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Valentine's Day: Three new love stories

Three couples risk it all in three great new novels
In Pictures: Jetman
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Swiss tunnel: Not actually the world's longest tunnel

When Swiss engineers completed drilling the Gotthard Base Tunnel Friday, they were lauded for finishing the world’s longest tunnel – but actually it's only the world's longest rail tunnel. Read on to find out what underground structures take the honors for being the longest.
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Valentine's Day: Three new love stories

Three couples risk it all in three great new novels
The New Economy
Davos meeting: Gloomy about economy, worried about capitalism

The annual World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, will discuss not only the Europe's debt woes but also the future of capitalism. Even some billionaires in Davos are worried about income inequality.
Germany's trouble with abandoning nuclear power

Now that Germany is turning away from nuclear power, it is more reliant on renewable and traditional energy sources – both of which comes with problems of their own.
In Pictures: Jetman
In Pictures: The twelve signs of the zodiac
Swiss tunnel: Not actually the world's longest tunnel

When Swiss engineers completed drilling the Gotthard Base Tunnel Friday, they were lauded for finishing the world’s longest tunnel – but actually it's only the world's longest rail tunnel. Read on to find out what underground structures take the honors for being the longest.
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Swiss tunnel: Workers drill through last few feet of rock, creating world's longest tunnel

The 35.4-mile Swiss tunnel, designed to shift transport of goods from environmentally damaging trucks to trains, trumps Japan's Seikan Tunnel – previously the world's longest.
Tour de France Stage 18: Yellow jersey beyond reach, riders battle for lesser awards

The Tour de France, which ends Sunday, offers $2.6 million in prizes. Beyond battling for the yellow jersey, racers can collect points (think: Super Mario) for smaller awards.
Solar energy powered plane lands after completing 24-hour flight

Solar energy is all that an experimental plane needed to complete its first 24-hour test flight.
Solar power plane flying high in crucial test

Solar power plane is a key step in a historic effort to one day circle the globe using only energy collected from the sun.
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CERN scientists ramp up to restart collider

The Large Hadron Collider restarts on Feb. 15. Will it solve some mysteries of the universe?
How cold is Europe? Even Norway's buses can't take it.

Bus engine oil is freezing in Norway, and Ireland is reporting its lowest temps in 50 years. In Britain, which looks like a baby Greenland on satellite images, Prime Minister Gordon Brown is turning into the nation's weather comforter-in-chief.
Gallery: Disappearing glaciers
In Pictures: Seven Wonders of Nature finalists
The curious incident of Conan Doyle's 150th

Swiss village where Sherlock Holmes's archenemy meets his end readies for flood of fans May 22.
In search of old-world charm

Tiny Islettes, France, had only one tourist attraction – me.
IMAX 'Alps' a cold adventure

The film chronicles a real mountain-climbing adventure in Switzerland.