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Scientists in the Australian Outback are preparing to pick up the Hayabusa capsule, which they hope will contain a little slice of outer space after its seven year journey to an asteroid and back.
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The Arab world’s top diplomat visited Gaza on Sunday, as part of a growing international push to end a 3-year-old blockade of the Hamas-ruled territory.
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The death knell has been sounded for final salary pensions as new figures suggested all schemes will be closed within a decade.
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Traffic to the I Can Has Cheezburger blog has ballooned over the last three years, encouraging its owner to host 53 sites propelled by reader submissions.
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A capsule that scientists hope will contain a little slice of outer space after a seven-year journey across the solar system was being recovered Monday from the Australian Outback, officials said.The pod, which was ejected from a Japanese space probe as it burned up in a spectacular meteor-like display over Australia, could hold the first piece of asteroid ever brought to Earth.The heat-resistant capsule parachuted into the Woomera military zone after being ejected from Japan's Hayabusa spacecraft as it flamed back into the planet's atmosphere late Sunday.
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People who falsely claim a bomb is on board a plane or at an airport could be jailed for up to 10 years under tough new Australian legislation announced Monday.
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Head teachers will be given a year to turn around failing schools or face the sack, according to Michael Gove.
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Warning of a "cyber arms race," a leading Web security firm said that China, France, Israel, Russia and the United States were among countries that have developed "cyber weapons.""McAfee began to warn of the global cyber arms race more than two years ago, but now we're seeing increasing evidence that it's become real," said Dave DeWalt, president and chief executive of McAfee Inc.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - A Japanese space probe has landed in the Australian outback after a seven-year voyage to an asteroid, safely returning a capsule containing a unique sample of dust, Japanese mission controllers said on Monday.
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SYDNEY (Reuters) - A Japanese space probe has landed in the Australian outback after a seven-year voyage to an asteroid, safely returning a capsule containing a unique sample of dust, Japanese mission controllers said on Monday.
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Chris Wood, the 22-year-old Englishman, equals course record at Wales Open then claims Ryder Cup is not a priority.
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Hoaxers who claim a bomb is onboard a plane or passengers who attack flight crew could be jailed for 10 years under tough new Australian laws announced Monday.The proposed changes will increase the maximum penalty for hoaxes from two years' imprisonment to ten, Home Affairs Minister Brendan O'Connor said."The measures I'm putting forward mean aviation-related crimes, including air rage against flight crew, threats against airports and endangering an aircraft, will carry more severe penalties," O'Connor said.
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SYDNEY (AFP) - Hoaxers who claim a bomb is onboard a plane or passengers who attack flight crew could be jailed for 10 years under tough new Australian laws announced Monday.
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It'll be simpler for students to switch from community colleges to the Cal State University system.
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Exactly 70 years ago, on June 14, 1940, the first rail convoy with prisoners arrived in Auschwitz.
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Scientists have worked out how the seasonal flu virus has become resistant to the anti-influenza drug Tamiflu and why these drug-resistant strains have spread explosively in the past two years.
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AP - The end of the school year is the same for the Obamas as other families: lots of school events.
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Hoaxers who claim a bomb is onboard a plane or passengers who attack flight crew could be jailed for 10 years under tough new Australian laws announced Monday.
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A three-year-old boy has died in hospital after he was hit by a car in Brisbane this morning.
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China NDRC: June CPI May Rise Moderately On Year, Fall On Month
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