Mission to Drill Into Buried Antarctic Lake Called Off

After fighting with the Antarctic ice for 20 hours through Christmas Eve, a British Antarctic Survey team has reluctantly called off its mission to retrieve water samples from an ancient subglacial lake.The decision to halt drilling through the ice down toward Lake Ellsworth came after the team failed to connect the project's main and secondary boreholes, Martin Siegert, the lead investigator for...

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YEARENDER-Rugby-Sting in the tail for All Blacks after stellar year

After ending their World Cup pain in 2011 New Zealand stamped their authority all over 2012, only for their triumphant run to be cut short spectacularly in the final game of the year.When the All Blacks ran out at Twickenham on Dec. 1 within three games of matching their record 23-match unbeaten sequence and, with only an 18-18 draw with Australia blotting their copybook, they were being touted as...

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OFFICIAL CORRECTION-Cricket-Australia beat S.Lanka by innings and 201 runs

MELBOURNE, Dec 28 (Reuters) - Australia beat Sri Lanka by an innings and 201 runs in the second test on the third day at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Friday to seal their three-match series 2-0.Scores: Sri Lanka 103-9 & 156 (K. Sangakkara 58; M. Johnson 4-63) v Australia 460 (D. Warner 62, S. Watson 83, M. Clarke 106, M. Johnson 92 not out; D. Prasad 3-106, S. Eranga 3-1...

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Cricket-Australia v Sri Lanka - second test scoreboard

MELBOURNE, Dec 28 (Reuters) - Scoreboard on the third day ofthe second test after Australia beat Sri Lanka by an innings and201 runs at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Friday.Australia sealed the three-match series 2-0.Sri Lanka won the toss and chose to batSri Lanka first innings 156Australia first innings (overnight 440-8)D. Warner c Prasad b Mathews 62E. Cowan c M. Jayawardene b Prasad 36P. Hughes...

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UPDATE 3-Cricket-Australia thrash Sri Lanka to seal series

(Updates with result)* Australia seal series 2-0* Sangakkara retires hurtMELBOURNE, Dec 28 (Reuters) - Australia humiliated Sri Lanka by an innings and 201 runs to win the second test before tea on day three at the Melbourne Cricket Ground on Friday, and seal their three-match series 2-0.Needing 305 runs to make Australia bat again, Sri Lanka surrendered after adding only 103 in their second innings,...

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Doremitickets.com Announces Tour Dates for Luke Bryan 2013 Dirt Road Diaries

The popular Country singer Luke Bryan will be back next year with an exciting tour across the US. After the enormous popularity of his album Tailgates & Tanlines.Nashville, TN (PRWEB) December 27, 2012Country music sensation singer Luke Bryan, one of today's most popular country music artists, has just announced the US concert leg of his acclaimed tour Tailgates & Tanlines. The popular star...

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Windham, ME Pest Control Specialist, Ants ETC Presents a Brief Guide to Winter Pest Control

For those who think they do not need exterminator services in the cold winter months, professional pest control provider explains why perceptions may be off.Windham, ME (PRWEB) December 26, 2012People tend to rely on a belief that they need to deal with bugs during the warmer and wetter spring and summer months, but that bugs are not an issue during the cold winter months—they simply go away. Unfortunately,...

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First Ranked Online Supplier 123inkcartridges.ca to Expand Product Inventory to Include Easy One Touch Universal Car Mount Holder with iPhone 4/5 Smartphone Accessories

Canadian based online supply store 123inkcartridges.ca announced the latest expansion to their inventory of popular accessories for the iPhone 4 and 5 Smartphone. This is just one of the many new accessories and products geared to meeting the increased needs of their clientele.Montreal, Quebec (PRWEB) December 27, 2012After 123inkcartridges.ca began adding Smartphones to their product list, they found...

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Overcoming Procrastination Guide for Businesses Now Published Online by Marketer's Black Book

Overcoming procrastination for businesses guide is now published online by MarketersBlackBook.com. This helpful guide is designed to deliver the steps to eliminate workload distractions and achieve more results to help expand revenues online and offline.Seattle, Washington (PRWEB) December 27, 2012Time is money for business owners and revenues can increase when distractions are decreased according...

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‘Pain Management Solutions’ shows readers how to rebuild lives

Author Debra S. Cole provides coping strategies, advice and inspiration in new nonfictionAUSTIN, Texas (PRWEB) December 27, 2012In her new nonfiction, “Pain Management Solutions: Managing Pain in Stages” (published by iUniverse), author Debra S. Cole presents a holistic, five-stage process to help patients through their journey of pain management.“According to the Institute of Medicine of the National...

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Basketball-Katsikaris to replace Blatt as Russia coach

Greece's Fotis Katsikaris is set to become coach of the Russian men's basketball team and will share coaching duties with his current job at Spanish club Bilbao Berri."It was his decision to do both jobs," president of the Russian basketball federation (RBF) Alexander Krasnenkov told reporters on Sunday."He'll coach Russia over the summer, then return to his Spanish club. We didn't insist on him working...

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UPDATE 1-NBA-Anthony leads Knicks over Timberwolves

(Adds quotes, details)* Knicks have 5 1/2-game division lead* T'Wolves lose without injured LoveDec 23 (Reuters) - Carmelo Anthony took over in the last two minutes to carry the New York Knicks to a 94-91 victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves on Sunday.Anthony, who was ejected during Friday's loss to the Chicago Bulls, finished with 33 points, scoring 19 in the fourth quarter, as the Knicks came...

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Anthony leads Knicks over Timberwolves

 Carmelo Anthony took over in the last two minutes to carry the New York Knicks to a 94-91 victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves on Sunday.Anthony, who was ejected during Friday's loss to the Chicago Bulls, finished with 33 points, scoring 19 in the fourth quarter, as the Knicks came from behind to secure the home win."We didn't want to look back at this game later in the season and say this...

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Anthony leads Knicks over Timberwolves

 Carmelo Anthony took over in the last two minutes to carry the New York Knicks to a 94-91 victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves on Sunday.Anthony, who was ejected during Friday's loss to the Chicago Bulls, finished with 33 points, scoring 19 in the fourth quarter, as the Knicks came from behind to secure the home win."We didn't want to look back at this game later in the season and say this...

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UPDATE 4-NBA results

Dec 24 (Infostrada Sports) - Results from the NBA games on Sunday (home team in CAPS)BROOKLYN 95 Philadelphia 92NY KNICKS 94 Minnesota 91Utah 97 ORLANDO 93SAN ANTONIO 129 Dallas 91LA Clippers 103 PHOENIX 77SACRAMENTO 108 Portland...

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Basketball-Greek Katsikaris named Russia coach

 Greek Fotis Katsikaris has been named coach of Russia's men's national team and will continue to manage Spanish club Bilbao Berri, the country's basketball federation (RBF) said on Monday.The agreement with the RBF, which runs through to the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, allows Katsikaris to coach Russia for a few months during the off-season before returning to his full-time job with Bilbao."I...

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NKorea says it has detained a US citizen

North Korea said Friday that an American citizen has been detained after confessing to unspecified crimes, confirming news reports about his arrest at a time when Pyongyang is facing criticism from Washington for launching a long-range rocket last week.The American was identified as Pae Jun Ho in a brief dispatch issued by the state-run Korean Central News Agency in Pyongyang. News reports in the...

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Gunmen kill 11 Pakistanis, Afghans in SW Pakistan

An official says gunmen have killed eleven Pakistanis and Afghans in a border town of southwestern Pakistan as they were trying to cross to Iran to travel on to Europe as illegal migrants.Local government official Zubair Ahmed said Saturday the shooting took place late Friday in the Sunsar town of southwestern Baluchistan province.He said the dead and wounded were Afghans and Pakistanis.It was not...

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People flee Japan nuke disaster to faraway Okinawa

 Okinawa is about as far away as one can get from Fukushima without leaving Japan, and that is why Minaho Kubota is here.Petrified of the radiation spewing from the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant that went into multiple meltdowns last year, Kubota grabbed her children, left her skeptical husband and moved to the small southwestern island. More than 1,000 people from the disaster zone have done...

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Afghan leader: Foreigners to blame for corruption

Afghanistan's president accused on Saturday the countries that fund hisgovernment and military with enabling the widespread corruption that undermines his efforts to establish rule of law in the war-wracked country. Graft and payoffs are widely recognized as a major problem facing Afghanistan as the government works to establish authority over a volatile country and win the trust...

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Mob in Pakistan kills man accused of burning Quran

 A mob in southern Pakistan stormed a police station to seize a mentally unstable Muslim man accused of burning a copy of Islam's holy book, beat him to death, and then set his body afire, police said Saturday.The case is likely to raise further concerns about the country's harsh blasphemy laws, which can result in a death sentence or life in prison to anyone found guilty. Critics say an accusation...

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New, emerging talent kicks off Paris Fashion Week

 Fashion week in Paris is always a race against time.Paris — the last city after New York, London and Milan to host shows — is offering up 95 frenetic catwalk spectacles back-to-back over eight days at opposite ends of the French capital.So it's perhaps fitting that the spring-summer 2013 season got going behind a giant clock: The iconic timekeeper of Paris' grand Gare de l'Est train station....

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Individual shows boldly stamp Paris fashion week

 Coco Chanel once said: "The most courageous act is still to think for yourself."Day five of Paris Fashion Week showed that even today the legendary fashion designer's words ring true.Saturday presented a gold mine of eclectic and individual shows: Each one with a unique stamp of their designer.London-based Vivienne Westwood led the crowd, celebrating Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee, but...

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Anniversary Surprise for Husband at Airport: Wife Wearing Wedding Dress

Lacy Matthews, 48, of Parker, Colo., is certainly getting more wear out of her wedding dress.On Oct. 3, she put it to good use again, exactly 14 years to the day after she originally wore it. At 8:15 in the morning, Matthews surprised her husband, Derek Matthews, 38, at the Denver airport dressed in her wedding dress and holding a huge sign that read "Derek, I'll do it all over again. I love you."Derek...

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NYC exhibition: Katharine Hepburn as fashion icon

A new exhibition is hailing the fashion sense of Katharine Hepburn, whose trademark khakis and open-collar shirts were decidedly unconventional in the 1930s and 40s, when girdles and stockings were the order of the day.The fiercely independent Hepburn famously once said: "Anytime I hear a man say he prefers a woman in a skirt, I say, 'Try one. Try a skirt.'"But skirts and dresses abound in "Katharine...

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Cancer Strikes 4 Times Before Bride Gets Wedding Dress

Lori Allen, who runs a successful bridal shop featured in the reality show Bridals By Lori, got a 7:05 a.m. telephone call in April that changed her life -- she had breast cancer."I was not even going to go get a mammogram this year," said the 53-year-old from Georgia. "I am healthy as a horse and haven't missed a day of work in five years. I had no lump. I was just busy running a business."Her business...

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Sun Life sells U.S. annuity business, shares drop

TORONTO (Reuters) - Sun Life Financial Inc will sell its U.S. annuity business for $1.35 billion to a firm connected to Guggenheim Partners in a deal that should reduce the exposure of the insurer's earnings to market swings and boost its cash levels.While the deal could bring long-term benefits to Sun Life, whose earnings have been derailed by wild market swings during recent years, investors pulled...

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FactSet forecasts second-quarter results largely below estimates, shares fall

(Reuters) - FactSet Research Systems Inc reported lower-than-expected first-quarter revenue, and the financial information provider forecast current-quarter results largely below estimates as banks and brokerages cut costs.FactSet shares fell 5 percent before the bell on Tuesday.The company, which provides data to portfolio managers, research analysts and investment bankers, forecast second-quarter...

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Jefferies results beat estimates on higher fixed-income revenue

(Reuters) - Jefferies Group Inc reported a higher-than-expected adjusted quarterly profit as the investment bank benefited from higher earnings from its fixed-income unit, and said its business expansion in Asia has started delivering.The midsized investment bank has been expanding in China and India and recently poached bankers from the Royal Bank of Scotland to expand its business in China.Jefferies...

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Oracle 2Q earnings rise 18 pct as tech spending up

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Oracle says its latest quarterly earnings rose 18 percent as companies splurged on more software and other technology toward the end of the year.The results announced Tuesday are an improvement from Oracle's previous quarter, when the company's revenue dipped slightly from a year earlier.The latest quarter spanned September through November. That makes Oracle the first technology...

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Oracle sees third-quarter profit of 64 to 68 cents per share

OSTON (Reuters) - Oracle Corp, the world's No. 3 software maker, said it expects to report non-GAAP earnings per share of 64 cents to 68 cents in its fiscal third quarter.Oracle forecast that third-quarter new software sales and cloud subscriptions sales will rise 3 percent to 13 percent from a year earlier.The company said its sees third-quarter hardware products sales flat to down 10 percent from...

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What's behind Russia's bill banning US adoptions?

A Russian bill that had seemed initially like a tit-for-tat response to US legislation now looks to be exploding into broad legislation that bars almost any US citizen from engaging in non-business activity in Russia – including the adoption of Russian children.Russia's State Duma on Wednesday passed a bill, in key second reading, that would ban all adoptions of Russian children by US citizens, order...

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South Korea elects its first woman president, Park Geun-hye

The United States has proposed a boundary between Lebanon and Israel's maritime economic zones to help end a lingering dispute over rival claims and open up oil and gas exploration in the eastern Mediterranean.If the idea is accepted by both sides, it will reduce the risk of renewed conflict between the two enemy states and hasten Lebanon’s efforts to begin tapping the billions of dollars of natural...

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