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2012 London Olympics: Don’t blink or you’ll miss the speeding objects
At the London Games, a radar gun might be more valuable than a program in enjoying how fast things are traveling.
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For Art Clokey's birthday, five great stop-motion shorts
In honor of Gumby creator Art Clokey, here are five of our favorite stop-motion short films.
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People-powered democratic revolts - do they last?
Analyzing a selection of political revolutions - successful and not - around the globe since World War II
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Photos of the Day: Photos of the day 02/16
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In Pictures: Current women heads of state
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Geography of joy? Where the world's happiest people live.
Seven of the world's 10 countries with the most upbeat attitudes are in Latin America, says a new Gallop survey. Panama is No. 1 on the list. People in 148 nations were asked: Were they well-rested, had they been treated with respect, smiled or laughed a lot, learned or did something interesting and felt feelings of enjoyment the previous day.
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Baltic nations offer ex-Soviet states a Western modelThe tiny states of Estonia, Lithuania, and Latvia, having shed their Russian-dominated past and joined the EU and NATO, are looking to help their post-Soviet neighbors to do the same.
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Left behind? Russian-speaking minorities struggle in new BalticsWhile the Baltics make economic and democratic strides, they also face growing pressure to better integrate their poor, disenfranchised Russian-speaking minorities.
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A Russian island encircled by Europe: Kaliningrad's dual existenceOnce the Prussian city of Königsberg but now separated from the rest of Russia by Lithuania and Poland, Kaliningrad occupies a peculiar space in Europe both geographically and psychologically.
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Baby box ban: Why the UN wants to ban the practice
Baby box ban: Eleven nations in Europe have drop boxes for unwanted babies, including Germany with 100 baby boxes. But a UN human rights group wants to ban them.
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Stefan Karlsson
Six types of European economic trendsRecent EU data shows great divergences in Europe between different countries in economic growth, Karlsson writes.
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Opinion: Beware Russia's hand in elections in Georgia, Ukraine, Lithuania
A top priority of Russian President Vladimir Putin is the reintegration of former Soviet republics – based on tighter economic links and culminating in a political and security pact centered around Russia. Meddling in Eastern European elections is one way to fulfill Putin's regional ambition.
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Energy Voices
Europe has had enough, but can it stand up to Gazprom?Europe wants to escape Gazprom's stranglehold by diversifying into shale gas. But Gazprom is throwing up obstacles.
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Poland begins uncovering story of secret US detention center
An official probe has begun into how much the Polish government knew about a covert US detention center outside Warsaw where the CIA may have tortured members of Al Qaeda.
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'Dream Team' 2.0 goes for gold: Is Spain really a threat?
USA basketball's Dream Team redux has rolled into the finals of the London Olympics Sunday, but there it faces Spain, the one team that could give it problems.
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Global News Blog
Teddy bear air drop still roils in BelarusBelorussians have been put on trial for complicity in last month's teddy bear air drop by two Swedes protesting Belarus's poor human rights and democracy record.
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London 2012 basketball: Spain beats France in men's quarterfinals
In an Olympic men's quarterfinal game that turned chippy at the end, the Spaniards advanced into the semifinals with a seven-point victory over the neighboring French in London.
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2012 London Olympics: Don’t blink or you’ll miss the speeding objects
At the London Games, a radar gun might be more valuable than a program in enjoying how fast things are traveling.
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Global News Blog
London Olympics: To foreign eyes, NBC is all about U-S-A, U-S-AI am a German following the London Olympics from Boston. Or trying to, anyway.
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The strange sound of Northern lights captured by Finnish researchers (+video)
Northern lights (or aurora borealis) sound like a kind of clapping, or applause, just 230 feet above the ground. The study confirms reports by wilderness travelers who say they've heard strange noises when the northern lights appear.
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Stefan Karlsson
Race against time: Eastern Europe growing old before rich?With the labor force soon starting to shrink dramatically because of the lagged effect of the collapse of birth rates in the early 1990s, Stefan Karlsson believes that most, if not all, Eastern European countries will grow old before they grow rich.
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Stefan Karlsson
Estonia rising: The little country that couldResponding to criticisms of one of the European Union's newest and poorest members, Karlsson argues that even adjusting for fortuitous circumstances along its borders, Estonia's performance the last two years makes it an austerity success story.
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Opinion: Russia should be rewarded with NATO membership
Russia should be on the agenda for NATO summit in Chicago this weekend. In spite of recent tensions, the historically fractured relationship between Russia and NATO is the most ripe for transformation. Obstacles like missile defense and Eastern Europe can be resolved.
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Horsehair helps locate the origins of domestication
A new study points to the area made up of Kazhakstan, Russia and Ukraine as the region that was home to the first domesticated horses.
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Breivik wants freedom or death in Norway massacre
The accused killer said that the maximum of 21 years he could face in prison is "pathetic."
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More than 30,000 Germans turn out against anti-piracy treaty ACTA
ACTA, a controversial international anti-piracy agreement that has riled up Europe, brought out huge crowds in Germany and split top government officials.
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Donald Marron
Can one professor teach 500,000 students at once?Former Stanford professor Sebastian Thrun has already taught a class of 160,000. Now he's aiming to teach 500,000 students.
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Occupy Moscow? Street protests over Vladimir Putin presidency
On Monday, 5,000 protesters chanted "Russia without Putin." More protests are planned Wednesday night in Moscow over election rigging by Vladimir Putin's United Russia party.
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Pakistan cuts supply lines, but US has options
The US military had begun shifting its Afghanistan logistics network away from Pakistan and toward Central Asia even before the latest tensions between Washington and Islamabad.
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Russian president Dmitry Medvedev keeps US missile defense shield in sight
Dmitry Medvedev is looking to keep a US-NATO European missile defense program in check by arming Russian missiles capable of knocking out the defense shield. However, Dmitry Medvedev stressed Russia will continue to have dialogue with the US and NATO on missile defense.
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