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- Choosy females play critical role in diversity: study
- Battle for power
- VIDEO: Gibraltar employs struggling Spaniards
- No more water leak at Penly 2 nuclear reactor - EDF
- Myanmar holds new peace talks with ethnic rebels
- Austerity tax could 'kill off' French bookstores
- Ethiopia's resettlement plan falls short on development
- VIDEO: Rarest ducklings on Earth hatch
- VIDEO: Duchess recalls Beatlemania days
- NGO calls on government to check records of African students before issuing visa
- UN report: Malaysia 51st "happiest country" in the world
- Anonymous says it will hack more Chinese sites
- N.Korea leader visits navy amid rocket launch tensions
- Airborne prayers problem solved for tech-savvy Muslims
- China tells military to ignore rumours, obey party
- U.S. Coast Guard scuttles Japanese tsunami ship
- China tells military to ignore rumours, obey party
- China opens trial of accused smuggling kingpin Lai
- Pope reaffirms ban on women priests, assails disobedience
- U.S. not backing off as Iran sanctions bite
| Choosy females play critical role in diversity: study Posted: 06 Apr 2012 12:38 AM PDT Picky females play a critical role in the survival and diversity of species, according to a Nature study published on Sunday.
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| Posted: 06 Apr 2012 12:10 AM PDT There is nothing absolutely fair in the world. Even parents would prefer a child than the others, let alone politics.
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| VIDEO: Gibraltar employs struggling Spaniards Posted: 05 Apr 2012 11:42 PM PDT Spain's unemployment problems are forcing some people to cross the border into the neighbouring British territory of Gibraltar, where there is almost full employment. Tom Burridge reports.
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| No more water leak at Penly 2 nuclear reactor - EDF Posted: 05 Apr 2012 11:07 PM PDT PARIS (Reuters) - France's EDF said on Friday that there was no more water leak at the pump of the Penly 2 nuclear reactor in north-western France and that the cooling system was back to normal. 
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| Myanmar holds new peace talks with ethnic rebels Posted: 05 Apr 2012 11:32 PM PDT Myanmar on Friday held its highest level peace talks so far with rebels from war-torn Karen state following a tentative ceasefire agreement inked earlier this year.
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| Austerity tax could 'kill off' French bookstores Posted: 05 Apr 2012 11:00 PM PDT France's small bookstores have survived the rise of big chains, Amazon and digital books, but many fear a sales tax rise, part of the debt-saddled government's austerity plans, could push them out of business.
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| Ethiopia's resettlement plan falls short on development Posted: 05 Apr 2012 10:58 PM PDT When the Ethiopian government asked Thwol Othoy if he wanted to be resettled, he agreed, attracted by promises of a better life - a clinic, school for his children and land to farm.
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| VIDEO: Rarest ducklings on Earth hatch Posted: 05 Apr 2012 11:02 PM PDT Eighteen Madagascan pochards - the world's most endangered duck - have hatched in a captive breeding centre.
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| VIDEO: Duchess recalls Beatlemania days Posted: 05 Apr 2012 07:04 AM PDT The Duchess of Cornwall recalls being caught up in Beatlemania, on a visit to a number of Beatles attractions in Liverpool.
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| NGO calls on government to check records of African students before issuing visa Posted: 05 Apr 2012 10:46 PM PDT The government should check the records of students applying for student visas especially from African countries earlier in their respective home country before allowing them to enter Malaysia.
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| UN report: Malaysia 51st "happiest country" in the world Posted: 05 Apr 2012 10:45 PM PDT If happiness could be measured the way a country's economic performance is measured in terms of gross national product or gross domestic product, then Malaysia would be the world's 51st happiest country.
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| Anonymous says it will hack more Chinese sites Posted: 05 Apr 2012 10:37 PM PDT The hacking group Anonymous said Friday it would continue targeting China, after announcing it had hacked hundreds of Chinese websites to protest against Internet censorship in the country.
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| N.Korea leader visits navy amid rocket launch tensions Posted: 05 Apr 2012 10:35 PM PDT North Korea's new leader Kim Jong-Un has visited the naval unit that captured a US spy ship in 1968, the official news agency said Friday, amid tensions over its planned satellite launch.
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| Airborne prayers problem solved for tech-savvy Muslims Posted: 05 Apr 2012 10:35 PM PDT As a frequent flier and devout Muslim, businessman Abdalhamid Evans always comes up against the same challenge in the air: when to say his prayers.
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| China tells military to ignore rumours, obey party Posted: 05 Apr 2012 10:21 PM PDT BEIJING (Reuters) - China's top military newspaper told troops on Friday to ignore rumours on the Internet and steel themselves for "ideological struggle" as the ruling Communist Party faces a leadership transition, in a sign of jitters in Beijing. 
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| U.S. Coast Guard scuttles Japanese tsunami ship Posted: 05 Apr 2012 09:30 PM PDT ANCHORAGE, Alaska (Reuters) - The U.S. Coast Guard, firing repeated machine-gun blasts from one of its cutters, on Thursday scuttled an abandoned Japanese "ghost ship" that had been washed out to sea near Alaska by last year's devastating tsunami. 
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| China tells military to ignore rumours, obey party Posted: 05 Apr 2012 09:38 PM PDT BEIJING, April 6 — China's top military newspaper told troops today to ignore rumours on the Internet and steel themselves for "ideological struggle" as the ruling Communist Party faces a leadership transition, in a sign of jitters in Beijing. The Liberation Army Daily did not mention outlandish rumours of a foiled coup in Beijing that spread on ... 
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| China opens trial of accused smuggling kingpin Lai Posted: 05 Apr 2012 09:30 PM PDT BEIJING, April 6 — China began hearing the case today against the alleged head of a vast smuggling ring, the official Xinhua news agency said, China's most wanted man until he was deported by Canada last year after a decades-long legal battle. China accuses Lai Changxing of running a multi-billion dollar smuggling operation of unprecedented scale ... 
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| Pope reaffirms ban on women priests, assails disobedience Posted: 05 Apr 2012 08:01 PM PDT VATICAN CITY, April 6 — Pope Benedict yesterday restated the Roman Catholic Church's ban on women priests and warned that he would not tolerate disobedience by clerics on fundamental teachings. Benedict, who for decades before his 2005 election was the Vatican's chief doctrinal enforcer, delivered an unusually direct denunciation of disobedient ... 
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| U.S. not backing off as Iran sanctions bite Posted: 05 Apr 2012 08:38 PM PDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Obama administration's man in charge of squeezing Tehran over its nuclear program is unapologetic for the difficulties faced by banks in their dealings with Iran since the U.S. tightened sanctions against the country. 
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