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God did not create Universe: Hawking

God did not create Universe: Hawking
LONDON- God no longer has any place in theories on the creation of the Universe due to a series of developments in physics, British scientist Stephen Hawking said in extracts published Thursday from a new book. In a hardening of the more accommodating position on religion that he took in his 1988 international best-seller "A Brief History of Time", Hawking said the Big Bang was merely the consequence of the law of gravity. "Because there is a law such as gravity, the Universe can and will create itself from...


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Mexico to host World Environment Day in June 2009

Mexico City - Mexico will host the next World Environment Day in June 2009, the head of the UN...

Investigation

Jackson doctor denies manslaughter charge

Jackson doctor denies manslaughter charge
LOS ANGELES, Soo Youn - Michael Jackson's doctor pleaded not guilty here Monday after being charged...

Life

From the Bronx to Brooklyn, pianos take over New York

From the Bronx to Brooklyn, pianos take over New York
NEW YORK, Luis Torres de la Llosa- A man in New York's East Village runs his hands down the piano...

US should apologise for Yemenis' arrest: Yemen ambassador

THE HAGUE- The United States should apologise for the wrongful arrest of two Yemenis on Dutch soil after gifts in their luggage gave rise to terror suspicions, Yemen's ambassador to The Hague said...

Hamas vows more deadly attacks on Israelis

GAZA CITY, Sakher Abu El Oun- The Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas vowed to press its campaign of deadly attacks on Israelis as a new round of Middle East peace talks was launched in Washington on...
Abbas, Netanyahu vow to meet every two weeks for peace
WASHINGTON, Lachlan Carmichael- Israeli and Palestinian leaders launched their first direct negotiations in 20 months here Thursday, agreeing to meet every two weeks in a bid to settle core...
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Beirut's beautiful people splash out for Ramadan
BEIRUT, Mohamad Ali Harissi- "A more beautiful Ramadan," promises an advertisement for one Beirut clinic offering discounts to image-conscious Lebanese during the Muslim holy month of dawn-to-dusk...
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Ex-head of Cairo museum in Van Gogh theft warned on security
CAIRO- A former director of the Cairo museum from which a Vincent Van Gogh masterpiece was stolen wrote an article in 2007 saying the museum's surveillance cameras were defunct, the official MENA...
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France's Cassel vies for US stardom as gangster 'Mesrine'
LOS ANGELES, Romain Raynaldy - French film star Vincent Cassel's bravura portrayal of a murderous mobster seems likely to win him greater fame and critical acclaim here, as US critics lap up his...
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Obama hails New Orleans 'resilience' five years post-Katrina

Obama hails New Orleans 'resilience' five years post-Katrina
NEW ORLEANS, Tangi Quemener- President Barack Obama, marking the fifth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans Sunday, praised the...

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US lawmaker urges France not to arm Lebanon army

WASHINGTON- A US lawmaker on Friday warned France not to sell anti-tank missiles to Lebanon, saying they could end up being used against...

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Abbas condemns West Bank attack during US visit

Abbas condemns West Bank attack during US visit
WASHINGTON- Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas on Tuesday condemned from Washington a West Bank attack that killed four Israeli settlers,...

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Playboy publishes excerpt of new Madame Bovary translation

Playboy publishes excerpt of new Madame Bovary translation
WASHINGTON- The September issue of Playboy will include an excerpt of what the magazine claims on its cover is "The Most Scandalous Novel of All Time" -- the 19th century French novel "Madame Bovary." The translation of the novel by Gustave Flaubert (1821-1880) is by US writer Lydia Davis, herself a novelist and translator of works by the likes of Marcel Proust and Michel Foucault. Deep inside...

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Anne Frank's tree falls in heavy winds

Anne Frank's tree falls in heavy winds
THE HAGUE- A chestnut tree in Amsterdam that Jewish teenager Anne Frank wrote about in her World War II diary collapsed on Monday in high winds, the museum dedicated to the youthful author said. "There were several strong gusts of wind and one of these knocked over the tree," Hans Westra, the director of Anne Frank House, told AFP. The tree, which was diseased and supported by a steel...

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Harvard tops Chinese university rankings for eighth year

Harvard tops Chinese university rankings for eighth year
SHANGHAI, D'Arcy Doran- Harvard topped a Chinese ranking of world universities published Friday for the eighth year running -- a list dominated by US...

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Beatings, bullying rife in Philippine schools: study

MANILA- Beatings and sexual harassment are rife in state-run schools in the Philippines, with many pupils also routinely bullied, according to a government-led...

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Famed Russian poet Voznesensky dead at 77

Famed Russian poet Voznesensky dead at 77
MOSCOW- Andrei Voznesensky, a Russian poet who became immensely popular in the 1960s but had an uneasy relationship with the Soviet authorities, died on...

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Telling a story in 140 characters or less

Telling a story in 140 characters or less
NEW YORK, Chris Lefkow - Arjun Basu writes short stories. Very short stories. "I'm doing 140-character stories on Twitter," said Basu, one of scores of...

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Americans average eight hours a day in front of screens

Americans average eight hours a day in front of screens
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Adult Americans spend an average of more than eight hours a day in front of screens -- televisions, computer monitors,...

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Egypt antiquities chief slams Ramadan TV Cleopatra

Egypt antiquities chief slams Ramadan TV Cleopatra
CAIRO- A television series about ancient Egypt's Queen Cleopatra, broadcast during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, has sparked the ire of...

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Japan develops 'touchable' 3D TV technology

TOKYO- A Japanese research team said Thursday it had developed the world's first 3D television system that allows users to touch, pinch or...
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Michael Douglas optimistic despite serious throat cancer

Michael Douglas optimistic despite serious throat cancer
NEW YORK- Hollywood star Michael Douglas has admitted his throat cancer is more serious than first thought, but says he remains optimistic as he undergoes intensive treatment. "It's a stage four, which is intense, and they gotta go at it,"...

New 'Lohengrin' to open this year's Bayreuth Festival

New 'Lohengrin' to open this year's Bayreuth Festival
PARIS, Benoit Fauchet- The curtain rises this weekend on Germany's legendary Bayreuth Festival, which is set to open with a brand new production of Richard Wagner's romantic opera "Lohengrin". The 99th edition of the annual month-long summer...

Two thousand defy ban on Moscow rock protest

MOSCOW, Antoine Lambroschini- Some 2,000 people Sunday crammed into a Moscow square amid a heavy police presence for a banned rock concert to protest plans to build a motorway through a forest outside the Russian capital. The numbers were far...

Venice filmfest opens with Tarantino, Portman on red carpet

Venice filmfest opens with Tarantino, Portman on red carpet
VENICE, Gina Doggett- Natalie Portman and jury head Quentin Tarantino shared the red carpet Wednesday as the prestigious Venice film festival kicked off with the screening of Darren Aronofsky's "Black Swan". Fans screamed for autographs as a...

Cairo museum in Van Gogh theft usually had single guard

Cairo museum in Van Gogh theft usually had single guard
CAIRO- A single security guard usually worked in the Cairo museum from which a Van Gogh was stolen and most of its cameras were out of order since 2006, the state news agency MENA reported on Saturday. A prosecution investigation into the theft...

Broadway sings blues over synthesizer invasion

NEW YORK, Sebastian Smith- While audiences at Broadway's "West Side Story" thrill to the on-stage drama, musicians in the orchestra pit are fighting a battle every bit as vicious as the Sharks-Jets rivalry. This is gang warfare of a high-minded...


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Titian masterpiece in Venice damaged by water after fire

Titian masterpiece in Venice damaged by water after fire
VENICE- Water sprayed by firefighters has damaged a painting by Renaissance master Titian at a Venice basilica, local authorities said Monday. "I saw water dripping from the painting for an hour" after the fire at an adjacent construction site was put out late on Sunday, the head of Venice's...

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Vienna state opera's new chief Meyer to expand repertoire

Vienna state opera's new chief Meyer to expand repertoire
VIENNA, Pierre Feuilly- The new French director of Vienna's famed opera house, Dominique Meyer, has big plans for his...

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Emperor Beck Assumes the Throne of Italian Cuisine

Emperor Beck Assumes the Throne of Italian Cuisine
Rome – Abdul Rahman Bitar - Who could have imagined that Italians would crown a German from Bavaria coming from a...

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Moon is shrinking, say astronomers

Moon is shrinking, say astronomers
WASHINGTON- The Man in the Moon has become the latest victim of contraction in the housing market. Astronomers...

Medicine

Child health at risk from non-prescription drugs: study

LISBON- Many parents give their children too large or frequent doses of non-prescription medicines for fever, coughs...

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Dutch Arab group fined over Holocaust cartoon

THE HAGUE- A Dutch appeals court on Thursday fined an Arab organisation in the Netherlands 2,500 euros for causing...

Festivals

You Only Live Once: Guca festival lures trumpet afficionados

GUCA, Suzana Markovic- Hundreds of thousands of people have flocked to the small central Serbian town of Guca to join...

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Canada finds possible US Air Force plane lost in 1942

Canada finds possible US Air Force plane lost in 1942
OTTAWA- Canadian underwater archeologists accidentally discovered what they believe to be the wreck of a US Air Force airplane that sank in the Saint Lawrence seaway in 1942, the Parks Canada divers said Thursday. The divers said in a statement that they were carrying out routine work in an...

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Priest blames Holy Wine for drink-driving

Priest blames Holy Wine for drink-driving
ROME- An Italian priest caught driving over the alcohol limit pleaded to police that it was only because of the Holy Wine he had drunk as part of the...

Travel

Egypt seeks to woo Arab tourists for Ramadan revels

Egypt seeks to woo Arab tourists for Ramadan revels
CAIRO, Fatma Ahmed- With its cooler temperatures but more sizzling entertainment, Egypt has long been a prime destination for rich Arab tourists, especially from the Gulf states. This year, however, the authorities fear that the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which starts on Wednesday at the...

Entertainment

9/11 musical film to open Friday in New York

NEW YORK- "Clear Blue Tuesday," a musical film about love and overcoming tragedy in New York City after attacks of September 11, 2001, opens this weekend, its producers said Tuesday. Dubbed an "indie (independent) rock musical drama," the movie follows the lives of 11 New Yorkers over seven...

Environment

Biodiversity: Mediterranean most threatened sea on Earth

PARIS, Marlowe Hood- The Mediterranean Sea's exquisitely rich mix of flora and fauna is more threatened than marine life anywhere else on Earth, according to a landmark scientific survey released Monday. In none of the other 20-odd ocean areas examined during the decade-long study does...

Sport

Fiesta time in Spain after World Cup glory Origin: Spain

Fiesta time in Spain after World Cup glory Origin: Spain
MADRID, Daniel Silva - Spain revelled in World Cup glory Monday as its conquering football team headed home with the trophy having inspired a red and gold fiesta with their victory in the final over the Netherlands. As the South African hosts gave themselves a pat on the back for defying...

Society

Saudis query Sri Lankan maid's torture claim

Saudis query Sri Lankan maid's torture claim
RIYADH- Saudi government and private sector officials have questioned the account of a Sri Lankan maid who said her Saudi employers forced 24 nails and needles into her body. Saad al-Badah, head of the National Recruitment Committee of the Council of the Saudi Chambers of Commerce and Industry,...

Fashion

S.Korea's fashion icon dies at 75

SEOUL- South Korean fashion designer Andre Kim has died at the age of 75, his son said Friday. The popular designer passed away late Thursday at the Seoul National University hospital where he was being treated for pneumonia, Kim Joong-Do told reporters. Doctors were also treating him with an...

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