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Saturday, November 21, 2009

E-mail leak turns up heat on global warming advocates

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

Nightmare is over for British man

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

Galileo’s lost fingers, tooth found at auction

A finger attributed to Galileo Galilei. ROME - Two fingers and a tooth removed from Galileo Galilei’s corpse in a Florentine basilica in the 18th century...
Friday, November 20, 2009

Midday shooting in central Paris kills 1, wounds 2

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...

UK man cleared of wife’s death during nightmare

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...

Lions and tiger - Oh my!

PRAGUE - A rare white tiger was attacked and killed by two lions that got into its enclosure in a Czech zoo. The lions,...

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

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

Disease spreading despite quarantines

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

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

Cosmonaut says Russia falls behind in space race

MOSCOW — A veteran Russian cosmonaut says his nation lacks a viable program for developing a new spaceship and will likely fall behind in a space race. Mikhail...

Floods devastate UK Lake District; much of Ireland

Resisdents of the village of Cockermouth, England, are seen being rescued from their homes by members of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI), Friday, Nov. 20, 2009. COCKERMOUTH, England — Military helicopters winched dozens of people to safety...

Researcher says text proves Shroud of Turin real

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

Russia’s Gorbachev considers political comeback

MOSCOW — Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev criticized Kremlin policies Friday and toyed with the ambitious idea...

Fingers, tooth said to be Galileo’s are found

In this image provided by Istituto e Museo di Storia della Scienza di Firenze shows a finger attributed to Galileo Galilei. ROME — A Florence museum says two fingers and a tooth believed to belong to Galileo Galilei have been found and...

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