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  • 280 new moon craters identified

    Using ultra-high resolution mapping techniques, scientists from Australia have identified 280 craters on the moon that have never been mapped before. The researchers at Curtin University in Western Australia used computer modelling of lunar gravity and topography data to explore detailed basins that would be obscured using other methods, Xinhua reported. A total of 66 of the craters identified ...

  • Steven and Alex Gerrard soak up the sun in Ibiza on 6th wedding anniversary

    Steven Gerrard and wife Alex lark have been spotted splashing around in the sea, while celebrating their 6th wedding anniversary in Ibiza. The loved-up couple, which got married in a lavish do at Cliveden House in Berkshire in 2007, showed that they are still head over heels in love even after years of marriage, the Sun reported. Alex, the stunning mum of three, wore a printed triangle bikini ...

  • ESAs Herschel telescope finally switched off

    European Space Agency's billion-euro Herschel space telescope has been switched off. Mission controllers sent the final command to the Herschel satellite Monday at 12:25 GMT (14:25 CEST), marking the end of operations for ESA's hugely successful space observatory. Herschel's science mission had already ended in April upon exhaustion of the crucial liquid helium that cooled the observatory's ...

  • Colorado wildfire destroys more than 500 homes new blazes menace West

    Colorado wildfire destroys between 80 and 100 homes DENVER/LOS ANGELES - The number of homes destroyed by a Colorado wildfire rose above 500 on Tuesday as rain dampened the flames and allowed damage assessment teams to enter charred neighbourhoods, and other threatening blazes grew in Alaska and elsewhere in the West. Authorities said the so-called Black Forest Fire, which has burned in the ...

  • McCain and MacKay talk Syria in D.C.

    U.S. Senator John McCain (R-AZ) (L) talks to reporters as he departs following the weekly Republican caucus luncheon at the U.S. Capitol in Washington June 18, 2013. (REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst ...

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Wendy and Lucy [DVD]

Wendy and Lucy [DVD]

Kelly Reichardts Wendy and Lucy is a small, spare, and genuinely beautiful film, very much the spiritual descendent of Italian neorealism, which French film critic Andr Bazin described as an ideal synthesis between the rigor of tragic necessity and the accidental fluidity of ever ... ...

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  • Naked gymnast faces charges over S.F. transit stop antics

    Yeiner Alberto Perez Garizabalo, 24, was caught on video doing handstands and contortions on turnstiles. (YouTube) A trained gymnast whose naked acrobatics and harassment of passengers at a San Francisco public transit station were captured on video and circulated widely on the Internet is facing criminal charges over his antics, authorities said on Tuesday. Yeiner Alberto Perez Garizabalo, 24, ...

  • New owners for Bankwest HQ retail space

    PROPERTY firm Charter Hall Group and an associated superannuation fund have paid $458 million to a receiver for a Perth development which houses Bankwest's headquarters and the city centre's biggest retail ...

  • Beware the pretense of science

    The pretense of science is not science. If government officials truly wish to be scientifically driven, they would allow each of us adults to choose which drugs we wish to take, regardless of the objective likelihood that someone will die or be seriously injured if he or she chooses to be treated with some ...

  • Irish tourists wallet returned with $700 inside

    TTC supervisor Cecil Smith, left, and bus driver Bill Dimitradzos seen Tuesday, June 18, 2013, helped return a lost wallet with $700 and no ID to visitors from Ireland. (MICHAEL PEAKE/TORONTO SUN) TORONTO - Monica McCallen is calling the honesty of Canadians "unreal" after the wallet of the Irish woman’s grandson was returned to him - with the $700 inside - by the TTC. McCallen, ...

  • Speaker sends overspending case to committee

    MP Shelly Glover. (JOEL LEMAY/QMI AGENCY) OTTAWA -- House Speaker Andrew Scheer shunted the problem of whether to suspend two Tory MPs under the Elections Canada microscope for possible overspending during the last campaign to a Commons committee. MPs Shelly Glover and James Bezan are fighting Elections Canada in a Manitoba court over the interpretation of election spending rules. On Tuesday, ...

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