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Astronomers Find 2 Exoplanets Quite Earth-like
The astronomers’ search for a planted that is very much like Earth seems to go well and have...
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UN expert: No perfect way to predict imminent quake
Geneva - There is no sure-fire way to predict an impending earthquake, David Alexander, a United...
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IPY Reports Major Changes in Polar Regions Due To Global Warming
A study presented this week in Geneva from the International Polar Year reveals that global warming...
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World’s Largest Particle Accelerator Costs $21M To Repair
World’s most ambitious scientific project, the Large Hadron Collider, will take over six months and...
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Cancer Treatment Connected To Gene Make-Up
Recently, scientists have discovered another gene mutation, which makes bowel cancer patients...
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CERN Plugs In World’s Largest Computing Grid
The 100,000-computer network especially designed by CERN, the world's largest particle physics lab...
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CERN Team Unveils Mammoth Computer Grid
Scientists at CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, announced on Friday via live...
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CERN Shuts Down LHC Operations until April 2009
The recent technical fault at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has delayed operations until after...
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The LHC Needs Two Months For Complete Restoration
The European Organization for Nuclear Research announced
that the recently discovered problems...
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Big Bang Machine Put On Hold For Two Months
Scientists at the CERN laboratory in Geneva are facing mixed emotions as they see themselves forced...
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Helium Leakage Delays LHC Experiment For Weeks
The world's largest particle accelerator may be forced to delay its plans to conduct the second,...
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Update2: Large Hadron Collider Went Online And The World Is Still Here
The Large Hadron Collider, built by European scientists, is expected to bring about the biggest...
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The Large Hadron Collider Passed Its First Major Test
The scientists involved in the Large Hadron Collider project managed to complete the first major...
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World’s Most Brilliant Minds To Unveil The Secrets Of The Universe
Today, the world is standing in front of a Pandora’s Box,
but the question is: are we ready to...
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LHC Experiment May Bring About Biggest Scientific Advance In Decades
The Large Hadron Collider, built by European scientists, is expected to bring about the biggest...
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Large Hadron Collider To Power Up
Back during the days of the atomic bomb development, some scientists feared that an atomic bomb...
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Update: The Final Touches For The Large Hadron Collider's Launch
The European Organization for Nuclear Research, also known as CERN, is ready to step into the next...
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Rap Song on Particle Physics Experiment Big Hit on YouTube
Who said science can’t be fun? Certainly none of the 500,000 YouTube viewers of Kate McAlpine’s rap...
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CERN Sets Date For Operation Of Large Hadron Collider
The European Center for Nuclear Research (CERN), the world’s
largest particle physics laboratory,...
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New Planets, Super-Earths, Discovered Outside Our Solar System
Astronomers recently discovered three rocky planets that are
also referred to as...
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Swiss Pilot Uses Jet-Powered Wing Over The Alps
A Swiss pilot offered on Wednesday the first public demonstration of a homemade device consisting...
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European Scientists Close to Finding "God Particle"
In February, the last piece of the ATLAS detector, the world’s largest general-purpose particle...
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Europe Finishes World's Biggest Particle Detector: ATLAS
The last piece of the ATLAS detector, the world’s largest general-purpose particle detector, has...
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U.S. Rejects Russian-Chinese Proposal To Ban Weapons In Space
The Tuesday United Nations Conference
on Disarmament in Geneva brought face to face three of the...
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Business
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Mexico says bans on pork products not meeting WTO rules
Geneva - Mexico has called on members of the World Trade Organization to withdraw any measures...
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Lamy reaffirmed to head WTO
Geneva - Members of the World Trade Organization appointed Thursday Pascal Lamy to his second...
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WTO calls for further liberalization in Europe for recovery
Geneva - The European Communities should further liberalize its services and agricultural sector to...
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Modular concept for electric Mila EV
Geneva - Car parts supplier Mila showcased in Geneva the Mila EV with a modular concept...
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European airports to cut 500,000 tonnes of CO2 annually by 2013
Geneva - Starting in 2013, up to 100 European airports will take part in a plan to reduce CO2...
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Tata's Nano set for commercial launch Monday
New Delhi - Tata Motors' Nano, said to be the world's cheapest car, was set to be launched in the...
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Britain cancels next year's motor show as recession bites
London - Britain's 2010 International Motor Show has been cancelled in view of "unprecedented...
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Swiss firm offers Porsche 911 Turbo with natural gas drive
Geneva - The Swiss tuning firm Sportec is offering a Porsche 911 with compressed natural gas...
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Special "green" edition of Smart Fortwo
Stuttgart, Germany - A special "green" edition of the Smart Fortwo celebrated a world...
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Bugatti Veyron Bleu Centenaire marks 100th birthday
Geneva - Bugatti celebrated its 100th birthday by unveiling a Bugatti Veyron Bleu Centenaire...
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Geneva firms said to have lost 4.2 billion dollars in Madoff scheme
Geneva - Banks and financial institutions in Geneva have lost possibly some 5 billion Swiss francs...
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Global air traffic declines for second consecutive month
Geneva - Air traffic continued to contract in October, statistics released Thursday showed, marking...
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Super luxury carmakers buck the credit crunch
As the credit crisis slices into global car sales, some of the world's most exclusive automobile...
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World could lose 20 million jobs from crisis - ILO
Geneva - The global financial crisis could cost some 20 million jobs worldwide, the International...
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Microsoft's OOXML May Get ISO Certification
Microsoft's Open XML standard may gather enough votes to pass as a certified an ISO standard, CNET...
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Specials
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Iranian Nobel laureate awarded German Dignity Award
Berlin (dpa) - Iranian Nobel peace laureate Shirin Ebadi was awarded one of Germany's top prizes...
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King Ludwig II's watch to go on auction
Geneva - A watch commissioned most likely by King Ludwig II of Bavaria in the late 1800s will go on...
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35 journalists killed in past three months
Geneva - 2009 is taking on signs of being more dangerous for journalists than 2008, the Press...
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Need a dog toilet, a knotless balloon? Meet the inventors
Geneva - What to do if you live next door to a veterinarian whose clients' dogs always leave behind...
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Carmakers play around with new door concepts
Geneva - Getting in and out of the car could be become much easier soon if some of the ideas seen...
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Swiss to auction off Einstein's doctorate diploma
Geneva - An art house in Lucerne, Switzerland, will auction off this summer the doctorate diploma...
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WHO: HIV Prevalence among the Elderly Very High
While public health campaigns remain largely focused on the young, the number of older people...
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Can AIDS Epidemic Be Stopped?
How to manage the HIV epidemic is a question that appears to
be more frequent than ever nowadays....
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Bone Marrow Transplant Possibly Curing HIV
People suffering from the immunodeficiency virus may be soon
cured through a bone marrow...
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Ex-death-row inmate joins calls to halt Japan's executions
Frail and pale, Kenjiro Ishii sits tucked into a wheelchair at a senior citizens home in Tamana, a...
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UN: 1 Million Children Imprisoned Worldwide
Geneva - Nearly one million children, many of them from minority or endangered groups, are behind...
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First Test Run for the LHC Scheduled for September 10
European officials at the European Center or Nuclear Research announced that the Large Hadron...
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Astronomers Find Super Earth-sized Planets
A team of European astronomers led by Michel Mayor, from Geneva Observatory, has reported at a...
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Dungeons and Dragons Creator Gary Gygax Died at 69
Legendary game designer Ernest Gary Gygax died yesterday morning at his home in Lake Geneva at 69....
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Health
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Swine flu tally is 2,384 cases in 24 countries: WHO
Geneva/Stockholm - The World Health Organization increased Friday the number of...
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WHO: 1,893 cases of swine flu, 31 deaths
Geneva - The number of laboratory confirmed cases of infections of the new influenza A(H1N1)...
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WHO reports 1,658 confirmed cases of swine flu
Geneva - The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday confirmed 1,658 cases of the new...
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WHO reports 1,516 confirmed cases of new flu
Geneva - The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday confirmed 1,516 cases of the...
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WHO: 1,490 cases of new flu, 30 deaths, as scientists meet
Geneva - The World Health Organization held Tuesday an online conference of scientists from various...
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Swine flu spreads to 36 US states - 286 confirmed cases
Washington - The swine flu virus spread to 36 US states with a total of 286 confirmed cases,...
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WHO confirms 1025 flu cases in 20 countries
Geneva - The World Health Organization confirmed Monday 1025 officially reported cases of influenza...
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WHO rejects criticism it acted too slowly on swine flu
Geneva - The World Health Organization Friday rejected criticism that it was too slow in reacting...
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WHO confirms Taiwan invited to World Health Assembly
Geneva - The World Health Organization (WHO)confirmed Friday that Taiwan has been invited to...
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WHO changes virus name, 257 confirmed cases
Geneva - The World Health Organization updated Thursday the number of laboratory-confirmed cases of...
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US swine flu numbers rise to 109
Washington - US officials said Thursday the US swine flu confirmed-case total had risen to 109, up...
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Swiss flu medicine producer Roche ups its preparedness
Geneva - Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche announced Wednesday that it had increased its...
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Novartis says its new oral MS drug prevents relapses
Geneva - Swiss drugmaker Novartis said Wednesday that 80 to 83 per cent of patients in a year-long...
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WHO: No need for travel, pork import restrictions
Geneva - World Health Organization officials reiterated Tuesday that travel restrictions would not...
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Swine Flu Spread Worries CDC Officials
Swine flu has turned into an epidemic in Mexico City where it has killed as many as 60 people and...
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Red Cross says polio resurging in Africa
Geneva - The International Federation of the Red Cross (IFRC) warned Wednesday that polio is...
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UN marks World Autism Awareness Day
New York - UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon said Thursday children and adults with...
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Diarrhoea kills two million children a year, disease on the rise
Geneva - Diarrheal diseases, responsible for about 20 per cent of child deaths worldwide, are on...
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Complacency About AIDS Heightens Risks, Experts Say
Geneva - Asian countries, youngsters and people spoiled by the availability of medicines in the...
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WHO: Universal Testing And Treatment Could Tackle AIDS
In an attempt to find answers on how to better tackle the
AIDS epidemic and the role of so-called...
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Sleep Loss Produces False Memory, Caffeine Straightens Them Out
Hamburg, Germany - If you don't get enough sleep at night, be sure to drink a strong cup of coffee...
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Erbitux Less Effective For Colon Cancer Patients With Second Gene Mutation
Treatment with cetuximab (Erbitux) was less
effective for patients with advanced colorectal cancer...
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WHO Is Concerned About Mental Health Worldwide
The World Health Organization (WHO) is concerned that the global financial crisis may contribute to...
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WHO Seeks to Diminish Consequences of Mental Illness
Manila - The World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday warned that disability, suicides and other...
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Tamiflu Maker Tries to Convince Companies to Stockpile Drug
Roche is apparently discontent that sales of its Tamiflu influenza drug have dropped and seeks new...
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WHO: ‘Threat of a Pandemic Influenza Has Not Diminished’
During a conference held in Geneva on May 6, World Health Organization
experts warned on the...
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Viruses May Increase Lung Cancer Risk
Although smoking is the No. 1 cause of lung cancer, viruses may also contribute to the development...
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Screening Does Not Appear to Cut MRSA Infections
Screening all incoming hospital patients for
methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)...
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Gene Study Identifies 273 Proteins that Help HIV Develop
U.S.
researchers using a new genetic screening toll report identified 273 new human
proteins...
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Technology
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Mercedez-Benz Offers Quick Peek At Its 2010 E-Class
The North American International Auto Show is about to kick in, but if Daimler AG’s most...
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Google Earth Comes To Life In iPhone, iPod Touch
Google yesterday announced it has extended the outreach of its popular service Google Earth to the...
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Electrical Malfunction Temporarily Shuts Down Large Hadron Collider
Earlier this week, the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva, which is the
world’s most massive...
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Paris Motor Show Reflects Trend Toward Small Cars
Paris - Car makers are preparing to showcase their latest creations mirroring the trend toward...
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LHC To Startup Wednesday. Will It Crush Reality Or Just Bandwidth?
September 10th marks the first test-run for
CERN’s Large Hadron Collider in Geneva.
Doomsayers...
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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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Microsoft OOXML to Become ISO/IEC 29500 Standard
The International Standards Organisation has declared Microsoft's OOXML document format an...
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Brazil, India Join South Africa In OOXML Standardization Appeal
Before the deadline expired, the
International Standards Organization (ISO) and the...
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Google Earth Announces Partnership with United Nations
The web-search giant Google unveiled in June 2007 a new program designed to help charities and...
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Office Open XML Gets ISO Approval As International Standard
The International Organization
for Standardization officially unveiled on Wednesday that...
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Microsoft's OOXML Allegedly Approved as ISO Standard
Microsoft's Open XML standard has allegedly gathered enough votes to pass as a certified an ISO...
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Gaming Community Loses Gary Gygax, Dungeons & Dragons Co-Creator
The gaming community suffered a terrible loss on Tuesday,
when Ernest Gary Gygax, the role-playing...
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Microsoft Struggles to Impose Open XML as International Standard
Microsoft encounters difficulties in its struggle to make its Office Open XML an international...
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Rinspeed Presents: The World’s First Submersible Car
For all the car lovers out
there: so far, you’ve been able to drive, eat and sleep in your car,...
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IBM Unveils Lotus Symphony, A Free Office Suite
After last week IBM announced it has joined the OpenOffice
project today the company has showed...
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The Hidden Motives behind MS’s OOXML Failure
Microsoft’s OOXML standard did not manage to achieve the global support Redmond had hoped for, but...
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World
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WHO says no evidence virus was a lab creation
Geneva - There is no evidence to support a theory that the new influenza A(H1N1) virus was created...
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Mexico's flu death toll rises to 44
Mexico City - The number of dead in Mexico's epidemic of a hitherto-unknown strain of flu...
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Mexico's flu death toll reaches 42
Mexico City - The number of deaths in Mexico known to have been caused by the outbreak of a...
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Swine flu cases rise to over 50 in EU
Stockholm/Geneva - The number of confirmed cases of swine flu in the European Union went beyond 50...
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Mexico City bans eating in restaurants over flu epidemic
Mexico City - The government of Mexico City banned eating in restaurants and ordered gyms, clubs,...
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Italian royal "heir" to run in European elections
Rome - Prince Emmanuel Filiberto of Savoy, a descendant of Italy's erstwhile royal family,...
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Ban says UN on top of the battle against swine flu
New York - The United Nations has taken steps to lead the fight against the sudden outbreak...
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Red Cross readies volunteers for swine flu
Geneva - The International Federation of Red Cross (IFRC) and Red Crescent Societies said it was...
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Geneva conference a defeat for Israel, Ahmadinejad says
Tehran - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad Wednesday termed the UN...
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March of Living honors Auschwitz victims
Warsaw (dpa) - Some seven thousand people walked silently at Auschwitz, Poland on Tuesday to honor...
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WTO chief Pascal Lamy: Protectionism is on the rise
Geneva - Since the beginning of the year, countries around the world have been implementing...
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Swiss neutrality means paying VAT on drugs and sex
Geneva - A court in Switzerland ruled Thursday that value added tax must be paid for all things...
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UN rights chief decries racism ahead of Sharpeville anniversary
Geneva - The United Nations top rights official, Navi Pillay, issued a call Friday denouncing...
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Swiss End Year Still Entangled In Row With Libya
Geneva - In July, employees at a Geneva hotel decided to call the police to complain about the...
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Rose Blends Into Watch Metal Colour This Christmas
Pforzheim, Germany - A watch should give the time, no more, no less.
But which watches will...
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World AIDS Day - A Reminder That HIV Has Not Gone Away
Just days before the World AIDS Day on December 1st, the World Health Organization released a study...
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Young Japanese Reluctant Travellers
Tokyo - Having grown up during years of economic slumps and now seeing their country in a...
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Russia-Georgia talks "productive," next meeting planned
Geneva - All the delegations attended "constructive" talks on the Russia-Georgia conflict...
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The UN Plans To Transfer 60,000 Displaced Congolese
Geneva - The UN decided to put together a plan for the transfer of more than 60,000 displaced...
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"Sistine Chapel" At United Nations Sparks Controversy
Madrid - As Spanish artist Miquel Barcelo prepares for the unveiling of his most gigantic work so...
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Russia to Withdraw from Georgian Buffer Zone by End of Wednesday
Moscow/Tskhinvali, Georgia - Russia on Wednesday will withdraw from its checkpoints inside Georgia...
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Russia removes first checkpoint in Georgia, withdrawal welcomed
Tbilisi/Moscow - Members of the European Union observer mission in Georgia reported Sunday that a...
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Scientists Will Play God In A Tunnel Near Geneva
A never before seen experiment is to be made this Wednesday. Scientist are preparing themselves to...
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US Warns Iran Will Face New Sanctions If It Refuses New Offer
The United States Monday warned that Iran would face new Security Council sanctions if it did not...
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Israeli Official: Bush Will Attack Iran
According to an unnamed source within the Israeli security, U.S. President George W. Bush will open...
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Iran Officials Believe an Israeli or U.S. Attack Is Improbable
Iranian top officials said on Friday that they do not expect Israel or the United States to attack...
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New Bombing Attack In Sri Lanka Leaves 21 Victims
A new horrible attack took place today in Sri Lanka as the
bombing of two buses during the city’s...
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17 Wounded in Sri Lanka Bomb Attack
A bomb attack was carried out in a train in the Sri Lankan capital, Colombo. The train was packed...
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Terrorists Arrested In London
Four men were arrested in London, Wales and Swindon under the charges of conspiring to aid the...
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Bombing in Sri Lanka Continues
New attacks were reported today in the north-east of Sri Lanka as Tamil Tiger rebels bombed several...
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