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Scientists have long thought that the first flowering plant in history would be a land plant. Though a few angiosperms (the scientific name for flowering plants) around today occur in the water, most live on land, and it has been generally assumed that these types of plants evolved on terra firma before radiating back ... |
The importance of very early aquatic flowering plants is not well understood currently and is poorly documented. Here we present details of the morphology and reproductive biology of Montsechia, an extremely early fossil angiosperm that, because it is so ancient and is totally aquatic, raises questions centered on the ... |
A large intact specimen of the fossil, Montsechia. Usually only small fragmentary pieces of the fossil are found. Credit: David Dilcher Indiana University paleobotanist David Dilcher and colleagues in Europe have identified a 125 million- to 130 million-year-old freshwater plant as one of earliest flowering plants on E... |
HONOLULU (AP) — A 16-year-old boy stowed away in the wheel well of a flight from California to Hawaii on Sunday, surviving the trip halfway across the Pacific Ocean unharmed despite frigid temperatures at 38,000 feet and a lack of oxygen, FBI and airline officials said.
File- This July 2, 2004, file photo shows a t... |
Police are investigating whether a man found dead on a west London street was a stowaway who fell from a plane. Just how often does this happen?
No-one saw the body fall from the sky on to Portman Avenue.
A few neighbours thought they heard something, a thud or a loud bang. But not a soul was around to witness ... |
Kim Jong-un saw the opportunity for maximum mischief offered by the most auspicious date in US history to launch a missile, literally and verbally
It is fair to say that the reporter tasked with working Kim Jong-un’s comments into North Korea’s latest statement on Tuesday’s intercontinental ballistic missile test d... |
A public TV screen broadcasts a local TV news showing what was said to be the launch of a Hwasong-14 intercontinental ballistic missile, ICBM, aired by North Korea's KRT on July 4, 2017, in Tokyo Wednesday,... (Associated Press)
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea's leader Kim Jong Un vowed his nation would "demo... |
"Even if you cancel most of the trade between China and North Korea, I think Kim Jong Un would still be determined to do these nuclear activities," said Shi Yinhong, an international relations professor at People's University in Beijing. "I think the problem from China's perspective is quite serious. And the issue is t... |
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - The United States cautioned on Wednesday it was ready to use force if need be to stop North Korea’s nuclear missile program but said it preferred global diplomatic action against Pyongyang for defying world powers by test launching a ballistic missile that could hit Alaska.
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The US and South Korea have held a ballistic missile drill, after North Korea tested a long-range missile experts believe may reach Alaska.
Self-restraint was "all that separate... |
Where could a North Korean intercontinental ballistic missile hit?
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The United States has concluded that North Korea has test launched an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), according to a Pentagon spokeswoman.
Yesterday, an announcement on North Korean state television claimed the missile was... |
The Seychelles, where the U.S. had temporarily stationed MQ-9s under the operational authority of U.S. Africa Command, now houses a base where a small fleet of “hunter-killer” drones resumed operations this month. (U.S. Africa Command/Major Eric Hilliard)
The Obama administration is assembling a constellation of se... |
WASHINGTON—The U.S. military is deploying a new force of armed drones to eastern Africa in an escalation of its campaign to strike militant targets in the region and expand intelligence on extremists, officials said.
The military has reopened a base for the unmanned aircraft on the island nation of Seychelles to in... |
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In Slight Defense Of Miss Utah USA, A Little Bit, With Reservations
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Look, Miss Utah USA, Marissa Powell, gave a pretty unimpressive answer to a question about income inequality at the Miss USA pageant. Let's all ag... |
NEW YORK — Miss Utah USA got a second chance Tuesday morning to answer a question she stumbled over Sunday night during the Miss USA pageant.
Marissa Powell, Miss Utah USA, made headlines nationwide after her rambling, incoherent response to a question asked by reality TV star NeNe Leakes. When asked what the wage ... |
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The Grateful Dead's Fare Thee Well show has sold out in minutes, but Deadheads with deep pockets are still in with a chance. Stubhub is offering tickets for the three-day show with a top-price at $116,000 (and change), down to the "cheap-seats" at a touch under $1,350. According to various news outlets, a million dolla... |
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Snoozing Fan Claims ESPN Defamed Him BRONX, N.Y. (CN) - A baseball fan who dozed off during a Yankee-Red Sox game sued the Yankees, ESPN and its announcers for defamation, claiming they broadcast photos of him asleep in his chair, calling him "fatty, unintelligent, [and] stupid."
Andrew Robert Rector sued Major Lea... |
Democrats pounced Thursday on politically inartful comments by Rep. Steve Southerland (R-Fla.), who told constituents that his $174,000 salary is nothing to write home about.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee hammered Southerland for statements he made during a visit to a retirement community in his T... |
U.S. Rep. Steve Southerland told retirees Wednesday that serving in Congress is a great honor and privilege, but not cushy job with lavish insurance and pension benefits that many disgruntled taxpayers seem to think it is.
He said his $174,000 salary is not so much, considering the hours a member of the House puts ... |
HARTFORD — The first round of state testing into failing home foundations in northern and eastern Connecticut has concluded that the presence of a certain mineral in the concrete aggregate is at least partly to blame.
"Although [the] investigation will continue into the fall, we believe there is now sufficient evid... |
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Basement walls are crumbling across a section of eastern Connecticut and few seem to know why.
The issue has plagued some homeowners for nearly 20 years. ... |
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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (AP) — Kurt Busch will miss the Daytona 500, and finds himself once again fighting for his career.
Kurt Busch, right, talks with his crew chief Tony Gibson, left, in his garage during a practice session for the Daytona 500 NASCAR Sprint Cup Series auto race at Daytona International Speedway, Wed... |
DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. -- NASCAR suspended Sprint Cup driver Kurt Busch indefinitely Friday, two days before the Daytona 500, for actions detrimental to stock car racing after a judge ruled he almost surely choked and beat a former girlfriend last fall.
Earlier Friday it was ruled that Busch smashed his ex-girlfriend ... |
Kurt Busch exits Family Court in Dover on Jan. 12. A Court Commissioner on Friday said it is more likely than not that Busch committed an act of abuse in September in Dover. (Photo: DOUG CURRAN/SPECIAL TO THE NEWS JOURNAL)
A Kent County Family Court Commissioner said it is more likely than not that NASCAR's Kurt Bu... |
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MH370 A different point of view. Pulau Langkawi 13,000 runway.
A lot of speculation about MH370. Terrorism, hijack, meteors. I cannot believe the analysis on CNN - ... |
Has someone finally solved the MH370 mystery?
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Chris Goodfellow doesn’t have much patience for the uncertainty concerning Malaysia Airlines Flight 370. The instrument-rated Florida pilot found the theories and countertheories mooted on outlets like CNN “almost disturbin... |
The White House has issued a clarification. When the president said if you like your insurance plan you can keep it, what he meant was you can keep it if he likes it.
Hundreds of thousands of Americans who are getting policy cancellation notices this month can't be as surprised as they pretend to be. President Obam... |
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Foes of Obamacare are excitedly citing a rash of new stories claiming untold Americans are “losing” their insurance, as CBS News’ Norah O’Donnell puts it. One of them is this NBC News story, which reports that “millions of Americans are getting or are about to get cancellation l... |
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“That means that no matter how we reform health care, we will keep this promise to the American people: If you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor, period. If you like your health-care plan, you’ll be able to keep your health-care plan, period. No one will take i... |
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During the public debate over health care in 2009 and 2010, no matter how tightly you may have shut your door, there was one piece of information it was impossible to avoid: the president's promise that if you liked your doctor and your health care plan you would be able to kee... |
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The president was deceiving either himself or the rest of us about Obamacare.
‘All we’ve been hearing the last three years is if you like your policy you can keep it. . . . I’m infuriated because I was lied to,” one woman told the Los Angeles Times, as part ... |
"She had to make a decision between the drugs and the babies," Roberts said Tuesday.
He also said DNA testing on seven dead babies found stuffed into cardboard boxes at Huntsman's home in April confirmed that all of them five girls and two boys were fathered by her husband.
The long-awaited results were dif... |
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) — A Utah mother told authorities that she killed six of her newborns and stored their bodies in a garage because she was addicted to drugs and didn't want to deal with the responsibility of raising them, police said Tuesday, revealing a suspected motive for the first time.
FILE - This April 13, ... |
Most people adjust their watches and clocks according to the time displayed on their cell phone. But now you have a new guideline: the NIST-F2 atomic clock.
Built by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the next-gen device will serve as the U.S. civilian time and frequency standard.
The mo... |
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With a new and improved atomic clock, the standard of time in America is about to change -- a teeny, tiny bit.
For the first time in 15 years, the National Institute of Standards and Technology, or NIST, is adding a new official atomic clock, institute officials announced Wednesday -- at... |
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SANFORD, Fla. - Plans by George Zimmerman to sell the gun used to shoot and kill Trayvon Marin appeared to be in limbo early Friday, reports CBS Orlando, Florida affiliate WKMG-TV.
Thursday night, a second auction website used to list the gun deleted a tweet saying it would remove the auction from the site.
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George Zimmerman wants to sell the gun he used to kill Florida teenager Trayvon Martin to the highest bidder in an online auction.
The firearm was initially placed on a listing on GunBroker.com, and included a description written by Zimmerman, a former neighborhood watch captain acquitted by a jury in the teen's 20... |
Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most common, complex, treatment resistant, and deadliest type of brain cancer, accounting for 45% of all brain cancers, with nearly 11,000 men, women, and children diagnosed each year. The time is now to make progress against this disease!
The Defeat GBM Research Collaborative i... |
A woman in Spain who suddenly became very religious and believed she was speaking with the Virgin Mary turned out to have a brain tumor that appears to have caused her symptoms, according to a new report of the case.
The 60-year-old women was said to be a happy, positive person who was not particularly religious. B... |
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Australia may block US singer Chris Brown from entering the country because of his domestic violence conviction.
Brown's announcement last week he would tour in December sparked criticism on... |
The intention of the campaign against Chris Brown was to use a celebrity with a well-known history of violence against women to ignite a discussion about attitudes towards gendered violence. Aspects of this succeeded but we now understand the campaign also supported a racist narrative that sees men of colour unfairly t... |
BEIJING (Reuters) - Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte announced his “separation” from the United States on Thursday, declaring he had realigned with China as the two agreed to resolve their South China Sea dispute through talks.
Duterte made his comments in Beijing, where he is visiting with at least 200 busines... |
China's president, Xi Jinping, and his Philippine counterpart, Rodrigo Duterte, agreed to resume bilateral talks in a bid to settle their territorial disputes in the South China Sea, a senior Chinese diplomat said. Photo: Zuma Press
BEIJING—China scored a diplomatic victory at the expense of the U.S. as Philippine ... |
A single bald eagle found dead in southern Delaware last Saturday didn't raise red flags for state wildlife officials.
But then a few hours later and a mile away, a startling scene unfolded: Eight bald eagles — distressed and disoriented — were discovered on the ground, barely moving on a fallow farm field.
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A worker at Tri-State Bird Rescue & Research feeds one of three bald eagles found ill in eastern Sussex County over the weekend, using a feeding tube during a morning round of medications on Monday, March 21, 2016. (Photo: COURTESY OF TRI-STATE BIRD RESCUE & RESEARCH)
Shortly after 13 bald eagles were found dead in... |
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Drug-Resistant Food Poisoning Lands In The U.S.
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This time last year, a painful new virus was knocking on our doorstep. Travelers were bringing chikungunya to the U.S. And eventually, the mosquito-borne virus set up shop in Florida.
Now the C... |
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International travelers are bringing a multidrug-resistant intestinal illness to the United States and sprea... |
NEW YORK (AP) — A drug-resistant strain of a nasty stomach bug made its way into the U.S. and spread, causing more than 200 illnesses since last May, health officials said Thursday.
This illustration made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows the Shigella bacteria. On Thursday, April 2, ... |
An LED fixture, bottom, is displayed next to an older streetlight, top, in Las Vegas, Nev. on Aug. 3, 2011. (Ethan Miller/Getty Images)
If people are sleepless in Seattle, it may not be only because they have broken hearts.
The American Medical Association issued a warning in June that high-intensity LED street... |
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Cities in the United States are likely to reconsider the use of LED streetlights after a health organization's warning in June suggested a link to increased risk for serious medical conditions.
In June, the American Medical Association (AMA) issued a report saying high-intensity LED streetlights e... |
The implications of President Trump’s Muslim ban regarding higher education have incited campus protests across the country, and even prompted officials at seventeen top schools to file a brief in federal court. A new study is shedding light on how strict immigration policies could continue to impact American education... |
A Surprising Explanation For Why Some Immigrants Excel In Science
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Seventeen-year-old Indrani Das just won the top high school science prize in the country. Das, who lives in Oradell, N.J., took home $250,000 from the former Intel Science Talent... |
DURHAM, N.C. -- The future occupations of U.S. immigrant children are influenced by how similar their native language is to English, finds a new study by scholars at Duke University and the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School.
"The more difficult it is for the child to learn English, the more likely they will invest in ... |
MIAMI A Miami man remained hospitalized in serious condition after a crocodile for the first time in Florida history attacked a pair of late-night swimmers near an upscale suburb, a wildlife official said on Monday.
Lisset Rendon, 23, was bitten in her left shoulder before she could struggle out of the crocodile's ... |
CORAL GABLES, Fla. (WSVN) -- The hunt is on for a crocodile who bit two people in a canal behind a Coral Gables neighborhood.
Trappers had one of the crocodiles hooked Monday night, but it managed to wrestle itself free and swim away, so Tuesday the game of hide-and-seek continues. "We had one hooked for quite some... |
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, left, prepares to shake hands with China's Foreign Minister Wang Yi prior to a meeting at EU headquarters in Brussels, Friday, June 1, 2018. The European... (Associated Press)
European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, left, prepares to shake hands with Chi... |
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said months of intense negotiations between his country, the United States and Mexico imploded Tuesday when Vice President Pence demanded that any deal expire automatically in five years.
Trudeau said he was prepared to travel to Washington this week to try to finalize a rewor... |
This implementation project showed that routine reflex DNA screening for trisomies 21, 18, and 13 achieved a detection rate of 95% with a false-positive rate of 0.02% and an odds of being affected given a positive result of 25:1. Only 2 in 10,000 women with unaffected pregnancies had an invasive diagnostic test. No oth... |
Credit: CC0 Public Domain Medical scientists at Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) have demonstrated for the first time that it is possible to incorporate DNA analysis into antenatal screening for three serious chromosome disorders, including Down's syndrome, in a way that is far more accurate than existing methods... |
New test more accurate than current screening in detecting Down’s, Edwards and Patau syndromes and could simplify screening process, say researchers
Doctors have developed a more accurate test for Down’s syndrome and two rarer genetic disorders that are so serious the children often die soon after birth.
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The family of a Toronto man who was declared brain dead after suffering an asthma attack has obtained a temporary injunction to keep him on life support while it fights to have his death certificate revoked on religious grounds. Shalom Ouanounou’s father, who is also his substitute decision-maker, filed an application ... |
A Canadian man who was declared brain dead after suffering as asthma attack in September will be kept on life support as per a judge’s order sought by his Orthodox Jewish family.
Toronto native Shalom Ouanounou, 25, was intubated on Sept. 27 and his death certificate was later issued when medical staff determined h... |
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A Canadian judge has allowed an Orthodox Jewish family to keep their son on life support after he was declared brain dead by doctors.
Shalom Ouanounou, 25, of Toronto, was intubated after he suffered an asthma attack o... |
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RPD and RFD Emergency Medical Response were called to Goddard High School today (Jan. 23) in reference to students feeling ill. It was discovered the ill students were engaging in prohibited behavior. Some of the stude... |
ROSWELL, N.M., March 29 (UPI) -- Police in New Mexico were able to track down one of the suspects involved in the theft of a model flying saucer from a Roswell museum.
Roswell police shared surveillance video of the UFO theft, as they announced that a 17-year-old boy was arrested at his home in South Roswell on Sat... |
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Cairo (CNN) -- Egypt, including its capital Cairo, teetered on the edge early Thursday as clashes persisted following the bloodiest day since the revolution two years ago that was envisioned to bring peace and democracy to Egypt -- but has not.
The viole... |
Sky News cameraman Mick Deane has been shot and killed in Egypt this morning.
Mick, 61, had worked for Sky for 15 years, based in Washington and then Jerusalem.
The married father of two was part of our team covering the violence in Cairo. The rest of the team are unhurt.
The Head of Sky News John Ryley des... |
White House condemns crackdown in Egypt, state of emergency
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The White House on Wednesday condemned violence in Egypt that has killed more than 100 people and said it opposed the state of emergency declared in that country.
The escalating violence poses a challenge to the ... |
Protesters throw stones at Egyptian security forces trying to clear a sit-in by supporters of ousted Islamist President Mohammed Morsi in the eastern Nasr City district of Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, Aug.... (Associated Press)
Firefighter attempt to put out fires as Egyptian security forces clear a sit-in by supporter... |
“I firmly condemn the attacks against the cultural institutions of the country and the looting of its cultural property,” said the Director-General of the UN Scientific, Educational and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), Irina Bokova.
“This constitutes irreversible damage to the history and identity of the Egyptian pe... |
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian security forces crushed the protest camps of thousands of supporters of the deposed Islamist president on Wednesday, shooting almost 200 of them dead in the bloodiest day in decades and polarizing the Arab world's most populous nation.
At least 235 people were killed in all, including at ... |
When Lynne Schultz first heard that her oldest child, Scout, had been shot and killed by a Georgia Tech police officer late Saturday night, she assumed it occurred at a protest rally.
Scout, she says, was politically active in progressive causes. Scout, a brilliant student despite numerous medical issues, suffered ... |
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by: Steve Gehlbach, Matt Johnson, Nefertiti Jaquez Updated: Sep 18, 2017 - 11:48 AM
ATLANTA - Update: Parents of Scout held a news conference Monday where they asked the Georgia Tech police why they had to kill their child.
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The Georgia Bureau of Investigation is handling the case of an officer-in... |
The call that led Georgia Tech campus police to respond to a man reportedly wielding a knife was made by the student who was later shot and killed by officers, police investigators said Monday night.
That student, Scout Schultz, left three suicide notes behind in a dormitory room, according to the Georgia Bureau of... |
The New York Observer -- a newspaper owned by Donald Trump's son-in-law that is perhaps best known for publishing a sex column in the mid-1990s -- took issue with a piece I wrote in The Huffington Post about ghost tours in New Orleans.
This was the writer's opening sally:
James Franco, the real voice of... |
Writing for new 'Nicolas Cage and 'The Human Centipede'' vertical
James Franco, the real voice of our generation, has taken time out from his busy schedule of Art and Teaching and also Learning to begin a Huffington Post diary. It’s about time!
So what important issue of our times is Mr. Franco tackling? Presid... |
Animal rights activists have dismissed as "absurd" and "cruel" the American government's plans to bombard Guam from the air with toxic dead mice in a bid to curtail the spread of invasive snakes.
The US air drop over the the Pacific island is due to commence in the spring, and is aimed at addressing the problems ca... |
In this photo taken on Feb. 5, 2013, U.S. Department of Agriculture wildlife specialist Tony Salas holds a Brown Tree Snake outside his office on Andersen Air Force Base on the island of Guam. The U.S.... (Associated Press)
Dead mice laced with painkillers are about to rain down on Guam's jungle canopy. They are sc... |
WASHINGTON — President Obama and the Republican House speaker, John A. Boehner , once again struggled against resistance from their respective parties on Thursday as they tried to shape a sweeping deficit-reduction agreement that could avert a government default in less than two weeks.
Congressional and administrat... |
Just as Senate Democrats were sitting down Thursday to a scheduled meeting with White House budget director Jacob J. Lew, rumors of a new debt-limit deal between President Obama and House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) flashed across their BlackBerrys.
One after another, Sens. John F. Kerry (Mass.), Barbara A. Mi... |
Administration, GOP downplay reports of deal
WASHINGTON With time running short to raise the nation's $14.3 trillion debt limit, President Obama and congressional leaders worked through another tumultuous day of negotiations Thursday with little public progress for weeks of work to reach a compromise that would l... |
Newt Gingrich’s campaign declined to purchase a lot today to participate in the Ames straw poll, a national spokesman confirmed in an interview with The Des Moines Register.
The decision is not a reflection of a troubled campaign but rather an effort to run a more focused grassroots organization, said spokesman R.C... |
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Washington (CNN) - Six Republican presidential campaigns secured spots Thursday to participate in the high stakes Ames Straw Poll in Iowa.
Multiple GOP sources told CNN that the former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty, Minnesota Rep. Michele Bachmann, businessman Herman Cain, former Sen. Rick Santorum, T... |
As the anniversary of 9/11 nears, the world will be reminded of the tragedy that occurred on that crisp, clear September day. But over the last 10 years, New Yorkers have confronted the loss every day as they look at the skyline and register the conspicuous absence of the towers, which rose above the surrounding buildi... |
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A movement of a Beethoven string quartet, lost in 1799, is to be given its premiere in Manchester on Thursday, after its discovery and reconstruction by Barry Cooper, professor of music at the University of Manchester.
The original slow movement of Beethoven's Quartet in G, Op 18 no 2, was written in 1799 when the ... |
A movement from a Beethoven composition for a string quartet which was discarded by the composer and replaced by a new version has been reconstructed by a musical expert in Manchester.
The piece got its first ever public performance in more than 200 years, possibly ever, at Manchester University.
The lost piece... |
Tunisian authorities are putting property confiscated from ousted Tunisian dictator Zine El Abidine Ben Ali up for auction. That includes a pair of miniature gold sphinxes, a diamond-encrusted pen and a staggering 39 luxury cars.
Officials hope the sale, which was inaugurated by Tunisia's Prime Minister Hamadi Jeba... |
Ever wanted to recreate the lifestyle of an authoritarian despot but weren't sure how? Now is your chance. In what is billed as a "sale of ill-gotten gains", Tunisia's finance ministry is seeking to ease its stretched current account by selling off cars, jewellery, furniture, pictures and assorted bling confiscated fro... |
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