Sources say embezzlement scandal, federal indictments may soon break concerning use of Wasilla Sport Complex building materials for Palin's home...
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]]> Police released a recording of a woman who dialled 999 to say her hamster had escaped as they pleaded with the public today to use the service only for genuine emergencies. In one call a woman tells the operator: "It's my hamster. It's got out of its cage
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]]> Vegans have lower bone densities than non-vegans, say Australian researchers. But the news isn't all bad, with the study finding an animal-free diet doesn't translate into more fractures.
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]]> Scientists from Texas are batty over a new discovery which could lead to the single most important medical breakthrough in human history—significantly longer lifespans.
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]]> The shoe is on the other foot for a Sioux City, Iowa, city councilman who spearheaded a campaign to ban pit bulls in the city. Despite vocal opposition from defenders of the maligned breed, the ban passed a city council vote last September.
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]]> Greenpeace yesterday released the third iteration of its Sustainable Seafood scorecard, as well as a hefty report about how overfishing is destroying not just ecosystems and the environment, but threatening the future of the fishing industry itself.
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]]> UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Friday that Burma’s junta chief Snr-Gen Than Shwe rejected his initial request to meet jailed opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, a rocky start to what he has called "a very tough mission" to win her freedom...
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]]> The Obama administration has forgiven Indonesia $30 million in debt payments. In return, the government of the Southeast Asian archipelago nation has agreed to spend the money on protecting the rainforests of Sumatra, the sixth largest island in the
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]]> A historic breakthrough was reached in Dutch Parliament today: a majority voted to ban the production of fur. The ban, to come in effect in 2018, has now to be approved by the Dutch Senate
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]]> Global food security in a changing climate depends on the nutritional value and yield of staple food crops. Researchers at Monash University in Victoria, Australia have found an increase in toxic compounds, a decrease in protein content and a decreased--
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]]> Tragically the general conditions at this Tasmanian piggery – pregnant pigs confined in 'sow stalls' so small they cannot turn around – is allowable under the industry code of practice, despite such treatment constituting a cruelty offence if the victim
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]]> Hunted for centuries for its purported qualities as an aphrodisiac, asthma
cure and as a kind of living voodoo doll, the tiny primate known as the Slender Loris has long faced a battle just to survive.
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]]> FAIRBANKS — Interior lawmakers and Alaska’s congressional delegation were uniformly surprised by Gov. Sarah Palin’s announcement on Friday that she will resign her post effective July 26.Many had expected some sort of declaration about her future politica
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]]> Actress and animal advocate Tippi Hedren, who runs the Shambala reserve, which now houses Michael Jackson's pet tigers, says she has notified the animals of their former owner's death.
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]]> Slow lorises are one of three species of loris maintained at the Lemur Center (the others are pygmy slow lorises and slender lorises). All three of these species are members of the family Lorisidae which includes lorises, galagos
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]]> 141-pg Amnesty report gives evidence of oil spill cover-ups, gas flaring near villages & waste dumping leading to dire pollution of wetlands & destruction of farming & fishing; in last 50 yrs 9m barrels worth of oilve leaked into land & rivers. Impunity
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]]> We've lost a great man, and a great member of Care2. The site connects to his page. Please go there, and leave a message, for Charles and his family.
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]]> ...and below I reproduce four letters written by five of Mahmoud Abu Rideh’s six children, which should convince all but those with hearts made of stone that the government’s anti-terror policies have been nothing but a grave and profoundly disturbing,,,
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]]> North Korea has launched a series of missiles off its eastern coast. The missiles were fired over several hours beginning Saturday morning;a type of short-range Scud missile. No.Korea likes doing this on US holidays!

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]]> Evolution is being turned on its head on a remote British island where climate change has caused a curious case of shrinking sheep, scientists have found. Climate change is overriding what we would expect through natural selection.
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]]> The Macaca mulatta monkeys were given bread or even leftovers from their meals in their enclosure in Ohama Park, in Sakai, western Japan.

It left about a third of the 50 monkeys kept there overweight, with the group's top five leaders weighing in at
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]]> Send a singing Billie the Chilean Sea Bass telegram to Trader Joe's! Everyone loves a singing telegram so it's a perfect and fun way to tell Trader Joe's managers that their customers want sustainable seafood!
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]]> NY-CLASS proposes creating a safer alternative to the carriage-horse industry that will enhance the natural beauty, create a cleaner environment and foster a greater quality of life for all its residents. Additionally, NY-CLASS will aim to bolster the
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]]> Microscopic analysis of scratches on dinosaur teeth has helped scientists unravel an ancient riddle of what a major group of dinosaurs ate -- and exactly how they did it!
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]]> If ever an issue deserved President Obama's promise of change, this is it. Mining syndicates are detonating 2,500 tons of explosives each day - the equivalent of a Hiroshima bomb weekly - to blow up Appalachia's mountains and extract sub-surface coal...
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]]> This procedure, if it can be effectively industrialized, could allow many of today’s petrochemical products, including plastics, to instead be made from biomass.
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]]> Australian television reporter Richard Wilkins announced the tragic death of US actor Jeff Goldblum, who supposedly died after tumbling off a cliff while shooting a movie in New Zealand
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]]> The two herbivores and one carnivore, excavated from the Winton formation, roamed Australia during the Cretaceous period - 98 million years ago
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]]> Wal-Mart workers across the country are struggling with the company’s weak and unaffordable health benefits.Here are some of their stories—read them and then use the form on the right to tell your members of Congress to support real health care reform.
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]]> Although some people still attempt to justify foie gras production, science backs up common sense: Shoving pipes down birds' throat several times a day and pumping them so full of food that their livers become diseased and balloon up is detrimental to
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]]> An elderly couple has been arrested for allegedly killing as many as 57 squirrels in the municipal garden of district headquarter
Himmatnagar, police said.
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]]> It was Darwinian theory that did away with the werewolf. For much of recorded history, humans have reserved their greatest fears for dog-human hybrids like the werewolf. These beasts were once thought to be real, hiding behind every tree waiting for the--
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]]> Dozens of baby girls in southern China have reportedly been taken from parents who broke family-planning laws, and then sold for adoption overseas.
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]]> JUNEAU, Alaska - The state of Alaska has spent almost $300,000 investigating ethics complaints against Gov. Sarah Palin or her staff.The $296,042 tab reflects 13 cases resolved by the Alaska Personnel Board with no findings of wrongdoing, although one
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]]> Alaska Governor Sarah Palin said Friday she will resign this month and will not run for re-election as governor.
"We know we can effect positive change outside government at this moment in time," she said.
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]]> Sea Shepherd Sets Sights on a Mediterranean Campaign.
The Slaughter of the Bluefin Tuna Must be Halted
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]]> More than 2,500 day-old chicks have suffered an horrendous death after being dumped in boxes in a lay-by in direct sunlight.
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]]> Elusive, stealthy and fiercely independent, Oscar probably never intended to put his life in the hands of humans.

But an unfortunate collision with a car in Albany landed the bobcat on a hospital table at the Cornell University Hospital for Animals
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]]> And finally tonight: a baby raccoon finds itself in quite a pickle - a pickle jar that is...Take a look! This raccoon was spotted in a tree in Michigan.... With the jar stuck on its head.Realizing the animal was in big trouble because it would not be
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]]> Tribute to my friend of 30 years-Marlon Brando-died today July 1 2004.
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]]> An elephant calf has starved to death in Indonesia, the eighth endangered Sumatran elephant to have died in the wild since May, environmental group WWF said Thursday.
WWF spokeswoman Syamsidar said the calf was believed to be the offspring of
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]]> The tiger had entered the village in Satkhira, which is close to the border with India, and residents beat it with sticks because they feared for their lives, the head official for the Sundarbans mangrove forest told AFP.
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]]> KOLKATA // Tigers in India are being killed at an alarming rate, with conservationists calling the situation a "disgrace" and warning that the country's national animal may soon become extinct.
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]]> This loving mother cat in east China has taken pity on an orphaned puppy, raising it as her own offspring. The pup's real mother apparently died of a haemorrhage during childbirth.

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]]> A police dog handler could face prosecution after two German Shepherds he left in his car died in the sweltering heat
The dogs were left in his private vehicle in a police HQ car park as temperatures hit almost 30C.
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]]> A dog named Stu has been kept from his owner at LA Animal Services for more than 4 years after biting the owner's assistant in the arm while she was trying to harness the dog after he had his ear torn by another dog.
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