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AFP - Iraq said on Saturday that the falling global oil price has forced Baghdad to cut its 2009 budget to 67 billion dollars at a time when the country, owner of the world's third largest oil reserves, craves funds to develop its dilapidated infrastructure.
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Trying to turn its popularity into financial success, YouTube has started allowing advertisers to promote their videos next to the site's search results. The service, introduced Wednesday, is the latest in a series of steps by the online video giant to ramp...
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The mission is scheduled to last for two years, in which the craft will search the lunar surface for natural resources.
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Sabretooth "tigers" were social animals who lived and hunted in prides, a study suggests.
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Pembroke Pines police in Florida are investigating the apparent suicide death of a 19-year-old teenager whose death was seen on a live Justin.tv feed
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Apart from remodeling their home, astronauts on board the International Space Station are installing a new piece of equipment that may save their lives one day. Or embarrass them. It can go either way: Containing 32 sensors in a device the size of a shoebox, the...(more)
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A US woman goes on trial accused of using a fake online personality to bully a 13-year-old girl who later killed herself.
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LiveScience.com - From the moment we saw it, we knew the place held many great secrets. We had been looking for new fossil sites on the south side of the Hawaiian island of Kauai in 1992 with our colleagues, Helen F. James and Storrs L. Olson...(more)
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The Environmental Protection Agency's scientific advisers have warned the agency that it should delay final action on its decision not to set a federal drinking-water standard for perchlorate, a chemical in rocket fuel, because the computer model underlying the decision may have flaws. In a...(more)
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Scientists have succeeded in permanently erasing frightening memories in mice, an early step toward the development of treatments for people haunted by traumas they can't forget.
According to a study in the journal Neuron this week, researchers genetically manipulated the brains of mice to overproduce a key...(more)
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A deadly cancer has preyed on the Tasmanian devil, causing it to be listed as endangered, and scientists have begun an experimental inoculation program.
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AP - Space shuttle Endeavour's astronauts unfurled a 100-foot, laser-tipped pole and surveyed their ship for any launch damage Saturday while drawing ever closer to their destination, the international space station.
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