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Researchers at the J. Craig Venter Institute have created the largest man-made DNA structure to date, putting them one step closer to producing a completely synthetic organism, according to the institute.
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An Afghan court on Tuesday sentenced a 23-year-old journalism student to death for distributing a paper he printed off the Internet that three judges said violated the tenets of Islam, an official said.
Climate change will be among the major issues at this year’s meeting of the world’s business and political elite in the Swiss Alps and they can start by confronting their own carbon footprint.
Australian actor Heath Ledger, the gifted leading man acclaimed for his role as a gay cowboy in the film Brokeback Mountain, has been found dead in his Manhattan apartment, possibly of an accidental drug overdose.
American talk-show queen Opera Winfrey is paying a painful price for getting involved in the US presidential campaign last month.
If President George W. Bush’s main purpose in visiting the Gulf last week — as indicated by his call in Abu Dhabi last Sunday to confront Iran “before it is too late” — was to rally Washington’s Sunni-led regional allies, particularly Saudi...
Fears that 2008 will see the looming recession in the US spreading to every other continent triggered a global crash in share prices yesterday, wiping £77bn off the value of the City’s blue-chip stocks in the biggest one-day points fall in...
The Chancellor, Alistair Darling, will stand up in the Commons today in the hope of mapping a way out of one of the sorriest messes in British banking history.
Gaza’s only electrical plant shut down Sunday after Israel blocked the shipment of fuel that powers them, plunging Gaza City into darkness and sending already beleaguered Gazans to stock up on food and batteries in anticipation of long, dark, cold...
Bird flu spread to two new districts in an eastern Indian state, officials confirmed on Saturday, as veterinary staff struggled to cull thousands of birds in the face of resistance from farmers.
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