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Shuttle aims for Wednesday night landing (AP)

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

AP - Endeavour’s seven astronauts aimed for a Wednesday night landing in Florida after more than two grueling weeks of space station construction.
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Oil prices top 101 dollars (AFP)

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

AFP - Oil prices were higher in Asian trade Wednesday ahead of the release of the US government’s weekly energy stockpiles report, dealers said.
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Big chunk of Antarctic ice shelf falling apart (AFP)

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

AFP - Antarctica’s massive Wilkins Ice Shelf has begun disintegrating under the effects of global warming, satellite images by the University of Colorado’s National Snow and Ice Data Center showed.
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Space shuttle Endeavour heads for home (Reuters)

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

Reuters - Space shuttle Endeavour headed for home
on Wednesday after delivering a Japanese module and a Canadian
robot to the International Space Station.
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Australia PM pledges to resolve whaling row with Japan (AFP)

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

AFP - Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd has called Japan a “core” ally, despite skipping Tokyo on his first major foreign tour, and pledged to resolve peacefully a bitter row on whaling.
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Astronauts and shuttle ready for return to Earth (Reuters)

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

Reuters - Astronauts on space shuttle Endeavour
said on Tuesday they and their ship were ready to come home as
they neared the end of a mission that brought the first
Japanese module to the International Space Station.
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Oil prices higher ahead of US energy stockpiles report (AFP)

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

AFP - World oil prices were higher in Asian trade Wednesday ahead of the release of the US government’s weekly energy stockpiles report, dealers said.
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Dinosaur fossil found on bus in Peru’s mountains (Reuters)

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

Reuters - Officials found the fossil of a
giant dinosaur jawbone while investigating a suspicious package
on a bus in the mountains of Peru on Tuesday.
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Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

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Volunteers hold back levee ’sand boils’ (AP)

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

AP - Volunteers armed with sandbags held back water springing up from under a rural levee Tuesday as the White River continued its highest surge in a quarter-century through eastern Arkansas.
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