These three countries alone are suspected of killing nearly 45,000 whales since 1986, when commercial whaling was banned.

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Sequelitis is a serious problem in the world of cinema. When a masterpiece is made, the executives are eager to capture that lightning in a bottle a second time. That leads to sequels that must be ...

A financial crisis could be triggered by an announcement that aliens exist, according to Helen McCaw, a former policy expert of the Bank of England. McCaw told The Times of London that politicians and ...

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INDIO— In recent weeks, El Centro Sector agents arrested 49 illegal aliens with commercial driver’s licenses during vehicle stops at immigration checkpoints and in interagency operations. Between Nov.

The search for life beyond our solar system heated up this year when scientists reported a tantalising signal from an exoplanet of a molecule that is known to be produced exclusively by life on Earth.