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Police arrest man in double French murder inquiry

Reuters - Saturday, July 5 09:19 am

LONDON (Reuters) - Police on Saturday arrested a man in connection with the knife murder of two French students in London. More »

  • The Llaima volcano spews lava in Cherquenco town July 2, 2008. REUTERS/Ivan Alvarado

    Chile ski station evacuated as volcano erupts

    Reuters - Wednesday, July 2 08:07 pm

    SANTIAGO (Reuters) - Chile on Wednesday evacuated the remaining occupants of a southern ski station as Llaima volcano, one of South America's most active, spewed lava for a second day prompting fears of landslides, officials said. More »

  • A woman pours hot water to make green tea at a traditional tea house in Boseong, about 397 km (246 miles) south of Seoul, September 23, 2007. REUTERS/Han Jae-Ho

    Green tea protects against heart disease

    Reuters - Wednesday, July 2 05:48 pm

    LONDON (Reuters) - A few cups of green tea each day may help prevent heart disease, Greek researchers said on Wednesday. More »

  • Rain has soaked this Adelie penguin chick in Antarctica before its feathers are capable of repelling water, in this undated handout photo.

    Penguin population plunge points to climate havoc

    Reuters - Wednesday, July 2 12:31 am

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Penguin populations have plummeted at a key breeding colony in Argentina, mirroring declines in many species of the marine flightless birds due to climate change, pollution and other factors, a study shows. More »

  • A man smokes a cigarette on a pavement in the northeastern Indian city of Siliguri February 13, 2008. REUTERS/Rupak De Chowdhuri

    WHO urges countries to adopt smoking bans

    Reuters - Monday, June 30 12:13 am

    LONDON (Reuters) - Smoking bans are an effective way of preventing heart disease, getting cigarette users to quit and protecting children from second-hand smoke, a World Health Organisation (WHO) report issued on Monday said. More »

  • Conductor Gustavo Dudamel gestures as he plays Bartok's

    Rich nations copy Venezuela's anti-gang music schools

    Reuters - Monday, June 23 04:07 pm

    CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuela's youth orchestras and choirs have helped thousands of children resist thug life in some of South America's most violent slums, and now wealthy countries are lining up to emulate the system. More »

  • A local grave-digger points out the graves where German scientists and their family members were buried while working after World War Two at a nuclear laboratory in Sukhumi, May 15, 2008. Behind a thicket of weeds and broken window panes, one of the former Soviet Union's dark secrets is the laboratory where captured German scientists worked to build an atomic bomb for Josef Stalin.

    In Stalin's bomb lab, dreams of preservation

    Reuters - Thursday, June 19 04:17 am

    SUKHUMI, Georgia (Reuters) - Behind a thicket of weeds and broken window panes, one of the former Soviet Union's dark secrets is the laboratory where captured German scientists worked to build an atomic bomb for Josef Stalin. More »

  • An artist's impression of the trio of super-Earths discovered by an European team using the HARPS spectrograph on ESO's 3.6-m telescope at La Silla, Chile, after five years of monitoring.

    Astronomers find batch of "super-Earths"

    Reuters - Monday, June 16 08:37 am

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - European researchers said on Monday they discovered a batch of three "super-Earths" orbiting a nearby star, and two other solar systems with small planets as well. More »

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