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Spain\’s parliament voiced its support on Wednesday for the rights of great apes to life and freedom in what will apparently be the first time any national legislature has called for such rights for non-humans -the new measures are the latest move...
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European champion Spain won 3-0 at Estonia to extend its unbeaten streak to 25 games, and England outplayed Kazakhstan 5-1 in another World Cup qualifying game Saturday...
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Spain’s government insisted Friday that a 30 billion euros ($41 billion) fund it will use to buy assets from banks starved for liquidity will have zero cost for...
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The first official report into the crash of a SpanAir passenger jet said Thursday that investigators are still focusing on a problem with the plane’s wing flaps...
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A “deadly dozen” diseases ranging from avian flu to yellow fever are likely to spread more because of climate change, the Wildlife Conservation Society said...
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European champion Spain remained No. 1 in FIFA’s soccer rankings Wednesday, followed by Italy and Germany. The United States is No. 24.
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The Basque regional government’s president will be tried for meeting members of Batasuna, a party banned for its links to the armed separatist group ETA, a...
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A team of researchers at the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) has designed the first chip manufactured completely in Spain that will be used to measure the...
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Basque regional police say a bomb has exploded outside a court house in Tolosa in Spain’s northern Basque country, causing considerable damage but no injuries.
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German-owned automaker SEAT said Friday it must temporarily lay off 1,250 employees, or 11 percent of its work force, at factories in northeastern Spain because of...
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Spanish police have arrested 121 men and seized millions of computer files in the country’s biggest operation against child pornography on the Internet.
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Operation Puerto, cycling’s biggest doping investigation, was closed without a single conviction.
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A report marked confidential and bearing the official seal of Spain’s Defense Ministry charges that Pakistan’s spy service was helping arm Taliban...
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A report marked confidential and bearing the official seal of Spain’s Defense Ministry charges that Pakistan’s spy service was helping arm Taliban...
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Spanish police arrested 121 people in the country’s biggest-ever crackdown on child pornography, seizing discs containing millions of video and photo files shared...
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The Turkish film “Pandora’s Box” has won the top prize at Spain’s San Sebastian Film Festival.
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Two loud booms rattled windows and frightened residents in the southern city of Malaga on Friday, but Spain’s Interior Ministry said the noise was caused by a...
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A Spanish judge on Thursday ordered a cleanup of the site of last month’s plane crash in Madrid in which 154 people died, after a newspaper ran photos of clothes...
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Police arrested 11 suspected Basque militants Wednesday in southwest France in two separate investigations, including the financing of terror attacks in France and...
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EcoFactor: A giant structure that houses a collection of plants and trees that purify the air and provide fresh and green atmosphere to local urban community.
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Ingrid Betancourt, who spent six years as a hostage of Colombia’s FARC guerrillas, said Wednesday she favors dialogue to end terrorism.
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It looks like at least some of Charlton Heston\’s famous feelings have scientific evidence now.
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A renegade group of Gibraltar’s Barbary apes has annoyed residents so much that authorities announced plans Thursday to kill them.A cluster of 25 Barbary apes _ a...
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Mopie looked the picture of ape fitness: His shoulders were broad and imposing, his silver-haired back sculpted and muscular, his biceps bulging as wide as a...
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Inside the dense shelter of Congolese jungle, far away from human hindrance, a band of apes have been found which, according to local legend, kill lions, catch fish,...
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A study on Orangutans has let scientists propose that humans have been walking on two legs much earlier than expected.
The idea has been proposed by three British...
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Climate change is endangering the lives of the Great apes in more than one way. First, the rise in temperature levels will definitely have an impact on the animal....
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It may not be language as we know it, but whales have no shortage of ways to make themselves understood. So broad is their vocal repertoire, in fact, that whales can...
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Try that one Jackson! You will be ready to play the lead role in ‘Planet of Apes-Part II’.
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We all know that humans splited to evolve from chimpanzees. But, how complicated the evolution process was? How long did it take to evolve? When did the evolution...
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The virus, Ebola has killed a third of the world’s gorillas in the past decade, and tens of thousands of chimps. The disease, which can have a mortality rate of...
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It was their inquisitiveness that led them to the dump. And, that in return provided them with a missing ancestor. Missing ancestor! And that too in a dump? Yes....
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In this undated photo released by the Great Ape Trust, Aug. 27, 2008, are shown temporary administrative office buildings that were destroyed when floodwaters from the Des Moines River inundated the Great Ape Trust of Iowa in mid-June, 2008, in Des...
