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SF Gate
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Police officers in Kern County will not arrest same-sex couples who get married outside the county clerk's office next week, gay community leaders said Wednesday.
The Rev. Byrd Tetzlaff, minister of the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Kern County,..
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SF Gate
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The new chief judge of the federal appeals court in San Francisco dabbles as a paintball warrior, computer gamer and scuba diver. A political conservative and free-speech libertarian, he led a successful campaign in 2001 to stop court officials in Washing..
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SF Gate
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The British government says a senior intelligence official in the Cabinet office has been suspended after secret government documents were left on a commuter train.
The documents on al-Qaida and Iraq were found by a passenger on a London commuter train..
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SF Gate
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Frightened Boy Scouts huddled in a shelter as a tornado tore through their western Iowa campground, killing four people and injuring 48 others who had little to no warning of the approaching twister.
Tornadoes also touched down in Kansas, Minnesota and..
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SF Gate
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President Bush can look forward to a hearty welcome from his old friend, the charismatic Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, and Pope Benedict XVI during his visit to Rome. That's not what was found on the streets, however, where anti-Bush sentiment..
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SF Gate
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House Democrats came so close to a veto-proof margin for their proposal to give the unemployed an extra three months of benefits.
Taking another shot on the same measure, the goal for Thursday was to pass it by just a majority, not the two-thirds it wo..
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BBC News
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The clumpy nature of the soil on Mars' northern plains continues to frustrate the efforts of the Phoenix lander to carry out some of its experiments.
A sample delivered to a mini lab oven on Saturday failed to make it through a sorting screen, and atte..
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BBC News
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The world's most advanced, commercially available, bionic hand has clinched the UK's top engineering prize.
The i-LIMB, a prosthetic device with five individually powered digits, beat three other finalists to win this year's MacRobert award.
The tec..
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BBC News
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Illegal "tiger bone wine" is still being made and sold by some animal parks in China, say campaigners.
The Environmental Investigation Agency says staff at two parks offered to sell the drink, made from carcasses soaked in rice wine, to its researchers..
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BBC News
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Sharks in the Mediterranean Sea have undergone a massive decline over the last two centuries, scientists have discovered from historical records.
Some species shrunk by more than 99% over the period, mainly due to fishing.
Researchers used fishermen..
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BBC News
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A Nasa space telescope is about to launch on a mission to explore the Universe with "gamma-ray glasses".
The Glast mission will shed light on some of the most violent events in the Universe, that release massive amounts of energy in the form of gamma-r..
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BBC News
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A new genetic family tree of the UK's birds may help predict which will see their populations decline in future.
The family tree - or phylogenetic map - shows how closely species are related.
The scientist who compiled it, Gavin Thomas, found that p..
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BBC News
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US President George W Bush says he wants to pursue diplomacy to deal with Iran's controversial nuclear programme, but "all options are on the table".
Mr Bush and German Chancellor Angela Merkel said further sanctions against Iran were possible.
"The f..
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BBC News
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David Cameron accused Gordon Brown of making "so many concessions" in his bid to win the terror detention limit vote the legislation was now "unworkable".
He said the PM's case for extending the limit from 28 to 42 days would be stronger if it had the..
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BBC News
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Indicted Bosnian Serb war crimes suspect Stojan Zupljanin has been arrested near the Serbian capital, Belgrade, justice officials have said.
He is one of four top Serb leaders still wanted for war crimes by the UN tribunal in The Hague.
A commander in..
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BBC News
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Kerstin Fritzl, the 19-year-old whose illness in April alerted the Austrian authorities to a major incest scandal, will make a full recovery, doctors say.
They say the woman, who spent her life as a captive in a cellar, has taken her first steps since..
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BBC News
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Nepal's former king Gyanendra has spent his last night in the palace compound in Kathmandu which has been home to the royal family for more than 100 years.
The deposed king has begun making a press statement before he and his wife Komal, the former que..
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BBC News
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Pakistan's military has condemned what it says was an air strike by US-led forces that killed 11 Pakistani troops as a "cowardly attack".
Details of the incident on the border with Afghanistan are still unclear.
Reports suggest it took place as US-l..
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MSNBC
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If you have already played "LEGO Star Wars" from developer Traveler's Tales, you have — to some degree — played "LEGO Indiana Jones."
The two games are sewn from the same DNA strands: Cherished blockbusters retold with cubist flair, as big-screen a..
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MSNBC
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“There are phones from Nokia that play music with gigabytes of on-board storage, have full GPS navigation capabilities, take higher resolution pictures — with a flash for taking pictures indoors — and use the same Web browser as the iPhone,” he sa..
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