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While central Europe and Russia are freezing and covered with snow, the story is different in the high Arctic. In late January BarentsObserver reported on abnormal heat on Svalbard with weeks with temperatures over freezing, rain and smelting snow. The situation at sea in the Arctic is even more abnormal.
By Rebecca Boyle PopSci A larval fruit fly is hatched in the year 2011 and frozen while still pupating, half its body water solidified in frigid temperatures. After spending many generations in a state of suspended animation
By GEORGE JAHN Yahoo News Diplomats say Iran is poised for a major expansion of its nuclear program at a cavernous underground site.
A 5.1 magnitude earthquake occurred at 18:31:57 PM (UTC), Thursday night, February 15, 2012 in the area of Nicobar Islands, south east of the Bay of Bengal.
By Sarah B. Weir Yahoo News Could a pretty pucker be the kiss of death? According to Reuters, about 400 lipsticksrecently tested by the FDA contain traces of lead.
By Euro News Turkish authorities have confirmed that an ancient bible thought to be 1,500 years old is being kept safe after being seized from a gang of smugglers.
By Van Meguerditchian The Daily Star The Beirut River mysteriously turned blood red Wednesday after a stream of unidentified red liquid began pouring from the southern bank of the river in Furn al-Shubbak.
By William Grigg Republic-Magazine The police did nothing to prevent the robbery of Dennis Fleming’s home in Farmington, New Hampshire, or to catch the burglar – but they may succeed in sending the 61-year-old grandfather to prison for using a handgun to apprehend the man suspected of several local break-ins.
By Daily Mail Dogs in the UK watch almost an hour of TV every day, according to new research. Experts say the number of canines addicted to television is set to rise as the nation continues to make the switch from analogue to digital – because the clearer picture is easier for dogs to watch.
By Terrence Aym Some of the world’s smartest geophysicists aren’t sleeping well anymore. Perhaps their dreams are filled with nightmares—if so, it wouldn’t be surprising since what they thought they knew about volcanoes wasn’t quite right.
Any financial system that is based on debt is doomed to fail. Today, we are living in the greatest debt bubble that the world has ever seen, and if all of a sudden people could not use credit to buy things our economy would immediately ground to a halt.
By Luke Browne Globalpost.com Italian police said on Friday they had seized a record $6 trillion of fake US Treasury bonds in Switzerland and arrested eight people accused of international fraud and other financial crimes.
By Joel Gehrke Washington Examiner President Obama’s border enforcement officials prevented over 13,000 dangerous hair dryers from entering the country, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) trumpeted today.
(NewsCore) – A Swedish man has been charged with firing gunshots into the night sky in what he told police was an attempt to thwart an alien invasion, The Local Sweden reported Thursday.
By Press TV The National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC) has reached an agreement with the International United Petroleum and Chemical Corporation (UNIPEC) to increase oil exports to China to 500,000 barrels per day (bpd).