By Mil Arcega Washington, DC 18 April 2006 watch report Rising Gas Prices Crude oil futures hit $70 a barrel for the first time in seven-and-a-half months Monday, pushed higher by concerns over declin

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By Patricia Nunan Nepal Ganj, Nepal 22 February 2006 watch Nepal report For the past 10 years, Nepal has been caught up in a conflict between government forces and communist rebels fighting to overthr

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By Douglas Bakshian Manila 28 March 2007 Leftist parties in the Philippines say their members are being harassed by troops sent to poor sections of Manila. The military says the soldiers are there to help with public works projects and assist the pol

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By Greg Flakus Houston 27 March 2007 Mexico's state-owned oil company, Petroleos Mexicanos, better known as Pemex, celebrated its 69th birthday on March 18, amid concerns that it is on the brink of insolvency and its production is falling. As VOA's G

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By Suzanne Presto New Delhi 24 January 2007 A leading human-rights group says Sri Lanka's government is ignoring a militant group's use of child soldiers and forced conscripts in battles against Tamil rebels. VOA's Suzanne Presto in New Delhi report

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Longtime Texas oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens is calling on the U.S. government to take steps to reduce the nation's dependence on foreign oil. He is promoting an energy plan that features wind and natural gas - a proposal he discussed with lawmakers a

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By Greg Flakus Houston 18 June 2008 President Bush and Republican presidential candidate John McCain are both calling for an end to a moratorium on developing oil and natural gas resources along much of the U.S. coastline. Democratic presidential ca

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By Phil Mercer Sydney 28 May 2008 Town officials have rejected plans for an Islamic school on the outskirts of Australia's biggest city, Sydney. The issue has stirred emotions in the town of Camden, where local groups held demonstrations against the

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Aid agencies say recent fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo has led to the widespread separation of family members. More than 250,000 people are believed to have been displaced since fighting resumed between rebels and government forces in

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The top U.S. military officer is in Moscow for talks on missile defense, arms control and other issues in advance of U.S. President Barack Obama's visit to the Russian capital in 10 days. Admiral Mike Mullen, (file photo) The Chairman of the Joint C

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The U.S. military has paid its formal farewell to President George Bush, as he prepares to step down as commander-in-chief. Representatives from all branches of the armed forces took part in a ceremony honoring the president at an army base near Was

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North Korea Bids A Snowy, Dramatic Farewell to Kim Jong Il Snowy streets and wails of grief dominated the live broadcast from North Korea state television Wednesday, as the reclusive state bid farewell to its absolute leader, Kim Jong Il. Internation

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The Thai government is calling for broader regional support to police illegal wildlife trafficking, especially to China. Thailand is training more than 200 Bangkok airport personnel to assist in the recovery of wildlife trafficked through the intern

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A major South Korean broadcaster is reporting that North Korean leader Kim Jong Il has a life-threatening form of cancer. His health has been in serious question since his apparent stroke about a year ago. The medical prognosis is a matter of utmost

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And every faint smudge of light you are looking at is a galaxy. For Richard Ellis, it's a galactic treasure trove. So much like an archaeologist/, we piece together history by digging into deeper and deeper layers. So a cosmologist like myself, uses

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A new galaxy is formed where, instead of the discs that the original galaxies have, where all the stars are going around more or less on a plane. Instead the stars are going every which way just like the elliptical galaxies that we see. And so we are

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The first stars in our Milky Way were fearsome high-octane stars, burning their hydrogen fuel at tremendous rates, rushing through their life cycle. They like the rockslides. They live fast and die young. They run out of their fuel very quickly and e

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But our time traveling isnt yet over. There is still the question of how the first galaxies kindled the very first stars. We are on a journey visiting the Dark Ages, a time over 12.5 billion years ago. The sight is spectacular. The sky is ablaze with

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Imagine the disc of our galaxy, if you just took a disc of stars and put it there, gravity would tend to make this disc collapse/ into itself and it would immediately just fall together. That is not what we see with the galaxy. Whats actually going o

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Its a stunning location, but its also mysterious. These stars are not just close together. They are on the move at enormous speeds. Going to the heart of a galaxy might not be the similar to going to an amusement park. The rides are some similar to h

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