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Saturday, November 21, 2009
Europe

E-mail leak turns up heat on global warming advocates

By Herald staff
In an embarrassing blow to the movement to combat global warming, hackers have posted hundreds of e-mails from a world-renowned...
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Asia Pacific

China says 42 dead, 66 trapped in mine explosion

In this photo released by China’s Xinhua News Agency, rescuers go down the exploded coal mine in Hegang City, northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province, on Saturday evening.
By Associated Press
BEIJING — A gas explosion tore through a state-run coal mine in northern China on Saturday, killing 42 people...
Europe

Italian police arrest 2 linked to Mumbai attacks

By Associated Press
ROME — Italian police on Saturday arrested a Pakistani father and son accused of helping fund and providing logistical support for last year’s terrorist...
Europe

Quick restart of Big Bang machine stuns scientists

CERN scientists control computer screens showing traces on Atlas experiment of the first protons injected in the LHC during its switch on operation in CERN’s control room, near Geneva, Switzerland.
By Associated Press
GENEVA — Scientists moved Saturday to prepare the world’s largest atom smasher for exploring the depths...
Europe

Galileo’s lost fingers, tooth found at auction

A finger attributed to Galileo Galilei.
By Associated Press
ROME - Two fingers and a tooth removed from Galileo Galilei’s corpse in a Florentine basilica in the 18th century...
Europe

Nightmare is over for British man

By Associated Press
LONDON - A British man who said he was having a nightmare about fighting off an intruder when he strangled his wife to death...
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Friday, November 20, 2009
Europe

Midday shooting in central Paris kills 1, wounds 2

By Associated Press
PARIS — Police say a man with an automatic rifle opened fire on a car near a Paris train station, killing one man and wounding two others. Friday’s...
Europe

Lions and tiger - Oh my!

By Associated Press
PRAGUE - A rare white tiger was attacked and killed by two lions that got into its enclosure in a Czech zoo. The lions,...
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Europe

Researcher says text proves Shroud of Turin real

By Associated Press
ROME — A Vatican researcher claims a nearly invisible text on the Shroud of Turin proves the authenticity of the artifact...
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Europe

Disease spreading despite quarantines

By Associated Press
LONDON - Health experts say extraordinary measures against swine flu - most notably quarantines imposed by China, where entire...
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Europe

Russia’s Gorbachev considers political comeback

By Associated Press
MOSCOW — Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev criticized Kremlin policies Friday and toyed with the ambitious idea...
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Middle East

Palestinian president agrees to delay elections

Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, right, shakes hands with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas during a visit to a religious museum in Salvador, Brazil, Friday, Nov. 20, 2009.
By Associated Press
RAMALLAH, West Bank — Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has agreed to postpone parliamentary and presidential...
Europe

Floods devastate UK Lake District; much of Ireland

Resisdents of the village of Cockermouth, England, are seen being rescued from their homes by members of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI), Friday, Nov. 20, 2009.
By Associated Press
COCKERMOUTH, England — Military helicopters winched dozens of people to safety...
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Europe

UK man cleared of wife’s death during nightmare

By Associated Press
LONDON - A British man who said he strangled his wife during a nightmare about fighting off an intruder has been found innocent in her death. Prosecutors...
Europe

Russian ship frees itself from ice in Antarctic

In this photo taken in March 2006 the Captain Khlebnikov icebreaker seen in the Russia’s Pacific port of Vladivostok, about 6,400 km (4,000 miles) east of Moscow.
By Associated Press
MOSCOW — A Russian cruise ship that has been struggling through a huge mass of sea ice for days has finally reached...


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