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Euro 2012 on Twitter: Ronaldo praised as Portugal goes through
Jun 22nd, 2012
Experts praise Ronaldo as Portugal goes through to the semi-finals, having beaten the Czech Republic 1-0 thanks to a late goal from the Portuguese center forward. (Source: AFP Relax News) -
VATICAN CITY (AP) - German Chancellor Angela Merkel, mindful of the weight of Christian voters in September elections, made a quick trip to Rome Saturday for a private meeting with Pope Francis, focusing on how Europe's struggling economy should be at the service of the people. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
LONDON (Reuters) - More money was invested in shops and offices in central London than the rest of Britain combined last year, a regular report by property consultancy DTZ showed on Wednesday. Some 16.1 billion pounds was invested in the centre of the capital in 2012 versus 10.9 billion a year earlier and a total of 32 billion pounds for the countr... [Full Article]
Twitter was amused earlier today by reports of a Saudi Arabian sheikh dooming Twitter users to a loss of "this world and his afterlife." What to an American observer seems like inexplicable hyperbole may actually be an escalation of attempts to crackdown on a key tool for dissent. (Source: The Atlantic Wire)... [Full Article]
By Irene Klotz CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - A music video shot aboard the International Space Station went viral on Monday, turning an astronaut into an overnight music sensation with his zero-gravity version of David Bowie's hit "Space Oddity." As the first Canadian to command the space station, a $100 million project of 15 n... [Full Article]
By Sharon Begley NEW YORK (Reuters) - After more than 15 years of failures by scientists around the world and one outright fraud, biologists have finally created human stem cells by the same technique that produced Dolly the cloned sheep in 1996: They transplanted genetic material from an adult cell into an egg whose own DNA had been removed. The r... [Full Article]