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After four embryos kept in glass jars were found in the home of a woman who died last week in Innsbruck, the state prosecutor confirmed Thursday that DNA tests would be conducted to determine their origin.
The 68-year-old woman had asked her partner to dispose of the embryos before she died a natural death, but he decided to inform police.
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 The people of New Zealand and the mountain Sherpas of Nepal joined
Tuesday in Auckland at the state funeral of Everest conqueror Sir
Edmund Hillary, to honour a man loved and revered in both countries.
"He was a colossus. He was our hero," said New Zealand Prime
Minister Helen Clark. "His extraordinary life has been...
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 Thousands of New Zealanders defied heavy rain on Monday to pay their
respects to the country's greatest modern-day hero, Everest conqueror
Sir Edmund Hillary, who died on January 11, as he lay in state at
Auckland's Anglican Cathedral.
The cathedral's doors will stay open all night to allow thousands
of mourners to file past the...
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 Two anti-whaling activists taken hostage by Japanese whalers in
Antarctica earlier this week have been freed and are now on the
Australian ship the Oceanic Viking, the Sea Shepherd protest
organization said Friday.
Australian Benjamin Potts, 28, and Briton Giles Lane, 35, were
detained since they risked their lives boarding a...
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Australia on Thursday offered to send a ship to secure the freedom of
two anti-whaling activists held by Japanese whalers in Antarctica.
Australian Benjamin Potts, 28, and Briton Giles Lane, 35, have been
detained since they forced their way aboard a Japanese harpoon vessel
on Tuesday.
A stalemate has developed with the Japanese...
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Japan has ordered the release of two activists detained when they
boarded one of its harpoon vessels in Antarctica to deliver an
anti-whaling protest, Australian Foreign Minister Stephen Smith said
Wednesday.
Paul Watson, the captain of the Steve Irwin protest ship, said the
conditions set for the release of Australia Benjamin...
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 An Australian court on Tuesday ruled Japanese whaling in the Antarctic illegal but admitted it had no power to stop it.
The Federal Court, in a hearing brought by the Humane Society
International, declared the Japanese in contravention of Australian
environment protection legislation because they were killing and
injuring minke and...
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 Everest conqueror Sir Edmund Hillary, who has died at the age of 88,
will be given a state funeral on January 22 in his home city Auckland,
Prime Minister Helen Clark announced Saturday.
Tributes to Hillary, who died Friday of a heart attack, shortly
before he was due to be released from hospital after treatment for
pneumonia,...
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 Sir Edmund Hillary was honoured throughout the world as the first man,
with Sherpa Tenzing Norgay, to climb Mount Everest, the world's highest
peak at 8,848 metres, in 1953.
He died Friday at the age of 88. In his native land, he was the
best-loved New Zealander of his generation and could have ruled the
country for years had he...
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 An Australian ship left Perth on Tuesday to monitor Japanese whaling in the Southern Ocean.
Oceanic Viking, which had 30 Customs officers on board, will spend
20 days gathering video evidence for a possible international court
action on Japan's intention this season of catching 935 minke whales
and 50 fin whales.
Initially, 50...
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 Al-Qaeda soldier David Hicks, the first Guantanamo Bay detainee to be
convicted on terrorism offences, is set to leave an Australian jail
Saturday six years after being captured by US forces while fighting
with the Taliban in Afghanistan.
Hicks, 32, pleaded guilty to providing material support for terrorism at his US military...
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Australian stocks follow Wall Street down
Steep falls on Wall Street and fears of an impending recession at home dragged Australian stocks down Thursday.
The ASX 200 gave up 146 points, or 4. 3 per cent, to...
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Today is Thursday, June 5
the 157th day of 2008 with 209 to follow. The moon is waxing. The morning stars are Venus, Jupiter, Neptune and Uranus. The evening stars are Mercury, Mars and...
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 General Petraeus Set for Central Command
It appears that U. S. President George W. Bush’s favorite
general has been handed the task of winning the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan
as well as confronting the...
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 A culinary journey through Crete
Almost as soon as you set foot on the southern Mediterranean island of Crete the poignant smell of oregano, wild flowers and wild teas tickles your senses while the...
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