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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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Saturday September 4, 2010

Abbas, Netanyahu vow to meet every two weeks for peace 2010-09-03

Hamas vows more deadly attacks on Israelis 2010-09-03

US should apologise for Yemenis' arrest: Yemen ambassador 2010-09-03

France's Cassel vies for US stardom as gangster 'Mesrine' 2010-09-03

Beirut's beautiful people splash out for Ramadan 2010-09-03

God did not create Universe: Hawking 2010-09-03

Saudis query Sri Lankan maid's torture claim 2010-09-02

Netanyahu calls Abbas 'my partner in peace' 2010-09-02

Mubarak says peace talks hinge on Israeli settlement freeze 2010-09-02

Ex-head of Cairo museum in Van Gogh theft warned on security 2010-09-02

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Reef could provide clues to evolution: Australian scientists - 2010-02-24

Sydney - Australian scientists said Monday they had discovered in an outback mountain range a reef that was under water 650 million years ago and could provide fresh insight into early life on earth....

Greenland's ice cap melting faster than expected: experts - 2010-02-24

Copenhagen - Greenland's ice cap, which covers more than 80 percent of the island, is melting faster than expected because of global warming, a Danish researcher said on Monday. The...

Canadian polka king decries Grammy snub - 2010-02-24

OTTAWA - Canada's best-selling polka singer Walter Ostanek is aghast that his category has been dropped by the US Recording Academy in a reshuffling of the Grammy Awards, he told local media Friday....

The emotional housekeeping of the world - 2010-02-24

Alice Munro's stories bring her readers up against unmediated life, says Christopher Tayler. Christopher Tayler- In "Fiction", one of the 10 new stories collected in Too Much Happiness, a...

British police accused of 'waterboarding': reports - 2009-06-18

LONDON- Six British police officers have been accused of subjecting suspects to waterboarding, a simulated drowning tactic condemned by US President Barack Obama as torture, newspapers here reported...

Hariri coalition claims victory in Lebanon vote - 2009-06-18

BEIRUT, Jocelyne Zablit - Lebanon's pro-Western coalition claimed victory on Monday over an alliance headed by the fundamentalist Shiite militant group Hezbollah after a fiercely-contested...

Ahmadinejad has strong lead in Iran count: poll chief - 2009-06-13

TEHRAN- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has taken a strong lead in his bid to be re-elected as Iran's president, chalking up 65.96 percent of Friday's vote with more than two-thirds of ballot boxes counted, the...

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...

Science 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...
Media 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...