California’s attorney general is seeking to halt the sale of one company’s electronic cigarettes in the state, saying they contain dangerous chemicals and are being marketed to children.
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The iconic “Tank Man” photo taken during the 1989 Tiananmen crackdown and banned in China was available on Google.cn Wednesday, hours after the online giant vowed to defy Chinese Internet censors.
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The Vatican newspaper and radio station have called the film “Avatar” simplistic, and criticized it for flirting with modern doctrines that promote the worship of nature as a substitute for religion.
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Scientists at the University of Johannesburg have started a DNA barcoding project to stop the smuggling of endangered cycad species in the country.
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The refurbished Hubble Space Telescope has set a new distance record by discovering the oldest galaxies ever seen, dating back 13 billion years, or 600-800 million years after the Big Bang, NASA said Tuesday.
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NASA’s new planet-hunting telescope has found two mystery objects that are too hot to be planets and too small to be stars.
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The developer building the world’s tallest skyscraper in Dubai says cladding work on the shiny silver-colored tower’s outside is complete.
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The impact of climate change is devastating in Africa and will severely undermine development and poverty eradication efforts, President Jacob Zuma said in a message to the 64th session of the UN General Assembly.
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A satellite launched atop South Korea’s first space rocket is thought to have burnt up in the earth’s atmosphere after missing its designated orbit, officials said on Wednesday.
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A key assessment document for the proposed pebble bed nuclear reactor was fatally flawed, the Public Service Accountability Monitor said on Tuesday.
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