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Food Banks

US wholesale prices drop for fourth straight month

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Wholesale prices declined further in February for a fourth month straight. The drop was mainly due to a decline in food prices, even as...
Pumice stone

Tonnes of pumice washing up on Australian and New Zealand beaches from underwater volcano

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Rafts of pumice have been washing up on Tasmanian beaches since March 2014, when Dr. Rebecca Carey started receiving phone calls and emails from...
iwatch

Most Americans are not interested in the Apple Watch, survey reveals

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A recent poll by Reuters reveals that around 69% of Americans are not interested in Apple's upcoming smartwatch. The survey included 1,245 respondents. It was carried...
UKIP

Nigel Farage says NHS ‘incompetence and negligence’ nearly killed him

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In his early 20s Nigel Farage, leader of the anti-EU party UKIP, said he was fobbed off by an NHS consultant about a swollen...
Drought midwest

More extremely hot and dry summers in Northern Countries, scientists warn

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Changes in the Arctic caused by human-induced global warming will lead to countries in the Northern hemisphere's mid-latitudes having longer periods of extreme heat...
English bumblebee

Bumblebees prefer road-facing hedgerows to crop facing ones, due to pesticides

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Pesticides and fertilisers are making bumblebees increasingly opt for the more abundant flowers on road-facing hedgerows, while leaving the poor pickings on the crop-facing...
Flight sketch

Colossal penis drawn by pilot on FlightRadar

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A pilot in Florida flying a single-engine private plane raised a few eyebrows at FlightRadar24 when he followed a flight path that designed a...
A partial solar eclipse

Solar eclipse on March 20 with Supermoon means a Supermoon Eclipse

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On March 20th there will be a solar eclipse and also a Supermoon, which is called a Supermoon Eclipse. A Supermoon is when the...
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Rosetta desperately signaling Philae lander for signs of life

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The Rosetta spacecraft has seven more days of sending signals to the Philae robot lander to determine whether it is still alive. After March...
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Microsoft making Cortana available for Android and Apple devices

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Microsoft is working on an advanced version of its "personal assistant", known as Cortana, using research from an artificial intelligence project called "Einstein." Windows phones have...