
#60;p>AP - When scientists set out to trace the roots of human laughter, some chimps and gorillas were just tickled to help. Literally.
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AP - NASA has cleared space shuttle Endeavour for a June 13 launch to the international space station.
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AP - A well-preserved skeleton of a mammoth that is believed to be about 1 million years old has been unearthed in eastern Serbia, archaeologists said Thursday.
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AFP - Another delay was announced Wednesday in the potentially landmark trial of oil giant Royal Dutch Shell over allegations of complicity in Nigeria s human rights abuses.
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AP - Air France Flight 447 vanished in a zone of ferocious weather over the Atlantic Ocean known as the birthplace of some of the world s strongest storms  just as the plane was encountering a 400-mile-long maze of lightning, hail, driving rain and
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Reuters - A U.S. judge canceled a hearing on Wednesday in the civil trial of Royal Dutch Shell over the alleged involvement of the giant oil producer in the executions of protesters in Nigeria in the 1990s.
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