Man convicted of murder in 'Precious Doe' case

"KANSAS CITY, Missouri (AP) -- A man who kicked his girlfriend's daughter in the head and dumped her body in the woods was convicted Wednesday, resolving a case that haunted the Kansas City, Missouri, area during the four years the 3-year-old was known only as "Precious Doe."...

Two Japanese, American win 2008 physics Nobel

Subatomic partical behaviour study gets this year nobel for physics.Yoichiro Nambu,Makato Kobayashi and Toshihide Maskawa jointly shared the prize for their contribution to show why universe is  made up mostly of...

Inflammatory bowel gene uncovered

" Genetic variations which predispose people to a common inflammatory bowel condition have been uncovered by a team of German and UK researchers. It was known that ulcerative colitis, which affects around 100,000...

Cause of 'Treeman's' barklike growths revealed

"(CNN) -- For 20 years, the warts studding Dede Kosawa's hands and feet multiplied and sprouted like gnarled roots. ...

No SEX or LSD on Swedish cars

Now thats what I call a headline !!I was worried when I saw this headline that I was going to have to change my behavior patterns, being a Saab owner and all....."While authorities in Sweden have been known to put...

Peter Mandelson to return to Cabinet

In a truly stunning move, Peter Mandelson, the EU's Trade Commissioner, has been recalled to London to serve in Gordon Brown's cabinet. Mandelson was a powerful voice in Brussels, and it will be interesting to see...

World's biggest cruise sets sail

The 315m-long ship squeezed through the Papenburg watergates and will debut in November as a U.S. cruise ship. The vessel cost 616 million euros with a 1,000seat theatre was helped by two tug-boats to squeeze through...

Statins 'prevent artery ageing'

"Drugs given to heart patients to lower cholesterol may have an additional benefit - keeping their blood vessels feeling younger. Advanced heart disease patients have arteries which have effectively aged faster than the rest of their bodies. University of Cambridge...

Human Jet prepares to cross Channel

A man is going to attempt to fly across the English Channel today using a single jet-propelled wing. If he is sucesful, he will set a world record for the flight. If you're there to witness this sight in the UK or in...

Aussie 'free hugs guy' to donate kidney to stranger

In this self centred world at the time when we are witnessing so much of violence, hatred and being carpet-bombed daily with messages of fear and disconnection.Everyone is running for their own life but Juan Mann is...

Musical Road Hits Sour Notes With Neighbors

Kinda like those wake up lines at the side of the road... .. only more musical." Local officials say it was a mistake to allow a television commercial company to grind grooves into a stretch of desert roadway near Lancaster to enable car tires to play a song -- "The...

UN: Guns Fall Silent In Afghanistan On Peace Day

Jason Straziuso of the Associated Press in Afghanistan is reporting that the United Nations said that guns across much of Afghanistan fell silent on Sunday for an international peace day. The peace day had pledges...

Hubble Discovers Life Basics On Distant Sphere :: Oblate Spheroid

"The upgraded Hubble telescope, with its perch circling above the Oblate Spheroid out in space, has discovered what is considered the basic evidence of the “signature” that life (as we understand it) could exist...

Shasta’s Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence :: Oblate Spheroid

"Dotting a rocky plain north of Mount Lassen, 42 radio antennas are cocked like ears toward the sky, being readied for an expanded hunt for life beyond Earth. The Allen Telescope Array is slowly coming together as...

10 dead after explosions at U.S. Embassy in Yemen

"A car bomb exploded at the front gate of the U.S. Embassy in Yemen on Wednesday, killing six Yemeni guards and four civilians, a security official said. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told the Associated Press that the embassy in the Yemeni capital of...

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