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Oregon State University research team said that the microbes “lived” on iron from a mineral found in rocks - a mineral, olivine, also found in volcanic rocks on Mars, and could survive low oxygen conditions and the total absence of organic food

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Scientists from Oregon State University have collected microbes from an icy “lava tube” in mountains in Oregon - similarly hostile to the Red Planet's...
Player RendeZook' stunt in Battlefield 3 game has 5 million viewers on YouTube

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Battlefield 3 player RendeZook's “daring” stunt has become a “see-it-to-be-believed” spectacle among the gaming community, many of whom believe it could be one of...
Britney Spears showed off her engagement ring while hosting a party for her former agent beau Jason Trawick to celebrate both their engagement and his birthday

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Britney Spears took her Twitter page earlier in the day to tell fans she was “still glowing” after boyfriend Jason Trawick proposed her on his 40th birthday. Last...

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Jonathan Jewth, a 9-year-old boy from Bronx, New York, died after choking on a meatball in his school lunch as staff members were unable...
Vanessa and Kobe Bryant met when she was just 19, and he 23, and she was working as a backing dancer in a studio where he was recording

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Kobe Bryant’s wife has filed for divorce from LA Lakers star yesterday citing “irreconcilable differences”. Vanessa Bryant, 29 , who stuck by Kobe, 33, after...
The video clip shows the dancing man happily ignoring fellow passengers as he boogies to the music playing through his headphones was shot by a fellow passenger seated further along the carriage

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A London Tube train passenger was happily dancing and minding his own business when he was violently shoved in the back by a fellow...
Kameron Asgari was in the fifth grade at Helen Jydstrup Elementary School in Las Vegas

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Kameron Asgari, a 10-year-old boy, died, and a 13-year-old girl is in critical condition after they shot themselves at home in separate incidents in...

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Aryann Smith, a young mother from Utah, was hit by a commuter bus, which knocked her to the ground and pinning her between it...
Hollywood agent Jason Trawick is understood to have asked for Britney Spears’ hand in marriage yesterday on his 40th birthday

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Hollywood agent Jason Trawick is understood to have asked for Britney Spears’ hand in marriage yesterday on his 40th birthday. Britney Spears, 30, who has...

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Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda has announced that crippled nuclear reactors at Japan's Fukushima power plant have finally been stabilized. The earthquake and tsunami in March...
Jyoti Amge, 18, hopes to celebrate being crowned the world's shortest woman by launching a Bollywood movie career

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Jyoti Amge, a 2 ft (61.95 cm) teenager, a celebrity in her hometown of Nagpur, India, is now set for Guinness Book Record, when...

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Russia's Federal Customs Service found radioactive material in the luggage of a passenger bound for Iran - at Moscow's Sheremetyevo international airport. Federal Customs Service...
Rosemount High School winter-sport team captains were blindfolded as their mothers and fathers approached and kissed them

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Students at Rosemount High School in Minnesota were told to expect a kiss from a “special someone” while they were blindfolded, but when the...
Author, essayist and polemicist Christopher Hitchens, died last night, after a long battle with cancer, at 62

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Author, essayist and polemicist Christopher Hitchens, who waged verbal and occasional physical battle on behalf of causes left and right, died last night, after...
Picture captured from the 80th floor of One World Trade Center

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When will be completed, One World Trade Center will be the tallest building in Manhattan and one of incredible poignancy for New York City. One...
Scamp, an eight-month-old terrier-Shih Tzu puppy, had been hit by a car and he was apparently so badly injured that he had died on the road

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Scamp, an eight-month-old terrier-Shih Tzu puppy, had been hit by a car and he was apparently so badly injured that he had died on...
Barbara Walters grilled Kim Kardashian about the X-rated tape she made with hip-hop star Ray-J in 2007 that helped launch her into the spotlight

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Kardashians may have made her list of 10 Most Fascinating People of 2011, but Barbara Walters showed them no mercy as she interviewed the...
The American flag has been lowered in Baghdad, bringing nearly nine years of US military operations in Iraq to a formal end

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The American flag has been lowered in Baghdad, bringing nearly nine years of US military operations in Iraq to a formal end. Leon Panetta, the...
The former French President Jacques Chirac has been given by a court a two-year suspended prison sentence for diverting public funds and abusing public trust

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The former French President Jacques Chirac has been given by a court a two-year suspended prison sentence for diverting public funds and abusing public...
The picture is dated August 23 and appeared on Facebook in early October

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The United States Air Force has launched an internal investigation after a disturbing image of 15 soldiers posing with one of them chained up...
Steven Phillips, a man who spent 25 years in prison for a crime he did not commit, faces losing his $4 million compensation to his ex-wife

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Steven Phillips, a man who spent 25 years in prison for a crime he did not commit, faces losing his $4 million compensation to...
Elizabeth Smart, now 24, has spoken in public about the graphic details of her nine months in captivity at the hands of Brian David Mitchell and his wife Wanda Barzee

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Elizabeth Smart, a 24-year-old woman from Salt Lake City, Utah, who was snatched from her bedroom almost 10 years ago, revealed for the first...
Nordine Amrani, 32, who on Tuesday murdered 5 people and wounded 125 others, also used his home in the city of Liege as a cannabis factory, with police finding more than 2,800 plants during the raid

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Belgian police revealed that a real arsenal was uncovered during a raid of Liege killer Nordine Amrani's home during October 2007, which includes two rocket...
For two minutes the woman can be seen flapping about in the water sphere and even appears to head butt the soft side of the bubble, desperate to get back on her feet

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In a video posted on You Tube a bikini blonde is captured zipped up in a water sphere ready to walk onto the sea. The...

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Google reveals its annual zeitgeist - the people, places and things that are clicking the most with UK internet users in 2011. Top of the...