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Video: Cat And Sheep Named 'Couple Of The Year' At Ukraine Zoo
Beating out several animal pairs, the duo received their award during a ceremony on Valentine's Day.
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Germany Sees Bluetongue Virus Outbreak With Over 1,800 Cases This Year
Germany has seen an explosion of cases of bluetongue virus this year, authorities said Tuesday as fears increase across Europe about the disease affecting sheep and cattle.
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Google Pixel 7a Review: A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing?
Google finally seems to have justified its pricing for the Pixel A series in India even though it is positioned eerily close to its premium Pixel 7 model. There’s a ton of new upgrades this year, but not all of them make sense as we found out in our review.
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Sheep Sentenced To Three Years In Jail For Killing A Woman In Africa
In a bizarre case, a sheep in South Sudan has been sentenced to jail for three years after it was found guilty of killing a woman. Now, the ram will be spending the next three years in a military camp in Aduel County headquarters.
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Watch: Wild Sheep With 35-Kg Coat Of Wool Rescued In Australia
A wild sheep found wandering the wilderness of the Australian bush has been sheared of a huge 35-kilogram (77-pound) coat after an estimated five years of unchecked growth.
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"Black Sheep": The Mastermind Of Sri Lanka's Easter Sunday Bombs
Mohamed Hashim Mohamed Zahran was 12 years old when he began his studies at the Jamiathul Falah Arabic College. He was a nobody, with no claim to scholarship other than ambition.
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Bear Chases Hundreds Of Sheep Off A Cliff In France
More than 200 sheep have fallen to their deaths after apparently being chased down a gorge in the Pyrenees by a brown bear, officials said Monday. Bears were re-introduced along the Franco-Spanish border 20 years ago, and the latest incident in the French region of Couflens follows a spate of bear attacks last year.
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China Paper Slams 'Superstitious' Reasoning For Falling Births
A state-run Chinese newspaper today excoriated population authorities for "superstition" after they blamed the inauspicious Year of the Sheep for births falling in 2015 despite a loosening of the one-child policy.
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Hong Kong 'Wolf' Tells People to be 'Like Sheep' After Year of Protests
Hong Kong leader CY Leung, nicknamed the "wolf" by critics, said residents of the Chinese-controlled city should be more like sheep after a year "rife with differences", including months of sometimes violent pro-democracy street protests.
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Zircon crystal: Scientists find oldest piece of Earth
Scientists using two different age-determining techniques have shown that a tiny zircon crystal found on a sheep ranch in western Australia is the oldest known piece of our planet, dating to 4.4 billion years ago.
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Scientists create human stem cells through cloning
After more than 15 years of failures by scientists around the world and one outright fraud, biologists have finally created human stem cells by the same technique that produced Dolly the cloned sheep in 1996: They transplanted genetic material from an adult cell into an egg whose own DNA had been removed.
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No Eid celebrations, just survival in Syria's Aleppo
Like many Syrians living on the frontline of the war, Abu Hamid is not slaughtering a sheep this year and not celebrating Eid al-Adha. The only thing he's worried about is staying alive.
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Video: Cat And Sheep Named 'Couple Of The Year' At Ukraine Zoo
Beating out several animal pairs, the duo received their award during a ceremony on Valentine's Day.
-
Germany Sees Bluetongue Virus Outbreak With Over 1,800 Cases This Year
Germany has seen an explosion of cases of bluetongue virus this year, authorities said Tuesday as fears increase across Europe about the disease affecting sheep and cattle.
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Google Pixel 7a Review: A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing?
Google finally seems to have justified its pricing for the Pixel A series in India even though it is positioned eerily close to its premium Pixel 7 model. There’s a ton of new upgrades this year, but not all of them make sense as we found out in our review.
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Sheep Sentenced To Three Years In Jail For Killing A Woman In Africa
In a bizarre case, a sheep in South Sudan has been sentenced to jail for three years after it was found guilty of killing a woman. Now, the ram will be spending the next three years in a military camp in Aduel County headquarters.
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Watch: Wild Sheep With 35-Kg Coat Of Wool Rescued In Australia
A wild sheep found wandering the wilderness of the Australian bush has been sheared of a huge 35-kilogram (77-pound) coat after an estimated five years of unchecked growth.
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"Black Sheep": The Mastermind Of Sri Lanka's Easter Sunday Bombs
Mohamed Hashim Mohamed Zahran was 12 years old when he began his studies at the Jamiathul Falah Arabic College. He was a nobody, with no claim to scholarship other than ambition.
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Bear Chases Hundreds Of Sheep Off A Cliff In France
More than 200 sheep have fallen to their deaths after apparently being chased down a gorge in the Pyrenees by a brown bear, officials said Monday. Bears were re-introduced along the Franco-Spanish border 20 years ago, and the latest incident in the French region of Couflens follows a spate of bear attacks last year.
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China Paper Slams 'Superstitious' Reasoning For Falling Births
A state-run Chinese newspaper today excoriated population authorities for "superstition" after they blamed the inauspicious Year of the Sheep for births falling in 2015 despite a loosening of the one-child policy.
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Hong Kong 'Wolf' Tells People to be 'Like Sheep' After Year of Protests
Hong Kong leader CY Leung, nicknamed the "wolf" by critics, said residents of the Chinese-controlled city should be more like sheep after a year "rife with differences", including months of sometimes violent pro-democracy street protests.
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Zircon crystal: Scientists find oldest piece of Earth
Scientists using two different age-determining techniques have shown that a tiny zircon crystal found on a sheep ranch in western Australia is the oldest known piece of our planet, dating to 4.4 billion years ago.
-
Scientists create human stem cells through cloning
After more than 15 years of failures by scientists around the world and one outright fraud, biologists have finally created human stem cells by the same technique that produced Dolly the cloned sheep in 1996: They transplanted genetic material from an adult cell into an egg whose own DNA had been removed.
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No Eid celebrations, just survival in Syria's Aleppo
Like many Syrians living on the frontline of the war, Abu Hamid is not slaughtering a sheep this year and not celebrating Eid al-Adha. The only thing he's worried about is staying alive.
