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Hubble Telescope Discovers a Light-Bending 'Einstein Ring' in Space The perfect circle surrounding a galaxy cluster in a new Hubble Space Telescope image is a visual indicator of the huge masses that are bending time and space in that region. The galaxy cluster, called SDSS J0146-0929, features hundreds of individual galaxies all bound together by gravity. There's so ...
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| Companies in Asia are scrambling to issue bonds, but many investors just aren't biting Some companies in Asia, especially lesser known non-investment grade firms, are having a hard time generating interest in new bond issues, say asset managers. Deals are also getting smaller. Investors are staying away from longer-term bonds, given expectations of higher interest rates. In response ...
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| Probe after 24 children die in India school bus plunge An investigation has been launched after 27 people, most of them children, died when a school bus fell into a gorge in a mountainous region of India. Most of the passengers were below the age of 10, police said. The bus driver and two teachers were also killed in the accident on Monday evening.
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| Poem of the Week: The sloe was lost in flower… by AE Housman This tiny, perfect, razor-edged lyric is numbered XXII in Housman's Last Poems, from 1922. Lines three and four in each stanza were originally indented. Some editors consider XXII to be a new poem; written considerably earlier than others in Last Poems, and intermittently revised but never published.
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| 'End of the road': Oscar Pistorius loses appeal over jail term in final legal defeat South Africa's highest court has rejected Oscar Pistorius's request to appeal against his 13-year jail term, ending the long legal battle over his conviction for killing his girlfriend in 2013. The former Paralympic athlete, 31, had asked the constitutional court to review the jail term, which was increased to 13 ...
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| Allianz makes $120m investment in African infrastructure "We would only lose money if all the other equity investors are taken out," said Claus Fintzen, chief investment officer for infrastructure debt at Allianz Global Investors, referring to international development agencies from Britain, Sweden, Germany and elsewhere, which have put equity in the 16-year-old ...
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| Rick Scott's Florida Senate race entry sets up a pivotal election in a swing state The two-term Republican will face off against three-term Democrat Bill Nelson in what could be one of the most competitive Senate races. Shortly after Scott's announcement, the nonpartisan Cook Political Report rated the race a toss-up. A poll in late February by Quinnipiac gave Nelson a narrow lead, ...
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| The Ethiopian treasures in the V&A may have to return home That's because the Abyssinia campaign barely features in the dominant historical narratives about British imperial power. The discredited heroic narrative of imperial Britain had prominent places for the conquest of north America, India and even South Africa. The critical big post-colonial narrative that ...
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| Tracing the origin of each cell in a zebrafish The technique is based on scars in the DNA, which taken together work like a bar code from which each cell's lineage can be determined. While the zebrafish embryos are still at the single-cell stage, Junker's team injects the CRISPR-Cas9 system. Over the next eight hours, Cas9 repeatedly cut a ...
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