In a context totally unrelated to sewage a boss of mine once advised me early in my career not to 'shit where I eat'. This was wise business advice but it's also true in a literal sense. The question of...
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PHOENIX – Senator John McCain is pledging once again to balance the budget by the end of his first term in 2013, his advisers said Monday, reverting to an earlier pledge he had abandoned in April when he proposed a...
The silly season has arrived. First there is a "complicated" crop circle and now soldiers are seeing UFOs."The British ministry of defence today faced calls to launch an official inquiry into a series of UFO...
Medical examinations released today on former terrorist suspects detained by the United States at Guantanamo Bay were tortured.The report was released by a human rights group.See other NowPublic coverage here." The...
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"Scientist says dolphin deaths look like a mass suicide Steven Morris The Guardian, Thursday June 12 2008 Article history The dolphins that died after becoming...
The death toll is still unknown in the plane crash that happened in the Sudan yesterday. Investigators are searching passenger lists and examining the wreckage to try and determine what caused the plane to veer off...
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"ATHENS, Greece (AP) -- A nine-year-old girl who went to hospital suffering from stomach pains was found to be carrying her embryonic twin, doctors in central Greece said Thursday. Doctors at Larissa General Hospital examined the girl and surgically removed a growth they...
At least 26 children have died in rural China from a virus that is now spreading into Beijing. So far, two kindergartens in the city have been closed against the spread of the outbreak of hand, foot and mouth...
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In an unbelievable phenomenon that happened in Luxor, Egypt, and I think will never happen again, A strange Child has been born in a shape like frog. The Egyptian woman gave birth to an incomplete gential child...
According to a study by the BBC, when school children pick an instrument to play, their choices are stongly influenced by gender stereotypes. So more girls play the flute and more boys play the guitar. I have many...
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"A doctor examined a woman's breasts without permission, despite her saying the pain was elsewhere, a hearing has been told.
Dr Subhas Pattar, of Leicester, appeared before the General Medical Council (GMC) yesterday for the start of a 19-day hearing into allegations of...
"Laughter was not developed first by humans but by our close biological cousins the apes, according to new scientific research.
Scientists at the University of Portsmouth have found that orang-utans have a sense of...
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A third British resident has been arrested hours after he flew back into the UK after several years held without charge or trial at the US Guantanamo Bay detention centre.
Jamil el-Banna was one of three men who arrived on board a charter jet from the camp in Cuba on...
"The Irish Human Rights Commission has called for flights to be inspected where there is a chance that terrorist suspects are being transported to secret detention.
The practice known as extraordinary rendition has been a contentious issue for some time.
It has been alleged...
Should Jail be the punishment for this outrage? "A judge acquitted three doctors, a New Jersey company and a former Red Cross official of criminal charges Monday in a tainted-blood scandal that infected thousands of...