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Edward Scissorhand

The science world has paid homage to Johnny Depp by giving his name to an extinct creepy-crawly with “scissor hand-like” claws reminiscent of one of the actor’s best-known roles. Incoming search terms:johnny depp (1) var addthis_config = {"data_track_clickback":true,"data_track_addressbar":true,"data_track_textcopy":true,"ui_atversion":"300"}; var addthis_product = 'wpp-3.1';  Read More »

Money’s purpose

VATICAN CITY – Pope Francis has denounced the global financial system, blasting the “cult of money” that he says is tyrannizing the poor and turning humans into expendable consumer goods.  Read More »

Teenager’s prey

HOUSTON – A Houston-area high school senior has bagged a 14-foot, 800 pound alligator – the heaviest ever certified in Texas – on his first alligator hunt.  Read More »

Mom hid dead babies in freezer

MOSCOW – Russian police said Thursday they have detained a woman suspected of killing her newborn twins and hiding their bodies for five years in the walk-in freezer of a food store where she worked. Police in the Sverdlovsk region said they had detained a 30-year-old woman after finding the bodies of two babies in the industrial freezer of the central grocery store in the town... 

Dancer says Jackson sexually abused him

LOS ANGELES – An Australian choreographer alleged Thursday that Michael Jackson sexually abused him for seven years as a child, a claim the late singer’s estate described as “outrageous and sad.” Wade Robson—who testified at Jackson’s infamous 2005 molestation trial that the star never touched him—told a TV interviewer that the self-styled King of Pop was a “pedophile... 

NASA telescope’s planet-hunting days may be over

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) – NASA’s first telescope dispatched to hunt for Earth-like planets that may support life elsewhere in the universe has lost use of its positioning system, threatening its mission, officials said on Wednesday.  Read More »

Embryonic stem cells

WASHINGTON (AFP) – US researchers reported a breakthrough in stem cell research on Wednesday, describing how they have turned human skin cells into embyronic stem cells for the first time.  Read More »

Solar flares

The sun has unleashed four potent solar flares this week, marking the most intense activity this year and causing limited interruptions to high-frequency radio communications. One of them was classified as an X3.2 flare, with X-class flares being the most intense type, according to NASA. A fourth X-class flare peaked at 1.48am GMT on Wednesday, NASA said. Incoming search terms:solar... 

Google sunglasses

SAN FRANCISCO (AFP) – Google Glass was a common sight Wednesday as software savants shared visions of games, weather reports, news and more delivered to the Internet-linked eyewear. Some 6,000 developers attending an annual Google event in San Francisco sported Glass as part of an “explorer“ program to tinker with creative applications for the eyewear, which costs $1,500/unit.... 

$26.7 million diamond

GENEVA (AFP) – Prestigious jeweller Harry Winston, which was acquired earlier this year by Swatch Group, bought a new colourless, flawless 101.73-carat diamond for a record $26.7 million at an auction in Geneva on Wednesday, auction house Christie’s said.  Read More »