C ould Earth once have had a planetary ring like the ones around Saturn? Scientists from Monash University in Australia think ...

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The accusation of Western double standards, gleefully amplified by Russia and China, resonated across the halls of UN ...

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If the Liberal Democrats want to replace the Conservatives, they must move further right on the economy ...

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Blaming a hack may help Hizbullah avoid talk of a more humiliating alternative: that Israel sabotaged the pagers themselves, ...

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His father’s tears persuaded him. Francisco Lopera, then in his first year of medical training, had gone with him to see his grandmother in Medellín. His father had not wanted him to study medicine; ...