South Africa's National Union of Mineworkers said it would seek pay rises of up to 60 per cent from gold and coal producers, raising the prospect of fresh strikes as firms battle higher costs and falling prices in an already heated labour climate ...
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Henrik Svensmark's documentary on climate change and cosmic rays. Henrik Svensmark (born 1958) is a physicist and professor in the Division of Solar System Physics at the Danish National Space Institute (DTU Space) in Copenhagen.

Remember when you were taught that Australia was discovered by James Cook in 1770 who promptly declared it "terra nullius" and claimed it for the British throne? Turns out that could be completely and utterly wrong. Five copper coins and a nearly 70-year-old map with an "X" might lead to a discovery that could rewrite Australia's history. Australian scientist Ian McIntosh, currently Professor of Anthropology at Indiana University in the US, is planning an expedition in July that has stirred up the archaeological community. The scientist wants to revisit the location where five coins were found in the Northern Territory in 1944 that have proven to be 1000 years old, opening up the possibility that seafarers from distant countries might have landed in Australia much earlier than what is currently believed. Back in 1944 during World War II, after Japanese bombers had attacked Darwin two years earlier, the Wessel Islands - an uninhabited group of islands off Australia's north coast - had become a strategic position to help protect the mainland. Australian soldier Maurie Isenberg was stationed on one of the islands to man a radar station and spent his spare time fishing on the idyllic beaches. While sitting in the sand with his fishing-rod, he discovered a handful of coins in the sand.

NIGERIA'S bid for the non-permanent seat on the United Nations (UN) Security Council would be formally presented to the African Union (AU) Assembly of heads of state and government this week in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The continental body's 21st ...
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Members of the Council listened to all the laws emanating from the African Union successively, before being voted on by raising hands. These laws were submitted for discussion by the Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee during the last session of the ...
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NIGERIA'S bid for the non-permanent seat on the United Nations (UN) Security Council would be formally presented to the African Union (AU) Assembly of heads of state and government this week in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The continental body's 21st ...
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Members of the Council listened to all the laws emanating from the African Union successively, before being voted on by raising hands. These laws were submitted for discussion by the Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee during the last session of the ...
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NIGERIA'S bid for the non-permanent seat on the United Nations (UN) Security Council would be formally presented to the African Union (AU) Assembly of heads of state and government this week in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The continental body's 21st ...
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Members of the Council listened to all the laws emanating from the African Union successively, before being voted on by raising hands. These laws were submitted for discussion by the Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee during the last session of the ...
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NIGERIA'S bid for the non-permanent seat on the United Nations (UN) Security Council would be formally presented to the African Union (AU) Assembly of heads of state and government this week in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The continental body's 21st ...
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Members of the Council listened to all the laws emanating from the African Union successively, before being voted on by raising hands. These laws were submitted for discussion by the Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee during the last session of the ...
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NIGERIA'S bid for the non-permanent seat on the United Nations (UN) Security Council would be formally presented to the African Union (AU) Assembly of heads of state and government this week in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The continental body's 21st ...
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Members of the Council listened to all the laws emanating from the African Union successively, before being voted on by raising hands. These laws were submitted for discussion by the Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee during the last session of the ...
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NIGERIA'S bid for the non-permanent seat on the United Nations (UN) Security Council would be formally presented to the African Union (AU) Assembly of heads of state and government this week in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The continental body's 21st ...
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Members of the Council listened to all the laws emanating from the African Union successively, before being voted on by raising hands. These laws were submitted for discussion by the Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee during the last session of the ...
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NIGERIA'S bid for the non-permanent seat on the United Nations (UN) Security Council would be formally presented to the African Union (AU) Assembly of heads of state and government this week in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The continental body's 21st ...
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Members of the Council listened to all the laws emanating from the African Union successively, before being voted on by raising hands. These laws were submitted for discussion by the Parliament's Foreign Affairs Committee during the last session of the ...
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A Philadelphia teenager with cerebral palsy is recovering after a brutal attack in which she was bitten across her back and shoulders. However, from where the bites originated remains a mystery. 16-year-old Ariel Alexander's condition has confined her to a wheelchair for most of her life, leaving her unable to communicate to authorities about who committed the savage act, MyFoxPhilly.com reported. Yet the human bite marks across her left shoulder and upper back are clearly visible. Ariel's parents reportedly believe that the incident occurred at MLK High School, where Ariel is a student in a special needs classroom. Her parents say that a few days after the attack, which they claim took place on May 1, a male teacher took them to one side and informed them that a fellow student was responsible. The school rejects the notion that it occurred on school property, stating that all teachers interviewed have denied seeing anything.

Not only has social inequality risen in the industrialized nations over the past three decades, the economic crisis of 2008-09 sped up the deterioration as "pain of the crisis was not evenly shared," a new report says. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), which unites the world's most developed countries, has published an update to its report 'Divided We Stand'. The report published in December 2011 showed that by 2008 the industrialized nations had the worst situation with inequality in three decades. According to the new data, the gap between the rich and the poor in most of its 34 members has been getting wider since the crisis started at a higher pace than it did before. Inequality grew more over the three years between 2007 and 2010 than it did over the 12 years before that. Among OECD countries, it appears that "the top 10 percent has done better than the poorest 10 percent in 21 countries," with the widest gaps seen in the United States, Turkey, Chile and Mexico. In the three years described above, their income status had been continuously plunging by 2 per cent every year.

The odds are you are not just a face in the crowd any longer. Even if your picture isn't plastered all over social networking and photo-sharing sites, facial recognition technology in public places is making it harder if not impossible to remain anonymous. Lesley Stahl reports on the new ways this technology is being used that even has one of its inventors calling it too intrusive. Her 60 Minutes report will be broadcast Sunday, May 19 at 7 p.m. ET/PT. Professor Alessandro Acquisti of Carnegie Mellon, who researches how technology impacts privacy, stunned Stahl with an experiment. He photographed random students on the campus and in short order, not only identified several of them, but in a number of cases found their personal information, including social security numbers, just using a facial recognition program he downloaded for free. Acquisti says smart-phones will make "facial searches" as common as Google searches in the future. And nearly everybody can be subject to such prying, even those who are careful about their Internet use.