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Large Hadron Collider

CERN's Powerful Large Hadron Collider to Operate Again in March 2015

LHC will son be back in business opening new discoveries in physics.

Adobe

Adobe to Acquire Stock Photo Firm Fotolia for US$800 Million

Adobe plans to incorporate Fotolia into its Creative Cloud service.

HD 107146

Astronomers Discover What the Young Solar System Might Have Looked Like

The star, identified as HD 107146, is about 90 light years away from Earth.

Bone worms

Deep Sea Zombie Worms that Eat People Evolve a New Species

Male bone worms seem to have broken free of their bondage to the females and evolved into a new species.

Yangtze River

China Inaugurates World's Largest Water Transfer Project

China officially inaugurated the largest water diversion project in the world.

TVB Anniversary Award Winners Leaked Online

There are only a few more days left before the airing of the 48th TVB Anniversary Awards, but a leaked list of fixed award winners have already been uploaded online just this week.

China and Argentina

Argentine Railway Project Funded by China Starts Construction

China is funding the railway project, with a contract value which sums up to $2.47 billion.

Emma Watson

Emma Watson Splits with Boyfriend

It seems like the holidays will be a cold one for "Harry Potter" actress Emma Watson. The 24-year old star and her boyfriend of one year, 22-year old Oxford University rugby player Matthew Janney, broke up a month ago.

Johnny Depp and Amber Heard

Amber Heard is Having Second Thoughts About Marrying Johnny Depp

Actress Amber Heard is allegedly having second thoughts about spending the rest of her life with actor Johnny Depp due to his "awful mood swings" and "erratic behavior".

Keira Knightley

Keira Knightley is Pregnant with Her First Child

A rep for Keira Knightley has confirmed that actress and her husband, 31-year old musician James Righton, are expecting their first child this coming spring.

Toys R Us Store

Layaway Angel’s Act Inspires Others to Spread Christmas Cheers in Different Ways

In spite of the abundance of bad news exemplified by the anti-police protests in different cities in the U.S., inspiring acts of kindness still happen. And this fine example of love towards strangers, as demonstrated by a woman in Massachusetts who paid the layaway balances of 150 Toys 'R' Us customers worth US$20,000, is also moving other Americans to share the true meaning of Christmas.

Vladimir Putin assists with the tagging of a Siberian tiger in 2008.

Putin's Siberian Tiger Returns To Russia

Oblivious to sticky international borders, Kuzya, the Siberian Tiger that was rescued as a cub by Russian President Vladimir Putin, apparently has returned from China to Russia's far east. Kuzya created a bit of an international incident when he wandered cross the Sino-Russian border two months ago, swimming across the Amur River into China. Conservationists expressed concern that the tiger would become poacher prey.

Qualcomm

Qualcomm Invests US$40 Million in Chinese Tech Firms

The Chinese tech companies that will receive investments include 7Invensun, Chukong Technologies, inPlug, and Unisound.

SS City of Rio De Janeiro now and then.

First Images of San Francisco's Deadliest Shipwreck Revealed by Scientists

The wreck is that of the S.S. City of Rio de Janeiro.

Acid Attack in Palestine

Terrorist Who Threw Acid on West Bank Family is Mentally Ill

The victims in an acid-throwing incident in Jerusalem on Friday suffered only minor injuries and are being treated. The 46-year-old attacker was also wounded after he was shot in the lower body by a civilian.

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