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Japan's whaling fleet has left port and set sail for Antarctica in preparation for its annual whale hunt, the environmental group Greenpeace has said.
18/11/2008
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Kangaroos share genetic similarities with humans and may have first evolved in China, scientists in Australia have found.
18/11/2008
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The space shuttle Endeavour has docked with the International Space Station three days after launch late last week, delivering equipment and supplies on a mission to double the living space on the orbiting complex.
17/11/2008
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More than 10,000 California residents have been forced to evacuate their homes as wildfires continue to blaze across the state.
16/11/2008
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At least 12 miners have been killed and nine injured in two explosions in a coal mine in southwest Romania, say local authorities.
16/11/2008
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A landslide triggered by torrential rains has killed at least five people in central Indonesia.
16/11/2008
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Two teams of US astronomers have taken what are believed to be the first pictures of planets outside the Earth's solar system.
15/11/2008
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India's first unmanned lunar probe has landed successfully on the moon, a milestone for the country's 45-year-old space programme.
15/11/2008
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A brown cloud of soot and pollutants floating over Asia is killing thousands of people and damaging crops, the UN says.
14/11/2008
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Japan's whaling fleet is preparing to leave port to commence its annual hunt in the waters off Antarctica.
14/11/2008
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Nine people have been injured after parts of a school in Haiti caved-in, less than a week after a school collapse in the same region killed at least 89 people.
13/11/2008
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The US supreme court has ruled the US navy can conduct sonar training exercises off southern California without restrictions, in a blow to environmentalists.
13/11/2008
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European Union nations have given the go-ahead for bent cucumbers and other blemished produce labelled "for use in cooking", to be sold in supermarkets and elsewhere.
13/11/2008
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Archaeologists in Egypt have discovered a 4,300-year-old pyramid under the sands of Saqqara not far from the capital, Cairo.
12/11/2008
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Hundreds of anti-nuclear demonstrators at a waste storage plant in northern Germany are preparing to peacefully protest against the delivery of the spent fuel to the site.
10/11/2008
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