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Teen air crash survivor clung to debris in ocean for 12 hours The 14-year-old girl believed to be the only survivor of a Yemenia jetliner crash off Comoros was thrown from the plane amid darkness, she tells her father. The 14-year-old girl believed to be the lone survivor of a yemini jetli
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Iraqi police say early morning bomb attacks have killed at least 11 people in different areas of Baghdad. A car bomb exploded on the road to the government compound known as the Green Zone killing at least five people. Another attack in the eastern Sadr City area killed three students on a min
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Pakistan called on Taliban fighters in the northwest to lay down arms as “intense” fighting erupted between the army and militants in the Swat Valley, where hundreds of thousands of civilians have been forced to flee. Security forces entered the towns of Matta and Kanju near Swat’s main cit
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Atlantis' astronauts suited up Sunday for their second in-orbit repair of a dead science instrument on the Hubble Space Telescope in as many days. This time, Michael Massimino and Michael Good were going to venture out of space shuttle Atlantis to try to fix a long-dead spectrograph. The day befo
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Cape Canaveral (FL) - The space shuttle Endeavour is sitting on its launch pad, ready for a rescue mission NASA hopes won't be needed. The shuttle's sister craft, Atlantis, is scheduled to launch later today on a flight to repair and upgrade the Hubble Space Telescope. While there are but
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Engineers have finished the major work of fixing the broken "Big Bang" machine, the largest scientific instrument ever built. The last of 53 replacement magnets for the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) has been lowered into the 16-mile tunnel straddling the Swiss-French border which houses the mac
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Courtesy: IANS They changed the lexicon for the word, search. Now the phrase "I'll just Google it" has helped make the internet search giant become world's first $100 billion brand beating other household names like Microsoft, and Coca Cola to McDonald's. The analysts of the Brandz Top 10
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With Monday's announcement that Oracle is acquiring Sun for $7.4 billion, however, Oracle is signaling its own "iPod moment," seeking to compete with Hewlett-Packard, IBM, and others in integrated hardware/software systems. It's a bold move, and not for the faint of heart. But then, no o
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Iran plans to send a bigger satellite into space on a rocket with a range of up to 1,500 km (930 miles), President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Tuesday, in comments that may spark further Western concern. Iran launched a domestically made satellite into orbit for the first time in February
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The interim chairman of General Motors Corp. acknowledged Tuesday that the auto maker is running out of time to reach a deal with stakeholders and the federal government to restructure outside of bankruptcy. Kent Kresa said the GM board remains convinced that an out-of-court restructuring is
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