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FILE - In this undated photo released by the family of crew member Pablo Costas, second left, stands aboard the Spanish trawler Alakrana with other crew members at sea in an unkown location.   Spain's Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero said Tuesday Nov. 17, 2009  Somali pirates have freed the Spanish trawler with crew of 36 after holding them hostage for more than six weeks.  Zapatero said the tuna boat Alakrana is sailing toward safer waters. All of its crew members are safe and sound.' (AP Photo/Family of Pablo Costas, HO)AP - Pirates freed 36 crew members from a Spanish trawler Tuesday, and a self-proclaimed pirate said the hostage-takers were paid $3.3 million in ransom. Spain's prime minister did little to deny a payment was made — one reason the lucrative attacks are on the rise.


Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:14:39 GMT

A view of a superconducting solenoid magnet at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) near Geneva. The world's biggest atom-smasher, shut down after its inauguration in September 2008 amid technical faults, restarted on Friday, a spokesman for the European Organisation for Nuclear Research said.(AFP/File/Fabrice Coffrini)AP - A spokesman says scientists have circulated beams of protons in the world's largest atom smasher for the first time after a year of repairs.


Fri, 20 Nov 2009 09:41:37 GMT
AP - A gigantic landslide that buried a highway, uprooted homes and rerouted a river in Washington state's Cascade Range left hundreds of smaller victims: fish.
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:11:21 GMT
LiveScience.com - Humans can be difficult enough patients, but try a 300-pound gorilla.
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:13:48 GMT
AP - Asian carp may have breached an electronic barrier designed to prevent the giant invaders from upsetting the ecosystem in the Great Lakes and jeopardizing a $7 billion sport fishery, officials said Friday.
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:56:36 GMT
Reuters - Residents of a small rural Pennsylvania town sued Cabot Oil & Gas Corp on Friday, claiming the company's natural-gas drilling has contaminated their water wells with toxic chemicals, caused sickness and reduced their property values.
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:45:48 GMT
SPACE.com - Astronauts on the linked shuttle Atlantis and International Space Station said Friday that they're not worried about recent false alarms that disrupted their sleep with erroneous reports of calamity.
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:53:20 GMT

Stem cell cultures are held up at a lab. Embryonic stem cell therapy got a step closer to the clinic Thursday after US researchers said they filed a request for government approval of human trials.(AFP/Getty Images/File)AP - The University of Nebraska's governing board on Friday voted down a proposal to restrict the school's rules governing embryonic stem-cell research beyond what the federal government allows.


Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:25:53 GMT

In this image released by National Geographic, National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence Paul Sereno, enveloped by the jaws of SuperCroc, holds the fossil head of DogCroc. DogCroc, along with four other newly described crocs, lived in the Sahara when the 8-ton SuperCroc did, at a time when dinosaurs ruled. (AP Photo/National Geographic, Mike Hettwer)AP - A 20-foot-long crocodile with three sets of fangs — like wild boar tusks — roamed parts of northern Africa millions of years ago, researchers reported Thursday. While this fearsome creature hunted meat, not far away another newly found type of croc with a wide, flat snout like a pancake was fishing for food.


Fri, 20 Nov 2009 13:04:13 GMT

File photo shows Greenpeace activists aboard an inflatable boat as a harpooned Minke whale is winched aboard a Japanese whaling ship in the Antarctic Ocean. Australia has said it is AFP - Australia said it was "deeply disappointed" after a fleet of Japanese whaling ships set out to kill hundreds of the giant ocean mammals on their annual hunt.


Thu, 19 Nov 2009 21:21:13 GMT
Reuters - New fossils unearthed in what is now the Sahara desert reveal a once-swampy world
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:12:44 GMT
AP - At a time of budget cuts, Democratic Gov. Bill Ritter's administration last year paid employees and outside contractors $1.1 million to lobby Colorado lawmakers on legislation ranging from renewable energy tax credits to increasing motor vehicle license fees.
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:02:15 GMT
AP - New England was expected to see another dreary day, while the Pacific Northwest remains under wintry conditions on Friday.
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:16:28 GMT
SPACE.com - WASHINGTON - The camera that captured many of the Hubble Space Telescope's most famous images and the "contact lenses" that focused the observatory's flawed mirror debuted Wednesday at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. along with the first phase of a new interactive gallery devoted to humans living and working in space.
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:25:30 GMT
HealthDay - THURSDAY, Nov. 19 (HealthDay News) -- People's genetic makeup has been shown to affect how they respond to asthma medications, but a new study finds that many people respond well to a particular combination treatment regardless of their genes.
Fri, 20 Nov 2009 19:03:00 GMT

A gas pipeline is seen at the Russian gas compressor station in Sudzha near the Russian-Ukrainian border in January 2009. Thawing permafrost caused by global warming is costing Russian energy firms billions of dollars annually in damage control and shrinking Russia's territory, Greenpeace warned in a new study Friday.(AFP/File/Sergei Supinsky)AFP - Thawing permafrost caused by global warming is costing Russian energy firms billions of dollars annually in damage control and shrinking Russia's territory, Greenpeace warned in a new study Friday.


Fri, 20 Nov 2009 11:15:10 GMT

The flooded River Derwent breaks its banks and floods properties in Cockermouth in Cumbria. Rescuers were working to evacuate about 200 people by helicopter from a town after storms triggered flooding across parts of the country.(AFP/Andrew Yates)AFP - Rescuers were working on Friday to evacuate about 200 people by helicopter from a town after storms triggered flooding across parts of the country, police said.


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