Posted Thursday July 10, 2008, 5:06 am, Over one day old
AFP - Japanese auto giant Toyota said Thursday that it plans to start assembling its fuel-sipping Prius hybrid car in the United States with production slated to begin in late 2010.
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Posted Friday July 11, 2008, 1:49 am, Over one day old
AFP - Research on large Middle Eastern families has helped scientists pinpoint six new genes implicated in autism, a new study published Thursday said.
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Posted Thursday July 10, 2008, 5:06 am, Over one day old
AP - Robert Downey Jr. is trading Iron Man's metal suit for Sherlock Holmes' deerstalker hat.
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Posted Friday July 11, 2008, 1:49 am, Over one day old
AP - Harvard researchers have discovered half a dozen new genes involved in autism that suggest the disorder strikes in a brain that can't properly form new connections.
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Posted Thursday July 10, 2008, 5:06 am, Over one day old
AFP - New evidence has emerged that a large plate of floating ice shelf attached to Antarctica is breaking up, in a troubling sign of global warming, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on Thursday.
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Posted Thursday July 10, 2008, 5:06 am, Over one day old
AP - On a tree-lined corner of Studio City filled with modest homes, flower gardens and neighbors who chat across back fences, two wiry celebrities are engaged in a green grudge match.
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Posted Thursday July 10, 2008, 5:06 am, Over one day old
AP - Christie Brinkley's lurid divorce trial came to an abrupt end Thursday when lawyers for the former supermodel and her fourth husband reached an out-of-court settlement that gives her custody of their two children.
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Posted Thursday July 10, 2008, 5:06 am, Over one day old
AFP - A London restaurant was serving up Thursday what it hopes will be confirmed as the world's hottest curry, with even the chef admitting it is "too extreme" to keep on the menu.
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Posted Thursday July 10, 2008, 5:06 am, Over one day old
Reuters - A newborn red panda rejected by its
mother in Amsterdam's Artis zoo has been adopted by a domestic
cat, the zoo said Friday.
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Posted Thursday July 10, 2008, 5:06 am, Over one day old
AFP - An elderly Indonesian woman famed nationwide for supernatural skills in lengthening penises has died, reports said Thursday.
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