| Researcher: Faint writing seen on Shroud of Turin |
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| ROME (AP) -- A Vatican researcher has rekindled the age-old debate over the Shroud of Turin, saying that faint writing on the linen proves it was the burial cloth of Jesus.... |
| Museum: Galileo's fingers, tooth are found |
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| ROME (AP) -- Two fingers and a tooth removed from Galileo Galilei's corpse in a Florentine basilica in the 18th century and given up for lost have been found again and will soon be put on display, an Italian museum director said Friday.... |
| Campaigner against hate crimes killed in Moscow |
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| MOSCOW (AP) -- Russian prosecutors say an anti-hate crimes campaigner has been shot and killed in Moscow.... |
| Fight is on between pro-fish camp, mine defenders |
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| ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- The fight is on between backers of an Alaska mine being developed near the world's most productive wild salmon streams and 13 Seattle restaurants.... |
| Argentina forces dirty war orphans to provide DNA |
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| BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) -- Valuing truth over the right to privacy, Argentina's Congress has authorized the forced extraction of DNA from people who may have been born to political prisoners slain a quarter-century ago - even when they don't want to know their birth parents.... |
| The new EU chiefs: Rompuy-pumpy and Cathy Who? |
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| Kidnapped Britons say Somali pirates may kill them |
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| LONDON (AP) -- A retired British couple snatched from their yacht by Somali pirates said in an interview broadcast Friday they fear they could be killed within a week or handed to a terrorist group if a ransom demand is not paid.... |
| 6 world powers press Iran on nuclear issue |
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| Gardner-Webb defeats Montreat 89-62 |
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| BOILING SPRINGS, N.C. (AP) -- David Brown scored 15 points in 16 minutes off the bench and Gardner-Webb defeated Montreat 89-62 on Monday night.... |
| Floods devastate UK Lake District, much of Ireland |
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| COCKERMOUTH, England (AP) -- Raging floods engulfed northern England's picturesque Lake District on Friday following the heaviest rainfall ever recorded in Britain, killing a police officer and trapping dozens in their swamped homes.... |