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8/28/2008 7:41 AM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Gustav nears Jamaica as New Orleans keeps watch (AP)

AP - Gustav was heading toward Jamaica early Thursday while many miles away, residents in the New Orleans area watched it with a nervous eye.

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8/28/2008 1:05 AM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Alaska governor signs natgas pipeline license bill (Reuters)

Reuters - Gov. Sarah Palin on Wednesday signed a bill giving the state authority to award TransCanada Corp a license to build and operate a multibillion-dollar pipeline to ship natural gas from the North Slope.

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8/28/2008 4:35 AM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Gustav stalls offshore in Haiti after killing 23 (AP)

AP - Gustav stalled offshore Wednesday and poured more misery onto Haiti after landslides and flooding killed 23 people. Oil workers began leaving their rigs and New Orleans drew up evacuation plans as forecasters warned the storm could plow into the U.S. Gulf coast as a major hurricane.

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8/27/2008 11:11 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Purdue reprimands fusion scientist for misconduct (AP)

AP - Purdue University on Wednesday reprimanded a scientist who has been accused of falsifying claims he produced nuclear fusion in tabletop experiments.

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8/28/2008 7:58 AM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Massive evacuation after India river changes course: officials (AFP)

AFP - Tens of thousands of people have fled to safer areas but more than a million were still trapped in floods after a river changed its course due to heavy rains, an official said Thursday.

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8/28/2008 9:53 AM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Kuwait earns half budget in three months (AFP)

AFP - OPEC member Kuwait has earned 6.7 billion dinars (25 billion dollars) in the first three months of the current fiscal year, more than half the projected annual income, according finance ministry figures released on Thursday.

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8/28/2008 9:02 AM - Views: 2 Rating: -

New tropical depression forms in Atlantic (AP)

AP - The National Hurricane Center says a new tropical depression has formed in the Atlantic.

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8/28/2008 2:06 AM - Views: 1 Rating: -

Gustav kills 22 in Caribbean, heads to Cuba and Mexico Gulf (AFP)

AFP - Tropical Storm Gustav churned toward Cuba and the United States after lashing Haiti and the Dominican Republic with hurricane force winds and rain that killed 22 people.

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8/27/2008 10:14 PM - Views: 1 Rating: -

Fay leaves behind lots of water for Fla. lake (AP)

AP - Tropical Storm Fay brought some good news to the state's parched Everglades and its liquid heart, Lake Okeechobee ? lots and lots of water.

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8/27/2008 11:30 PM - Views: 1 Rating: -

Louisiana declares emergency ahead of possible hurricane hit (AFP)

AFP - Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal Wednesday declared a state of emergency and announced plans to begin evacuating coastal areas ahead of the storm forecast to strike the state on Monday afternoon as a Category 3 hurricane.

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8/27/2008 10:33 PM - Views: 1 Rating: -

Storm Gustav kills 23 in Caribbean, heads for Gulf (Reuters)

Reuters - Tropical Storm Gustav pulled away from Haiti and the Dominican Republic on Wednesday after killing 23 people and threatened to become a major hurricane aimed at New Orleans and Gulf of Mexico oil fields.

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8/27/2008 11:42 PM - Views: 0 Rating: -

State Dept. issues warning on Caribbean travel (AP)

AP - The State Department urged Americans on Wednesday to be aware of the risks caused by Tropical Storm Gustav to people traveling to Haiti, Jamaica, the Cayman Islands, Cuba and Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula.

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8/27/2008 10:44 PM - Views: 0 Rating: -

Colliding galaxies shed light on dark matter (Reuters)

Reuters - Astronomers have captured images of a powerful collision of galaxy clusters and say it may shed light on the behavior of dark matter.

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8/28/2008 1:47 AM - Views: 0 Rating: -

Officials may evacuate New Orleans as Gustav nears (AP)

AP - National Guard troops stand ready, batteries and water bottles sold briskly, and one small-town mayor spent a sleepless night worrying. The New Orleans area watched as a storm marched across the Caribbean on the eve of Hurricane Katrina's third anniversary.

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8/28/2008 6:31 AM - Views: 0 Rating: -

The Key to Fundraising: Guilt Trips (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - This will come as no surprise to anyone who has donated to public radio or television: Pledge drives do best when laden with guilt-trips, a new study finds.

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8/28/2008 9:38 AM - Views: 0 Rating: -

Great Ape Trust says flood bill is $1 million (AP)

AP - One of the largest great ape research centers in North America needs more than $1 million to recover from damage suffered in Iowa's record June floods.

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8/27/2008 2:22 AM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Hurricane Gustav kills five in Haiti, aims at Cuba (AFP)

AFP - Hurricane Gustav slammed into Haiti, killing at least five as it lashed the desperately poor Caribbean nation with powerful winds and heavy rain, just days behind deadly Tropical Storm Fay.

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8/27/2008 5:59 AM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Gustav hits Haiti, drives up oil prices (AP)

AP - Hurricane Gustav caused a killer landslide and dumped torrential rains on southern Haiti before weakening to a tropical storm late Tuesday.

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8/27/2008 3:36 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Arctic sea ice melts to second worst on record (AP)

AP - New satellite measurements show that crucial sea ice in the Arctic Ocean has plummeted to its second lowest level on record.

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8/27/2008 6:08 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Deadly Gustav churns toward Cuba, Gulf of Mexico (AFP)

AFP - Tropical Storm Gustav churned toward Cuba and the United States Wednesday after lashing Haiti and the Dominican Republic with hurricane force winds and rain that killed 22 people.

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8/27/2008 7:27 AM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Japan celebrates birth of panda (AFP)

AFP - A giant panda cub has been born at a Japanese zoo, the first to be successfully bred in Japan through artificial insemination in two decades, officials said Wednesday.

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8/27/2008 5:14 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Officials may evacuate New Orleans as storm nears (AP)

AP - On the eve of Hurricane Katrina's third anniversary, a nervous New Orleans watched Wednesday as another storm threatened to test everything the city has rebuilt, and officials made plans to evacuate people, pets and hospitals in an attempt to avoid a Katrina-style chaos.

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8/26/2008 10:59 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Clinton salutes Obama as Dems at convention cheer (AP)

AP - Hillary Rodham Clinton summoned the millions of voters who supported her in the primaries to send Barack Obama to the White House Tuesday night, and drew thunderous applause at the Democratic National Convention when she declared her one-time rival is "my candidate and he must be our president."

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8/27/2008 6:11 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Mystery of Greenland's Ice Lingers as Sheet Shrinks (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - Scientists have cautioned that a warming planet could melt Greenland's vast ice sheet, a potentially catastrophic event that would raise sea levels and inundate coastal communities around the globe.

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8/27/2008 12:08 AM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Party Platform, McCain Differ on Immigration, Climate (Bloomberg)

Bloomberg - Aug. 26 (Bloomberg) -- The Republican Party released a draft of its 2008 platform that differs from candidate John McCain on issues including immigration, stem-cell research and climate change, while endorsing his ideas for economic growth and free trade.

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8/27/2008 7:44 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

New Orleans mulls evacuation as Gustav looms (Reuters)

Reuters - Three years after Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Louisiana coast, New Orleans residents on Wednesday again confronted the prospect of an evacuation as Tropical Storm Gustav loomed.

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8/27/2008 1:53 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Oil prices climb above 117 dollars on storm concerns (AFP)

AFP - World oil prices rallied on Wednesday as Tropical Storm Gustav remained a threat to US energy installations in the Gulf of Mexico despite being downgraded from hurricane status, analysts said.

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8/27/2008 8:17 AM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Memorial to Hurricane Katrina victims taking shape (AP)

AP - Six mausoleums for the unclaimed dead of Hurricane Katrina stand on what was vacant land just five weeks ago, as New Orleans ? in what could be a testament to its determination ? scrambles to complete a memorial by Friday's third anniversary of the storm.

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8/27/2008 12:25 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Consumers Predict Inflation as Accurately as Economists (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - Consumers are just as good as professional economists at predicting the rate of inflation, a new survey finds.

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8/27/2008 5:00 PM - Views: 1 Rating: -

Cells change identity in promising breakthrough (AP)

AP - Talk about an extreme makeover: Scientists have transformed one type of cell into another in living mice, a big step toward the goal of growing replacement tissues to treat a variety of diseases.

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8/27/2008 12:34 AM - Views: 1 Rating: -

Tropical Storm Gustav dumps rain on Haiti (Reuters)

Reuters - Tropical Storm Gustav stalled over Haiti on Wednesday, dumping torrential rains on the impoverished country, and forecasters warned it could regain hurricane strength once it moves out to sea.

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8/26/2008 10:32 PM - Views: 1 Rating: -

Mars rover leaving crater after yearlong probe (AP)

AP - The plucky Mars rover Opportunity is driving out of a giant crater nearly a year after a dangerous descent to examine exposed bedrock.

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8/27/2008 2:25 PM - Views: 1 Rating: -

Why Are 'Mama' and 'Dada' a Baby's First Words? (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - A baby's first words are often "mama" and "dada," much to the delight of parents. Now scientists think they know why.

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8/27/2008 6:33 PM - Views: 1 Rating: -

Fossil of Ancient Pregnant Turtle Discovered (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - A turtle that toddled alongside the dinosaurs died just days before laying a clutch of eggs. Now, about 75 million years later, paleontologists are announcing their find of the fossilized mother-to-be and the eggs tucked inside her body.

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8/27/2008 7:40 AM - Views: 1 Rating: -

Arctic sea ice drops to 2nd lowest level on record (AP)

AP - More ominous signs Wednesday have scientists saying that a global warming "tipping point" in the Arctic seems to be happening before their eyes: Sea ice in the Arctic Ocean is at its second lowest level in about 30 years.

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8/27/2008 7:31 PM - Views: 0 Rating: -

Space Station Computers Catch Virus in Orbit (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - A virus designed to swipe passwords from online gamers has inexplicably popped up in some laptop computers aboard the International Space Station.

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8/27/2008 1:29 PM - Views: 0 Rating: -

Louisiana, Mississippi keeping eye on Gustav (AP)

AP - As Friday's third anniversary of Hurricane Katrina approaches, officials in Louisiana and Mississippi are keeping an eye on storm Gustav.

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8/27/2008 7:26 PM - Views: 0 Rating: -

Growing new ear hairs that can boost hearing: study (AFP)

AFP - Scientists have used gene therapy on mouse embryos to grow hair cells with the potential to reduce hearing loss in adult animals, according to a study released Wednesday.

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8/27/2008 11:23 AM - Views: 0 Rating: -

13 dead as Gustav lashes Haiti, Dominican Republic (AFP)

AFP - Tropical Storm Gustav stalled over Haiti on Wednesday, lashing the impoverished country with heavy rain after striking it with hurricane force and killing 13 people.

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8/26/2008 11:05 PM - Views: 0 Rating: -

Scientists Learn How Nemo Finds His Way Home (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - How does the orange clownfish - aka Nemo from the movie "Finding Nemo" - really find its way home?

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8/26/2008 5:10 AM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Why We Are All Insane (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - Natural selection wants us to be crazy - at least a little bit. While true debilitating insanity is not nature's intention, many mental health issues may be byproducts of the over-functional human brain, some researchers claim.

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8/26/2008 12:30 AM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Delegates promote their causes in hats, buttons (AP)

AP - It was pretty easy to figure out that Monica Stonier cares about education, that Johnnie Patton supports more energy conservation and that Ruth Rudy wants the party to unify behind presidential nominee Barack Obama.

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8/26/2008 8:40 AM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Holy cow! Cattle possess magnetic compass: study (AFP)

AFP - European scientists who studied satellite images of cows and deer around the world have discovered that these animals tend to align themselves with Earth's north-south magnetic fields while they graze or rest.

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8/26/2008 8:25 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

6 more senators seek end to oil drilling impasse (AP)

AP - Six more senators on Tuesday joined a bipartisan group of 10 senators backing a bill they say will break the stalemate over offshore drilling in Congress.

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8/26/2008 11:12 AM - Views: 4 Rating: -

French wine makers look to the skies for help (Reuters)

Reuters - French vinters are turning to outer space to outwit foreign rivals, with new satellite technology giving an overview of vineyards' physical characteristics and potential.

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8/26/2008 4:32 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Extreme Recycling: Zoo Doo (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - Some zoos in the U.S. offer an exotic way to fertilize their gardens through a unique method of recycling waste from zoo animals.

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8/26/2008 3:11 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Animal Chatter More Varied Than Thought (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - Animals know how to speak up, pipe down, cut to the chase or spin a long yarn in order to stand out amidst the din when it comes to communicating with peers, a new set of studies suggests.

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8/26/2008 4:43 AM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Government to pay $1.1 billion in oil lease case (Reuters)

Reuters - A group of oil companies were awarded more than $1 billion by a U.S. court of appeals to recover their costs related to offshore leases in California.

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8/26/2008 6:41 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

FDA Allows Irradiation of Your Vegetables (LiveScience.com)

LiveScience.com - The Food and Drug Administration announced last week that it will allow food producers to irradiate spinach and iceberg lettuce to extend shelf life and limit the growth of food-borne pathogens, such as Salmonella and E. coli.

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8/26/2008 3:19 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Kuwait inflation to end year in double digits (AFP)

AFP - Inflation in OPEC member Kuwait, which hit a record 11.4 percent in April, is forecast to end the year in double figures on the back of high food and housing prices, an economic report said Tuesday.

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8/27/2008 9:28 PM - Views: 0 Rating: -

Arrest reopens mystery of missing Calif. couple (AP)

AP - Linda Sohus was a towering blonde fantasy buff who liked to paint unicorns. Her husband, Jonathan, was a diminutive computer programmer working at a NASA lab who shared his wife's passion for science fiction.

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8/27/2008 10:01 PM - Views: 0 Rating: -

Stuck Pin Delays Shuttle's Trek to Launch Pad (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - NASA engineers successfully freed a stuck metal pin on the space shuttle Atlantis late Tuesday, but the work delayed plans to roll the spacecraft out to its Florida launch pad this week.

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8/27/2008 6:19 AM - Views: 3 Rating: -

New space telescope begins to comb the cosmos (AFP)

AFP - A new space telescope revealed the glowing gas of the Milky Way, pulsating stars and a flaring faraway galaxy as it began its mission to unveil the mysteries of cosmic gamma rays, NASA said.

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8/26/2008 9:45 PM - Views: 1 Rating: -

Mars Rover Begins Climb Out of Vast Crater (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - NASA's Opportunity rover is slowly but surely hauling itself out of a vast Martian crater after nearly a year plumbing the interior for secrets of the red planet's ancient past.

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8/26/2008 11:31 PM - Views: 1 Rating: -

McCain to Bush: Keep Space Shuttle Options Open (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - WASHINGTON – Acknowledging that a NASA authorization bill is unlikely to be enacted this year, three Republican senators – including presidential candidate John McCain (R-Ariz.) – have written President George W. Bush imploring him to direct NASA to hold off for at least a year taking any action that would preclude the agency from flying space shuttles beyond 2010.

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8/26/2008 12:00 AM - Views: 2 Rating: -

NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity Climbing Out of Victoria Crater

NASA's Mars Exploration rover Opportunity is heading back out to the Red Planet's surrounding plains nearly a year after descending into a large Martian crater to examine exposed ancient rock layers.

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8/26/2008 12:00 AM - Views: 0 Rating: -

NASA Renames Observatory For Fermi, Reveals Entire Gamma-Ray Sky

NASA's newest observatory, the Gamma-Ray Large Area Space Telescope, or GLAST, has begun its mission of exploring the universe in high-energy gamma rays.

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8/25/2008 10:11 AM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Rosetta spacecraft meets asteroid Steins

ESA PR 35-2008. ESA’s Rosetta spacecraft will make a historic encounter with asteroid (2867) Steins on 5 September 2008. The doors of ESA’s European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) in Darmstadt, Germany, will be open to the media as of 18:00 on 5 September to follow the fly-by events.

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8/25/2008 12:00 AM - Views: 1 Rating: -

NASA Invites Media To Experience Lunar Exploration Up Close

Reporters will have a unique chance to experience lunar life, including driving across and touching a simulated moonscape, on Monday, Sept. 8, at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.

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8/25/2008 7:00 AM - Views: 0 Rating: -

XMM-Newton’s massive discovery

ESA’s orbiting X-ray observatory XMM-Newton has discovered the most massive cluster of galaxies seen in the distant Universe until now. The galaxy cluster is so big that there can only be a handful of them at that distance, making this a rare catch indeed. The discovery confirms the existence of dark energy.

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8/25/2008 12:00 AM - Views: 0 Rating: -

NASA's Space Shuttle Atlantis To Move To Launch Pad Saturday

NASA's Space Shuttle Atlantis To Move To Launch Pad Saturday

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8/25/2008 4:15 PM - Views: 0 Rating: -

Giant Galaxy Cluster Seen in Early Universe (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - Astronomers have glimpsed the largest cluster of galaxies ever seen in the distant, early universe.

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8/23/2008 5:03 PM - Views: 1 Rating: -

Iran plans to launch telecoms satellite: president (Reuters)

Reuters - Iran plans to launch a telecommunications satellite, the president said on Saturday, using missile technology the West fears is being developed to fire nuclear warheads.

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8/22/2008 10:02 PM - Views: 1 Rating: -

Russian Rocket: All Fueled Up, But No Place to Fly (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - In another frustrating foul-up on the path towards converting Soviet-era military missiles into cash-paying satellite launchers, a military-industrial team in Moscow has announced the 'indefinite suspension' of plans to launch an earth resources survey satellite for Thailand.

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8/22/2008 10:49 AM - Views: 4 Rating: -

GOCE Earth Explorer satellite to look at the Earth’s surface and core

ESA PR 34-2008. The European Space Agency is about to launch the most sophisticated mission ever to investigate the Earth’s gravitational field and to map the reference shape of our planet – the geoid - with unprecedented resolution and accuracy.

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8/22/2008 2:45 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Suborbital Rocket Carrying NASA Experiments Crashes off Wallops Island (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - WASHINGTON ? An Alliant Techsystems (ATK) ALV-X1 suborbital rocket carrying two NASA hypersonic flight experiments was destroyed by range officials shortly after its Friday launch from the U.S. space agency's Wallops Flight Facility on Virginia's eastern shore.

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8/22/2008 2:00 PM - Views: 0 Rating: -

'Mars Webcam' now online

The Visual Monitoring Camera (VMC) mounted on Mars Express was dormant after its first and only operational use in 2003. It is now back in action as the 'Mars Webcam', providing views of the Red Planet that are not obtainable from Earth.Full story

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8/22/2008 12:00 AM - Views: 0 Rating: -

Media Telecon Scheduled To Discuss Rocket Launch Failure

Representatives from NASA and Alliant Techsystems, or ATK, will hold a media teleconference Friday morning at 10:30 a.m. EDT to discuss this morning's failure of a rocket launch carrying two NASA hypersonic experimental payloads.

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8/22/2008 12:00 AM - Views: 0 Rating: -

NASA and ATK Investigate Failed Launch Of Hypersonic Experiments

An Alliant Techsystems suborbital rocket carrying two NASA hypersonic experiments was destroyed by range safety officials shortly after liftoff from NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia Friday. No injuries or property damage were reported.

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8/21/2008 8:25 AM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Hubble sees magnetic monster in erupting galaxy

The Hubble Space Telescope has found the answer to a long-standing puzzle by seeing the details of giant but delicate filaments shaped by a strong magnetic field around the active galaxy NGC 1275.

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8/21/2008 12:00 AM - Views: 4 Rating: -

NASA Kennedy to Reopen for Normal Operations Friday

Managers at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Fla., plan to reopen the center for normal operations Friday morning for workers' first shift.

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8/21/2008 12:00 AM - Views: 1 Rating: -

NASA Ames Awards Contract for Engineering Support

Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif., Thursday awarded a cost plus fixed fee indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity task order contract valued at $42 million to ASRC Research and Technology Solutions (ARTS), of Greenbelt, Md.

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8/21/2008 8:45 PM - Views: 1 Rating: -

Parachute Test Fails for NASA's New Spaceship (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - A mock-up of NASA's Orion space shuttle successor twisted, tumbled and fell from thousands of feet up after a parachute failed to inflate properly during a July 31 test.

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8/20/2008 12:00 AM - Views: 1 Rating: -

Space Station Provides Boost To High School Students In California

Students from Buchanan High School in Clovis, Calif., who are taking part in a 48 hour space station simulation, will get an extra boost when they receive a call from the real International Space Station.

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8/18/2008 11:14 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Latest ESA Bulletin (No. 135, August 2008) now online

The cover story of this issue of ESA’s flagship magazine, the Bulletin, is about Venus Express - we feature results which could answer some of the greatest mysteries about our nearest planetary neighbour.

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8/19/2008 12:00 AM - Views: 3 Rating: -

NASA to Announce New Name For GLAST, First Light Findings

NASA will hold a media teleconference on Tuesday, August 26, at 2 p.m. EDT, to announce the first results from NASA's Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope and the observatory's new name.

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8/19/2008 2:32 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

New Thin Skin to Protect Tiny Spacecraft (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - Fleets of miniature spacecraft may now be closer to liftoff.

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8/19/2008 12:00 AM - Views: 1 Rating: -

NASA Ames Awards Contract For Aerospace Testing Support

NASA's Ames Research Center at Moffett Field, Calif., Monday awarded a contract modification valued at $34.8 million to Jacobs Technology Inc. of Tullahoma, Tenn.

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8/19/2008 12:00 AM - Views: 1 Rating: -

NASA Seeks Input For Commercial Lunar Communications & Navigation

NASA issued a Request for Information, or RFI, on Monday to gauge interest and solicit ideas from private companies in providing communications and navigation services that would support the development of exploration, scientific and commercial capabilities on the moon over the next 25 years.

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8/19/2008 12:00 AM - Views: 1 Rating: -

NASA's Kennedy Space Center Closes for Tropical Storm Fay

NASA's Kennedy Space Center will be closed Tuesday, Aug. 19, because of the potential threat from Tropical Storm Fay. Current plans call for the center to be closed for 24 hours.

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8/18/2008 12:00 AM - Views: 4 Rating: -

NASA Engineers Complete Engine Test Series For Ares I Rocket

Engineers at NASA's Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Ala., have completed a series of tests on a key component of the J-2X engine. The J-2X powers the upper stage of the Ares I rocket, which will launch human explorers to the International Space Station and to the moon.

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8/18/2008 9:54 AM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Iran ready to put Muslim countries' satellite in orbit (Reuters)

Reuters - Iran said on Monday it was ready to help fellow Muslim states launch satellites into orbit after it successfully put a dummy satellite into orbit -- a move that may increase Western suspicions over its atomic ambitions.

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8/17/2008 11:29 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Venezuela seeks observation satellite in five years (Reuters)

Reuters - Washington-foe Venezuela plans to launch an observation satellite within five years to map its territory, President Hugo Chavez said on Sunday.

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8/18/2008 12:00 AM - Views: 1 Rating: -

NASA To Brief Media About Ares I Thrust Oscillation Plans

NASA will host a media teleconference on Tuesday, Aug. 19, at 11:30 a.m. EDT, to discuss results and recommendations from the Ares I thrust oscillation focus team.

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8/18/2008 10:45 AM - Views: 1 Rating: -

First Japan-built Commercial Satellite Launched by Ariane 5 (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - PONTE VEDRA, Fla. ? Europe's Ariane 5 ECA rocket successfully launched Japanese and U.S. telecommunications satellites Aug. 14 in the fifth of a planned seven launches in 2008, and was the vehicle's 27th consecutive success.

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8/18/2008 3:07 PM - Views: 1 Rating: -

New minor planet helps explain comets (Reuters)

Reuters - A newly discovered "minor planet" with an elongated orbit around the Sun may help explain the origin of comets, researchers said on Monday.

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8/18/2008 4:00 PM - Views: 0 Rating: -

Perfect sight: Rosetta cameras track asteroid target

On 14 August, Rosetta conducted a successful trajectory correction manoeuvre using data obtained from ESA's first-ever optical tracking of an asteroid target, (2867) Steins. Images from the spacecraft's cameras were used to calculate the asteroid's location and optimise its trajectory for fly-by next month.

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8/17/2008 5:52 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

CORRECTED (OFFICIAL): Iran puts first dummy satellite in space (Reuters)

Reuters - (Iranian official says Iran launched satellite carrier, not satellite, into space)

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8/17/2008 3:33 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Iran says launches first home-built satellite (AFP)

AFP - Iran said it successfully launched its first domestically produced satellite into orbit on Sunday, a move that could further exacerbate tensions with the West over its nuclear drive.

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8/15/2008 9:02 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Cassini Spots Icy Jet Sources on Saturn Moon (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - The Cassini probe has pinpointed exact locations where icy jets erupt from Saturn's icy moon Enceladus.

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8/15/2008 12:00 AM - Views: 5 Rating: -

NASA Kennedy Space Center Awards Custodial Services Contract

NASA has selected Brevard Achievement Center Inc., of Rockledge, Fla., to provide custodial services at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Fla.

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8/15/2008 7:30 AM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Ariane 5 - Fifth launch of 2008

Yesterday evening, an Ariane 5 ECA launcher lifted off from Europe’s Spaceport at Kourou, in French Guiana, on its mission to place two telecommunications satellites into geostationary transfer orbits.

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8/15/2008 10:43 AM - Views: 3 Rating: -

China's lunar satellite faces eclipse challenge (AFP)

AFP - China's first lunar satellite, which has been turning around the moon for nearly nine months, will be stripped of its solar energy supply Sunday when the earth eclipses the sun, state media said Friday.

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8/15/2008 12:00 AM - Views: 1 Rating: -

NASA To Take Corrective Action In Spacesuit Contract Protest

NASA has concluded that corrective action is appropriate in the Government Accountability Office bid protest of Exploration Systems & Technology, Inc. NASA determined that a compliance issue requires the termination of the contract for the Constellation Space Suit System with Oceaneering International, Inc. of Houston for the convenience of the government

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8/14/2008 7:04 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

NASA Gets First Image of a Mars Dust Particle (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - NASA's Phoenix Mars Lander has taken its first-ever picture of a single particle of rusty Martian dust with one of its microscopes.

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8/13/2008 12:00 AM - Views: 4 Rating: -

NASA Astronaut Ready to Answer Your Questions From Space

Flying 220 miles above the Earth aboard the International Space Station, NASA astronaut Greg Chamitoff is ready to take your questions.

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8/12/2008 10:46 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Shuttle Astronauts Eager for Risky Mission to Hubble (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - Seven NASA astronauts are eagerly looking forward to a risky, but pivotal, shuttle flight to the Hubble Space Telescope this fall.

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8/11/2008 10:45 PM - Views: 5 Rating: -

NASA: Shuttle Successor to Fly no Earlier Than 2014 (SPACE.com)

SPACE.com - NASA's first manned test flight of the Orion spacecraft that will replace the retiring U.S. space shuttles won't launch until 2014, a year later than the agency hoped, due to funding and technical concerns, program managers said Monday.

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8/27/2008 11:38 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Digger: Party political spat erupts over Olympic cash

An open row has broken out between the sports minister Gerry Sutcliffe and the BOA chairman Colin Moynihan

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8/27/2008 11:17 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Premier League: Milner had 'no option' but to ask Newcastle for a transfer

James Milner had no choice but to put in a transfer request according to Mick McGuire, the PFA's deputy chief executive

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8/28/2008 9:17 AM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Classic YouTube: Treading the boards, kicking the ref and tormenting el toro

This week's YouTube round-up features sport stars' pitching for Oscars, infuriated taekwondo players, and politically correct bullfighters

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8/27/2008 9:17 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Champions League: Jet-heeled Walcott leads way as Arsenal get back up to speed

The Gunners produced a consummate performance to defeat FC Twente 4-0 in the second leg of their Champions League qualifier

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8/28/2008 1:16 AM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Premier League: Curbishley defiant after jeers

Despite being booed by West Ham supporters, Alan Curbishley is confident that he will not be sacked

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8/27/2008 11:17 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Premier Leagie: Cup-tied Pavlyuchenko set to finalise Spurs move

Tottenham Hotspur are close to signing Russian international Roman Pavlyuchenko from Spartak Moscow for £12m

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8/28/2008 1:25 AM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Football: Carling Cup - Blackburn 4-1 Grimsby

Carlos Villanueva was the star as Rovers overturned an early Grimsby lead to move into the third round

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8/27/2008 10:01 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Champions League: Kuyt strikes late to save limp and lucky Liverpool

A late extra-time goal from Dirk Kuyt saved Liverpool from embarassment against an unlucky Standard Liège

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8/27/2008 11:17 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

US Open Tennis: Keothavong knocks out seeded Italian Francesca Schiavone to march into third round

Britain's No1 Anna Keothavong beat Francesca Schiavone 6-2, 3-6, 6-4 in the second round of the US Open

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8/28/2008 1:16 AM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Football: Surgery forces Gerrard out of World Cup double header

England will be without Steven Gerrard for their upcoming qualifiers after the midfielder was ruled out with a groin injury

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8/27/2008 11:17 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Andy Hunter: Relieved Benítez sees revival ahead thanks to Reina

The Liverpool manager rued the injury to Steve Gerrard against Standard Liège but was buoyed by his goalkeeper's fine performance

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8/27/2008 11:39 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Rugby union: Magners League to adopt play-offs next season

The Magners League's chairman David Jordan has announced that a top four conclusion will be in place by 2009-10

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8/27/2008 11:38 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Snooker: Mark Selby quick to make his mark in Premier League

Masters champion Mark Selby beat Andrew Higginson 5-1 to reach the last 16 of the Northern Ireland trophy

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8/27/2008 11:17 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Football: Burley recalls O'Connor for double header

There are places for Shaun Maloney and Garry O'Connor in George Burley's Scotland squad for the games against Macedonia and Iceland.

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8/27/2008 9:14 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

BoSox move 7 games up on Yanks, win 11-3 (AP)

At this rate, the relentless Boston Red Sox might eliminate the Yankees sooner than anyone thought. Jason Bay drove in four runs, Dustin Pedroia hit a grand slam and Boston routed the listless Yankees 11-3 on Wednesday night, putting an emphatic dent in New York's dwindling playoff chances. "I never write the Yankees off until the season's over and the standings are set," Pedroia said.

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8/28/2008 1:32 AM - Views: 1 Rating: -

Brian Barwick

Brian Barwick swaps the FA for life as a Muppet, Captain Mainwaring and, slightly less predictably, Alicia Silverstone

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8/27/2008 11:17 PM - Views: 1 Rating: -

Tennis: Andy Murray can be a great if he keeps doing what I told him, says Brad Gilbert

Brad Gilbert tells Lawrence Donegan why he split with the British No1 and justifies his much-criticised work with Alex Bogdanovic

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8/27/2008 11:17 PM - Views: 1 Rating: -

Premier League: Robinho may make debut against Spurs

Robinho is close to joining Chelsea, after a fee of around £28.7m was agreed with Real Madrid

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8/28/2008 8:49 AM - Views: 1 Rating: -

Thursday's football transfer rumours: Wright-Phillips back to Man City

Today's rumours are feeling dizzy. Still.

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8/28/2008 10:22 AM - Views: 1 Rating: -

Poll: Should Monty be givena Ryder Cup wild card?

Colin Montgomerie believes his record in the biennial contest puts him in the frame to be one of Nick Faldo's two wild cards if he wins the Johnnie Walker Championship this week. But given his recent form, does he deserve a start?

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8/27/2008 11:08 PM - Views: 1 Rating: -

Matt Scott: Just how bad was our Olympics show?

Matt Scott: Having to project London's Olympic credentials to an audience of 1.5 billion in only eight minutes was never going to be easy

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8/27/2008 11:17 PM - Views: 1 Rating: -

Golf: End of the Colin Montgomerie era is nigh as Nick Faldo prepares his picks for the Ryder Cup

The Scot's Ryder Cup hopes are waning as Europe's team reaches crunch weekend, writes Lawrence Donegan

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8/27/2008 11:09 PM - Views: 0 Rating: -

Claire Armitstead on cycling

Claire Armitstead: To place too much emphasis on top-level sporting facilities is to miss the point that distinguishes cycling from most other Olympic sports

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8/27/2008 11:17 PM - Views: 0 Rating: -

League Cup: Murphy crowns late Fulham comeback over lively Leicester

Fulham needed a last-gasp goal from Danny Murphy in order to beat a resilient Leicester City side 3-2

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8/27/2008 11:17 PM - Views: 0 Rating: -

Cricket: Tony Greig was great - but captain Kevin Pietersen can be even better, writes Paul Weaver

He might not be as charismatic as the former England skipper but Kevin Pietersen leads by brilliant example, writes Paul Weaver

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8/27/2008 12:12 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Win tickets to see England v South Africa

Get your hands on tickets to see Kevin Pietersen's men in action

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8/26/2008 11:15 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Response: Our horses are equine divas, born to perform on a sandy stage

Response: Dressage expresses the grace and beauty of these animals - there is no cruelty involved, says Claire Booth

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8/26/2008 11:17 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Basketball: Deng may miss Britain's European qualifiers

Great Britain may have to play their European qualifying campaign without their Chicago Bulls forward Luol Deng

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8/27/2008 8:25 AM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Wednesday's football transfer rumours: Anyone Brazilian to Chelsea

Kaka, Fabiano and Robinho to Chelsea | Ljungberg to Portsmouth | Grella to Blackburn

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8/26/2008 9:53 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Football: Carling Cup - Cheltenham Town 2-3 Stoke City

Stoke fielded a weakened side, but managed to overcome plucky Carling Cup opponents Cheltenham by the odd goal in five

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8/26/2008 11:17 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Football: Rafael Benítez demands all-round improvement at Anfield

Ahead of Liverpool's second leg match against Standard Liège, Rafa Benitez warned his team that he wanted a massive improvement

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8/26/2008 11:17 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Cricket: The new captain was considered a risk but has transformed his players, writes David Hopps

Three wins from three games points to an auspicious start for England's charismatic new captain, writes David Hopps

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8/26/2008 11:17 PM - Views: 4 Rating: -

Cricket: Stuart Broad and Matt Prior raise games to bury homesick tourists

Stuart Broad took five for 23 as England inflicted a humiliating defeat on an abject South Africa

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8/27/2008 2:16 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Football: Gareth Barry's agent has said the player will stay at Aston Villa

Gareth Barry's agent said today that the Aston Villa midfield player would not be leaving Villa Park this summer

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8/27/2008 10:04 AM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Humphrey, Hayes up for pro football Hall (AP)

Claude Humphrey and Bob Hayes were nominated by the seniors committee Wednesday as finalists for the Pro Football Hall of Fame. Hayes, an Olympic gold medalist as a sprinter, played for Dallas from 1965-74 and for San Francisco in 1975. He averaged 20 yards a catch for his career and led the NFL with a 20.8-yard average per punt return in 1968.

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8/26/2008 11:17 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Cricket: Seamer gives England an early night

Stuart Broad returned his best ODI figures to help restrict South Africa to their fourth-lowest total against England

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8/27/2008 12:17 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Football: Newcastle United's James Milner hands in transfer request

Newcastle midfielder James Milner has submitted a written transfer request, the club have confirmed

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8/27/2008 12:14 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Boras claims No. 2 pick's deal not valid (AP)

Pedro Alvarez, the No. 2 pick in June amateur draft, was placed on Major League Baseball's restricted list Wednesday after his agent claimed the contract Alvarez agreed to with the Pittsburgh Pirates minutes before the Aug. 15 signing deadline is not valid. Alvarez, the Vanderbilt third baseman, agreed to a minor league deal with a $6 million signing bonus, the amount the Pirates offered early in...

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8/26/2008 11:56 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Horse racing: Fences off the agenda for classy Sizing

Henry de Bromhead has announced that Sizing Europe will have another tilt at the Champion Hurdle

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8/27/2008 7:39 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Mets rally past Phillies, into East lead (AP)

This resilient group sure isn't last year's New York Mets. Daniel Murphy hit a tiebreaking double after Carlos Delgado's second solo homer had tied the game in the eighth and the Mets beat Philadelphia 6-3 on Wednesday night to reclaim first place in the NL East. Ryan Howard hit a two-run homer and Jayson Werth homered for the Phillies, who fell a half-game behind the Mets in the division.

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8/26/2008 11:17 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Olympics 2008: Golden shoes and Adlington mania greet returning Olympic double medal winner

Becky Adlington puts Mansfield on the map, as 5,000 people welcome her return home

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8/26/2008 11:17 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Football: Wales - Earnshaw back for Wales as Toshack executes u-turn

After initially leaving him out of the squad, Wales manager John Toshack has called on Robert Earnshaw to replace injured Freddy Eastwood

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8/26/2008 9:35 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Phils rally by Mets in 13, move into 1st (AP)

Brett Myers' pinch-hit appearance drew laughs in the dugout. Chris Coste's clutch hit gave them reason to celebrate. Coste hit an RBI single in the bottom of the 13th inning and the Philadelphia Phillies overcame a 7-0 deficit to beat the New York Mets 8-7 on Tuesday night and retake the lead in the NL East.

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8/26/2008 11:05 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

The Knowledge: when pre-match entertainment goes horribly, horribly wrong

Plus: returning to the game after long spells out; horrific injuries while celebrating (2); and players moving for the money

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8/27/2008 5:27 PM - Views: 3 Rating: -

Football: George Burley names experience squad for Scotland's World Cup qualifiers

George Burley has rejected criticism of his early tenure as Scotland manager and named an experienced squad for the World Cup qualifiers

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8/27/2008 12:59 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Football: Ferdinand completes Sunderland switch

Sunderland have completed the signing of central defender Anton Ferdinand from West Ham United on a four-year deal

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8/27/2008 1:50 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Federer breaks new ground as title defence begins in style

Roger Federer opened the defence of his US Open title with a comfortable win over Argentina's Maximo Gonzalez

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8/26/2008 11:34 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Football: I'm going to join Tottenham, says Roman Pavlyuchenko

Spartak Moscow's Roman Pavlyuchenko has confirmed that he is close to a a £12m move to Tottenham

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8/27/2008 2:55 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Candrea retires as US softball coach (AP)

Mike Candrea, the Arizona softball coach whose bid to lead the United States to a second gold medal ended with a loss to Japan in the Beijing title game, stepped down Wednesday as coach of the national team. Candrea had guided the Americans since 2002 and went 17-1 in Olympic play. The only defeat was a 3-1 loss to Japan in the gold medal game last week.

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8/27/2008 4:11 PM - Views: 2 Rating: -

Football: Senderos completes Milan move

Arsenal have confirmed that Swiss defender Philippe Senderos has joined AC Milan on a season-long loan