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Iran, world powers offer proposals at nuclear talks

Iran, world powers offer proposals at nuclear talks

Posted 1:11 PM 5/23/2012 by CNN

BAGHDAD (CNN) -- Western nations and Iran broached solutions over Tehran's controversial nuclear program Wednesday, the latest push to end the saber-rattling over the Islamic republic's atomic aspirations.

Both sides, negotiating in Baghdad, delivered proposals in the latest round of talks (More)

Official: 122 girls, 3 teachers poisoned at Afghan school

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Flotsam from Japanese tsunami hitting Alaska

Flotsam from Japanese tsunami hitting Alaska

Posted 9:38 PM 5/22/2012 by Casey Wian (CNN)

YAKUTAT, Alaska -- Residents of towns in the Alaska Panhandle have begun picking up plastic bottles, chunks of foam insulation and floating buoys from Japan's 2011 tsunami now turning up across the Pacific Ocean.

"This is urethane spray building foam," Chris Pallister, president of the (More)

5/21/2012

Mongolia tries to stop sale of rare dinosaur fossil

Mongolia tries to stop sale of rare dinosaur fossil

Posted 2:11 PM 5/21/2012 by Michael Pearson, CNN

It's no bloody, foot-stomping battle to the death, but a legal fight befitting a mighty dinosaur is playing out on two continents as Mongolia's president tries to block the sale of a nearly complete skeleton of a 24-foot-long dinosaur that roamed Central Asia 80 million years ago.

Despite a (More)

5/19/2012

Blast outside school in Italy kills at least 1, several wounded

Blast outside school in Italy kills at least 1, several wounded

Posted 2:49 PM 5/19/2012 by CNN

At least one girl has died and half a dozen are injured following a bomb blast outside a school in the southern Italian city of Brindisi, Italian officials said Saturday.

Officials have given conflicting accounts of the number killed and injured.

Daniela Buccoliero, an official at the (More)

5/18/2012

3 shipwrecked fishermen lived on clams, seaweed for 10 days

3 shipwrecked fishermen lived on clams, seaweed for 10 days

Posted 8:16 PM 5/18/2012 by Michael Martinez and Jake Carpenter (CNN)

Three shipwrecked fishermen lived on clams and seaweed for 10 days while stranded on an island off Canada's Pacific Coast until a passing sailboat rescued them, the Royal Canadian Navy said Friday.

On Friday, the Canadian Coast Guard ship Tanu rendezvoused with the sailboat and was (More)

In Thailand, roasted fetuses found stashed in luggage