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ANCIENT EGYPT 2,400-Year-Old Myths of Mummy-Making Busted
Contrary to reports by famous Greek historian Herodotus, the ancient Egyptians probably didn't remove mummy guts using cedar oil enemas, new research on the reality of mummification suggests.
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Confident Hosni Mubarak Appears in Court
A confident Hosni Mubarak showed up for his retrial in Cairo. Too bad it was cut short.
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Nigeria lead poisoning 'emergency'
A BBC investigation has revealed the level of toxic lead contamination around a cluster of villagers in Zamfara province in Northern Nigeria.
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Attack of the giant snails in Florida
Florida, already threatened with sinkholes, now has a new terror: rat-sized, tire-puncturing snails.Sounding like something out of a 1950s B-movie, these giant African land snails eat their way through some surprising stuff, including stucco, plastic recycling bins, signs and more than 500 species of plants, says the Florida Department of Agriculture.
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Zimbabwe makes history. BitCoins now official national currency.
Rumors from unidentified administration insider report that Mr. Robert Mugabe approved the ground breaking move to BitCoin as his nations national currency yesterday after 4 hour meeting with advisors...
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African students invent anti malaria soap
Two African students have invented a malaria repellent soap using local herbs. They were recently rewarded with a $25,000 award at the Global Social Venture
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Officials: At least 185 killed in Nigeria attack
Fighting between Nigeria's military and Islamic extremists killed at least 185 people in a fishing community in the nation's far northeast, officials said Sunday, an attack that saw insurgents fire rocket-propelled grenades and soldiers spray machine-gun fire into neighborhoods filled with civilians.
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Small Blenny
Small blenny fish hiding in a coral hole, Red Sea, Egypt
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Last rhinos in Mozambique killed by poachers
The last known rhinoceroses in Mozambique have been wiped out by poachers apparently working in cahoots with the game rangers responsible for protecting them, it has emerged.
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A Hidden Victim of Somali Pirates: Science
Fear of buccaneers opens a vast "data hole" in the Indian Ocean. Somali pirates have shut down crucial scientific research in the Indian Ocean off the Horn of Africa.
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Ethiopian Religious Groups Want Death Penalty for Gays
A representative from the Ethiopian Inter-Religious Council Against Homosexuality (EICAH) stated that the council is "making progress" in convincing the government to introduce the death penalty to punish gays.
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Somalian Pirates after an encounter with the german navy
No chance.
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Coming out in Cameroon leaves gay people at risk and isolated
When Fabrice was brutally outed by his uncle, the young Cameroonian was immediately evicted from his rented room in the port city of Douala.
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Western Black Rhino Declared Extinct..
According to the International Union for Conservation of Nature, Africa’s western black rhino is now officially extinct. After being a victim of increasingly devastating poaching and seeing little to no conservation efforts, the species is now gone, and others – including the northern white rhino and Asia’s Javan rhino – are expected to swiftly follow unless efforts to stop the senseless killing of them prevail.
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Egypt's Mubarak back in court for retrial
Former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak was back in court on Saturday for a retrial on charges of complicity in the murder of protesters, reopening a case that has shown the difficulty...
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Real Life Mowgli: Girl Who Grew Up in the African Wildlife
Riding a five-ton elephant, whom she called 'my brother', chilling with a cheetah or hugging a giant bullfrog as if it were a Teddy bear. The childhood of a French girl Tippi Degre sounds more like a newer version of Mowgli, rather than something real.
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Elephant tramples a suspected poacher to death in Zimbabwe
A suspected poacher has reportedly been trampled to death by an elephant as he tried to shoot the beast in Zimbabwe.
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Inside the Oscar Pistorius Murder Case: What Paths Took the Couple to That Final Night?
Mark Seal investigates the relationship of “Blade Runner” Oscar Pistorius and his model-girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, ahead of her Valentine’s Day death.
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100 Feared Trapped As Building Collapses In Rwanda
Around 100 people are feared trapped after a four-storey building under construction collapsed in northeastern Rwanda, the government said Tuesday.
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A Gunmaker in Nigeria
Mmemme’s friends gave him his nickname, an affectionate, long-held one, which means “to boast”; they said he would show off incessantly as a boy, like a precocious rapper.
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