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Report: Russia to Refit Nuclear Missiles
MOSCOW (AP) - Russia will replace single nuclear warheads on some of its strategic missiles with multiple warheads, Russian news agencies reported Friday, allowing Moscow to modernize its nuclear arsenal while building fewer new missiles - and spending less.
http://today.reuters.com/news/articl...C5-worldNews-7
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran will exact painful revenge on countries opposed to its nuclear program if the U.N. Security Council imposes sanctions on Tehran, the country's chief nuclear negotiator said on Friday.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7...340479,00.html
Assad to Olmert: Take a chance, See if we're bluffing
In interview with Italian newspaper La Repubblica, Syrian president calls on Israel to return to negotiating table, says Damascus willing to cooperate with Washington in resolving regional issues. Referring to Iranian Holocaust conference, Assad says Europe has 'complex over Jewish Holocaust'
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exer...5776C59C1F.htm
Fouad Siniora, the Lebanese prime minister, has arrived in Russia to meet Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, and Arab ambassadors to Moscow. They will discuss relations between Syria and Lebanon ahead of the Syrian president's visit next week.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061215/ts_nm/usa_castro_dc
Castro near death: Negroponte
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Cuban President Fidel Castro is very ill and close to death, U.S. Intelligence chief John Negroponte said in an interview published on Friday.
http://www.zaman.com/?bl=hotnews&alt...61215&hn=39222
Erdogan in US for Alliance of Civilizations Meeting
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is due in the United States on Monday to attend the Alliance of Civilizations meeting. The meeting, co-chaired by Turkey and Spain and sponsored by the United Nations, will be held at the U.N. Headquarters in New York.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6183409.stm
Clashes have erupted between rival Palestinian factions after Hamas accused Fatah of trying to assassinate Prime Minister Ismail Haniya of Hamas.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6181845.stm
European Union leaders have said that countries wanting to join will have to meet strict conditions from now on, but that the EU's doors are still open.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/6182125.stm
Tony Blair has hit back at claims a corruption probe into a Saudi arms deal with BAE Systems was dropped after commercial and political pressure.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6182175.stm
Somalia's powerful Islamist group has dismissed US allegations that its leadership is dominated by al-Qaeda.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6182395.stm
Pakistan's Supreme Court has blocked a fresh attempt to enact a Taleban-style law to enforce Islamic morality in North West Frontier Province (NWFP).
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6181861.stm
China has promised a more flexible currency policy to help close the trade gap with the United States, US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson has said.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6183961.stm
Rangers in India's Assam state have issued a shoot-on-sight order on a killer rogue elephant named after al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6183587.stm
More than 100 passengers on a Saudi plane were left panic-stricken by the unexpected appearance of furry fellow flyers - dozens of mice.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6182347.stm
Ten US congressmen are travelling to Cuba in what is thought to be the largest such delegation to visit since Fidel Castro took power in 1959.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6182835.stm
The health of Omar Abdel Rahman, a blind radical Muslim cleric jailed for life in 1996 for plotting attacks on New York, is worsening, officials say.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6182087.stm
Japan's upper house of parliament has voted to upgrade the country's defence agency to a full ministry.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exer...2D6CC48CCB.htm
Japan's parliament has rejected an opposition no confidence motion against Shinzo Abe, the country’s prime minister. The motion was seen as an attempt to thwart a proposed education law that would require schools to teach patriotism in the classroom.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6183561.stm
A Russian who reportedly said he wanted to kill 64 people to correspond with the squares on a chess board has been charged in Moscow with 49 murders.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exer...0F69F4D97E.htm
A senior Hamas official has accused Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president and leader of Fatah, of starting a war after his security forces opened fire on a Hamas rally in the West Bank and firefights broke out in Gaza.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exer...D53421FA5A.htm
Residents of the town housing Somalia's interim government stocked up provisions as troops tested weaponry ahead of a feared attack by Islamists.
The Islamists, who took Mogadishu in June and expanded across most of south Somalia since, have threatened to attack Baidoa if Ethiopian troops protecting the government do not leave by Tuesday.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exer...F81A4A04DF.htm
Iran is to hold elections for its municipal councils as well as the Assembly of Experts, the body that selects and supervises the supreme leader. The elections, held on Friday, are the first test of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran's president, at the polls since he was elected in June 2005.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exer...337E636A60.htm
Anton Balasingham, 68, Sri Lanka's most senior Tamil Tiger ideologue, has died of bile duct cancer in London. Balasingham was the main contact for peace-broker Norway and other international players involved in attempts to bring about a resolution to the country's drawn-out Tamil separatist conflict.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/801646.html
European Union leaders on Friday extended by three months an aid deal for the Palestinians that bypasses the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority government that took office earlier this year. In a two-day summit in Brussels, the leaders also urged Syria to respect democracy in Lebanon and to stop meddling in its neighbor's internal affairs.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/801696.html
Hamas said on Friday that captured Israel Defense Forces soldier Gilad Shalit would not be freed unless Israel simultaneously released long-serving Palestinian prisoners and faction leaders.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/801648.html
Iran: Olmert's nuclear comments are sign of Israel's weakness
Iran said on Friday that a remark by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, interpreted by some as an admission that Israel has nuclear weapons, was a sign of Israel's weakness. "Their prime minister has announced they have got nuclear arms," Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki told reporters on a visit to the Kazakh capital Astana. "It does not show their strength. It shows their weakness. They are afraid."
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7...340570,00.html
Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh said Friday that he and his followers chose to be in the Hamas movement to be shahids (martyrs) and sacrifice their lives for Allah and not to be ministers. Haniyeh made the comments at a ceremony in the Gaza Strip, attended by some 100,000 people, marking 19 years since the founding of Hamas.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7...340493,00.html
Chairman of Hamas faction in parliament slams Palestinian president during mass Gaza rally, warns his movement will strike 'with an iron fist' those who hurt its members. Meanwhile, escalating tensions in Palestinian Authority deteriorate into gunbattles in streets – 20 people reported wounded
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7...340405,00.html
Hamas: Dahlan behind assassination attempt
Attempt on PM Haniyeh's life Thursday spurs clsshes in PA. At least 10 Palestinians wounded, one critically, in exchanges of fire between Hamas, Fatah
Rising tensions in the Palestinian Authority: At least 10 Palestinians were wounded in confrontations between gunmen loyal to Hamas and Fatah, one of the men was reportedly in critical condition. Witnesses told Ynet that some of the wounded are bystanders and protestors who were beaten by Palestinian security forces seeking to clear the streets, primarily from the center of town which was declared a closed military zone.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7...340365,00.html
Bush slams Senator's visit to Syria
White House says visit to Damascus by Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson, gave undue legitimacy to a regime that is obstructing democratization in Middle East
WASHINGTON - The Bush Administration continues to signal that it is not taking seriously the Baker-Hamilton report. Following a visit by Democratic Senator Bill Nelson to Syria two days ago, the American administration on Thursday gave unequivocal arguments for its refusal to hold direct talks with Damascus.
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,20936617-2,00.html
PRINCE William, eager to draw a line under a decade of conspiracy theories about the death of his mother Princess Diana, has graduated as an army officer to launch his military career. The second in line to the throne paraded before his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth, at the elite Sandhurst military academy in a ceremony famed for its pomp and circumstance.
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,20931774-2,00.html
In a bizarre sequence of events yesterday, five-month-old Leonardo Legrand died after his pram rolled into Adelaide's River Torrens, where he lay undetected for up to 25 minutes. His distraught mother – model and triathlete Kerry Lucas – had turned her back on Leonardo's pram as she took a mobile phone call about 8.45am. She had been jogging along a path about 3m from the river in inner-suburban Gilberton.
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/12/15/D8M1ED800.html
Democratic Sen. Tim Johnson has opened his eyes and shown other small signs of recovery from brain surgery that are encouraging to his family, a spokeswoman said Friday.
http://www.breitbart.com/news/na/061....q0wrufih.html
Some 20 percent of the world's livestock species -- cattle, pigs and poultry --are threatened with extinction, with one breed disappearing each month, the Food and Agriculture Organization warned. Over the past five years alone, some 60 breeds of cattle, goats, pigs, horses and poultry have become extinct, the Rome-based UN agency said in a draft document, blaming globalization as the "biggest single factor" in the erosion of livestock biodiversity.
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/12/15/D8M1DMTG0.html
Gunmen killed a Shiite tribal sheik linked to British forces in a drive-by shooting Friday in the southern city of Basra, while two Marines and a soldier were reported killed in fighting elsewhere in Iraq. ...The slain cleric, Muhsin al-Kanan, was a member of the provisional council in Iraq's second-largest city, 340 miles southeast of Baghdad, and had good relations with British forces in the area, police said.
http://today.reuters.com/news/articl...src=rss&rpc=22
ROME (Reuters) - Prime Minister Romano Prodi faced a confidence vote in parliament on Friday over his efforts to push through an unpopular budget he described as bitter medicine that Italy has to swallow to get its finances in order. With his poll ratings at their lowest since he beat Silvio Berlusconi in an April election, Prodi has come out fighting to defend Economy Minister Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa and his budget which increases taxes on higher earners.
http://www.iribnews.ir/Full_en.asp?news_id=227439&n=36
Foreign Minister, Manouchehr Mottaki criticised Friday the international community's silence over an apparent admission by Zionist regime's Premier Ehud Olmert that the regime possesses nuclear weapons, Interfax-Kazakhstan news agency reported.
http://euobserver.com/9/23115
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - EU leaders meeting in Brussels on Friday (15 December) said the Middle East is facing one of the "worst crises in years" after fighting broke out on Friday between rival Palestinian factions and Lebanon continues to stand on the verge of internal conflict.
http://today.reuters.com/news/articl...-scienceNews-3
ROSS ICE SHELF, Antarctica (Reuters) - From a distance, the ANDRILL operation appears out of nowhere like a mirage: a white-draped tower amid giant blue boxcars laid out on a frozen sea. But this mammoth venture to drill through ice, ocean and back through time is as real as a science lab and as practical as an oil rig: hard-hatted drillers and scientists work in concert to find clues to a time when Antarctica was warm and wet.
http://today.reuters.com/news/articl...domesticNews-3
TRENTON, New Jersey (Reuters) - New Jersey lawmakers approved same-sex civil unions on Thursday, giving gay and lesbian couples the same rights as married partners without allowing such relationships to be called "marriage."
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/12/14/ducks.reut/index.html
SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) -- Two thousand mallard ducks in Idaho likely died after they ate moldy grain and contracted a fatal infection, scientists said Thursday. Paul Slota, a wildlife expert with the U.S. Geological Survey's National Wildlife Health Center, said a fungal infection known as aspergillosis was the likely killer. "The results are certainly consistent with that diagnosis," Slota said.
http://news.com.com/2300-1_3-6143726...tag=ne.gall.pg
On Dec. 13, a solar flare (left) from sunspot 930 has sent a giant coronal mass ejection directly toward Earth. The X-Class flare was classified as one of the larger outbursts from the sun. (Must see images!)
Report: Russia to Refit Nuclear Missiles
MOSCOW (AP) - Russia will replace single nuclear warheads on some of its strategic missiles with multiple warheads, Russian news agencies reported Friday, allowing Moscow to modernize its nuclear arsenal while building fewer new missiles - and spending less.
http://today.reuters.com/news/articl...C5-worldNews-7
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran will exact painful revenge on countries opposed to its nuclear program if the U.N. Security Council imposes sanctions on Tehran, the country's chief nuclear negotiator said on Friday.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7...340479,00.html
Assad to Olmert: Take a chance, See if we're bluffing
In interview with Italian newspaper La Repubblica, Syrian president calls on Israel to return to negotiating table, says Damascus willing to cooperate with Washington in resolving regional issues. Referring to Iranian Holocaust conference, Assad says Europe has 'complex over Jewish Holocaust'
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exer...5776C59C1F.htm
Fouad Siniora, the Lebanese prime minister, has arrived in Russia to meet Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, and Arab ambassadors to Moscow. They will discuss relations between Syria and Lebanon ahead of the Syrian president's visit next week.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061215/ts_nm/usa_castro_dc
Castro near death: Negroponte
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Cuban President Fidel Castro is very ill and close to death, U.S. Intelligence chief John Negroponte said in an interview published on Friday.
http://www.zaman.com/?bl=hotnews&alt...61215&hn=39222
Erdogan in US for Alliance of Civilizations Meeting
Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan is due in the United States on Monday to attend the Alliance of Civilizations meeting. The meeting, co-chaired by Turkey and Spain and sponsored by the United Nations, will be held at the U.N. Headquarters in New York.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6183409.stm
Clashes have erupted between rival Palestinian factions after Hamas accused Fatah of trying to assassinate Prime Minister Ismail Haniya of Hamas.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6181845.stm
European Union leaders have said that countries wanting to join will have to meet strict conditions from now on, but that the EU's doors are still open.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/6182125.stm
Tony Blair has hit back at claims a corruption probe into a Saudi arms deal with BAE Systems was dropped after commercial and political pressure.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6182175.stm
Somalia's powerful Islamist group has dismissed US allegations that its leadership is dominated by al-Qaeda.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6182395.stm
Pakistan's Supreme Court has blocked a fresh attempt to enact a Taleban-style law to enforce Islamic morality in North West Frontier Province (NWFP).
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/6181861.stm
China has promised a more flexible currency policy to help close the trade gap with the United States, US Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson has said.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6183961.stm
Rangers in India's Assam state have issued a shoot-on-sight order on a killer rogue elephant named after al-Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6183587.stm
More than 100 passengers on a Saudi plane were left panic-stricken by the unexpected appearance of furry fellow flyers - dozens of mice.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6182347.stm
Ten US congressmen are travelling to Cuba in what is thought to be the largest such delegation to visit since Fidel Castro took power in 1959.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6182835.stm
The health of Omar Abdel Rahman, a blind radical Muslim cleric jailed for life in 1996 for plotting attacks on New York, is worsening, officials say.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6182087.stm
Japan's upper house of parliament has voted to upgrade the country's defence agency to a full ministry.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exer...2D6CC48CCB.htm
Japan's parliament has rejected an opposition no confidence motion against Shinzo Abe, the country’s prime minister. The motion was seen as an attempt to thwart a proposed education law that would require schools to teach patriotism in the classroom.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6183561.stm
A Russian who reportedly said he wanted to kill 64 people to correspond with the squares on a chess board has been charged in Moscow with 49 murders.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exer...0F69F4D97E.htm
A senior Hamas official has accused Mahmoud Abbas, the Palestinian president and leader of Fatah, of starting a war after his security forces opened fire on a Hamas rally in the West Bank and firefights broke out in Gaza.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exer...D53421FA5A.htm
Residents of the town housing Somalia's interim government stocked up provisions as troops tested weaponry ahead of a feared attack by Islamists.
The Islamists, who took Mogadishu in June and expanded across most of south Somalia since, have threatened to attack Baidoa if Ethiopian troops protecting the government do not leave by Tuesday.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exer...F81A4A04DF.htm
Iran is to hold elections for its municipal councils as well as the Assembly of Experts, the body that selects and supervises the supreme leader. The elections, held on Friday, are the first test of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, Iran's president, at the polls since he was elected in June 2005.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/exer...337E636A60.htm
Anton Balasingham, 68, Sri Lanka's most senior Tamil Tiger ideologue, has died of bile duct cancer in London. Balasingham was the main contact for peace-broker Norway and other international players involved in attempts to bring about a resolution to the country's drawn-out Tamil separatist conflict.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/801646.html
European Union leaders on Friday extended by three months an aid deal for the Palestinians that bypasses the Hamas-led Palestinian Authority government that took office earlier this year. In a two-day summit in Brussels, the leaders also urged Syria to respect democracy in Lebanon and to stop meddling in its neighbor's internal affairs.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/801696.html
Hamas said on Friday that captured Israel Defense Forces soldier Gilad Shalit would not be freed unless Israel simultaneously released long-serving Palestinian prisoners and faction leaders.
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/801648.html
Iran: Olmert's nuclear comments are sign of Israel's weakness
Iran said on Friday that a remark by Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, interpreted by some as an admission that Israel has nuclear weapons, was a sign of Israel's weakness. "Their prime minister has announced they have got nuclear arms," Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki told reporters on a visit to the Kazakh capital Astana. "It does not show their strength. It shows their weakness. They are afraid."
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7...340570,00.html
Palestinian Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh said Friday that he and his followers chose to be in the Hamas movement to be shahids (martyrs) and sacrifice their lives for Allah and not to be ministers. Haniyeh made the comments at a ceremony in the Gaza Strip, attended by some 100,000 people, marking 19 years since the founding of Hamas.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7...340493,00.html
Chairman of Hamas faction in parliament slams Palestinian president during mass Gaza rally, warns his movement will strike 'with an iron fist' those who hurt its members. Meanwhile, escalating tensions in Palestinian Authority deteriorate into gunbattles in streets – 20 people reported wounded
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7...340405,00.html
Hamas: Dahlan behind assassination attempt
Attempt on PM Haniyeh's life Thursday spurs clsshes in PA. At least 10 Palestinians wounded, one critically, in exchanges of fire between Hamas, Fatah
Rising tensions in the Palestinian Authority: At least 10 Palestinians were wounded in confrontations between gunmen loyal to Hamas and Fatah, one of the men was reportedly in critical condition. Witnesses told Ynet that some of the wounded are bystanders and protestors who were beaten by Palestinian security forces seeking to clear the streets, primarily from the center of town which was declared a closed military zone.
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7...340365,00.html
Bush slams Senator's visit to Syria
White House says visit to Damascus by Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson, gave undue legitimacy to a regime that is obstructing democratization in Middle East
WASHINGTON - The Bush Administration continues to signal that it is not taking seriously the Baker-Hamilton report. Following a visit by Democratic Senator Bill Nelson to Syria two days ago, the American administration on Thursday gave unequivocal arguments for its refusal to hold direct talks with Damascus.
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,20936617-2,00.html
PRINCE William, eager to draw a line under a decade of conspiracy theories about the death of his mother Princess Diana, has graduated as an army officer to launch his military career. The second in line to the throne paraded before his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth, at the elite Sandhurst military academy in a ceremony famed for its pomp and circumstance.
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,20931774-2,00.html
In a bizarre sequence of events yesterday, five-month-old Leonardo Legrand died after his pram rolled into Adelaide's River Torrens, where he lay undetected for up to 25 minutes. His distraught mother – model and triathlete Kerry Lucas – had turned her back on Leonardo's pram as she took a mobile phone call about 8.45am. She had been jogging along a path about 3m from the river in inner-suburban Gilberton.
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/12/15/D8M1ED800.html
Democratic Sen. Tim Johnson has opened his eyes and shown other small signs of recovery from brain surgery that are encouraging to his family, a spokeswoman said Friday.
http://www.breitbart.com/news/na/061....q0wrufih.html
Some 20 percent of the world's livestock species -- cattle, pigs and poultry --are threatened with extinction, with one breed disappearing each month, the Food and Agriculture Organization warned. Over the past five years alone, some 60 breeds of cattle, goats, pigs, horses and poultry have become extinct, the Rome-based UN agency said in a draft document, blaming globalization as the "biggest single factor" in the erosion of livestock biodiversity.
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/12/15/D8M1DMTG0.html
Gunmen killed a Shiite tribal sheik linked to British forces in a drive-by shooting Friday in the southern city of Basra, while two Marines and a soldier were reported killed in fighting elsewhere in Iraq. ...The slain cleric, Muhsin al-Kanan, was a member of the provisional council in Iraq's second-largest city, 340 miles southeast of Baghdad, and had good relations with British forces in the area, police said.
http://today.reuters.com/news/articl...src=rss&rpc=22
ROME (Reuters) - Prime Minister Romano Prodi faced a confidence vote in parliament on Friday over his efforts to push through an unpopular budget he described as bitter medicine that Italy has to swallow to get its finances in order. With his poll ratings at their lowest since he beat Silvio Berlusconi in an April election, Prodi has come out fighting to defend Economy Minister Tommaso Padoa-Schioppa and his budget which increases taxes on higher earners.
http://www.iribnews.ir/Full_en.asp?news_id=227439&n=36
Foreign Minister, Manouchehr Mottaki criticised Friday the international community's silence over an apparent admission by Zionist regime's Premier Ehud Olmert that the regime possesses nuclear weapons, Interfax-Kazakhstan news agency reported.
http://euobserver.com/9/23115
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS - EU leaders meeting in Brussels on Friday (15 December) said the Middle East is facing one of the "worst crises in years" after fighting broke out on Friday between rival Palestinian factions and Lebanon continues to stand on the verge of internal conflict.
http://today.reuters.com/news/articl...-scienceNews-3
ROSS ICE SHELF, Antarctica (Reuters) - From a distance, the ANDRILL operation appears out of nowhere like a mirage: a white-draped tower amid giant blue boxcars laid out on a frozen sea. But this mammoth venture to drill through ice, ocean and back through time is as real as a science lab and as practical as an oil rig: hard-hatted drillers and scientists work in concert to find clues to a time when Antarctica was warm and wet.
http://today.reuters.com/news/articl...domesticNews-3
TRENTON, New Jersey (Reuters) - New Jersey lawmakers approved same-sex civil unions on Thursday, giving gay and lesbian couples the same rights as married partners without allowing such relationships to be called "marriage."
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/12/14/ducks.reut/index.html
SALMON, Idaho (Reuters) -- Two thousand mallard ducks in Idaho likely died after they ate moldy grain and contracted a fatal infection, scientists said Thursday. Paul Slota, a wildlife expert with the U.S. Geological Survey's National Wildlife Health Center, said a fungal infection known as aspergillosis was the likely killer. "The results are certainly consistent with that diagnosis," Slota said.
http://news.com.com/2300-1_3-6143726...tag=ne.gall.pg
On Dec. 13, a solar flare (left) from sunspot 930 has sent a giant coronal mass ejection directly toward Earth. The X-Class flare was classified as one of the larger outbursts from the sun. (Must see images!)
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