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Kyrgyz president formally resigns after turmoil
BISHKEK (Reuters) - Deposed President Kurmanbek Bakiyev formally resigned in a handwritten letter sent to Kyrgyzstan's new leaders on Friday, allaying fears of civil war in the strategic Central Asian country.
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Gloria Estefan seeks Obama help for Cuba dissidents
MIAMI (Reuters) - Cuban-American pop star Gloria Estefan asked President Barack Obama to work for the freedom of jailed dissidents in Cuba during a political fundraising event that seemed certain to anger the island's communist rulers.
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Travel chaos from volcanic ash cloud worst since 9/11
By Michael Holden
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Climatologists ponder Earth's missing heat
Astonishingly, climatologists can't account for roughly half of the heat that is believed to have built up on the Earth in recent years. "The heat will come back to haunt us sooner or later," lament the scientists, who hypothesize that this "missing" heat may be building up in the deep oceans...
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Cheap-and-cheerful memristor tech set to spur AI research
The recent demonstration of mass-produced memristors performing stateful logic operations and their likely application in an artificially rendered memory and learning process known as "spike timing dependent plasticity" will make memristors the must-have tinkertoy for AI researchers...
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Electricity generated directly from photosynthesis
Scientists have "wired up" algae to harness a tiny electric current directly from the plant during photosynthesis; an achievement which could lead to the highly efficient generation of bioelectricity with
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"Striking" link between omega-3 fatty acid and male fertility
The dramatic effect that a little-known omega-3 fatty acid has on sperm may have important implications for treating male infertility, say University of Illinois scientists...
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Artificial photosynthesis: modified virus splits water
MIT researchers have found a novel way to mimic the process by which plants use sunlight to split water into hydrogen and oxygen. They used a modified virus as a "biological scaffold" that can assemble the nanoscale components needed to split a water molecule into hydrogen and oxygen atoms...
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Goldman Sachs charged with fraud by SEC
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Goldman Sachs Group Inc was charged with fraud by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission over its marketing of a subprime mortgage product, igniting a battle between Wall Street's most powerful bank and the nation's top securities regulator.
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Thai PM gives army chief extended powers amid crisis
BANGKOK (Reuters) - Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva on Friday made his army chief the head of national security in a bid to involve the military as anti-government protesters massed in the streets calling for his downfall.
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Volcanic ash grounds flights across much of Europe
LONDON (Reuters) - A huge ash cloud from an Icelandic volcano spread out across Europe on Friday causing air travel chaos on a scale unseen since the September 11 attacks and costing airlines hundreds of millions of dollars.
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Russia to put boy in U.S. adoption case in foster home
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A top Russian official said on Friday he hoped to quickly place an adopted boy into foster care one week after he was sent home alone from the United States, sparking a halt to all U.S. adoptions by Russia.
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Greek woes prompt wider euro zone anti-crisis push
MADRID/ATHENS (Reuters) - Finance ministers agreed in principle on Friday to create a permanent mechanism to handle economic crises in the euro zone, as preparations continued on an unprecedented aid package for debt-stricken Greece.
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BofA profit beats expectations, revenue lower
CHARLOTTE, North Carolina (Reuters) - Bank of America Corp posted its first quarterly profit since summer 2009 as it generated outsized bond trading revenue and set aside less money to cover bad loans.
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Case Studies Reveal that Patents Can Hinder Genetic Research and Patient Care
A U.S. District Court judge's recent decision to invalidate patents on two genes commonly tested to determine risk for breast and ovarian cancers is an important step toward removing legal hurdles that have slowed the development of new genetic testing technology, according to a team of Duke University researchers. [More]
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GE profit tops Street view as cost cuts pay off
BOSTON (Reuters) - General Electric Co called the end to its two-year slump on Friday, reporting earnings that beat Wall Street forecasts and saying profit should rise through the rest of 2010.
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Polish funeral set to go ahead despite ash cloud
WARSAW (Reuters) - The Polish president's funeral looks set to go ahead as planned on Sunday, at his family's insistence, despite a cloud of volcanic ash that has shut Europe's airports and may prevent world leaders attending.
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Ice cap thaw may awaken Icelandic volcanoes
By Alister Doyle, Environment Correspondent
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Pakistan may fear reopening Bhutto probe: analysts
ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - The Pakistani government may be reluctant to act on a call by a U.N. commission to investigate thoroughly the assassination of Benazir Bhutto because of fear of its own powerful security establishment, analysts said on Friday.
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Obama makes hospitals allow gay visitation rights
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama issued a memo on Thursday that would require hospitals accepting Medicare or Medicaid funds to allow visitation rights to gay and lesbian partners.
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