China overtakes Germany as world’s biggest exporter

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Sunday, January 10, 2010 Chinese officials have said that their country’s exports surged last December to edge out Germany as the world’s biggest exporter. The official Xinhua news agency reported today that figures from the General Administration for Customs showed that exports jumped 17.7% in December from a year earlier. Over the whole of 2009
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Read Santa Clara marks tenth anniversary

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Saturday, September 10, 2005 Jennifer Sparacino, Santa Clara City Manager, third from left, and Santa Clara Mayor Patricia Mahan pose with Read Santa Clara staff, tutors, and learners. Photograph taken by Dvortygirl 10 September 2005, Santa Clara, California, USA. Santa Clara, California, USA. The adult literacy program Read Santa Clara marked its tenth anniversary today
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5-year old American girl dies after visiting the dentist

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Friday, September 29, 2006 Diamond Brownridge, a 5-year old girl from Chicago, Illinois, has died after a visit to the dentist. Children’s Memorial Hospital officials say that the girl was rushed to the hospital when she never woke up after being sedated for a dental procedure. She had been in a coma, on life support,
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Bacterial outbreak forces closure of Toronto hospital neo-natal unit

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Saturday, March 10, 2007 Women’s College Hospital in Toronto, Canada. An outbreak of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in a wing of the Women’s College Hospital in Toronto, Canada has resulted in the temporary closure of the hospital’s High Risk Perinatal Service in the Neo-natal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). The NICU, operated by the Sunnybrook Health
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Sweden’s Crown Princess marries long-time boyfriend

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Monday, June 21, 2010 Victoria, and husband Prince Daniel, Duke of Västergötland lead the procession around Stockholm after marrying SaturdayImage: Prolineserver (Wikimedia Commons). Sweden’s first royal wedding since 1976 took place Saturday when Crown Princess Victoria, 32, married her long-time boyfriend and former personal trainer, Daniel Westling, 36. The ceremony took place at Stockholm Cathedral.
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Keep your eyes peeled for cosmic debris: Andrew Westphal about Stardust@home

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Sunday, May 28, 2006 Stardust@home logoImage: Stardust@home. Stardust is a NASA space capsule that collected samples from comet 81P/Wild (also known as “Wild 2) in deep space and landed back on Earth on January 15, 2006. It was decided that a collaborative online review process would be used to “discover” the microscopically small samples the
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Scientology protest group celebrates founder’s birthday worldwide

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 Correction — March 19, 2008 The next protest is scheduled for April 12, 2008. The article below states April 18 which is incorrect.  Saturday, March 15, 2008 The Internet group Anonymous today held further protests critical of the Church of Scientology. The global protests started in Australia where several hundred protesters gathered at different locations for
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Swine flu: recent developments worldwide

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Saturday, June 6, 2009 The H1N1 swine flu virus has now spread to 66 different countries throughout the globe, with at least 19,273 confirmed cases and 117 deaths having been reported according to the latest World Health Organisation (WHO) tally. A majority of the cases were reported by the United States, which now has at
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Musharraf quits as chief of army staff in Pakistan

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Thursday, November 29, 2007 Pervez Musharraf President Pervez Musharraf of Pakistan gave up his uniform in a ceremony yesterday in Rawalpindi. He handed power over to General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani at the headquarters of the Pakistani Army, after being the leader of the army for nine years. In his final address as leader of the
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HIV-positive man receives 35 years for spitting on Dallas police officer

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Sunday, May 18, 2008 An HIV-positive man was sentenced to 35 years in prison Wednesday, one day after being convicted of harassment of a public servant for spitting into the eye and open mouth of a Dallas, Texas police officer in May 2006. The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says that no
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