Monday, July 7, 2008 The United States bridge that collapsed almost a year ago, spanning the Mississippi River in Minneapolis, Minnesota, is close to being reconstructed. The final sections of the northbound lanes of the new Interstate 35W St. Anthony Falls Bridge in Minneapolis, Minnesota were put in place on July 5. The final segment […]
Saturday, September 8, 2012 1 2 3 4 5 6 London, England — The Australian women’s national wheelchair basketball team, the Gliders, defeated the USA Thursday in a 40–39 thriller at the North Greenwich Arena. This semifinal victory advances the Gliders into the final, where they are to meet the winner of the day’s match
Gliders defeat USA in 2012 Paralympic semifinals
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Monday, January 1, 2007 Ban Ki-moon, South Korean foreign minister, officially assumed his post as United Nations Secretary-General today. Ban, the eighth UN Secretary-General, is also the first Asian to serve in this office in 35 years. Ban, 62, grew up on the Korean peninsula in the midst of the Korean War that divided the
New UN Secretary General assumes post
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Thursday, June 23, 2011 NASA’s Cassini–Huygens spacecraft has discovered evidence for a large-scale saltwater reservoir beneath the icy crust of Saturn’s moon Enceladus. The data came from the spacecraft’s direct analysis of salt-rich ice grains close to the jets ejected from the moon. The study has been published in this week’s edition of the journal
Saturn moon Enceladus may have salty ocean
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Wednesday, December 17, 2008 The final farewell train in the first series of Shinkansen super-express, called zero-kei (0 Series), ran through western Japan Sunday afternoon from Shin-Osaka to Hakata. 0 Series has served in Japan since 1964, undergoing some model changes, and was retired from regular runs at the end of the last month. Extra
People bid farewell to elderly Shinkansen super-express in Japan
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Wednesday, March 7, 2007 The amount of subscribers to broadband in New Zealand have increased 30%, which also results in New Zealand jumping from 22 place to 19 in the OECD rankings, and having a total of 1.4 million Internet subscribers. In a six-monthly survey by Statistics New Zealand, Internet Service Provider Survey, covering the
New Zealand broadband subscribers increase
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Tuesday, May 7, 2013 Solar Impulse, the world’s most advanced solar powered plane has just completed the first of the five legs of its trans-continental journey, flying fuel-free from San Francisco to Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport, in just over 18 hours. The plane was piloted by co-founder Bertrand Piccard, departing San Francisco dawn on Friday
Solar powered plane completes first leg of transcontinental trip
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Correction — May 8, 2018 This headline incorrectly locates the tsunami in Southeast Asia; it was in the South Pacific, as stated in the lede. Thursday, October 1, 2009 A tsunami that was generated in the South Pacific by a powerful undersea earthquake has killed at least 110 people, according to authorities. The majority of the
Death toll from tsunami in Southeast Asia increases
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