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Saturday, November 21, 2009

E-mail leak turns up heat on global warming advocates

By Herald Staff

In an embarrassing blow to the movement to combat global warming, hackers have posted hundreds of e-mails from a world-renowned British institute that show...

Galileo’s lost fingers, tooth found at auction

By Associated Press

ROME - Two fingers and a tooth removed from Galileo Galilei’s corpse in a Florentine basilica in the 18th century...

Friday, November 20, 2009

Palestinian president agrees to delay elections

Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, right, shakes hands with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas during a visit to a religious museum in Salvador, Brazil, Friday, Nov. 20, 2009.

By Associated Press

RAMALLAH, West Bank — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has agreed to postpone parliamentary and presidential...

Disease spreading despite quarantines

By Associated Press

LONDON - Health experts say extraordinary measures against swine flu - most notably quarantines imposed by China, where entire...

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UK man cleared of wife’s death during nightmare

By Associated Press

LONDON - A British man who said he strangled his wife during a nightmare about fighting off an intruder has been found innocent in her death. Prosecutors...

Italian prosecutors: Amanda Knox hated murder victim

U.S. murder suspect Amanda Knox, right, is escorted by a penitentiary police officer as she arrives at Perugia’s court, Italy, Friday.

By Associated Press

PERUGIA, Italy — An American student accused of murdering her British roommate...

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Russian ship frees itself from ice in Antarctic

In this photo taken in March 2006 the Captain Khlebnikov icebreaker seen in the Russia’s Pacific port of Vladivostok, about 6,400 km (4,000 miles) east of Moscow.

By Associated Press

MOSCOW — A Russian cruise ship that has been struggling through a huge mass of sea ice for days has finally reached...

Nightmare is over for British man

By Associated Press

LONDON - A British man who said he was having a nightmare about fighting off an intruder when he strangled his wife to death...

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Midday shooting in central Paris kills 1, wounds 2

By Associated Press

PARIS — Police say a man with an automatic rifle opened fire on a car near a Paris train station, killing one man and wounding two others. Friday’s...

Researcher says text proves Shroud of Turin real

By Associated Press

ROME — A Vatican researcher claims a nearly invisible text on the Shroud of Turin proves the authenticity of the artifact...

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Top model found hanged in Paris apartment

In this photo taken on Feb. 2, 2009, South Korean model Daul Kim presents at Swarovski S/S Collection in Seoul, South Korea.

By Associated Press

PARIS — A 20-year-old top South Korean model who was a fashion week regular...

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Gunman opens fire on Saipan; 5 dead

By Associated Press

SAIPAN, Northern Mariana Islands — A gunman went on a rampage on the Pacific resort island of Saipan on Friday, killing four people and wounding six...