on Wednesday to prevent...
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Georgia Is Still Searching For Its Cyber-Attacker
The confrontations between Russia and Georgia have been set
on more than one dimension, as before...
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HP, Intel and Yahoo Team Up For Cloud-Computing Project
On Tuesday, Hewlett-Packard, Intel and Yahoo announced their coming together for working on a...
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Cuil Launch Draws Mixed Media Reactions
The new contender on the search engines market, Cuil has drawn some mixed reactions from media and...
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Cuil Search Engine: After Hype Wears Off, Nothing Remains
I really liked Cuil at first because it was really different and I am very annoyed by Google's...
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Cuil: a Search Engine Better than Google?
Stanford professor Tom Costello and his wife, former Google search architect Anna Patterson, have...
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Study Finds Online Banking Insecure Due To Security Design Flaws
As the number of people carrying their daily business online
grows, so does the risk of being...
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Cheaper, Easier Way to Use Solar Power: Coming Soon
As found in the Friday issue of journal Science, researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of...
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NASA’s Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope Is Set For Launch
NASA’s new Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) is
about to be launched today, after more...
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Newcomer Aster Data System to Launch Cluster-Based Data Analytics
The two internet search giants, Google and Yahoo!, have partially
based their success on the way...
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The US ITC To Investigate Possible Blu-ray Patent Infringement
In a statement posted on its website the U.S. International
Trade Commission (ITC) announced it...
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Amazing Magnetic Device Gives Computers The Sense Of Touch
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon
University created a magnetic levitation haptic device that
allows...
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Carnegie Mellon Showcases Virtual Touch Technology
Researchers at the Carnegie Mellon University’s Robotics Institute have developed a device which...
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Stanford And UC Berkeley To Revive Saudi Arabian University
Stanford University and UC
Berkley have joined forces to help bring back science and technology to...
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People Power, Electric Power that Is
Researchers from Simon Fraser University in Canada, and the University of Pittsburgh and the...
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Microsoft to Open Research Center near MIT
Microsoft Corporation announced the opening of a sixth research lab in Cambridge, Mass. The new...
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Bionic Contact Lens – Everything Is Possible
Engineers at the University of Washington transformed a fairy-tale concept into real thing when...
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