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KINGDOM ROUNDUP

  • Saudis rule Arab U-23 meetThe Saudi athletics team bagged top honors with eight gold, a silver and bronze medals respectively at the 15th Arab Under-23 Athletics Meet, which concluded in Amman, Jordan, on Saturday. Iraq came second and Qatar took third place.Khaled Bin Nouh, head of the Saudi...
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Sixers top Celtics to force Game 7

  • PHILADELPHIA: In the most unpredictable of playoff series, Rajon Rondo was the one consistent playmaker for Boston.Until Game 6.Rondo had his quietest game of the second round and the Celtics paid with an ineffective shooting night that left them playing catch-up against rugged and determined...
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Hunting black holes in universe

  • NASA is poised to launch a sophisticated orbiting telescope that uses high-energy X-ray vision to hunt for black holes in the universe.The Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) will first be carried into the skies by a jet which will deploy a rocket that sends the satellite into space,...
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Letters- Presumptuous and unnecessary comments

  • Presumptuous and unnecessary commentsI have been perplexed with the comments by Anees Lokhande for the past two days covering issues related to faith and religion which sounded as edicts or fatwas. With due respect to his comments and my humble admission of not having expert knowledge of Islam, I...
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Curiosity rover takes first short spin around Mars

  • PASADENA, California: Curiosity took its first test drive around the gravel-strewn Martian terrain Wednesday, preparation for the ultimate road trip to find out if the red planet’s environment could have supported life....
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Voyager 1 heads for the stars

  • PASADENA, California: Thirty-five years after leaving Earth, Voyager 1 is reaching for the stars.Sooner or later, the workhorse spacecraft will bid adieu to the solar system and enter a new realm of space — the first time a manmade object will have escaped to the other side.Perhaps no one on...
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Five-year-olds put to test in US as kindergarten exams gain steam

  • With school in full swing across the United States, the littlest students are getting used to the blocks table and the dress-up corner — and that staple of American public education, the standardized test.A national push to make public schools more rigorous and hold teachers more accountable has...
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SpaceX craft on way to ISS in first supply run

  • WASHINGTON: A cargo-laden capsule on Monday was on its way to the International Space Station on NASA’s first privately-run supply mission after a successful blast-off atop SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket.The capsule named Dragon reached orbit and spread its two wing-like solar antennas 10 minutes after...
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Voyager enters new region of solar system

  • CHICAGO: NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft has encountered a “magnetic highway” at the edge of the solar system, a surprising discovery 35 years after its launch, the experts behind the pioneering craft said Monday....
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Kids play Mozart with violins made from garbage

  • The sounds of a classical guitar come from two big jelly cans. Used X-rays serve as the skins of a thumping drum set. A battered aluminum salad bowl and strings tuned with forks from what must have been an elegant table make a violin. Bottle caps work perfectly well as keys for a saxophone....
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