A haul of 28 new planets beyond our solar system has been detected by the world’s most prolific planet hunters.
The finds were among 37 objects seen orbiting distant stars by a US and Anglo-Australian team in the last year.
Other objects reported by the group, at an American Astronomical Society meeting in Honolulu, included [...]

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Up to 30,000 asylum seekers will be allowed to stay in the Netherlands after the Dutch government announced an amnesty.
The pardon will apply to those who sought asylum in the Netherlands before April 2001, many of whom have been in the country for years appealing against expulsion.
An estimated 25,000 to 30,000 people who arrived in [...]

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All four men charged in the gang rape and beating of a 21-year-old Fremont woman at a Half Moon Bay beach in 2005 participated in the brutal attack, a San Mateo County prosecutor told jurors on Monday.
DNA evidence links Edgar Cardelas, 20, Anastasio Flores, 20, Celestino Guillermo, 23, and Gerardo Resendiz, 18, to the [...]

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Police have arrested four Middle-East students of a private college in Subang Jaya for allegedly gang-raping a fellow student at a house in Sungai Way last week.
Petaling Jaya OCPD ACP Mazlan Mansur said today that a police team was despatched to the house after the 20-year-old woman lodged a report last Monday.
The suspects, [...]

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A gay pub in the city of Melbourne has won the right to ban heterosexuals - the first time such a decision has been made in Australia.
The Victorian state civil and administrative tribunal ruled the Peel Hotel could ban patrons based on their sexual orientation.
The pub’s management said the move would stop groups [...]

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Spanish police have arrested 14 suspected Islamist militants, mostly in the north-eastern region of Catalonia.
The suspects were allegedly involved in recruiting jihadi volunteers for training in Afghanistan and Iraq.
The interior ministry believes the majority of those arrested are Moroccan nationals. Police have confiscated a considerable amount of computer data.
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Perhaps you’ve heard the claims: Were it not for the genius and energy of African-American inventors, we might find ourselves in a world without traffic lights, peanut butter, blood banks, light bulb filaments, and a vast number of other things we now take for granted but could hardly imagine life without.
Such beliefs usually originate in [...]

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[Is this the first step to forced bussing? Can anyone see white parents choosing to send their kids to all black inner city schools? Or can we see black parents sending their children to white flight schools in the countryside?-ed]

Some schools would be able to select pupils by race in order to improve [...]

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