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ANSA: Oro: torna sopra quota 1300 dollari
ANSA: Cambi: euro poco mosso a 1,328 dollari
ANSA: Petrolio: oscilla a 107 dollari
Financial Times: Pinned back by politics
Financial Times: Frantic fracking dents US gas prices
Aljazeera: Spain judge orders child rapist stay in jail
Aljazeera: Saudi says Bashir's plane did not have permit
Financial Times: A new class of education start-up
Huffington Post: Inside The Short Life Of The Serengeti Lion (PHOTOS)
Huffington Post: Marsupial Fossils Discovered in Australia May Fill Big Gap In Continent's Environmental History
Huffington Post: Fort Hood Victims: Stories Of The 13 Killed In Texas Shooting
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Aljazeera: Deadly car bomb attacks in Baghdad
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Financial Times: Mr Erdogan’s authoritarian creep

ANSA: Oro: torna sopra quota 1300 dollari

Posted: 04 Aug 2013 11:06 PM PDT

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ANSA: Cambi: euro poco mosso a 1,328 dollari

Posted: 04 Aug 2013 11:16 PM PDT

Moneta giapponese cala su biglietto verde a 98,6

ANSA: Petrolio: oscilla a 107 dollari

Posted: 04 Aug 2013 11:20 PM PDT

Brent a 109,2 dollari

Financial Times: Pinned back by politics

Posted: 05 Aug 2013 11:39 AM PDT

The Rana Plaza disaster grabbed global attention but it is the toxic political culture that undermines efforts to lift the country out of poverty

Financial Times: Frantic fracking dents US gas prices

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 03:51 AM PDT

Massive Marcellus Shale field in the Appalachian mountains in the US northeast is producing prolific amounts of natural gas and pushing prices lower

Aljazeera: Spain judge orders child rapist stay in jail

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 07:24 AM PDT

Judges remand Daniel Galvan Vina into custody days after public anger prompts Moroccan king to revoke his pardon.

Aljazeera: Saudi says Bashir's plane did not have permit

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 08:39 AM PDT

Gulf kingdom cites lack of permit as only reason for turning around plane carrying Sudanese president en route to Iran.

Financial Times: A new class of education start-up

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 08:56 AM PDT

A reform programme under way in New York's public schools is attracting new educational companies

Huffington Post: Inside The Short Life Of The Serengeti Lion (PHOTOS)

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 09:11 AM PDT

National Geographic takes readers inside the world-famous Serengeti National Park in its August issue for a striking glimpse at the life of the Serengeti lion.

Much of what we know about the African lion comes from a study in Serengeti National Park, beginning in the 1960s and still continuing today. Home to the largest migration of land animals on the planet, Jane Goodman has called the Serengeti one of the seven wonders of the world.

In the feature story, readers follow C-Boy, a dark-maned Serengeti lion, as he dodges death and navigates lion society. As the story explains:

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Huffington Post: Marsupial Fossils Discovered in Australia May Fill Big Gap In Continent's Environmental History

Posted: 06 Aug 2013 09:11 AM PDT

Paleontologists have uncovered a fossil field in Australia that fills a large gap in the continent's environmental history, and contains several previously unknown ancient species of marsupials and bats.

Researchers at the University of New South Wales discovered the site near the Riversleigh fossil field, an UNESCO World Heritage site, in northwest Queensland last year, and have since collected nearly 4,000 lbs. (1,800 kilograms) of rock for analysis, according to a statement from the university.

Preliminary analyses suggest that the fossils formed about 13 million to 5 million years ago — a period marking Australia's transition from a warm, tropical climate to the arid climate that persists today and an epoch largely missing from the known fossil record.

"This was a critical time during which the widespread, lush, ancient rainforests of Australia rapidly gave way to increasingly drier conditions," paleontologist Mike Archer, a leader of the excavation, said in a statement. "At least some of these new deposits may help to fill out that critical 13-[million]-to-5-million-year-old gap."

The team used a combination of geologic maps and satellite imagery to locate the field. They first examined satellite data and geologic maps of the Riversleigh World Heritage fossil field to identify physical characteristics that distinguish that site from surrounding rocks without fossils. They then searched through satellite imagery of nearby regions, looking for similar features, and found a region containing comparable rocks just 9 miles (15 kilometers) west of the World Heritage site.

The team traveled to that remote site — now named New Riversleigh — to confirm these findings, and found a fossil field densely packed with previously undocumented species of marsupials (pouched mammals like kangaroos and wallabies), as well as new species of bats. [Marsupial Gallery: A Pouchful of Cute]

The researchers have begun treating the samples with acid to wash away hardened silt, but are still in the preliminary stages of piecing the fossils together. Still, some of the samples have already provided a peek into the ancient landscape of Australia. For example, the teeth of plant-eating species appear worn-down, suggesting that the animals lived during a time when vegetation on the continent had begun to transition from lush rainforests to the tougher flora of modern Australia.

"This region is an amazing place at the heart of the story of the origins of the Australian continent and its bizarre biota," Archer said in a statement. "We anticipate that the new finds will soon be followed by many more, adding significantly to our understanding about how Australia transformed from an Amazon-like world to the dry continent we see today."

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