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Militants in Pakistan pose a threat to the country’s existence, according to the senior US General, David Petraeus.

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Italian officials agree to pay a 150,000 euros finders’ fee for the 5,300-year-old “Iceman” Oetzi after 17 years of wrangling.

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Italian officials agree to pay a 150,000 euros finders’ fee for the 5,300-year-old “Iceman” Oetzi after 17 years of wrangling.

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The campaigns of US presidential hopefuls Barack Obama and John McCain clash over the loss of the bail-out vote in Congress.

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Researchers decode the DNA sequence of the fungus which produces penicillin, ahead of the 80th anniversary of its discovery.

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Black men living in England have a three times higher risk of prostate cancer than white men, figures show.

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Black men living in England have a three times higher risk of prostate cancer than white men, figures show.

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Baby girls of larger than average length and weight at birth are at increased risk of breast cancer, analysis suggests.

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The General Prosecutors Office has identified the bodies of the four men who died on board a small plane that crashed in southwestern Pedernales on 21 September, as reported in Diario Libre. Three of the bodies were severely burned. These are Colombians Rodolfo Sanchez Quintero, 52 years old, who was piloting the nine-passenger capacity Cessna Caravan, Hector Ivan Osorio Valek, 21, co-pilot Jairo Yasin Shaikh, 21, and mechanic Ricardo Lozano Tangarife, 47. Lawyer Fernando Cardoso Gomez from the Colombian capital Bogota came with a power of attorney from the men’s families to claim the bodies. The lawyer provided dental X-rays, birth certificates and photos that helped the National Institute of Forensic Studies and the National Institute of Forensic Pathology to identify the bodies. The authorities estimate that the plane had the capacity to transport 1,000 kilos of cocaine. The Cessna has a market value of US$2 million.

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Dominican biologist Daniel Perez-Gelabert of the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. has compiled “Zootax, Arthropods of Hispaniola, a checklist and bibliography”, the first comprehensive listing of insects of the DR and Haiti. The inventory is published as a monograph in an international science journal and covers all known terrestrial and aquatic species of crustaceans, arachnids, myriapods and insects from the island through the end of 2007. The list includes 8,237 valid species of arthropods (6,833 living and 1,404 fossils), the number of living species being over 12 times that of the vertebrates.

Of this grand total most are insects (5,676 extant species (83%) and 1,404 fossil species). A total of 2,521 species (36.9% of the total living) are considered unique or endemic to Hispaniola. Despite the important advances, this fauna is still not well known, actually being the least studied in the Greater Antilles. The Hispaniolan arthropods are estimated [...]

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