Dominique Strauss-Kahn returned to France last weekend after New York prosecutors dropped all charges. For months, a hotel chambermaid had accused Strauss-Kahn of attempted rape and was pulled off a plane leaving New York. The former IMF chief landed to a
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Geologists from England have recently used a remote-controlled submarine to discover the deepest known volcanic vent. The volcanic vent was discovered more than five kilometers beneath the surface of the Caribbean in an area known as the Cayman Trough. Sc
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The National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH) in Taipei, Taiwan, has become the focus of a serious investigation after it transplanted organs from an HIV carrier into five patients. On August 24, a 37-year-old man fell into a coma. His heart, liver, lung
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Russian firms hope to build an orbiting hotel in space by 2016. The firms RKK Energia and Orbital Technologies have announced their plans to enter the space tourism race. Space tourism is gaining a fair amount of interest in the U.S. from corporations suc
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The Southern Plains of the U.S. are experiencing some of the worst drought conditions in over a century. As Texas broils under the scorching heat, its town reservoirs and lakes are drying up. Western Texas saw a measly 0.1 inch of rain in the past several
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India continues to make plans to build a nuclear power plant near the port of Jaitapur, just 400 kilometres south of Mumbai. If built, the plant will generate 25 percent more power than the largest power plant, Kashiwazaki-Kariwa, on the west coast of Jap
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China is pushing forward to complete and launch its first space module into orbit later this year. The Tiangong-1 module is 8.5 tons and will be one in a series of connecting rooms in a multi-module station. This is China’s first effort to orbit a statio
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Ethiopia has announced that it will construct a controversial multibillion-dollar Nile River dam that could supply more than 5,000 megawatts of electricity for itself and its neighbors. The project, called The Grand Millennium Dam, was announced several m
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Last Saturday, President Barack Obama met with the Dalai Lama, despite the urgings of the Chinese Foreign Ministry asking the White House to cancel the visit. The Tibetan spiritual leader had been in Washington for a Buddhist ritual for 11 days.
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Education Minister Jan Bjorklund of Sweden is considering making Mandarin available in all primary schools as a third language option. There is a growing number of schools in Europe and America that have begun to offer this non-western language, but if th
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