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On 07/07/07 in Lisbon, the names of New Seven Wonders of World announced and the 17th-century love monument ‘Taj Mahal’ has found its own place in the elite list.
Following are stunning pictures of the new 7 Wonders of the World.
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An advocate for child actors wants a judge to appoint a guardian to oversee the interests of Nadya Suleman’s octuplets if they are featured in TV shows, Internet...
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A former dictatorship-era official considered a brutal torturer by human rights groups has made a surprise return to Paraguay, where he faces six pending trials for the...
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A federal judge ruled that a public high school history teacher violated the First Amendment when he called creationism “superstitious nonsense” during a...
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The Southern Hemisphere has been mostly spared in the swine flu epidemic. That could change soon as winter sets in with no vaccine in place, leaving half the planet out...
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Cuban singer Silvio Rodriguez says he missed Sunday’s tribute to folk music legend Pete Seeger because U.S. authorities failed to approve his visa in time.
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AP, Acapulco
Police say they found 11 bodies dumped around a southern Mexican state, including seven wrapped in plastic bags and thrown off a bridge.
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Sixteen Venezuelan soldiers and a civilian were killed when a military helicopter crashed Sunday near the Colombian border, the state news agency reported. A brigadier...
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AP, Panama City
Conservative supermarket magnate Ricardo Martinelli won Panama’s presidential elections in a landslide Sunday, promising to guide the country through the world...
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President Hugo Chavez says 18 soldiers have died in a helicopter crash near Venezuela’s border with Colombia.
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AP, Guatemala City
Seismologists are reporting a strong but deeply centered earthquake in Guatemala.
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AP, Bogota
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A conservative supermarket magnate is favored to win presidential elections Sunday that will determine who will oversee the completion of the expansion of the Panama...
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Augusto Boal, the Brazilian theater director and playwright known for the interactive genre called the “Theater of the Oppressed,” died Saturday. He was...
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Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and Bolivia’s Evo Morales said Saturday they hope their countries are on the road to repairing badly strained relations.
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Peru is suing Yale University in a U.S. federal court to recover thousands of Inca artifacts removed from the Machu Picchu jungle ruins nearly a century ago.
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Peru is suing Yale University to recover thousands of Incan relics excavated by an American explorer at Machu Picchu.
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Peruvian government archaeologists have found an Incan mummy and 25 ceremonial objects in a dig within the Machu Picchu state park.
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Peru has reportedly approved a plan to sue Yale for thousands of Inca artifacts excavated by a U.S. scholar at Machu Picchu.
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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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An influx of tourists to Peru’s famed Inca citadel of Machu Picchu may prompt UNESCO to add the jungle-shrouded ruins to its list of endangered World Heritage...
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The jungle shrouded Inca citadel of Machu Picchu may have been rediscovered _ and looted _ decades before the Yale scholar credited with the find first got there, a...
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