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Oxygen envelops Saturn's icy moon

BBC - News - Wed, 2025-05-21 17:56
A Nasa spacecraft detects oxygen around one of Saturn's icy moons.
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VIDEO: Why do people believe in witchcraft?

BBC - News - Wed, 2025-05-21 17:56
The murder of Kristy Bamu has raised concerns about the spread of a belief in Kindoki from DR Congo to migrant communities in the UK and elsewhere.
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Wary eye on skies in towns hit by deadly twisters

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2025-05-21 17:56
HARRISBURG, Ill. (AP) -- Kera Wise picked through the fragments of her aunt and uncle's tornado-ruined home with a determined hustle under clear skies that weather forecasters warned soon might again turn dark and dangerous....
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Florida mulls outlawing Shariah, other foreign law

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2025-05-21 17:56
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) -- A measure to ban the use of foreign laws in domestic courtrooms is progressing in Florida's statehouse, one of dozens of similar efforts across the country that critics call an unwarranted campaign driven by fear of Muslims....
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Petrol price reaches record high

BBC - News - Wed, 2025-05-21 17:56
The average price of unleaded petrol reaches a new high of 137.44p per litre, according to industry analysts Experian Catalist.
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Bodies of 2 missing crew found after chopper crash

AP - U.S. News - Wed, 2025-05-21 17:56
MOBILE, Ala. (AP) -- U.S. Coast Guard officials said they've recovered the bodies of two of the three crewmembers who had been missing since a helicopter crashed in Mobile Bay in Alabama....
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Quiz of the week's news

BBC - News - Wed, 2025-05-21 17:56
Which Oscar winner rehearsed the speech 'before birth'?
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France announces it's closing embassy in Syria

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-21 17:56
BRUSSELS (AP) -- French President Nicolas Sarkozy says his country is closing its embassy in Syria....

Refugee train departs Sudan capital for south

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-21 17:56
KHARTOUM, Sudan (AP) -- The International Organization for Migration says a 60-car train carrying 1,400 refugees has left Sudan's capital for the newly independent south. The passengers are the first of hundreds of thousands expected to make the arduous journey in the months ahead....

Men guilty of prison riot charges

BBC - News - Wed, 2025-05-21 17:56
Five men are convicted on charges relating to a riot at Ford Open Prison in West Sussex where £5m of damage was caused.
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Horse adds light relief to UK phone hacking saga

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-21 17:56
LONDON (AP) -- It was a gift horse to British cartoonists....

Honey map appeal in MRSA research

BBC - News - Wed, 2025-05-21 17:56
Bee keepers in mid and north Wales are urged to help with research into the healing properties of honey as scientists look to counter MRSA.
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Snowe exits in frustration with Senate gridlock

AP - Politics - Wed, 2025-05-21 17:56
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Maine Republican Olympia Snowe says the Senate spends too much time in political battle and not enough on solving problems, and more than a few of her colleagues agree....

Snowe exits in frustration with Senate gridlock

AP - Politics - Wed, 2025-05-21 17:56
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Maine Republican Olympia Snowe says the Senate spends too much time in political battle and not enough on solving problems, and more than a few of her colleagues agree....

Snowe exits in frustration with Senate gridlock

AP - Politics - Wed, 2025-05-21 17:56
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Maine Republican Olympia Snowe says the Senate spends too much time in political battle and not enough on solving problems, and more than a few of her colleagues agree....

Snowe exits in frustration with Senate gridlock

AP - Politics - Wed, 2025-05-21 17:56
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Maine Republican Olympia Snowe says the Senate spends too much time in political battle and not enough on solving problems, and more than a few of her colleagues agree....

Snowe exits in frustration with Senate gridlock

AP - Politics - Wed, 2025-05-21 17:56
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Maine Republican Olympia Snowe says the Senate spends too much time in political battle and not enough on solving problems, and more than a few of her colleagues agree....

Extend or end it? GOP voters torn over best route

AP - Politics - Wed, 2025-05-21 17:56
SPOKANE, Wash. (AP) -- To hear some weary rank-and-file Republicans tell it, the increasingly bitter fight for the party's presidential nomination can't end quickly enough....

US troops tread carefully amid Korea tensions

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-21 17:56
OBSERVATION POST OUELLETTE, South Korea (AP) -- Lt. Col. Edward Taylor stands behind a wall of sandbags overlooking the North Korean landscape and a bank of trees along the most fortified border in the world. The trees obstruct the view, he explains. They need to come down....

US troops tread carefully amid Korea tensions

AP - World News - Wed, 2025-05-21 17:56
OBSERVATION POST OUELLETTE, South Korea (AP) -- Lt. Col. Edward Taylor stands behind a wall of sandbags overlooking the North Korean landscape and a bank of trees along the most fortified border in the world. The trees obstruct the view, he explains. They need to come down....
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