More than 370 penguins that mysteriously washed up on Brazil's equatorial beaches were flown south on a huge air force cargo plane and released closer to the frigid waters they call home, animal advocates said Monday.
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]]> Jurors this morning heard secretly recorded phone conversations in which Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens told a chief prosecution witness that he didn't believe they had done anything wrong but could expect a fine and possibly some jail time if convicted.
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]]> A man distraught because he could not find work shot and killed his mother-in-law, his wife and three sons and then killed himself inside a home in an upscale San Fernando Valley neighborhood, police said.
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]]> Britain must abandon using almost all fossil fuels to produce power in 20 years' time, the government's climate change watchdog will warn today.
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]]> What is probably the oldest known Bible is being digitised, reuniting its scattered parts for the first time since its discovery 160 years ago. It is markedly different from its modern equivalent. What's left out?
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]]> Iceland's glaciers could all be gone by the next century, thanks to global warming, a new government report says.
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]]> Ramadan is a time of joy and coming together across the Islamic world. But eid turned into a holiday of fear in Cairo on Oct. 2 when a mob of about 100 youths sexually attacked women strolling through the streets of a middle-class neighborhood.
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]]> People may have lived in Florida over 10,000 years ago—earlier than previously thought—according to evidence uncovered by National Geographic researchers.
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]]> Ruins of the Roman building complex were discovered following several months of excavation work at a plot destined to become a hypermarket. The Office of Cultural Heritage had ordered the excavation to be carried out
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]]> Israeli archaeologists on Monday announced the discovery of a stone sarcophagus fragment with Hebrew script that was apparently taken from the original burial grounds and used for a Muslim building near Jerusalem.
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]]> A sheriff's deputy accused of killing his ex-girlfriend in Kentucky taunted state police in an e-mail exchange Monday, saying he was going to "make them earn their money" in their search for him.
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]]> A North Carolina man accused of breaking into an elderly woman's home and frightening her to death made his first appearance in court Monday, accused of murder.
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]]> Almost a dozen elementary school students watched in shock as a Brevard County bus driver threatened to beat up a student's mother.
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]]> So this website gets skeptical about global warming skepticism. Do their arguments have any scientific basis? What does the peer reviewed scientific literature say?
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]]> We know this takes effort. Here is a useful list of simple steps you can take to begin thinking greener, acting greener, and living greener.
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]]> The following unedited responses to our questions provide an opportunity for you to learn more about their policies and plans on the environment.
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]]> In 2008, we will have the opportunity to steer this country in a new direction. After nearly a decade of stalling, we must unite and vote for a climate leader as President.
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]]> The Arctic ice cap shrank so much this summer that waves briefly lapped along two long-imagined Arctic shipping routes, the Northwest Passage over Canada and the Northern Sea Route over Russia.
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]]> Archaeological excavations begun here in 1996 — after King Hussein brokered a peace accord with Israel — have uncovered a host of late Roman/early Byzantine churches, mosaics, the cave of the hermits and an underground spring.
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]]> Two cannons with possible links to Fort Vancouver have had their 15 minutes of fame. Next comes the long, dirty slog of restoration.
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]]> Arnhem Land, jutting into the Arafura Sea at the top of Australia, has always been a special place for Aboriginal people.
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]]> It may have taken Michelangelo four long years to paint his fresco on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, but his earliest predecessors spent considerably longer perfecting their own masterpieces.
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]]> Seventh-grade social studies teacher Greg Howard reportedly wrote the word CHANGE as an acronym on the board and wrote an expletive with the letter 'N.' The phrase he wrote has alternately be reported as "Can You Help A (expletive) Get Elected"
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]]> The NASUWT says it is UNFAIR to treat teachers who have affairs with students who are over 16 as sex offenders, insisting all they are guilty of is an “error of professional judgement”.
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]]> A MAN who lost his job after helping rescue a drowning driver from a south-east Queensland river says he has no regrets.
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]]> The two-eyed look remains too seductive for Sheikh Habadan.
A Muslim cleric in Saudi Arabia has called on women to wear a full veil, or niqab, that reveals only one eye.
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]]> Brazen motorcyclists and drivers now will be clobbered with a fine in the four figures — $1,000 and up — if they get busted for excessive speeding on Florida roads.
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]]> A burglar addicted to drugs who committed 145 crimes walked free from court yesterday after a judge ruled he deserved another chance.
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]]> Deputies are searching for a group of women last seen wearing suspenders without bras or shirts on underneath them who robbed an 18-year-old on his way to work, according to a Martin County Sheriff’s Office report
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]]> Elk Grove is keeping up its reputation as home to California's biggest pumpkins -- even if they are coming from north of the border.
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]]> Britain's rivers could nearly run dry because long hot summers caused by climate change will not be sufficiently compensated by wetter winters, researchers predict. It is a scenario that would endanger wildlife and send household water bills soaring.
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]]> In a lawsuit filed in Alaska Superior Court, a Republican activist seeks to force Gov. Sarah Palin to produce copies of official correspondence she sent and received on private e-mail accounts.
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]]> A federal financial bailout signed into law Friday includes a tax credit for oil shale development, environmental groups say. They immediately criticized several fossil-fuel measures in the bill as pork-laden bailouts for “Big Oil.”
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]]> Antiques dating back 1,300 years have been stolen from a museum in western Afghanistan, officials said Saturday, blaming a "powerful gang" for the theft after a suspect was found dead.
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]]> Archaeologists are pressing for criminal charges against the organizers, reviving a debate over how to use treasured ancient sites.
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]]> The remains of a Viking-era stave church, including the skeletal remains of a woman, have been uncovered near the cemetery of the Lännäs church in Odensbacken outside Örebro in central Sweden.
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]]> Shellfish gatherers should continue to be cautious of the dangers of paralytic shellfish poisoning from clams and mussels gathered on beaches across Alaska, and especially those on Kodiak Island.
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]]> I'm sure there is a scientific explanation for what's happening with a cross between El Nino, La Nina, Global warming, fall, winter, summer, the phase of the moon and an upcoming political election, all contributing to the unusual weather.
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]]> In the Vice Presidential debate, Sarah Palin presented herself as a “maverick,” primarily because she is ignorant to the ways of Washington. Her canned responses, her constant evasions, her inability to discuss the complex problems we face
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]]> Missiles, believed to have been fired from US drone aircraft, killed as many as 21 people in one part of Pakistan's tribal area yesterday.
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]]> They died suddenly in an Ethiopian riverbed - killed by a single catastrophic event that claimed babies, and possibly their mothers and fathers.

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]]> Archaeologists uncovered the Iron Age settlement, dating back to 100BC, during the excavations near to the River Nidd, and also important evidence that the line of the Roman road
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]]> UBC archaeologists have dug up a mystery worthy of Indiana Jones, one that includes a tomb, skeletons and burial rites with both Christian and pagan elements
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]]> A Mycenaean warrior who died in western Greece over 3,000 years ago was the proud owner of a rare gold-wired sword imported from the Italian peninsula, a senior archaeologist said on Thursda
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]]> Archeologists at work in the Gogaran village of the Lori province have recently, surprisingly, discovered a mausoleum unlike others that appeared in Armenia.
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]]> A new remote sensing technology has peeled away layers of mud and rock near Peru's Cahuachi desert to reveal an ancient adobe pyramid, Italian researchers announced on Friday at a satellite imagery conference in Rome.
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]]> For the third time in four months, a female soldier based at Fort Bragg is dead, and a husband or lover is charged with murder - leading critics to demand the home base of the Army's elite soldiers exert "control over their troops" and address...
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]]> I am appalled to learn that the proposed bailout bill that the House will vote on today contains new tax breaks for Big Oil for producing oil from dirty tar sands and coal to liquids technology.
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]]> A mysterious Neolithic people who created Europe's earliest urban culture is the focus of an exhibition currently showing in Rome. Palazzo della Cancelleria is hosting the exhibit devoted to the Cucuteni or Trypillian culture
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]]> GEORGI Kitov, who led a Bulgarian archaeological team that unearthed a hoard of treasures from ancient Thrace, said to be as important as those of Agamemnon or Tutankhamun, has died. He was 65.
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