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Putin: Mafia or Soviet Throwback?

With remarks reported in a Russian newspaper last week, that he wanted to encourage the formation of a "Eurasian Union" of former Soviet states, birthday boy Vladimir Putin was accused by many of wanting to go back to the Communist past.
11 Oct 2011

Swedish Poet Wins 2011 Nobel Prize for Literature

The Swedish Academy praised the poet, saying, "because, through his condensed, translucent images, he gives us fresh access to reality".
6 Oct 2011

What is an Ocean Dead Zone?

Perhaps the most infamous U.S. dead zone is an 8,500 square mile swath of the Gulf of Mexico, not far from where the nutrient-laden Mississippi River, which drains farms up and down the Midwest, lets out.
27 Aug 2011

Murdoch's Meltdown

From the trenches of the UK phone hacking scandal, British journalist Colin Graham says that News International has always been a somewhat sinister organization.

New Dinosaur Hall Opens in Los Angeles

Recent research suggests Tyrannosaurus rex ate one another, but we don’t know if they killed one another.

UN Calls for Global Study on Violence and Discrimination Against LGBT Community

The UN asks how can international human rights law be used to end violence and related human rights violations based on sexual orientation and gender identity.

France and Germany Stand Behind the Euro

"Never will we turn our backs on the euro, never will we drop the euro," declared President Nicolas Sarkozy of France at the World Economic Forum Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland.

Plants Risk Worldwide Extinction

The UK-based nonprofit, Plantlife, found that 15,000 of the 50,000 species of wild plants used in traditional remedies are being overexploited and are potentially headed for extinction.

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2006 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival

Free uninterrupted live streaming video coverage online from the 2006 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.

2006 Sundance Film Festival Award Winners

Christopher Quinn's 'God Grew Tired of Us', a story about Sudanese lost boys in the late 1980s and 'Quinceanera', a tale of disaffected Latino teenagers come of age in the Echo Park district of Los Angeles are among this year's big winners.

2008: Year of the Rat, Leap Year...and Now, Year of the Frog?

While those celebrating Chinese Lunar New Year mark 2008 as the Year of the Rat, and much of the world attaches mystical significance to 2008 as a leap year, 2008 has also been designated the "Year of the Frog".
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