Endeavour leaves Houston for new home in Calif.

HOUSTON (AP) -- Space shuttle Endeavour has departed Houston on its trek west to retirement in a Los Angeles museum.Endeavour, atop a modified jumbo jet, left Thursday morning after a one-day stop at the home of NASA's Mission Control.The retired shuttle...

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AP Exclusive: Unique tombs found in Philippines

MANILA, Philippines (AP) -- Archeologists have unearthed remnants of what they believe is a 1,000-year-old village on a jungle-covered mountaintop in the Philippines with limestone coffins of a type never before found in this Southeast Asian nation,...

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UK lawmakers seek moratorium on Arctic drilling

LONDON (AP) -- International governments should seek a moratorium on offshore drilling in the Arctic amid concern an oil spill in the region could cause catastrophic environmental damage, British lawmakers said Thursday.The Environmental Audit Committee...

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Endeavour stops in Houston en route to California

HOUSTON (AP) -- The space shuttle Endeavour is scheduled to leave Houston early Thursday after giving locals a brief glimpse of what might have been.Hundreds lined the streets and crowded the airport Wednesday to see the retired shuttle land before it...

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Neil Armstrong, 1st to walk on moon, buried at sea

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The first man to walk on the moon has been buried at sea.NASA says Neil Armstrong's cremated remains were buried in the Atlantic Ocean on Friday during a ceremony aboard the USS Philippine Sea.Armstrong was a Navy fighter pilot before...

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Orangutan's cancer treatment similar to humans

MIAMI (AP) -- Peanut is an 8-year-old orangutan and a star attraction at Miami's Jungle Island. These days she's also got a team of cancer doctors huddling around her, watching as the chemo drip flows into her veins.Peanut, who was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin...

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Eclipse season on Mars, so Curiosity took photos

WASHINGTON (AP) -- On Mars, a partial eclipse of the sun isn't quite as rare as on Earth. So NASA's Mars Curiosity rover is snapping hundreds of pictures of the spectacle for the folks back home to ooh and aah over.Two moons zip around the red planet...

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Doubts over Harvard claim of 'Jesus' Wife' papyrus

ROME (AP) -- Is a scrap of papyrus suggesting that Jesus had a wife authentic?Scholars on Wednesday questioned the much-publicized discovery by a Harvard scholar that a 4th century fragment of papyrus provided the first evidence that some early Christians...

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Debate on bringing wolves to Colo goes to US court

DENVER (AP) -- An argument over whether wolves should be returned to Rocky Mountain National Park to reduce an overabundance of elk is moving to a federal appeals court.The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Colorado will hear the case Thursday.The...

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Arctic ice shrinks to all-time low; half 1980 size

WASHINGTON (AP) -- In a critical climate indicator showing an ever warming world, the amount of ice in the Arctic Ocean shrank to an all-time low this year, obliterating old records.The ice cap at the North Pole measured 1.32 million square miles on...

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Chile's Pacific paradise endangered by goats, cats

ROBINSON CRUSOE ISLAND, Chile (AP) -- It's still a natural paradise far out in the Pacific, with thick jungles and stunningly steep and verdant slopes climbing out of the sea. But much of the splendor in the tiny Chilean islands that likely inspired...

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Arctic ice shrinks to all-time low; half 1980 size

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Scientists say the amount of ice in the Arctic Ocean shrank to an all-time low this year, smashing old records for the critical climate indicator.The ice cap at the North Pole measured 1.32 million square miles on Sunday. The previous...

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Harvard claim of Jesus' Wife papyrus scrutinized

ROME (AP) -- Is a scrap of papyrus suggesting that Jesus had a wife authentic?Scholars on Wednesday questioned the much-publicized discovery by a Harvard scholar that a 4th century fragment of papyrus provided the first evidence that some early Christians...

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Goldman Sachs' Schwartz to replace Viniar as CFO

NEW YORK (AP) -- Goldman Sachs Group Inc.'s chief financial officer is retiring, and his replacement is a longtime executive at the investment bank.David Viniar, 57, is stepping down after 32 years with Goldman, the last 12 as CFO. Harvey M. Schwartz,...

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After a surprise panda birth in DC, anxiety awaits

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The birth of a panda cub this weekend at Washington's zoo was cause for a party, but behind the excitement there's also some nail-biting.Panda cubs are born hairless and helpless, about the size of a stick of butter. The tiny cubs...

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Mexico finds some escapees in border prison break

PIEDRAS NEGRAS, Mexico (AP) -- Officials said Tuesday they have found three inmates thought to have escaped through a tunnel at a northern Mexico border prison, lowering the number of escaped prisoners to 129.Three female inmates were found hiding in...

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Researchers tag great white sharks off Cape Cod

CHATHAM, Mass. (AP) -- The scientists and fishermen on board the Ocearch, a repurposed crabbing vessel, received word that their scouting boat had hooked a great white shark, sparking a flurry of activity.They were about to get up close and personal...

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Space shuttle Endeavour stuck at home in Florida

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- Space shuttle Endeavour apparently doesn't want to leave home.NASA's youngest shuttle was supposed to depart Florida's Kennedy Space Center on Monday for its permanent museum home in Los Angeles. But stormy weather along...

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Orangutan's cancer treatment similar to humans

MIAMI (AP) -- Peanut is an 8-year-old orangutan and a star attraction at Miami's Jungle Island. These days she's also got a team of cancer doctors huddling around her, watching as the chemo drip flows into her veins.Peanut, who was diagnosed with non-Hogkin...

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US, Russian space trio lands in Kazakhstan

ALMATY, Kazakhstan (AP) -- An international three-man crew onboard a Russian-made Soyuz capsule touched down successfully on the cloudless central Kazakhstan steppe Monday morning after 123 days at the International Space Station.A fleet of Russian Mi-8...

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