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Nigerian Kidnappers Free Oil Workers, Italy SaysPort Harcourt, Nigeria - Nigerian kidnappers freed an Italian and two other oil-industry employees who were abducted in the latest violence aimed at foreign workers in the African country. |
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‘Baby’ robot learns like a humanGenoa, Italy - A robot that learns to interact with the world in a similar way to a human baby could provide researchers with fresh insights into biological intelligence. |
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Metropolitan to return antiquities to ItalyNew York City, New York, USA - The Metropolitan Museum is to return 20 antiquities to Italy, including a 5th-century BC krater painted by Euphronios which Italy says was looted from the Etruscan site of Cerveteri, and a hoard of silver believed to have been stolen from Morgantina, Sicily. |
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Rare Painted Roman Sculpture FoundPompeii, Italy - The marble head of an Amazon warrior woman has emerged from Vesuvius' volcanic rock with her make up still on, archaeologists announced this week. |
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DNA test to trace Columbus rootsRome, Italy - Nearly 500 years after the death of Christopher Columbus, a team of genetic researchers are using DNA to solve two nagging mysteries: Where was the explorer really born? And where the devil are his bones? |
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Gold Medal Speedskater Cheek Donates Bonus to CharityTorino, Italy - Joey Cheek walked in with everyone expecting him to talk about winning an Olympic speedskating gold medal. Instead, he had something else on his mind. |
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Papyrus Reveals Ancient StoriesTurin, Italy - Italian researchers have recovered part of a lost ancient Greek treatise, the earliest cartography of the Greek-Roman era, and a sketchbook for ancient painters - all by piecing together 50 fragments of a first- century B.C. parchment used in a mummy's wrapping. |
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First flame lit for Torino OlympicsAncient Olympia, Greece - After days of rain, the clouds parted Saturday over the birthplace of the Olympics to let the sunlight kindle a flame for the Torino Winter Games. |
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U.N. agency: Rate of deforestation slowingRome - The speed of global deforestation has slowed because of new planting and natural forest extension, but the world's forests are still being destroyed at an alarming rate, a U.N. agency said Monday. |
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Italy plans carbon-neutral green winter OlympicsRome, Italy - This winter's Olympic games in Turin, Italy will be the most environmentally friendly ever, the organisers said on Wednesday, vowing it would have no net impact on climate change. |
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