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Today, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration marks its first half-century of exploration and discovery. But missions to the Moon and beyond are only part of the story. Without Nasa’s scientists, life on Earth would be very different indeed. Rob Sharp chronicles a technological revolution
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Gordon Ramsay was best man at his wedding, but the celebrity chef’s friendship with his most successful protege, Marcus Wareing, is definitely over.
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(July 29) - One of al-Qaida’s top chemical and biological weapons experts was killed in an airstrike by a CIA pilotless drone in a remote Pakistani border region, senior Pakistani intelligence officials told CBS News Tuesday morning.
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The husband of the British doctor murdered on their Caribbean honeymoon does not know she is dead, his family said today.
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HONIARA, Solomon Islands - A sharp, magnitude 6.1 earthquake shook the eastern Solomon Islands this morning, but there were no immediate reports of damage or injury, emergency officials said.
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The trial of Michel Fourniret — who reportedly enlisted his wife’s help to seize virgin girls to rape and kill — began March 27, 2008, with Fourniet refusing to speak unless court went into closed session and refusing to let the press take his photograph. The Times of London reported the gory details:
“The couple resembled […]
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The trial of Michel Fourniret — who reportedly enlisted his wife’s help to seize virgin girls to rape and kill — began March 27, 2008, with Fourniet refusing to speak unless court went into closed session and refusing to let the press take his photograph. The Times of London reported the gory details:
“The couple resembled […]
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Eerily, several TV stations were obscurely warned of the blasts — which, as of this writing, have killed at least 45 people — minutes beforehand, as an Islamic group sent out an e-mail from a Yahoo account with the subject line “Await 5 minutes for the revenge of Gujarat”:
“In the name of Allah the Indian […]
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Like many residents of Illinois, I’ve developed a reflexive response to lawmakers’ threats of “doomsday.”
A yawn. A roll of the eyes. A sad, slight shake of the head.
Please. Spare us the dire forecasts and alarming descriptions of the chaos to come. We’ve heard them before. We remember the numerous mass-transit doomsdays that came and went […]
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9:34am UK, Tuesday July 29, 2008
Negotiations between Robert Mugabe’s party and the Zimbabwe opposition to end the political crisis have ended in deadlock.
Robert Mugabe is said to have offered Morgan Tsvangiari the vice-presidency
The opposition MDC has said that the only offer forthcoming from Mugabe’s Zanu-PF was that Morgan Tsvangirai should be made vice-president - with […]
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John Lydon has threatened to take legal action after being publicly accused of racism.
Bloc Party’s Kele Okereke recently claimed that he was the victim of an “unprovoked racist attack” by Lydon and his entourage at the Summercase Festival in Spain. The Sex Pistols star quickly spoke out to deny the claims, but Super Furry […]
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“What are you achieving by feeding people at the cost of their health?” said G.P.I. Singh, no relation to Jagdev Singh, who heads the department of community medicine at Dayanand Medical College in the city of Ludhiana.
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Police in Vienna had Radovan Karadzic in handcuffs 14 months ago, but they let him walk because his bushy-beard disguise fooled them, Austrian and British newspapers reported yesterday.
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Arizona Sen. John McCain hit San Francisco tonight for a major fundraiser. The full report from pool reporter Josh Richman of the Oakland Tribune just hit, and here’s some excerpts detailing what he saw:
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The Democrats’ presumptive presidential candidate, Illinois Senator Barack Obama, returned to the U.S. this past weekend after a whirlwind trip to the Middle East and Europe that left many news watchers in the countries he visited wondering about exactly what had hit ‘em.
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CANTERBURY, England — Gene Robinson’s bodyguard didn’t have to worry this time.
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An apparent U.S. missile strike on a compound in northwestern Pakistan killed six people early yesterday, including a man believed to be a top al-Qaeda operative and key figure in the terrorist group’s production of chemical weapons and conventional explosives, U.S. and Pakistani sources said.
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GULU, Uganda — Catherine Ojok was cleaning off the tables in her windowless cafe when the first customers of the day walked in. It was 9 a.m., and the morning light peeked through the pale yellow curtain hanging in the doorway.
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BAGHDAD, July 28 — Female suicide bombers attacked Shiite pilgrims in Baghdad and Kurdish political demonstrators in the northern city of Kirkuk on Monday in one of the bloodiest days of violence in recent months. The bombings killed at least 39 people and injured scores of others, officials said, and clashes in Kirkuk prompted by […]
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SONGJIANG, China — Nodding his head to the disco music blaring out of his car’s nine speakers, Zhang Linsen swings the shiny, black Hummer H2 out of his company’s gates and on to the spacious four-lane road.
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