Gianni Versace items sold
March 19th, 2009 - 1:12 pm ICT by Amrit Rashmisrisethi
On Wednesday, fashion designer Gianni Versace's opulent villa on the shores of Italy's Lake Como sold for more than seven million pounds, Sotheby's auction house told.Over 12 hours of heated bidding, the ... Read more...
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George Clooney denies renting Italian villa to Becks
February 28th, 2009 - 2:53 pm ICT by ANI
London, Feb 28 (ANI): George Clooney has dismissed suggestions that he has lent his Italian villa to British soccer ace David Beckham.He was reacting to the reports that said that The ... Read more...
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How we got our first teeth revealed
February 10th, 2009 - 1:40 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, February 10 (ANI): Scientists have discovered a network of genes that gave humans their first tooth.
Gareth Fraser, postdoctoral fellow at Georgia Tech''s School of Biology, describes it as a ... Read more...
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Bailout, going green among words grammarians would like banned from English language
January 2nd, 2009 - 5:23 pm ICT by ANI
Melbourne, Jan 2 (ANI): A survey carried out by a US university on the usage of words and phrases has found that grammarians would like some of them to be removed ... Read more...
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Obama inundated with homemade gifts from Hawaiian locals
December 27th, 2008 - 6:19 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, Dec 27 (ANI): Hawaiian people are leaving no stones unturned to make Barack Obamas holiday vacation a special one and are giving him special gifts like three bean salad, bicycle ... Read more...
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Strong earthquake rocks Russia’s Lake Baikal
August 27th, 2008 - 3:45 pm ICT by IANS
Moscow, Aug 27 (Xinhua) An earthquake measuring 6 on the Richter scale hit the southern areas of Russia's Lake Baikal Wednesday morning, Russian news agencies reported. There was no immediate report of ... Read more...
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Scientists examine how Lake Baikal ‘drinks’ oil
August 5th, 2008 - 8:36 pm ICT by IANS
RIA Novosti
Novosibirsk (Russia), Aug 5 (RIA Novosti) Russian scientists exploring the depths of Siberia's Lake Baikal are studying the processes through which the lake's organisms digest crude oil that seeps from cracks ... Read more...
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Saturn’’s moon Titan has a lake containing liquid hydrocarbons
July 31st, 2008 - 12:16 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, July 31 (ANI): NASA scientists have confirmed the presence of a large lake on Saturn''s moon Titan, which contains liquid hydrocarbons, making it the only body in our solar system ... Read more...
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Saturn’s moon Titan has liquid lake: NASA
July 31st, 2008 - 11:23 am ICT by IANS
Washington, July 31 (Xinhua) At least one of the large lakes observed on Saturn's moon Titan contains liquid hydrocarbons, NASA scientists have said. They have also identified presence of ethane. This makes ... Read more...
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Russian submersibles to explore Lake Baikal
July 9th, 2008 - 11:22 pm ICT by IANS
RIA Novosti
Kaliningrad (Russia), July 9 (RIA Novosti) Two Russian submersibles will make their first dive at Russia's Lake Baikal as part of scientific research for the Russian Academy of Sciences, a spokesman ... Read more...
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Now take air-powered go-karts for a spin
June 8th, 2008 - 3:55 pm ICT by ANI
Washington, June 8 (ANI): With fuel prices soaring, there is a need to look for alternatives to petrol, gas and diesel, and the answer to the problem lies in air literally ... Read more...
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Guards clash with pro and anti-Chinese protesters during Canberra Olympic torch relay
April 24th, 2008 - 12:42 pm ICT by admin
Melbourne, Apr.24 (ANI): Australian police jostled with Chinese flame attendants and wrestled pro-Tibet protesters to the ground as the Olympic torch made its way through Canberra on Thursday.
The relay has now ... Read more...
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Pro-Tibet vigil held in Canberra
April 24th, 2008 - 1:23 am ICT by admin
Sydney, Apr.23 (ANI): Pro-Tibet activists have held a vigil outside the Chinese embassy in Canberra where they were urged to avoid clashing with pro-China demonstrators during tomorrow's Olympic torch relay.
About 150 ... Read more...
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Saturn moon’s mysterious vapour plumes could be key to alien life
March 17th, 2008 - 2:54 pm ICT by admin
DPA
Hamburg (Germany), March 17 (DPA) Scientists on NASA's Cassini mission are counting on the probe's next fly-by to provide them with possible clues to alien life following discovery of water vapour plumes ... Read more...
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Releases of potent greenhouse gas may have helped end ice ages
February 27th, 2008 - 2:39 pm ICT by admin
Washington, Feb 27 (ANI): A new research has suggested that vast releases of a potent greenhouse gas from the oceans may have helped trigger the ends of past ice ages, which if ... Read more...
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