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SF Gate
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It was swift and chaotic, witnesses said, as the plastics plant worker with a determined look opened fire, killing five co-workers then himself in rural western Kentucky.
A man who called 911 from the plant described the violent scene early Wednesday w..
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SF Gate
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A lightning-sparked wildfire in the Los Padres National Forest that already burned 16 homes was moving closer Thursday to the scenic community of Big Sur, where it threatened 500 houses.
The blaze was only 3 percent contained late Wednesday and had bur..
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BBC News
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A book about global warming has won this year's Royal Society prize for popular science writing.
Mark Lynas' Six Degrees: Our Future on a Hotter Planet has already been turned into a TV programme and is now almost certain to experience a jump in sales...
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BBC News
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Some of the first farmers in the Near East probably used green beads as amulets to protect themselves and their crops, a study suggests.
The authors of the research suggest that early agriculturalists attached special importance to this colour.
Bead..
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BBC News
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The body overseeing UK astronomy and physics is to commission an independent review of its operations.
The probe into the effectiveness of the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) follows widespread concern over the status of its budget...
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BBC News
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Plans to use a state-of-the-art camera onboard a satellite to monitor deforestation levels in Africa's Congo Basin have been unveiled.
The high resolution RALCam3 camera, designed and built by UK scientists, will provide the first detailed view of the..
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BBC News
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Animal welfare campaigners say Greenland's whaling, held under rules permitting subsistence hunting, has become too commercial in character.
The World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA) found that a quarter of last year's catch was traded for..
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BBC News
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A scratchy recording of Baa Baa Black Sheep and a truncated version of In the Mood are thought to be the oldest known recordings of computer generated music.
The songs were captured by the BBC in the Autumn of 1951 during a visit to the University of M..
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BBC News
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The Mississippi river has burst through one levee in the US state of Illinois and threatens to break many more throughout the American Midwest.
Three feet of water flooded the area near the town of Gulfport, closing a bridge and cutting commuters off...
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BBC News
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Three men have been charged over the murder of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, investigators have said.
Politkovskaya, a prominent Kremlin critic, was shot dead outside her home in the capital on 7 October 2006.
Russia's Investigative Committ..
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BBC News
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The head of an African observer mission in Zimbabwe has warned that he will not endorse next week's run-off if current levels of violence continue.
Marwick Khumalo told the BBC his team had received horrendous reports of attacks and the political envir..
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BBC News
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One of Turkey's best known singers, Bulent Ersoy, has gone on trial charged with attempting to turn the public against military service.
The charges were brought after she suggested it was not worth sacrificing soldiers' lives in Turkey's conflict with t..
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BBC News
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Nato and Afghan forces have launched an operation to drive Taleban insurgents from the outskirts of the southern city of Kandahar.
Troops backed by helicopter gunships are patrolling west of the Arghandab river, a Nato statement said.
There have bee..
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BBC News
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Israel has approved a ceasefire to end months of bitter clashes with the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas in Gaza, Israeli officials have confirmed.
Under the terms of the truce, which is set to begin on Thursday, Israel will ease its blockade on th..
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MSNBC
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Levee break threatens town
But inconvenience turned to frustration is some parts of Illinois Tuesday after one levee failed. Another 27 levees are in danger of overflowing, according to the federal government.
Interactive map: Rampaging rivers
Ri..
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MSNBC
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In a CBS News poll two weeks ago, 43 percent of registered voters said they believed he would continue Mr. Bush’s policies, and 21 percent said he would be more conservative in his policies than Mr. Bush. Twenty-eight percent said he would be less conse..
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MSNBC
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Reports of this town’s impending demise have been greatly exaggerated.
Take it from John Hark, emergency management director for the boyhood hometown of America’s most beloved literary curmudgeon, Mark Twain.
“We think we’re good,” Hark sa..
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MSNBC
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The Boston-Los Angeles rivalry, nothing more than black-and-white footage from the 60s and TV highlights of players wearing short shorts in the 80s to young hoops fans, remains tilted toward the Atlantic Ocean. The Celtics are 9-2 against the Lakers in th..
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MSNBC
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Videos Bringing Abu Ghraib back into focus
June 17: “Standard Operating Procedure” co-author Philip Gourevitch discusses the continuing fallout from the photos taken by American soldiers of Iraqi prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib.Nightly NewsPhysicians..
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MSNBC
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Strong defense of waterboarding
One of the most explosive memos was the account of the October 2002 Guantanamo Bay meeting in which the CIA's Fredman joined 10 Defense Department officials and lawyers to discuss how to extract better intelligence from..
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