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AP - Driven away by Somali pirates, international scientists are asking the Australian and U.S. navies for a favor: deploy 19 robotic instruments in the Indian Ocean to record critical data on climate and monsoon.

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LiveScience.com - An outbreak of a monkey-killing cold virus is the first example of an adenovirus that can infect both monkeys and humans.

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AFP - Iraq will be the key player in international oil politics over the next two decades, the country’s top government official for the energy sector said on Saturday.

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AP - Cleanup after the BP oil spill has turned up dozens of sites where archaeologists are finding human and animal bones, pottery and primitive weapons left behind by pre-historic Indian settlements — a trove of new clues about the Gulf Coast’s mound dwellers more than 1,300 years ago. But they also fear the remains [...]

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AFP - Floods triggered by torrential rain that hit North Korea last week washed away homes, roads and farmland and caused unspecified casualties, according to state media.

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HealthDay - SATURDAY, July 16 (HealthDay News) — You may love the summer
heat that makes it easy to swim, picnic and just laze around outside, but
don’t overdo it: Overexposure to the sun and heat can be dangerous, the
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency warns.

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SPACE.com - HOUSTON – The space shuttle Atlantis’ four astronauts will enjoy some time off today (July 17) after finishing unpacking the cargo the orbiter brought up to the International Space Station.

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Reuters - Japan’s second-biggest retailer said on Sunday it had sold beef from cattle that ate nuclear-contaminated feed, the latest in a series of health scares from radiation leaking from a quake-crippled nuclear power plant.

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Reuters - A robotic NASA science probe slipped into orbit around the potato-shaped asteroid Vesta on Saturday to begin a yearlong study of the second largest object in the asteroid belt.

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AP - An elongated trough of low pressure was expected to bring more active weather to the Central United States on Saturday. The system was projected to continue tracking along the US and Canadian border, but expected to create a strong cold front stretching southward, moving over the Mississippi River Valley.

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AFP - Chevron, the number two US oil company, has won a tender to explore shale gas deposits in northeastern Bulgaria, Economy and Energy Minister Traicho Traikov said Saturday.

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