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Row over US mobile phone 'cockroach backpack' app
Sat 9 Nov 2013
A US company that has developed an "electronic backpack" that fits onto a cockroach allowing the its movements to be controlled by a mobile phone app has defended itself against cruelty clai... (photo: Creative Commons)
Hammerhead Shark (rhubie)
Environment   Hammerhead Shark   Photos   Species   Wikipedia: Hammerhead shark   		 Huffington Post 
Carolina Hammerhead Shark, Newly Named Species, Discovered By Accident
Fri 8 Nov 2013
Sometimes, finding a previously unknown species is a result of a happy accident. At least that was the case with the recent discovery of the Carolina hammerhead shark. | Joe Quattro of the University ... (photo: Creative Commons / Suneko)
Al Qaeda claim for French journalist killings 'plausible'- minister  Swissinfo  Thu 7 Nov 2013
Al Qaeda claim for French journalist killings 'plausible'- minister
  | Reuters | November 7, 2013 - 08:53 | PARIS (Reuters) - Al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb's (AQIM) claim of responsibility for the killing of two French journalists in northern Mali last week is... (photo: UN / Marco Dormino)
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feeding baby from bottle  Newstrack India  Thu 7 Nov 2013
Autism can be spotted in eyes of kids as young as two months
Tweet | Washington, Nov. 7 (ANI): Eye contact with others declines in 2 to 6-month-old infants, who are later diagnosed with autism, a new study has suggested. | The study said that eye contact during... (photo: WN / Janice Sabnal)
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This is a computer generated image provided by the European Space Agency which shows an artist impression of catalogued objects in low-Earth orbit viewed over the Equator. Scientists are keeping a close eye on orbital debris created when two communications satellites one American, the other Russian _ smashed into each other hundreds of miles above Siberia Tuesday Feb. 10, 2009. Think of it as a galactic garbage dump. The New York Times Thu 7 Nov 2013
Satellite Will Fall to Earth, but No One’s Sure Where
A European satellite that mapped Earth’s gravitational field in exquisite detail will be pulled down by gravity to its fiery destruction sometime in the next few days. ... (photo: AP / ESA)
Earth   Photos   Satellites Pollution   Science   Wikipedia: Space debris  
Palestinian boys hold portraits of late leader Yasser Arafat during a ceremony to commemorate the Nakba, or the catastrophe, the Arabic term used to describe the uprooting of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians with the 1948 creation of the state of Israel, in the West Bank village of Beit Anan, near Ramallah, Saturday May 10, 2008. In the West Bank and Gaza, Palestinians staged events to remind the world that Israel's creation as been their "nakba," or catastrophe. Hundreds of thousands were uprooted during the 1948 war over Israel's creation, and some 4.5 million Palestinian refugees and their descendants are scattered across the region toda ABC News Wed 6 Nov 2013
Yasser Arafat Was Poisoned With Radioactive Polonium, Says Forensics Report
A Swiss forensics investigation claims that the former Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat was poisoned with radioactive polonium, the TV channel Al Jazeera reported today. ... (photo: AP / Muhammed Muheisen)
Palestine   Photos   Radioactive Polonium   Wikipedia: Yasser Arafat   Yasser Arafat  
Yasser Arafat mural The Inquisitr Wed 6 Nov 2013
Yasser Arafat Death Report On Polonium Poisoning Given To Palestine, Results Confirmed?
As previously reported by The Inquisitr, some tests claimed former Palestinian Authority leader Yasser Arafat may have have died from polonium poisoning, not natural caus... (photo: Wn)
A rocket carrying the Mars orbiter streaks across the sky after taking off from the east-coast island of Sriharikota, India, Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2013. The Los Angeles Times Tue 5 Nov 2013
India's Mars spacecraft begins journey to the Red Planet
And she's off! | India's space agency successfully launched its 3,000-pound Mars Orbiter Mission probe on Tuesday, and you can watch video of it leaving Earth in a cloud ... (photo: AP / Arun Sankar K)
India Spacecrafts   Mars Orbiter Mission   Photos   Planet Mars   Wikipedia: Mars Orbiter Mission  
France won't delay Mali troop drawdown despite killings Swissinfo Tue 5 Nov 2013
France won't delay Mali troop drawdown despite killings
  | Reuters | November 5, 2013 - 20:47 | By John Irish and Tiemoko Diallo | PARIS/BAMAKO (Reuters) - France will stick to its timetable for withdrawing troops from M... (photo: UN / Marco Dormino)
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U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs Thomas Countryman, left, accompanied by U.S. Ambassador to Macedonia Philip Reeker, right, arrives at a meeting with Macedonia's Prime Minister Nikola Gruevski, not seen, at the government building in the capital Skopje, Thursday, Feb. 10, 2011. Syria's chemical weapons to be destroyed by mid-2014, US says The Australian
In this file image taken from video obtained from the Shaam News Network Thursday, Aug. 29, 2013, which has been authenticated based on its contents and other AP reporting, members of a chemical weapons investigation team take samples from the ground in the Damascus countryside of Zamalka, Syria. Syria meets deadline to destroy chemical production facilities Swissinfo
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File - Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, center, holds the hands of Latin Patriarch Michel Sabbah, left, the top Roman Catholic clergyman in the Holy Land, and a unidentified member of the Christian church delegation, as they leave Arafat's office in the West Bank town of Ramallah Monday, Dec. 24, 2001. Arafat was murdered with polonium, widow says Stuff
Palestinian boys hold portraits of late leader Yasser Arafat during a ceremony to commemorate the Nakba, or the catastrophe, the Arabic term used to describe the uprooting of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians with the 1948 creation of the state of Israel, in the West Bank village of Beit Anan, near Ramallah, Saturday May 10, 2008. In the West Bank and Gaza, Palestinians staged events to remind the world that Israel's creation as been their "nakba," or catastrophe. Hundreds of thousands were uprooted during the 1948 war over Israel's creation, and some 4.5 million Palestinian refugees and their descendants are scattered across the region toda Yasser Arafat Was Poisoned With Radioactive Polonium, Says Forensics Report ABC News
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Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif speaks to the assembly of the 37th session of the General Conference of Unesco, or United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization in Paris, Wednesday, Nov. 6, 2013. Iran foreign minister optimistic as nuclear talks resume The Guardian
Iranian technician walks through the Borzuyrh petrochemical complex in Assaluyeh in the Persian gulf, Iran, Monday July 2, 2007. Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez broke ground Monday on a joint petrochemical complex south of Tehran .(AP photo/Hasan Sarbakhshian)hg3 U.S. official: We think Iran wants a nuclear deal -- and fast CNN
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