The World Around You

January 12, 2012

A frog species that appears to be the world's smallest has been discovered in Papua New Guinea by a US-based team.

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Astronomers have determined exactly what colour our home galaxy the Milky Way is, and find it is aptly named.

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December 20, 2011

It's one of the most closed and secretive nations on Earth.

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December 19, 2011

ILIGAN, PHILIPPINES—As a storm that killed more than 650 in the southern Philippines raged outside the store where she works, Amor Limbago worriedly called home to check on her parents, but their cellphones just kept ringing and later went dead.

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December 5, 2011

A luxury sports car outing in Japan has ended in what may be one of the most expensive car crashes in history.




November 28, 2011

Queues have formed at many polling stations as Egyptians vote in the first elections since former President Hosni Mubarak was toppled in February.

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Two previously undiscovered pits have been found at Stonehenge which point to it once being used as a place of sun worship before the stones were erected.

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November 17, 2011

Scientists think they can now explain the existence of what are perhaps Earth's most extraordinary mountains.

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November 8, 2011

Smartphones are getting pretty clever these days but it is unlikely they will outwit the cybercriminals as fraudsters increasingly go mobile.

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The US government has formally denied that it has any knowledge of contact with extraterrestrial life.

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November 4, 2011

The eurozone has been plunged into renewed turmoil by Greece's decision to hold a referendum on the EU's efforts to bail out its stricken economy




Six men locked away in steel tubes for a year-and-a-half to simulate a mission to Mars have emerged from isolation.

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October 24, 2011

Rescue teams in Turkey are continuing to search for people trapped under rubble after a strong earthquake hit the eastern Van region on Sunday.

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October 20, 2011

Libya's Col Gaddafi Killed





One man has died after fighting erupted between rival anti-austerity
protesters at a large rally outside the Greek parliament in Athens.

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October 18, 2011 (sorry -- it's been a while!)

Faster than the speed of light?






A "criminal" stone-stealing Adelie penguin has been
captured on camera by a BBC film crew.





October 7, 2011

Ontario's McGuinty re-elected, but loses majority. Voter turnout at an all time new low.

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October 6, 2011

Steve Jobs, co-founder and former chief executive of US technology giant Apple, has died at the age of 56.

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Comet Hartley 2 contains water more like that found on Earth than all the comets we know about, researchers say.

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October 3, 2011

Emergency declared after homes evacatuated and roads damaged by flooding.

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September 28, 2011

Facebook has said that it has "fixed" cookies that could have tracked users after they logged out of the site.

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A huge clean-up operation is under way in the Philippines after Typhoon Nesat battered the capital Manila and the main island, Luzon.

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September 22, 2011

Some video gamers are so immersed in their virtual world they end up trying to use gaming experiences in real life, according to researchers.


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An amateur astronomer has recorded images of the out-of-control US
satellite as it tumbles back to Earth.

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September 21, 2011

A powerful typhoon has struck disaster-ravaged Japan, bringing
heavy rains and floods that have killed four people.

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September 20, 2011

Four earthquakes hit Guatemala within three hours, killing at least one person and triggering landslides.




Floods and landslides in China caused by a week of heavy rain have
killed at least 57 people and forced more than a million from their homes.


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Government forces in Yemen have continued firing shells at a protester
camp in the capital, witnesses say.

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Although the Call of Duty Elite service remains in beta, PS3
users now have the chance to join Xbox 360 users and
access the soon-to-be-pay service.