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/ 11 January 2011
There was scientific evidence 50 years ago that carbon emissions were rising remorselessly.
Austerity in Europe is in stark contrast to the experience of footballers in South Africa, say politicians.
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/ 12 January 2010
An official of the dissident group that launched an ambush on the Togo football team has expressed his "condolences".
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/ 6 December 2009
The fate of five babies, born on different continents, will be dominated by the shifting weather patterns their parents are starting to confront.
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/ 26 December 2008
David Smith and Stephanie Wolters look at conflicts in
the continent’s war-torn countries.
Scientists have developed a revolutionary vaccine that could protect billions of people against the world’s deadliest disease: malaria.
Ancient bones from the city of Jericho are to be used by British scientists to develop treatments for tuberculosis.
Space engineers were on Saturday making their last nervous preparations for the landing of their Phoenix probe near the north pole of Mars next Sunday. The spacecraft — designed to look for reservoirs of water and ice in the Martian arctic — has been built using duplicate parts left over from two previous space missions.
David Budzinski was riding in a four-wheel drive across the Kruger National Park in South Africa in September 2004. His group spotted a few lions and a herd of buffalo near a watering hole, but it wasn’t long before the lions charged the herd, singling out a buffalo calf. What followed has become the stuff of internet legend.
It was one small step for man, but could be one giant leap in the career of an actor. Neil Armstrong, the first man on the moon, is to be the subject of a Hollywood biopic. The only question now is: Who is worthy of filling the space boots of the 20th-century icon who ”came in peace for all mankind”?