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LIMA: A suicide note in which Peru’s Alan Garcia denied corruption charges against him set the backdrop Friday for the ex-president’s funeral, two days after he put a gun to…READ

Sarah Zhang, The Atlantic
About 10,000 years ago, a group of hunter-gatherers settled on a floodplain in modern-day Turkey and stayed for a millennium. You can still see remnants of the houses they built. Archaeologists have mapped out alleyways and uncovered intact skeletons under ancient plaster floors. After all this time, A??kl? Hyk is remarkably well preserved.

Evan Gough, Universe Today
The Cassini mission to Saturn and its moons wrapped up in 2017, when the spacecraft was sent plunging into the gas giant to meet its end. But there's still a lot of data from the mission to keep scientists busy. A team of scientists working with Cassini data have made a surprising discovery: Titan's methane-filled lakes are much deeper, and weirder, than expected.

Emily Willingham, Discover
As alarm grew over autism prevalence at the turn of this century, there was much public talk of a growing epidemic. That language has since softened, and it is now clear that many autistic people were there all along, their condition unrecognized until relatively recently.

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Dirk Schulze-Makuch, Air & Space Mag
At last week's Breakthrough Discuss meeting in Berkeley, California, the focus was on the migration of life in the Universe and the search for extraterrestrial life and genomes. The annual conference, sponsored by the Breakthrough Initiatives organization, came only a day after the first pictures from a black hole were published, and the same day Israel's Beresheet probe crashed on the Moona reminder that grandeur and failure sometimes go hand-in-hand when advancing high-risk space projects.

Ed Cara, Gizmodo
Late last week, a Twitter account highlighting one of the cardinal sins of bad science journalism popped up online, catching the eye of scientists, reporters, and the public: @justsaysinmice.The elegantly simple account works exactly as advertised, adding the words IN MICE to sensationalized news stories that trumpet the latest scientific discoverieswithout noting these discoveries were found in lab mice.

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OKLAHOMA CITY – As we remember the 168 lives lost on this day, we can’t help but also remember their families. More than two decades later, one Oklahoma family touched by tragedy is reminding us why we run in the Oklahoma City Memorial Marathon. “Susie? Well, she was independent, strong-willed, out to save the world,” said Don Ferrell, father of Susan Jane Ferrell. Susan Ferrell, 37, was an attorney for U.S. Housing and Urban Development on the eighth floor of […]

ICC World Cup 2019: Dilip Vengsarkar added that the selectors must have considered experience and hence gave Dinesh Karthik the nod over Rishabh Pant.

The ministry said that third-party goods such as “almonds produced in California” were being traded across Chakan-Da-Bagh and Salamabad .

Chicago is one of six cities where Lyft is offering free rides on the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, but the offer comes after controversy.

Despite a late onslaught from Andre Russell, RCB held on in the final few moments to record their second win of the season in a match at Eden Gardens on Friday.

Parsa police on Friday seized a body of a woman from local Sirsiya ghat while preparations were under way to cremate it.

The Division 2 men travel to White Rock to take on Bayside RFC at 1245.  Lineup posted below. Best of luck to the men.  

10th annual NGK Spark Plugs Four-Wide Nationals zMAX Dragway April 26-28, 2019 Pro Stock Motorcycle Heads to the Four-Wide Nationals Drag Racing’s Ultimate Thrill Ride Powers Back to Zmax Dragway

Thackeray also came down heavily on Kanhaiya Kumar who is contesting on a CPI ticket from Begusarai in Bihar.

You can NEVER, under ANY circumstances, send a man two questions in one text.

SOFTBALL Brock 13, Peaster 2 The Eagles reeled off 13-unanswered runs to beat the Greyhounds to clinch the District 7-3A championship. Brock will be the 1 seed for next week’s … Click to Continue »

Two elephants died in an accident after getting hit by a train at Jamalpur Kalan area in the Haridwar forest range early on Friday.Both the pachyderms were found 20-25 meters away from the track. According to a forest official, they were thrown away by the impact of the collision."Both are male tuskers and both died due to the impact of the collision with the train. The incident took place at around 4 in the morning. We are preparing for the post-mortem of both the elephants," said a forest official.The... Читать дальше...

Purple burr-daisy Calotis cuneifolia, copyright Melburnian.

Belongs within: Astereae.

Calotis is a genus of composite-flowered herbs endemic to Australia (Black & Robertson 1965).

Characters (from Black & Robertson 1965): Herbs with alternate leaves; fruiting heads usually globular and burr-like. Involucre mostly hemispherical, the bracts in about two rows nearly equal, with scarious margins; receptacle flat or convex, naked; ray-flowers ligulate, female, mostly in one row; disk-flowers tubular... Читать дальше...

Farm workers in the fields near Boston, Lincolnshire, England.

MANILA, Philippines – The Boston Celtics took a commanding 3-0 series lead in the NBA Eastern Conference first-round playoffs after dispatching the Indiana Pacers, 104-96, on Friday, April 19 (Saturday, April 20, Manila time).