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Microsoft co-founder, investor, philanthropist Paul Allen dead at 65
Allen died just two weeks after publicly revealing that non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma he fought into remission nine years ago had returned
London prepares to showcase Paralympics
The world’s top athletes with a disability meet in London next week for what organisers say will be the biggest Paralympics in the Games’ history.
French train speeds along at 574,8km/h
A supercharged French Train a Grande Vitesse (TGV) on Tuesday smashed the world speed record for a train on rails, hurtling through the countryside into the history books at…
French train sets new world-record speed
France’s TGV train set a new world speed on rails on Tuesday, hitting 574,8km/h on a stretch of track in eastern France. The experimental version of the Traine a Grande Vitesse…
Storms lay bare US refinery crisis
If proof were needed that United States oil refineries are stretched to breaking point, the twin hurricanes of Katrina and now Rita have provided ample evidence. A total of 859…