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New mission to Hubble scheduled for May 11 - 05/01/2009

WASHINGTON - NASA said Thursday it will launch its final shuttle mission to the Hubble space telescope on May 11, a day earlier than planned, to avoid conflicts with other scheduled missions. The...

SKorean researchers clone glowing puppies - 04/30/2009

SEOUL- South Korean scientists said Wednesday they have created dogs that glow red by using a cloning technique that opens the way for research into human diseases. The four cloned beagles known...

US soldier confessed to rape, murder of Iraqi girl - 04/30/2009

PADUCAH - US Army Sergeant Anthony Yribe had just returned from investigating the gruesome murder of an Iraqi family when another US soldier met him with a staggering confession, a jury was told...

Internet abuzz with swine flu chatter - 04/29/2009

SAN FRANCISCO, Glenn Chapman - Swine flu chatter criss-crossed the Internet on Tuesday as the global spread of the virus became the hottest subject at micro-blogging service Twitter. By...

Facebook opens core to outside developers - 04/28/2009

SAN FRANCISCO, Glenn Chapman - Facebook on Monday cleared the way for outside developers to craft software applications that do clever, creative or useful things with data streamed as updates at the...

Hariri court to decide on Lebanese generals' detention - 04/28/2009

THE HAGUE - A UN special court will decide Wednesday whether to release or keep in detention four Lebanese generals being held over the assassination of Lebanon's ex-premier Rafiq Hariri....

Football: Reading keep promotion dream alive - 04/28/2009

NORWICH- Reading kept their hopes of automatic promotion to the Premier League alive and pushed Norwich to the brink of relegation with a 2-0 win here on Monday. Two second-half headers from Shane...

US monitors visitors, warns against Mexico travel - 04/28/2009

WASHINGTON- Washington on Monday issued a travel alert warning against non-essential travel to Mexico and stepped up monitoring of travelers entering the United States amid the deadly swine flu...

Attenborough, Branagh honoured at Britain's Baftas - 04/27/2009

LONDON- Naturalist David Attenborough, actor Kenneth Branagh and comedy duo French and Saunders were honoured Sunday with gongs at the British Academy of Film and Television Awards (Bafta). In a...

New Yorker writer arrested in Russia - 04/27/2009

SOCHI - An American journalist with the New Yorker magazine was briefly arrested at a polling station in the Russian city of Sochi on Sunday, Ria-Novosti news agency reported. Keith Gessen was...
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