A Polish court says a biography of former President Lech Walesa is slanderous and has fined the publisher and ordered it to apologize.

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AS FAR as the people of Tobermory were concerned, she was simply the “wee woman who did her garden”.

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THE Pope’s former diocese is facing a “tsunami” of new allegations of physical and sexual abuse, the head of its new task force said yesterday.

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IAN McEwan’s widely-acclaimed novel Atonement is to be made into an opera.

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When Ejup Ganic arrived at Heathrow airport on 1 March accompanied by the ambassador of his native Bosnia, he was expecting a routine departure. It was only when two Scotland Yard detectives stepped in front of him proferring a piece of paper with the words “arrest warrant” and “conspiracy to murder” that the raven-haired engineering professor realised that extraordinary events nearly 18 years …

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The retired general who captured legendary revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara was summoned on Friday by Bolivian authorities investigating an alleged plot against President Evo Morales.

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The German spy service has admitted that it employed about 200 former Nazi criminals for at least 15 years after the end of the Second World War.

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Scientists are undertaking an expedition to explore the rupture site of the 8.8-magnitude Chilean earthquake.

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Staff at a British library say they were surprised and puzzled when they received a book that was 45 years overdue through their mailbox.

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AMSTERDAM (AP) — A Holocaust survivor who says she met Anne Frank in a Nazi concentration camp is standing by her story in the face of skepticism from historians, filmmakers and a childhood frie…

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Of all the spiritual and psychological tasks toward individuation or wholeness, changing one’s mind may be the most difficult.

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Grigoriy Perelman has been recognised for solving the century-old Poincaré conjecture – but the real puzzle is whether he’ll take the cash

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While it has become popular for some to pretend that the current economic crisis and exploding national debt were created by President Obama and the…

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What’s Your Reaction’ DENVER – The Legislature might allow “tasteful” advertising temporarily on the state Capitol to help pay for an expensive renovation of the dome.

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Some animals are born architects. They have an innate ability to build structures that are often even difficult by human standards. Structures found in nature can be a source of inspiration for architects, as exemplified by buildings such as China’s “Bird Nest” stadium and the planned Honeycomb Skyscraper . From an intricate 4,000 mile-long ant colony to the simple, symmetric beauty of a spider …

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They were, according to taste, a fascinating circle of hard-working, free-thinking and gifted intellectuals, or a bunch of dissolute subversives “who lived in squares but loved in triangles”.

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WARSAW, Poland (AP) — A Polish court convicted three men Thursday of the theft of the notorious “Arbeit Macht Frei” (Work Sets You Free) sign from the Auschwitz memorial site in December. …

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The Holocaust Torah Scrolls Scam, Part II: Why Is Anyone Still Defending This Man’ by Menachem Z. Rosensaft What’s wrong with these people’ In an…

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The session covers scanning and preparing positives in the digital studio. Learn how to scan, prepare and convert your digital image into a half-tone image for photo etching. Some etching experience necessary. Basic computer skills required.

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Dozens of Muscovites have been evacuated after maintenance workers uncovered hundreds of World War II-era artillery shells beneath a road.

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Scientists imaged cartilage, bone marrow and two types of mineral bone in 20 different skeletal sites from two newborns to learn more about how much radiation is absorbed by the body. They discovered that children have a greater percentage of total mineral bone in direct contact with sensitive bone marrow than do adults. This has implications for radiation treatments and types of chemotherapy …

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The most popular movies among NYTimes.com readers.

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They were, according to taste, a fascinating circle of hard-working, free-thinking and gifted intellectuals, or a bunch of dissolute subversives “who lived in squares but loved in triangles”.

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Scientists discover a new species of dinosaur that was closely related to the Velociraptor.

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SIXTEEN Scottish writers – ranging from internationally recognised names to authors whose books have sold barely any copies – were yesterday placed in the running for Scotlan

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Researchers have devised a way to attach sugars to proteins using unique biological and chemical methods. This means that large quantities of different glycoproteins can be generated for various medical and biological studies.

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Over the last four decades, the radio presenter, author and music publisher Charlie Gillett was one of the most influential people in the British music industry, a feat he achieved without a national media profile and no trace of an ego. He typically downplayed the excellence of The Sound Of The City – The Rise of Rock’n'Roll – the authoritative book he first published in 1970, and one which has …

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ADOLF Eichmann’s story is well-documented: known as the “architect of the Holocaust” for his role in co-ordinating the Nazi genocide policy, he fled Germany, was

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A POLISH court convicted three men yesterday of the theft, last December, of the “Arbeit Macht Frei” (Work Sets You Free) sign from the Auschwitz memorial si

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Their sheer size and strength have made them among the most celebrated of endangered species, yet they have all been betrayed — by vested interests at a UN meeting on wildlife protection.

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A genetically engineered mosquito that vaccinates as it bites has been developed by scientists.

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Bryan Cranston’s Walter White, the schoolteacher and meth kingpin protagonist of “Breaking Bad,” returns in Season 3 of the series on Sunday night on AMC.

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The pianist Emanuel Ax and the soprano Dawn Upshaw presented works by Chopin and Schumann at Carnegie Hall on Wednesday night.

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Spotify’s CEO Daniel Ek used his South by Southwest interactive keynote to announce a fair number of subscriptions If you were hoping that Spotify CEO Daniel Ek would use his South by Southwest Interactive keynote to announce a launch date for the US, no such luck (although Rafat has a source who says possibly end of May). Ek’s biggest bit of news: Spotify now has more than 320,000 paid …

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Our collective experience of the stem cell controversy has been instructive in yielding an approval process that will allow the science to move forward in way that deserves the nation’s trust.

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By genetically altering fruit flies so that the heads of their sperm were fluorescent green or red, biologists were able to observe in striking detail what happens to live sperm inside the female. The findings may have huge implications for the fields of reproductive biology, sexual selection and speciation.

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The outgoing director of Tate Modern , Vicente Todolí, is leaving partly because he does not want to be involved in the museum’s towering £215m extension.

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Graphic brows are bolder, fuller and more expressive than we’ve seen in decades A salvo from the fall runways: Thin is not in–at least when…

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HELP for those with Alzheimer’s and their carers is now available at a weekly drop-in session. To send a link to this page to a friend, simply enter their email address below.

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18 March 2010: A provocative art project by Iraq war artist and Turner prize-winner Steve McQueen opens in London this weekend.

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A fine art exhibition by students at Kensington and Chelsea College will take place next week. The Not Just a Blank Canvas exhibition opens on Friday March 26 and runs until April 21 at the Hortensia Gallery in Hortensia Road.

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Reg: All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us’

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What’s Your Reaction’ What a difference one bookstore can make. In less than two years, a small bookstore housed inside the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center near Washington Dulles airport has sold 13,200 copies of a midlist title published by Minneapolis-based Zenith Press, Hell Hawks!

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In a rewritten version of the Cybersecurity Act, President Obama no longer has a kill switch for the Internet. 

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“The History of White People” author Nell Irvin Painter was on “The Colbert Report” last night, and gave few answers about the nature of race, though she did raise a number of interesting questions.

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This week marks the 30th anniversary of the Refugee Act of 1980, a landmark piece of legislation that changed the U.S. approach to refugee protection…

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Who do you think might just have been granted the right to display the official logo of the United Nations International Year of Biodiversity ‘ A conservation body, perhaps. Or a new brand of organic food’

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Artist dressed child as a series of despots for a photo exhibition.

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Facebook says it will not install a “panic button” on its main pages for users to report suspected paedophiles, but will develop its existing reporting system.

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Australian relatives of a young soldier killed in the disastrous battle of Fromelles on the western front in July 1916 have responded with joy to the news that his body, buried in a pit with 250 other casualties, has been definitively identified and reinterred in its own grave in a war cemetery in northern France.

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