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 Iressa is a new pill designed to cure lung cancer. Researchers reported on Thursday that Iressa has shown incredible results when it comes to cure the lung cancer by itself. Even if the disease is advanced, the pill can easily replace the standard chemotherapy. Iressa is released by AstraZeneca and its treatment is a daily one. The...
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 A U.S. study published on Tuesday showed that women who survived breast cancer for five years after they had finished the treatment have lower risks of the cancer recurring. The study also refers to women with stage III breast cancer. They have only 13% risk of the cancer recurring if they got over the first five years without...
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 According to Californian scientists, some laboratory mice were given a pill that made them gain the benefits of exercise. It is believed that the drug could have the same benefic effects on humans, said the study which has been published online on Thursday in the journal Cell.The “breakthrough” pill seems to change the physical...
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 According to researchers at the University of Texas,
more Americans are predisposed to suffer from kidney stones in the coming
years, as a result of global warming.
Kidney stones, which usually arise from dissolved minerals
in the urine, can be awfully painful and are regularly attributable to
dehydration, either by not drinking...
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 Eating watermelon can have the same
boosting effect on a man’s libido as Viagra. Researchers from Texas A&M
University in the United States
concluded that the secret ingredient called citrulline which is found in the
flesh and rind of the fruit can help relax the body’s blood vessels; a Viagra
pill produces a similar effect....
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 Although overall life expectancy in the U.S. has increased more than seven years for men and more than six years for women between 1960 and 2000, Washington Post staff writer David Brown and Majid Ezzati, researcher at the Harvard Global Health, have showed based on a research study that the situation is different as concerns poor...
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 Researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health and the University of Washington found that life expectancy is
declining in many poor US counties, especially among women. Smoking, obesity
and high blood pressure are three main factors which reduce the life expectancy
of women in Appalachia Mississippi River states and parts of...
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researchers found premature baby’s fate may be influenced by four factors beyond
gestational age. Based on all these factors, one may determine whether an
extremely premature baby will survive and grow up healthy or not.
Weight is the first factor which influences premature baby’s
life. Babies that weight more survived...
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 According to a new study, it
seems that most web sites dedicated to breast cancer contain reliable
information, as only 5 percent of the web pages contain inaccurate notes.
Analysts said that complementary medicine and alternative medicine web sites
are 15 times more likely to contain misleading or false info.
"There is no...
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 A study initiated by a team of Houston researchers found
that most of the web sites containing information about breast cancer are
accurate, but one in every 20 breast cancer web pages gives false or misleading
information.
The study was conducted by The
University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center and The University of...
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 According to federal health official statements on Thursday, a new strain of a rare cold virus has caused 10 deaths in four states, including seven in Oregon, during the past 11/2 years.Oregon health officials called the new viral strain cause for concern but not cause for public alarm. The new "bug" is a variant of a rare type...
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 According to US scientists in brain chemistry, a new factor
has been pinpointed which may explain why some people cope better than others
in the face of adversity.
They found a key pathway in mice differs in those who cope
well with stress, and those who do not.
The findings, published in Cell, could lead to new
treatments...
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 A new study by scientists at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center have found that altering a single gene can tweak the amount of body fat in mice and fruit flies. Apparently, tweaking the gene could also work in humans. The researchers published their work in the journal Cell Metabolism under the title "Adipose Is a...
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As said by federal officials, the rate of new type 2 diabetes cases has almost doubled in the U.S. in the past 10 years, with most new cases appearing in states located in the south. Over 23 million Unites States residents have been diagnosed with diabetes. And according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the number is...
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While drinking either a chocolate milk shake or a tasteless solution, MRI brain scans have been performed on 43 women in order to find how much activity was in their brains' pleasure centers whilst serving the food.Overweight or obese people tend to suppose they get more satisfaction from food than other people do, that they “experience...
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 The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center is the nation’s top cancer treatment hospital, according to the latest “best hospitals” list by U.S. News & World Report. According to U.S. News and World Report, the top three are Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minn., and Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical...
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 Many accusations of brutal beatings and other physical abuse have been recorded in the 10 state mental hospitals in Texas since 2005. As a result, more than 70 employees from a total of 7.400 have been fired and a large number of others disciplined, according to a report published Sunday.
The most frequent mistreatments towards...
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 A peer reviewer for The New England Journal of
Medicine breached confidentiality rules by leaking information from a pending
article to GlaxoSmithKline, about the heart risks in the diabetes drug, Avandia,
manufactured by the above mentioned company.
Last year, Dr. Steven Haffner of the University of Texas Health Science Centre...
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Washington - Former first lady Barbara Bush, 83, was recovering from surgery to repair and seal a perforated ulcer, CNN reported late Wednesday
Bush, who is also the mother of current United States President George W Bush, was hospitalized in Houston, Texas, Tuesday night after she complained of severe abdominal pain.
"She is...
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 The effects that Hurricane Ike had on Galveston can still be felt now. The University of Texas Medical Branch from Galveston was badly damaged by the strong winds and rain that Ike brought during this fall. Because the teaching hospital is running out of money, nearly 3,800 workers will be laid off. The next three months will be crucial...
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The world's largest publicly traded oil company, Exxon Mobil, reported the largest quarterly profit in US history Thursday on the back of record oil prices.
Exxon earned 14.83 billion dollars in the quarter, an increase of 60 per cent on the same quarter of 2007.
Sales increased by 35 per cent to 137.74 billion dollars in the same...
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The Department of Justice has released a report announcing that federal immigration agents made a criminal search warrant at a poultry processing plant in Greenville, South Carolina, and arrested nearly 300 workers. The federal agents went to the Columbia Farms at 9 a.m. after 10 months during which they tracked down numerous employment...
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Subtropical Storm Laura formed in the north central Atlantic Ocean, according to the National Hurricane Center. Laura is centered at about 1,015 miles west of Faial Island in the Azores and was moving west-northwest at nearly 8 mph on Monday. The subtropical storm’s winds are near 60 mph and Laura can reach the strength of a hurricane on...
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 Tropical Storm Kyle is the 11th storm of this year’s hurricane season in the Atlantic. According to the U.S. National Hurricane Center, Kyle formed on Thursday as a terrible weather was announced in Puerto Rico and other northern Caribbean islands. Kyle reached to be a tropical storm when its winds reached 45mph.As a Category 1...
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Washington Mutual Inc (WaMu), the largest savings and loan association in the United States, has approached a number of private equity firms to gauge their interest in a takeover to shore up its financial position, the Wall Street Journal reported on Thursday.
The Seattle-based lender has lost more than 90 per cent of its share value...
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Nine days have passed since hurricane Ike hit the Gulf Coast and destroyed the way to New York. Still, more than 820,000 people in Texas were cut off the power on Monday. The Center Power Energy Inc, which controls most of the Huston area’s electricity, had 767,000 customers in Texas without power. Yet, the number is small, remembering...
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 The Texas Gulf Coast tries to take its day-by-day life from the beginning, after hurricane Ike destroyed almost everything around him. As NASA stated, the flight control of the International Space Station will return to the Johnson Space Center on Friday.Center Point Energy stated that the power was restored to almost 900,000 homes in...
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 Devastating hurricane Ike left the residents of Galveston without supplies and some other 4 million Texans were left without power on Monday, after Ike made its way through the Gulf Coast. Entire subdivisions of island city of Galveston and the barrier island of Bolivar Peninsula were washed away by the powerful hurricane.One of the...
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A tense calm reigned Friday as Houston braced for the arrival of Ike, the first major hurricane in 25 years to bear down on the fourth-largest US city in full strength.
Hundreds of thousands of people were leaving nearby coastal areas to flee what the National Hurricane Centre (NHC) warned would be "certain death."
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 A judge moved a hearing for a condemned inmate because the former hearing was scheduled to be long after his execution. On Thursday, the judge stated that the lawyers of the inmate have to fight about the sentence while he is still alive. The inmate’s lawyers say that the execution sentence was wrong because the judge was having an...
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A couple accompanied by their 7-month-old daughter fled the New Orleans area in advance of Hurricane Gustav. But they suffered the biggest drama of their life by trying to escape the calamity. Kaitlynn Foret, their daughter, died on the way back home because of a rare genetic disease. The baby girl stopped breathing while they were at...
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 On Wednesday, tropical storm Gustav headed toward Cuba after it had killed 11 people and caused a lot of floods and damages in the Caribbean. Louisiana and the Gulf Coast are also threatened by the tropical storm which could become a Category 3 hurricane.A meteorologist at the National Hurricane Center in Miami, Rebecca Waddington,...
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At least 12 people were reported killed Friday in the crash of a tour bus off a bridge in the US state of Texas, US media reported.
The accident occurred around 12:45 am (0545 GMT) when the bus carrying 55 people from Houston, Texas into the state of Missouri crashed around 100 kilometres north of Dallas, US broadcaster CNN...
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 Twenty-six cheerleaders aged between 14 and 17 got stuck in an elevator at the University of Texas, as they wanted to see how many would get inside. The 26 girls group was attending a cheerleading camp and they decided to see how many of them get into an elevator at Jester Residence Hall in the campus of the University of Texas.The...
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Jose Ernesto Medellin, 33, raped and killed two Texas Girls in 1993. He had spent his life in jail since then, expecting to be executed. On Tuesday night Medellin was injected with the lethal injection, in spite of any objection. His last words were: "I'm sorry my actions caused you pain. I hope this brings you the closure that you...
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 The Monday Texans’ preparations for the tropical storm were accompanied by a heat wave which has been lasting for 11 days. The tropical storm strengthened as it churned through the Gulf of Mexico toward Galveston. Even if extreme weather is normal for the coast of Texas, the temperatures were too high.Residents bought more water and...
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Residents along the Texas coast on Monday were
bracing for Tropical Storm Edouard, as forecasters predicted the storm
could strengthen before making landfall. Edouard was predicted to make landfall near the Texas-Louisiana early Tuesday, the National Hurricane Centre in Miami said.
Monday afternoon it had sustained...
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Tropical storm Edouard triggered a hurricane
watch by US weather officials early Monday as it churned westward
toward Louisiana and Texas on the US Gulf coast. The National
Hurricane Center in Miami, Florida, issued a tropical storm warning for
Edouard westward from the mouth of the Mississippi River, near New
Orleans, with the...
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 Tropical Storm Edouard, the fifth tropical storm of the hurricane season in Atlantic this year, has formed near an oil and gas producing area of the northern Gulf of Mexico, on Sunday.By 11 p.m. EDT, the storm was located around 80 miles southeast of the mouth of the Mississippi River and was expected to come on the Texas coast being as...
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 An area of 8,000 square miles in Gulf of Mexico has too little oxygen to feed fish and other forms of marine life. The area seems to have set a record this year, being the largest polluted area in the world. As the researchers said, Hurricane Dolly prevented the area of the largest dead zone ever.The lack of oxygen is caused by the...
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 Salmonella has caused a big disaster since its outbreak back in April. Tomatoes were out of blame. Still, certain raw tomatoes were got off the market on June 7. The FDA groceries and restaurants stopped receiving the tomatoes and the industry started to fail. Tomatoes producers ran out of money and costumers.Trace backs of the...
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 After Hurricane Dolly made landfall in close proximity to the Texas-Mexico border, Texas’s governor declared 15 counties disaster areas. The Red Cross is calling for volunteers from all over the country so as to lend a hand. The humanitarian organization which provides emergency assistance identified the neighborhoods in need of help and...
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Tropical storm Dolly has formed on Wednesday in the Gulf Coast. It traversed the U.S.-Mexico coastline and weakened as it entered a tropical depression in South Texas on Thursday. Warnings have been made for a flood along the Rio Grande Valley.Flood warnings were available for Texas too. Charles Hoskins, deputy emergency officer for...
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Salmonella seems to be in the trend this season, but is not fashionable. The bacterium that causes food poisoning is a rod-shaped bacterium which could be found in the intestine and can also cause gastroenteritis and typhoid fever.Starting April 1, this year, Salmonella Saintpaul has sickened more than 1, 300 people and about 242 were...
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Warren Jeffs, 52, is the leader of Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, a Mormon offshoot that practices polygamy. The FLDS has an estimated number of 10,000 members. Jeffs was convicted in Utah, in November last year, to two consecutive terms of five years to life in prison. After that he had been convicted on two...
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After tropical storm Bertha and other storms that formed along the Atlantic and threatened the states around the ocean, another storm is expected this season, which has started earlier that it was scheduled. Hurricane Dolly heads for the United States, Caribbean and Central America these days.The hurricane season is scheduled to last...
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 Three Americans held hostages in the Colombian jungle for five years and a half returned home to their families. They were rescued by the Colombian military on July 2, together with presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt and 11 other Colombian police and soldiers.The three Americans, Keith Stansell, Marc Gonsalves and Thomas Howes left...
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Sgt. Alex Jimenez and Pvt. Byron W. Founty were found in Iraq. Above all hopes of their families for them to come back alive, they ended their life fighting for their country. All that came back from Iraq was both of their remains.Sgt. Alex Jimenez was 25 years old and was on patrol on May 2007, near Yusufiva, Iraq. His Army unit,...
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A nationwide alliance of immigrant rights and
community organizations on Thursday launched a new movement aimed at
registering more than one million Latino and Asian voters ahead of
November's presidential elections. The movement, called the
We Are America Alliance (WAAA), will reach out to voters in 13 states,
which also have the...
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Sect leader Warren Jeffs was taken to a hospital in
Las Vegas on Tuesday. Police wouldn’t say why and the real cause of his
departure hasn't been found out yet. Jeffs was taken to the Sunrise Hospital and
Medical Center in Las Vegas from an Arizona Jail.
The jail in Kingman, Arizona is 100 miles from the
medical center and the...
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health officials announced on Tuesday that they were far from identifying the
source of the salmonella outbreak that began in mid-April this year. The U.S.
Food and Drug Administration has expanded its examination by including food
products that are usually served with tomatoes. However, they declined to
report what these other...
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Convicted killer Karl Eugene Chamberlain was executed Wednesday night for
the rape-slaying of a woman in Dallas 17 years ago, the first Texas prisoner in nearly nine months to be
put to death, the Associated Press reports.
38-year-old Chamberlain lived upstairs in the same apartment complex as his
victim, Felecia Prechtl. At the...
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 A 53-year-old sailboat safety officer who died saving four
university students and a colleague in the Gulf of Mexico
is being praised as a hero. According to Steven Guy, a Texas A&M
University sailor, Roger
Stone saved him and another sailor by helping them to safety.
“He is my hero,” Guy said. “He saved me. If it wasn't...
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 Four people were found dead in a forested area from Texas after the helicopter carrying them had
mysteriously crashed. The US
medical helicopter was transferring a wounded patient to the hospital in Houston, Texas. Beside the patient, there were also three other people on board: the pilot, a
nurse and a paramedic. All four died...
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 Safety officer, 53-year-old Roger Stone, is now a hero in the
eyes of the other five members of the Cynthia Woods sailboat crew and their
families. Stone lost his life when the sailboat capsized during the 725-mile Veracruz regatta, but before that he managed to save the lives of four students and another safety
officer by forcing...
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 Eldorado, Texas – A judge from Texas Court issued on Tuesday a
ruling for releasing a 16-year-old girl under special conditions after she had
complained to be sexually harassed by a man from the sect group she belonged to.
Her lawyer insisted she might be in danger.
The young girl is the daughter of the polygamist sect prophet,...
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 State officials announced the release of more
than 460 children seized by state authorities in April in an investigation of possible sex abuse at the ranch
owned by the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. The
state Supreme Court ruled that the seizure was not justified.
The announcement was
made after a...
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American federal law enforcement agencies have led the
number of criminal prosecutions of immigration violators to amazing levels. One
of the means by which they achieved this is filing minor charges against every person
caught illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.
Officials explained that the perspective of being...
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The Supreme Court in the American state of Texas has ruled that officials overstepped their authority by taking hundreds of children from a polygamist religious group's ranch. The ranch was owned by the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. The kids were taken in April from their parents and placed in foster care...
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A 10-year-old boy who last year managed to make his way onto
airline flights to Texas
tried another getaway Tuesday but was stopped at a boarding gate, authorities
said, quoted by the Associated Press.
Security tapes depicted how Semaj Booker passed through a metal detector and
other procedures before 5 a.m. at a checkpoint...
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 Virginia was the third state to put a convicted murder to death by lethal
injection since the US Supreme Court ended an unofficial moratorium on capital
punishment last month.
Kevin Green, 31, who was convicted for
killing a southeastern Virginia
convenience store owner in 1998 during a robbery, was pronounced death at 10
p.m.,...
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 39,000 soldiers will be sent to Iraq to replace troops which were scheduled to leave the war zone, the Pentagon said on Monday. The Defense Department announced four brigades from the Army National Guard will head to Iraq and Kuwait, including the 72nd Brigade Combat Team of the Texas National Guard.The United States has 155,000 troops...
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3,000 residents who were evacuated Saturday morning from
their homes due to a rail car leak of hydrochloric acid are allowed to return home
tonight.
Six railroad cars heading on Saturday towards Lake Charles, close
to the Texas border derailed around 1:30 a.m. near Lafayette, a southern
Louisiana city about 125 miles west of New...
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 One of the passengers of the Cessna 337 Skymaster, the plane
which crashed on Saturday leaving two dead and two hurt, helped rescuers to
reach to the accident site in a shorter period of time. The 43-year-old Juan
Carlos Salinas used his cell phone to call 911 just after the crash occurred at
about 3 p.m. "With him assisting the...
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Tuesday, April 29, James Woodward was set free after 27
years of prison when DNA testing overturned his conviction for the murder and
rape of his girlfriend, Reuters reported.
According to the Innocence Project, a New York-based legal
center specialized in overturning wrongful convictions, he is the 18th person
in Dallas...
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 Police in Colorado Spring and the Texas
rangers arrested a Colorado
woman on local charges of pretending to be a girl locked in a basement. She
called the police and allegedly pretended to be a 16-year-old girl victim of an
abuse. The Texan Rangers were in Colorado,
continuing their investigations about the polygamist FLDS compound...
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Lance Armstrong returns to competitive cycling this weekend when he takes part in two time trial events in Gruene, Texas, the cycling news internet site reported Wednesday.
The 37-year-old American has registered for Saturday's 26- kilometre-long individual time trial before joining John Korioth for Sunday's team event over...
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German movie director Wim Wenders, 63, said Thursday he shot his newest movie, The Palermo Shooting, "rock 'n' roll style," improvising the scenes as he went along.
The introspective movie, about a German photographer who loses his mental bearings and wanders around the Italian city Palermo, premiered to dismissive reviews...
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Computer giant Hewlett-Packard (HP) will cut 1,400 jobs in Germany over the next two years, a company spokesman said Monday in Boeblingen.
The announcement followed HP's purchase of IT-service provider Electronic Data Systems (EDS). About 1150 former EDS and another 250 HP employees were to lose their jobs over the next two years, the...
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 Pope Benedict XVI in a ceremony Saturday inducting 23 new cardinals or
"Princes of the Church" paid homage to the candidate from Iraq and
Christians living in that war-ravaged country.
"Calling into the College of Cardinals the Patriarch of the
Chaldean Church, I intended to express in a concrete way my...
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 The situation in the Middle East and ethnic integration of migrants top
the agenda when German Chancellor Angela Merkel meets French President
Nicolas Sarkozy on Monday.
Sarkozy is bringing Prime Minister Francois Fillon and other
members of his cabinet with him to Berlin for the talks, which form
part of regular Franco-German...
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 Two U.S. citizens will beam their ballots down from the International Space Station (ISS) as they fly 354 km above Earth. NASA astronauts Michael Fincke and Gregory Chamitoff will vote from space thanks to a Texas state law that ensures their ballots can be counted, even from space. All U.S. astronauts who were in space have voted from...
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 The Russian Soyuz capsule that brought space tourist Richard Garriott home landed safely and on target this morning, in Almaty, Kazakhstan. The video game millionaire from Austin, Texas was joined in his return mission by two Russian cosmonauts: Oleg Kononeko and Sergei Volkov. Garriott spent almost 10 days on the International Space...
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 Space tourist Richard Garriott, a video game developer from
Austin, Texas, docked with the ISS (International Space Station) at 8:26 GMT
(3:26 EST) aboard a Soyuz TMA-13 spacecraft which launched on Sunday from
Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan. He joined American astronaut Mike Fincke and
Russian cosmonaut Yuri Lonchakov on...
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 Richard Garriott proves that nothing is impossible if you
really want to do it. The sixth tourist in space follows the footsteps of his
father, Owen Garriott, an astronaut who spent 60 days in space in 1973, on the
Skylab. As a child, Richard wanted to be an astronaut like his father, but his
dreams were rapidly shattered by the...
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Scientists in Florida returned 142 loggerhead sea turtles to the Atlantic Ocean Monday after two years in captivity.
Ben Higgins, a biologist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, said the turtles were captured in 2005 during Hurricane Katrina. They were raised in Texas and then brought back to Florida to participate...
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