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A new analysis of ancient minerals called zircons suggests that earth’s earliest continents were probably destroyed by an extremely harsh climate.
Zircons, the oldest known materials on earth, offer a window in time back as far as 4.4 billion years...
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Silvio Berlusconi is sparing no effort to solve the garbage crisis in Naples _ even picking up a broom himself.
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He’s a tiny torero, a bullfighter with a baby face. But 10-year-old Michelito has become the symbol of a debate much bigger than himself.
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AP, Khartoum
As the Summer Games open in Beijing, actress activist Mia Farrow is Web-casting her own “Darfur Olympics” from a refugee camp on the barren Sudan-Chad...
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A Chinese Islamic faction that has threatened to attack the Olympics released a new video warning Muslims to stay away from the Beijing games and avoid buses, trains,...
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AP, Mexico City
Tropical Storm Hernan gained strength on Thursday as it churned far off Mexico’s Pacific coast.
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AP, Bucharest
Ten people will be tried for allegedly smuggling 2,000-year-old gold bracelets and other artifacts out of Romania and selling them abroad, prosecutors said Thursday.
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AP, Urumqi
An Islamic group that has threatened to attack the Summer Games released a new video claiming the communist regime’s alleged mistreatment of Muslims justifies...
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AP, Gaza City
Three Fulbright scholars from Gaza appealed to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Thursday to reissue their entry visas, denying they were security threats.
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Police launched a criminal investigation Thursday against a Swiss diplomat and his Ugandan beauty queen wife over accusations by a young mother that the couple...
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Brazilian police say they’ve recovered two stolen paintings but have yet to find a missing Picasso from a Sao Paulo art museum heist in June.
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Two former nurses’ aides sentenced to life in prison for killing at least 20 elderly patients have been released early, a prison official said Thursday.
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AP, Asuncion
Venezuela has sent 70 million liters (18.5 million gallons) of diesel fuel to support Paraguay’s incoming president.
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A U.S. group that monitors militant organizations says a Chinese Islamic faction has released a new video claiming the communist regime’s alleged mistreatment of...
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President Bush’s Olympic odyssey started with a game of political one-upmanship Thursday, as his blunt critique of the host country prompted China to warn the...
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A U.S. group that monitors extremist messages says that a Chinese Islamic group has released a new video that shows a burning Olympics logo and an explosion over a...
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Key dates from Pervez Musharraf’s tenure as army chief and Pakistani president.
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Two Iraqi officials say the U.S. and Iraq are close to a deal under which all American combat troops would leave by October 2010 with remaining U.S. forces gone about...
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Two Iraqi officials say the U.S. and Iraq are close to a deal under which all American combat troops would leave by October 2010 with remaining U.S. forces gone about...
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Kurdish separatist rebels claimed responsibility Thursday for sabotaging a critical Turkish pipeline, helping push global oil prices back above $120 per barrel.
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Ten people will be tried for allegedly smuggling 2,000-year-old gold bracelets and other artifacts out of Romania and selling them abroad, prosecutors said Thursday.
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AP, Sofia
Archaeologists have unearthed a 1,900-year-old well-preserved chariot at an ancient Thracian tomb in southeastern Bulgaria, the head of the excavation said Thursday.
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AP, Athens
An astronomical calculator, considered a technological marvel of antiquity, was also used to track dates of the ancient Olympic games, researchers have found.
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AP, London
The oldest surviving copy of the New Testament, a 4th century version that had its Gospels and epistles spread across the world, is being made whole again _ online.The...
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AP, Jerusalem
An Israeli lifeguard taking his regular morning swim off the Mediterranean coast in southern Israel discovered a 2,500-year-old marble talisman to ward off the evil...
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LSU scientist Huiming Bao, along with colleagues from UCLA and China, recently discovered some of the first atmospheric evidence in support of the “Snowball Earth”...
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AP, Lima
Shoppers at a tourist market in Peru’s capital could have netted greater bargains than they thought _ rare, pre-Hispanic textiles costing little more than a Machu...
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AP, Washington
Just over three years old and about four-feet tall, Methuselah is growing well. “It’s lovely,” Dr. Sarah Sallon said of the date palm, whose parents...
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AP, Rome
First-century burial grounds near Rome’s main airport are yielding a rare look into how ancient longshoremen and other manual workers did backbreaking jobs,...
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AP, Athens
Greek authorities say subway construction work in the northern city of Thessaloniki has unearthed an ancient grave with a wealth of golden jewelry.The 2,300-year old...
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Archaeologists exploring an old military road in the Sinai have unearthed 3,000-year-old remains from an ancient fortified city, the largest yet found in Egypt,...
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Builders clearing land for a housing project in Colombia have uncovered an ancient burial site containing nearly a thousand tombs linked to two little-known...
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A rarely displayed segment of the Dead Sea Scrolls will be part of an exhibition for President Bush and other dignitaries attending Israel’s 60th anniversary...
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AP, Sydney
Tools dating back at least 35,000 years have been unearthed in a rock shelter in Australia’s remote northwest, making it one of the oldest archaeological finds in...
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AP, Madrid
A small piece of jawbone unearthed in a cave in Spain is the oldest known fossil of a human ancestor in Europe and suggests that people lived on the continent much...
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AP, Thessaloniki
Greek archaeologists said Tuesday they have unearthed rare evidence of what they believe was brain surgery performed nearly 1,800 years ago on a young woman _ who died...
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AP, Athens
Greek workers discovered around 1,000 graves, some filled with ancient treasures, while excavating for a subway system in the historic city of Thessaloniki, the state...
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AP, Athens
Greek workers discovered around 1,000 graves, some filled with ancient treasures, while excavating for a subway system in the historic city of Thessaloniki, the state...
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People can have different types of hobbies. Photography, cooking, music, painting etc. are some common hobbies but one type of hobby is Coin Collecting which well may...
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Archaeologist works around a 1,900-year-old well-preserved chariot at an ancient Thracian tomb near the village of Borisovo, some 290 kilometers (180 miles) east of the Bulgarian capital Sofia, Thursday, Aug. 7, 2008. The archaeologist Daniela Agre said...
