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BBC News Dec 30 Agathe von Trapp, eldest daughter of the Austrian family who inspired The Sound of Music, has died at the age of 97 in the US state of Maryland. She died in a hospice in the Baltimore suburb of Towson after suffering congestive heart failure in November, a long-time...

BBC News Dec 30 Executors of Michael Jackson's estate have asked the Discovery Channel to cancel plans for a programme claiming to re-enact the late singer's autopsy. John Branca and John McClain said the show was "in shockingly bad taste". In a letter, the pair accused the company of...

BBC news Dec 30 The West African region has suffered more than its fair share of military coups and civil wars and its leaders have made a clear commitment to ensuring that these come to an end. Three African presidents are due to travel to Ivory Coast on Tuesday to give incumbent...

The Times Square ball gets all the publicity, but it's not the only thing being dropped on Dec. 31 -- and we're not talking bad habits. Seems like almost every city -- big and small -- marks the new year by dropping something from a tall building or a crane For instance, the city of...

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I'm sure you have all heard of King Arthur & the Round Table and Robin Hood. so I won't bore you with those - but wouldn't it be fantastic if they were finally proved to have existed ...awesome. Anyway I digress ..... Here is a story from Texas El Muerto A Texas Ghost Story...

Sky News The chances of life existing outside the Earth have been boosted by the discovery that there might be many more stars in the universe than first thought. Astronomers have learned that small, dim stars known as red dwarfs are far more prolific than they believed - up to three times...

BBC news Dec 29 The notorious message board 4Chan has been taken offline by an overwhelming web attack. Thanks to the attack, the discussion boards of the site have been hard to reach or offline for almost 24 hours. The attack might be retaliation for similar attacks that some 4Chan...

BBC News Black-tufted marmosets living in Brazil's city parks are going to surprising lengths to avoid unusual predators - domestic cats. The small urban-dwelling monkeys return to favoured sleeping sites - something jungle-dwelling marmosets do not do. Cats often make multiple...

Assoc Press SAN FRANCISCO — Daniel Balsam hates spam. Most everybody does, of course. But he has acted on his hate as few have, going far beyond simply hitting the delete button. He sues them. Eight years ago, Balsam was working as a marketer when he received one too many e-mail pitches to...

Assoc Press Dec 28 CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez dared the United States to expel his ambassador or cut off diplomatic ties in retaliation for his rejection of Washington's choice for ambassador to Caracas. Tensions have been growing over Chavez's refusal to accept...

Assoc Press Dec 28 CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico — The last remaining police officer in the Mexican border town of Guadalupe has disappeared, and prosecutors in northern Chihuahua state said Tuesday they have started a search for her. Twenty-eight-year-old officer Ericka Gandara held out despite...

Assoc Press DEC 28 HONOLULU — Democratic Gov. Neil Abercrombie wants to find a way to release more information about President Barack Obama's Hawaii birth and dispel conspiracy theories that he was born elsewhere. Abercrombie was a friend of Obama's parents and knew him as a child, and is...

BBC News A particular type of ancient rock art in Western Australia maintains its vivid colours because it is alive, researchers have found. While some rock art fades in hundreds of years, the "Bradshaw art" remains colourful after at least 40,000 years. Jack Pettigrew of the...

BBC News Dec 28 It could be one of the most ambitious computer projects ever conceived. An international group of scientists are aiming to create a simulator that can replicate everything happening on Earth - from global weather patterns and the spread of diseases to international...

BBC News Christmas dinner traditionally centres on the turkey or goose. But if US scientists have their way, everyone may be sitting around a printer. The team at Cornell University's Computational Synthesis Lab (CCSL) are building a 3D food printer, as part of the bigger Fab@home...

BBC News UK's first 'saviour sibling' treatment A nine year old girl from Norfolk has had a life-saving transplant from a so-called saviour sibling. Megan Matthews would have died but for tissue donated by her baby brother Max. It's the first time that the entire treatment has been...

BBC News Dec 28 Sir Elton John and his partner David Furnish have become parents to a son born to a surrogate mother in California. Zachary Jackson Levon Furnish-John was born on Christmas Day, the UK musician told the Usmagazine.com website. "Zachary is healthy and doing really well...

According to the Canadian Press, the inscription on the metal bands used by the U.S. Department of the Interior to tag migratory birds has been changed. The bands used to bear the address of the Washington Biological Survey, abbreviated: "Wash. Biol. Surv." . . . until the agency received the...

BBC News Dec 27 The US and Germany have voiced serious concerns about a second guilty verdict against the jailed Russian former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky. Khodorkovsky, once Russia's richest man and considered a political threat to PM Vladimir Putin, was convicted at a new Moscow...