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A giant asteroid smashing into Earth is the only possible explanation for the extinction of the dinosaurs-a global scientific team said on Thursday, hoping to settle a row that has divided experts for decades.
A panel of 41 scientists from across the world reviewed 20 years’ worth of research to try to confirm the cause [...]

Newly introduced, and at the exact same price as Olympus’  E-600 Four Thirds digital SLR with 14-42mm kit lens, is the manufacturer’s latest Micro Four Thirds system hybrid in the E-PL1 Digital Pen.
Like that DSLR “proper” it also comes in kit form with a zoom of the exact same focal [...]

Opera has announced the full release of version 10.50 of its desktop browser for Windows – a rather speedy transition from the beta, which was only released a few weeks back. It’s a rather substantial upgrade from Opera 10.1, featuring a dramatic UI refresh and an overhaul of Opera’s Presto [...]

Agathe Habyarimana, the widow of late Rwandan President Juvenal Habyarimana, whose assassination triggered the Rwandan genocide, has been arrested in France.
Habyarimana is accused by the current Rwandan government of helping to plan the 1994 genocide, and has long been sought by prosecutors there.
Mrs Habyarimana, who has been living in France for several years, denies [...]

SYDNEY—US daredevil Seth Enslow coined a world record distance on a Harley-Davidson motorbike not once, but twice, on Tuesday after media missed the first death-defying leap.
The freestyle motocross star broke Bubba Blackwell’s 11-year record by soaring 175 feet (53.3 meters) near Sydney’s famed harbour, and then went back and jumped 183.7 feet for the [...]

WASHINGTON DC, United States— Another 6.2-magnitude aftershock struck central Chile late Sunday which followed the major 8.8-degree earthquake a US government agency reported.
The epicenter of the shake was 35 kilometers underground and 109 kilometers northeast of the city of Talca, the US Geological Survey said.
Chile’s death toll reached 700 on Sunday as rescuers [...]

Japan on Monday lifted all tsunami alerts nationwide, a day after authorities ordered large-scale evacuations as waves triggered by Chile’s massive earthquake hit its Pacific coast.
“We lifted all alerts as of 10:15 a.m. (0115 GMT),” said Yoshiro Ota at the Meteorological Agency’s earthquake and tsunami division.
There were no immediate reports of damage from the [...]

Actor Andrew Koenig –  known for his role as Kirk Cameron’s pal Boner on the 󈨔s sitcom Growing Pains — was found dead Thursday in Vancouver, B.C.
After visiting pals in Vancouver on Feb. 11, he never boarded his flight back to Los Angeles.
The 41-year-old actor had been missing since Feb. 16.
At a press conference [...]

Philippines’ top leaders from different sectors will have a leadership conference with former US Vice-President Al Gore as keynote speaker and other global leaders.
The lecture will have Gore present an Asian version of An Inconvenient Truth, a multimedia presentation on the threat of climate change and solutions to global warming and the subject of [...]

Soy is nutritious and contains lots of good things. Unfortunately, when you eat or drink a lot of soy stuff, you’re also getting substantial quantities of estrogens.
Estrogens are female hormones. If you’re a woman, you’re flooding your system with a substance it can’t handle in surplus. If you’re [...]