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  • Tons of dead sardines still clogging US marina

    2011-03-11 11:05

    Thousands of slimy, reeking sardines gurgled to the surface of an increasingly murky Southern California marina on Thursday as crews kept scooping and vacuuming tons of fish that perished in a huge, unexplained die-off.

  • Obama says he was bullied at school

    2011-03-11 10:13

    School bullying is not a rite of passage for youth, Obama said on Thursday as part of an initiative to change the way Americans perceive the dangerous behavior.

  • Mystery solved in death of legendary Japanese dog

    2011-03-02 22:27

    Scientists have settled a decades-old mystery by naming a cause of death for Japan's most famous dog, Hachiko, whose legendary loyalty was immortalized in a Hollywood movie starring Richard Gere.

  • Thai PM admits holding British nationality

    2011-02-24 20:00

    Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva on Thursday admitted that he holds a British nationality but has never taken any benefit of being a citizen of the UK.

  • Swiss tourist killed by elephant in Thailand

    2011-02-24 19:16

    An elderly Swiss woman was trampled to death and four other tourists were injured when elephants they were riding fought with each other in southern Thailand.

  • Vietnam: wife set journalist husband on fire

    2011-02-23 16:17

    The wife of a Vietnamese journalist has been arrested for allegedly murdering her husband by setting him on fire as he slept.

  • Indian man has 39 wives, nearly 100 children

    2011-02-22 15:42

    The more, the merrier is certainly true for Ziona Chana, a 66-year-old man in India's remote northeast who has 39 wives, 94 children and 33 grandchildren - and wouldn't mind having more.

  • Washington: the 'blackest name' in America

    2011-02-22 09:34

    George Washington's name is inseparable from America, and not only from the nation's history. It identifies countless streets, buildings, mountains, bridges, monuments, cities _ and people.

  • 120 stranded whales feared dead in New Zealand

    2011-02-21 16:50

    New Zealand's Department of Conservation (DOC) officers have had to kill 48 pilot whales that were among a pod of 120 whales beached in a remote part of New Zealand's Stewart Island on Sunday.

  • How a screwdriver screwed up a nuke plant

    2011-02-17 16:27

    A screwdriver has been identified as the cause of trouble that halted the operation of a nuclear power plant in the southern part of South Korea, according to local reports on Thursday.

  • Japan may send robot to tweet in space

    2011-02-17 13:21

    Lonely astronauts on the International Space Station may soon be getting an android friend from Japan.

  • Girl with 26 digits aims for record

    2011-02-17 08:07

    A mother in Myanmar says her baby girl's 12 fingers and 14 toes have been no disadvantage - her grip may even be stronger than normal - and now she's grasping for a Guinness record.

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