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Rhino poaching around the world is on the rise despite efforts to protect the *******, a report warns http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8388606.stm

Twenty-five years ago this week, in the early hours of Dec. 3, 1984, large amounts of water entered a tank at the Union Carbide factory in Bhopal, India. That water reacted with the 42 tons of methyl isocyanate inside, raising temperature and pressure so high that it began venting massive...

After much deliberation, staff at the BBC Sport website have come up with their top-10 British fighters, pound-for-pound. Ignoring weight, this subjective list takes into account fighters' recent results, their skills, resilience and punching power...

BNP leader Nick Griffin will represent the European Parliament at the UN climate change conference in Copenhagen...

Today, November 27th, marks the beginning of 2009's Eid al-Adha, the Muslim "Festival of Sacrifice", commemorating the willingness of Ibrahim (Abraham) to sacrifice his *** to God. Muslims around the world will celebrate by slaughtering ******* to commemorate God's gift of a ram to substitute...

The death throes of the biggest star known to science have been observed by Europe's new space telescope, Herschel http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8382348.stm

Why do hammerhead sharks have such a famously strange-shaped head? One hypothesis is that having eyes on either side of such a wide 'hammer' allows the sharks to see better. http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8376000/8376740.stm

President Barack Obama recently announced that he was determined to "finish the job" in Afghanistan, and aides signaled to allies that he would send as many as 25,000 to 30,000 additional American troops there. Obama will formally announce his decision in a national address at 8 p.m. Tuesday...

The last remaining population of Siberian tigers has declined significantly, according to research. The work was carried out by the Siberian Tiger Monitoring Programme, which is coordinated by the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). Its report says that tiger numbers have shown a "declining...

The world's largest cruise ship, the Oasis of the Seas, is preparing to set off on its maiden voyage next month. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8380086.stm this ones for you afa :thumbsup:

A man has been sentenced to death in Saudi Arabia for witchcraft because he makes predictions on television. A court in the city condemned him as a witch on November 9...

Astronomers have devised a game to help uncover the basis of galactic pile-ups. The game, part of the ongoing web-based project Galaxy ***, shows players images of colliding galaxies and asks them to match those to simulations. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8376566.stm

A German bank manager who secretly transferred millions of pounds from rich clients to debt-ridden customers has been spared jail...

A festival involving the sacrifice of more than 300,000 ******* is to begin today despite facing its biggest ever protests...

National Geographic's International Photography Contest attracts thousands of entries from photographers of all skill levels around the world every year. While this year's entry deadline has ******, there is still time to view and vote for your favorites in the Viewer's Choice competition...

The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) says it expects to restart the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) by this weekend after more than a year of repairs. The 27 km (17 mi) particle accelerator was launched last year, but suffered a failure from a faulty electrical connection, damaging...

We humans are drawn to the shore, with some 40% of the world's population living within 100 kilometers of a coast. Coastal areas have made recent news with the arrival of several storms, concerns about rising sea levels and other environmental and conservation efforts. Collected here are a...

A species of skate could become the first marine fish driven to extinction by commercial fishing, say scientists. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8367045.stm

Last Wednesday was Armistice Day, when on the "eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month", in 1918, the armistice was signed for the cessation of hostilities on the Western Front at the end of World War I. The date is now observed by many of the allied nations from that era as...

Nasa's experiment last month to find water on the Moon was a major success, US scientists have announced. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8359744.stm

Twenty years ago, on the night of November 9, 1989, following weeks of pro-democracy protests, East German authorities suddenly opened their border to West Germany. After 28 years as prisoners of their own country, euphoric East Germans streamed to checkpoints and rushed past bewildered guards...

Havana, the capital city of the island nation of Cuba is home to nearly 4 million people - 20% of the entire population of Cuba. On November 16th the city will celebrate its 490th anniversary, being founded by the Spanish in 1519. Havana is also the seat of the state-run economy, one that has...

Twenty years since women were first allowed to become pilots in the RAF, the Red Arrows have unveiled their first female aviator. By their own admission, the inclusion of 31-year-old Flt Lt Kirsty Moore is an "historic" occasion for the renowned Royal Air ***** Aerobatic Team...

Europe's Rosetta probe will make its third and final flyby of Earth on Friday as it seeks to position itself to chase down a comet in 2014. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8355873.stm

till you can do this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDgF-AhF1fc GregCentauro please dont say theres already a thread

Sixty years ago, the Soviet Union detonated its first nuclear weapon, nicknamed "First Lightning", at a test facility on the steppe of northeast Kazakhstan (formerly the Kazakh SSR). The test site, named the Semipalatinsk Polygon, would go on to host 456 atomic explosions over its 40-year...

The Washington DC Sniper who went on a three-week shooting spree which left 10 people dead, is to be executed tonight after the US Supreme Court refused a last-minute appeal...

Australia's koalas could be wiped out within 30 years unless urgent action is taken to halt a decline in population, according to researchers. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8352107.stm

Since 2006, NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has been orbiting Mars, currently circling approximately 300 km (187 mi) above the Martian surface. On board the MRO is HiRISE, the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera, which has been photographing the planet for several years...

Police are searching an office complex in Florida for a gunman who opened fire on employees, ******* two and injuring six. http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Two-Dead-Several-Injured-In-Office-Shooting-At-Orlando-Florida/Article/200911115441185

Seven people have been ****** and at least 20 injured in a pair of shootings at the Fort Hood military base in Texas, the US Army has confirmed http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8345713.stm

A bricklayer who was thought to have been ****** in a car crash shocked his grieving ****** by showing up alive at his own funeral http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Brazil-Back-From-The-Dead-The-Bricklayer-Who-Went-To-His-Own-Funeral/Article/200911115438384

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More than a third of species assessed in a major international biodiversity study are threatened with extinction, scientists have warned http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8338880.stm

From October 31st through November 2nd, a number of festivals, holidays and solemnities take place, all loosely related and revolving around remembrance of the dead. Halloween, Samhain, All Saints' Day, All Souls' Day, the Day of the Dead and other festivals trace their origins back to Celtic...

Richard Chase The Vampire of Sacramento Richard Chase was born on May 23, 1950 and his troubles began not all that long afterwards when as a ***** he started to accuse his ****** of trying to poison him. The obsession with thinking that somebody was trying to poison him was one that came up...

A BOY aged just TWELVE fought as a British Tommy in the First World War http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/campaigns/our_boys/2707560/A-boy-aged-twelve-fought-in-the-First-World-War.html

Size really matters, but so does poetry to Nikolai Valuev - the man standing between David Haye and the heavyweight title http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/othersports/article-1223978/Size-really-matters-does-poetry-Nikolai-Valuev--man-standing-David-Haye-heavyweight-title.html this guy is...

Ricky Hatton has said he could be tempted into a return to boxing by a re-match with Floyd Mayweather, the man who ended his unbeaten record in 2007. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/boxing/8318294.stm

Spider webs encased in amber which were discovered on an East Sussex beach have been confirmed by scientists as being the world's oldest on record. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/sussex/8335719.stm

On Wednesday, October 28th, NASA launched its Ares I-X prototype vehicle, the first launch from Kennedy's pads of a vehicle other than the space shuttle since the Apollo Program's Saturn rockets were retired. NASA's Constellation Program's 327-foot-tall rocket produced 2.96 million pounds of...

Astronomers have confirmed that an exploding star spotted by Nasa's Swift satellite is the most distant cosmic object to be detected by telescopes. In the journal Nature, two teams of astronomers report their observations of a gamma-ray burst from a star that died 13.1 billion light-years away...

After recent Pakistani military operations in Pakistan's own Swat Valley to push out Taliban insurgents who had taken control of the region, its operations are now more focused on the Taliban strongholds in the South Waziristan region. Pakistani troops and Taliban militants have been locked in...

Former world heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson says he has no regrets about his "savage" career. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/boxing/8324758.stm

Over the past month in Afghanistan it became clear that a Presidential runoff vote between President Hamid Karzai and challenger Abdullah Abdullah would need to take place. The Obama administration continued to deliberate on whether to commit further troops to the conflict, and at least 46 U.S...

The fossilised skull of a colossal "sea *******" has been unearthed along the UK's Jurassic Coast. The ferocious predator, which is called a pliosaur, terrorised the oceans 150 million years ago. http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8322000/8322629.stm

A gang of up to 20 youths attacked an off-duty trainee police officer outside a gay bar in Liverpool city centre. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/8326810.stm wonder if it would have made the news,if he wasnt a pc:dunno:

Overshot US plane's data checked Investigations are under way in the US to find out how a plane heading from San Diego to Minneapolis overshot its destination by 150 miles (240km). http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8323246.stm

Three teenage thugs face jail for launching two sickening racist attacks on Asian shopkeepers in the space of just one hour. http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Race-Attacks-CCTV-Of-Assaults-On-Asian-Shopkeepers-In-Bristol/Article/200910415413107 district Judge Parsons found them guilty...

Scientists have unravelled the mechanism by which the fungal disease chytridiomycosis ***** its victims. Researchers now report in the journal Science that the fungus ***** by changing the *******' electrolyte balance, resulting in cardiac arrest. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8319467.stm