Copernicus’ remains believed found in Poland
Polish archaeologists are all but certain they have located the skeletal remains of Nicholas Copernicus, the 16th-century cleric whose heliocentric theory was to revolutionize astronomy.
View ArticleChopin’s last piano found after 150 years
The grand piano Frederic Chopin took on his last concert tour has been found in an English country house thanks to detective work by a Swiss musical scholar.
View ArticleWild Horses Munch Desolate Marshland Back to Life
Close to the cathedral city of Canterbury, wild horses linked to sinister Nazi experiments are helping to bring wildlife and rare birds back to once desolate marshlands.
View ArticleHusband Wakes Up After 19 Years In Coma: Wife Never Gave Up On Man
A railway worker who emerged from a 19-year coma woke to a radically altered Poland and thinks "the world is prettier now" than it was under communism, his wife said Sunday.
View ArticleMedieval crucifix found in Austrian rubbish skip
An 800-year-old, gold-plated crucifix that went missing after being seized by the Nazis has been found in a rubbish skip in Austria, police said.
View ArticleAl Gore & IPCC Share Nobel Peace Prize For 2007
The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 is to be shared, in two equal parts, between the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold (Al)...
View ArticleSkies to be swept for alien life
The switch has been thrown on a telescope specifically designed to seek out alien life.
View ArticleItaly’s poor to eat contraband caviar on Christmas
Some homeless people in Italy will be savoring beluga caviar this Christmas, thanks to officials who seized 88 pounds (40 kilograms) of the contraband delicacy from smugglers.
View ArticlePoland reverses to spare wetland
Poland has proposed a new route for a disputed motorway to save a pristine wetland, the environment minister says.
View ArticleMuseums Around the World Open their Doors at Night Offering Special Attractions
More than one thousand French museums showed their most original presentations and free of charges, this Saturday night to attract the public to the 5th European Long Night of Museums, which this year...
View ArticleLove between German woman and Polish man survives Iron Curtain
For five decades, she kept his picture in her wallet -- a black-and-white snapshot of a handsome young Polish man with brooding eyes.
View ArticleShip sewage banned in Baltic Sea
Ship sewage will no longer be allowed to foul the Baltic Sea. The International Maritime Organization (IMO) on Friday agreed to ban the discharge of sewage from passenger ships and ferries in the...
View ArticleStates unite to protect primeval European forests
Europes largest areas of old growth forests outside Russia are to be protected across the seven country span of the Carpathian Mountains.
View ArticleEuropean forests protection backed by a legally binding agreement
Delegates from 46 different nations have come together and signed a legally binding agreement on forest management. Forest ministers from across Europe have gathered for a three day summit - the sixth...
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