The King Kong of search engines won the prize over 24 other candidates, including the photo agency Magnum (3 times finalist) and the British Broadcasting Corp."Considered to be the best Internet search engine of all...
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"Dewsbury (1.984), sitúa sus inicios entre 1.894 y 1.899, lapso en el que ocurrió un número de hechos buenos y notorios entre los Psicólogos norteamericanos y algunos europeos, tales que fue escogido como la época del natalicio de la Psicología Comparada. Y mientras...
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Strong winds that rustled at 70 kilometers per hour, beat upon the valley of Mexico during 100 minutes, leaving a total of two dead persons and nine wounded, it uprooted 50 trees, and damaged 19 vehicles, knocked...
Something tells me this isn't going to go away..."DRESDEN, Germany - German police broke through a blockade of activists and felled a 200-year-old beech tree on Tuesday to clear the way for a new bridge over the Elbe river that is opposed by environmentalists and...
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So Blair is playing football again - this time in Egypt - hope he did better than when he played at a school and missed the net completely (video attached) - being a peace envoy after being a warmaker is enough...
Wow I never thought I'd see the day when France banned public smoking. "For years, anyone needing a nicotine fix in a German pub or French cafe didn't even have to light up -- the air was already so full of smoke...
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"In a typical medium sized retail store, an item-level RFID system would normally require around 100 readers to be installed and an initial hardware investment of around euro 300,000 (USD 435,000). With the iREAD platform, the system would only require around 10 readers to be...
Heidelberg, Germany (ANTARA News) - German police were holding six men
Friday over the neo-Nazi beating of a 29-year-old Turkish man in the
tourist centre of Heidelberg.
They are alleged to have punched him and stolen his mobile phone while
they were travelling on the same...
"She said the UN Climate Conference starting in Bali on Monday needed to agree on a timetable so that negotiations on a follow-up agreement to Kyoto could be completed by the end of 2009.
The Kyoto protocol that went into effect in 2005, requires industrial countries to...
Retired Archbishop Desmond Mpilo Tutu was a key figure in the South African resistance to Apartheid. "South African cleric Desmond Tutu was on Sunday awarded one of Germany's most prestigious honours, the...
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"Youth Riots in France Continue
28 November 2007, Wednesday
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More than 1 000 police officers were deployed in the poor Paris suburb of Villiers-le-Bel to stop rioting youths. Photo by BGNES
Riots have broken out for a third night in the poor French...
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It is a crime in itself to hold this information for so long. "AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) - After more than 60 years, Nazi documents stored in a vast warehouse in Germany were unsealed Wednesday, opening a rich...
Berlin (ANTARA News) - Germany will not stage the season`s
curtain-raising League Cup competition next year, the German Football
League (DFL) said in a statement on Thursday.
The pre-season League Cup has been held every year since 1997,
generally featuring the top few teams...
""The position of England coach is ideal for Jurgen and he would be perfect for England," Beckenbauer said in his weekly column in German tabloid Bild."Jurgen is somebody with very clear ideas who can enforce them,...
"T-Mobile is to start allowing German customers to buy Apple's iPhone without a contract to its network, as it moves to comply with a court injunction.
Its announcement comes after rival Vodafone went to a German court to challenge T-Mobile's exclusive tie-up with the iPhone...
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