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Pharmacist back from US among 18 killed in Iraq unrest - 08/15/2010

BAGHDAD, Salam Faraj- An Iraqi pharmacist just back from his studies in the United States was among at least 18 people killed in a spate of attacks across the country over the weekend, officials said...

Happy Birthday to you my father, in Al-Assad prison of Adra - 08/15/2010

Today Sunday August 15th, 2010 is also the 5th day of Ramadan the Muslims holy month of fasting. While Syria is witnessing an extreme unprecedented heat wave, Haitham Maleh, a 79 years old devout...

UN group in Gaza on follow-up to Goldstone war report - 08/15/2010

GAZA CITY- Sixteen members of a committee created by the UN Human Rights Council to follow up on a UN report into the Gaza war arrived in the enclave late on Saturday, the Hamas movement said. The...

Australia corals to light up cancer cure fight - 08/15/2010

SYDNEY- Australian scientists have discovered a cluster of brilliant shallow-water corals that could help in the search for anti-cancer drugs and to understand global warming, a researcher said...

Media watchdog slams Wikileaks' 'irresponsibility' - 08/13/2010

PARIS- Reporters Without Borders criticised Thursday the WikiLeaks website's "incredible irresponsibility" in publishing the names of Afghans who had helped international troops fighting insurgents....

First use of tools pushed back a million years - 08/13/2010

PARIS, Marlowe Hood- Human ancestors were using stone tools to carve meat from the bone of wild animals nearly a million years earlier than thought, according to a study unveiled Wednesday. Two...

Austrian media in shock: Oscar-winner Waltz is German - 08/13/2010

VIENNA- Horror of horrors: Austria's latest star, Oscar-winner and "Inglourious Basterd" Christoph Waltz, is not Austrian after all, local media reported Thursday. "Revealed: Waltz is not...

Doctors use bone marrow stem cells to treat skin disorder - 08/11/2010

WASHINGTON- In what is believed to be a medical first, researchers have used stem cells from bone marrow to repair the skin of young patients with a painful and usually deadly skin disease, a study...

Lennon assassin parole hearing pushed to September - 08/10/2010

NEW YORK- A parole hearing for John Lennon's assassin was delayed until September Tuesday, a court official said, as the famed Beatles star's killer sought conditional release after nearly 30 years...

Mankind must abandon earth or face extinction: Hawking - 08/09/2010

LONDON- Mankind's only chance of long-term survival lies in colonising space, as humans drain Earth of resources and face a terrifying array of new threats, warned British scientist Stephen Hawking...
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