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Thai capital stand-off continues (1)
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Street harassment (3)
onEgyptian women tell of almost daily sexual assaultContribute comment
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Didgeridon't: Aborigines outraged over instrument book for girls (4)
onAboriginal leaders in Australia call for a book teaching girls how to play the didgeridoo, viewed as a male instrument, to be pulped.Contribute comment
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Six Iraqi troops die in US fire (1)
onUS troops kill six members of the Iraqi security forces during a patrol on the river Tigris north of Baghdad in a friendly fire incident.Shared by subpolar (6)Contribute comment
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US brothers admit selling corpses (1)
onTwo brothers admit selling corpses to a US company that made millions of dollars trafficking stolen body parts.Shared by subpolar (6)Contribute comment
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Google launches internet browser (4)
onSearch engine Google is launching an open source web browser, Chrome, to compete with Internet Explorer and Firefox.Contribute comment
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Stem cells 'created from teeth' (4)
onJapanese scientists say they have created human stem cells from tissue taken from discarded wisdom teeth.Contribute comment
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Miro - free, open source internet tv and video player (7)
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Peruvian tribes end land protests (1)
onAmazonian tribes in Peru halt a week-long protest against land sale laws after Congress members move to repeal them.Shared by subpolar (6)Contribute comment
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Cold front? (1)
onPolish missile deal heightens Russia and US tensionsShared by subpolar (6)Contribute comment
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Web becomes a battleground in Russia-Georgia conflict (1)
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The Georgian government has accused Russia of disabling Georgian Web sites, including the site for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, which has begun posting its dispatches on a public blog-hosting site owned by Google.Shared by subpolar (6)Contribute comment -
Cell change 'keeps organs young' (4)
onResearchers may have found a way to halt the biological clock which slows down our bodies over the decades.
- Matt said: Still very early, but this looks like a potential cure for Alzheimers and much more...
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Arrests in power station protest (1)
onFifty people are arrested during a day of action at Kingsnorth power station in Kent.Shared by subpolar (6)Contribute comment
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Palestinian 'national poet' dies (1)
onPalestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish dies after surgery at the age of 67, hospital and Palestinian officials say.Shared by subpolar (6)Contribute comment
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Comedian Bernie Mac dies aged 50 (3)
onUS actor and comedian Bernie Mac has died in hospital due to complications arising from pneumonia.Contribute comment
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Cern lab set for beam milestone (2)
onA vast physics experiment - the Large Hadron Collider - is to reach a key milestone ahead of an official start-up in September.Shared by linguafranca (32) subpolar (6)Contribute comment
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Decade-old scars (1)
onKenya still dealing with aftermath of US embassy attackShared by subpolar (6)Contribute comment
