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Spanish photographer wins world press photo award
The Hague, Feb 11 (IANS) Spanish photographer Samuel Aranda Friday won the 2011 World Press Photo of the Year. He was honoured for a photograph taken by him on Oct 15 that shows a Yemeni woman holding a wounded relative in her arms after a clash in Yemen. The picture was taken inside a mosque used as a field hospital during clashes in the Yemeni capital. According to comments of the jury, the winning

Ajax's supervisory board resigns
The supervisory board of Ajax has decided to resign after months of unrest, the Amsterdam based soccer club said Thursday.

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Ice not thick enough for Dutch skating marathon

Organizers of the near-mythical Eleven Cities Tour dealt 16,000 skaters and the nation at large a crushing blow Wednesday when they decided the ice was too thin to hold the 125-mile

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NASA's Chandra finds new discoveries
The giant black hole at the center of the Milky Way may be vaporizing and devouring asteroids, which could explain the frequent flares observed, according to astronomers using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory.

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Milky Way's black hole grazing on asteroids

The giant black hole at the centre of the Milky Way may be vaporizing and devouring asteroids, which could explain the mysterious X-ray flares detected over a period of several years, a new study

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Dutch TV presenters escape prosecution for cannibalism
Two Dutch TV presenters, who had pieces of their flesh surgically removed, cooked and ate them too during a programme, have been told that they will not be prosecuted for cannibalism. For, such an act isn't illegal.

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