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NIKOLSKOE, Russia (Reuters) - A Russian doomsday cult sheltering in a bunker say credit cards and food packaging bar codes are satanic, the official negotiating the release of children from the group said on Monday.

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Reuters - A woman who claims she was ordered by federal airport screeners to remove her nipple rings with pliers demanded an apology from the U.S. Transportation Security Administration on Thursday.

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Days are gradually growing longer. To the layman this means that in the northern hemisphere days are longer in summer than they are in winter. But geoscientists interpret this phrase as follows: they found that days grow longer not only in spring time. According to the International Earth Rotation and Reference Systems Service, July 13 2003 was the shortest day within the last 100 years

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Sofia City Court released Monday the head of Forensic Medicine Centre of Alexandrovska hospital, Doctor Stanislav Hristov, on BGN 2,000 bail after he was arrested over illegal explantations and trade in human organs. Hristov was put under home detention and dismissed from his position. According t…

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Jamie found a NYTimes op-ed by a grad student and a professor from Cornell, outlining some research they did into alternate baseball universes. The goal was to find out how unlikely in fact was Joe DiMaggio’s 56-game hitting streak, played out in the 1941 season. No one since has even come close to that record. The math guys ran simulations of the entire history of baseball from 1885 on — 10,000 of them. For each simulation they put each player up to the plate for each at-bat in each game in each year, just like it happened; and they rolled the dice on him, based on his actual hitting stats for that season. (Their algorithm sounds far simpler than whatever …

Sofia City Court postponed Monday the case hearing against Fidel Beev, ex-mayor of the town of Velingrad, accused of tax evasion. The court decided to put off the trial, as another financial expertise must be conducted. According to prosecution, the defender failed to declare income of BGN 43,000 a…

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Reuters - A cattle farmer in Australia’s remote northern outback on Friday said he had found a giant ball of twisted metal, which he believes is space junk from a rocket used to launch communications satellites.

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