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► "Fantastic" New Flying Frog Found—Has Flappy Forearms. Huge new frog discovered not far from Vietnamese metropolis, study says.
► Kyoto University researchers create kidney tissue from stem cells - By Adam Westlake / January 23, 2013
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► Scientists mimic plants to make zero-carbon fuel - Monday, 21 January 2013 Nina Chestney | Reuters
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► Venice carnival opens. Jan. 26 - A parade of fantasy creatures on fairytale vessels mark the opening of the 2013 Venice carnival. Rough Cut (no reporter narration). ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION) Waterborne fantasy creatures took over the famed Venice waterways to mark the opening of the lagoon city's annual carnival on Saturday (January 26) evening. The theme for the 2013 edition is "Live in Colour" and the parade of the fairytale-like characters got things off to a stylish start. Balls held in Venetian palaces, concerts and gondola parades are organised throughout the 17-day carnival which runs until February 12. Thousands of tourists from across Italy and the world every year crowd the city's canals, bridges and squares to marvel at the colourful display of masks and costumes. The Carnevale di Venezia is one of the oldest carnivals in the world. Carnival madness first began centuries ago as a period of excess before the rigours of lent, the 40 days of fasting that traditionally precede Easter. Venetians could then hide their identities behind masks and do as they pleased. It was a pressure valve to ease class tensions, allowing the poor, for a brief and controlled period, to break Venice's rigid, oligarchical social order. The carnival's end marks the beginning of Lent and signals the start of Venice's tourist season, which runs into the autumn.
► Rare Amur tiger cubs born in Ukraine. Jan. 15 - A litter of rare Amur tiger cubs born at zoo located in Ukraine's Yalta. Elly Park reports. Still playing in their pen with stuffed animals these pair of tiny tigers will grow to become the biggest cats in the world. They are Amur tigers, also known as Siberian tigers, born at the Yalta zoo in Ukraine. Originally they were part of a litter of three - one did not survive. Yalta zoo director Oleg Zubkov. SOUNDBITE: Zoo Director Oleg Zubkov, saying (Russian) "Today there are only a few hundred Amur tigers left in the world. They're very rare and the birth of every baby is one more big addition to the attempt to preserve these wonderful animals." The dynamic duo isn't the first of their species born at the zoo. Currently, Yalta zoo houses the largest number of Amur tigers in the world and keeper Oksana Zubkova revealed the secret of their success. SOUNDBITE: Tiger Caregiver Oksana Zubkova, saying (Russian) "We've started to add tea to the little tiger cubs' food, as it digests better, which is very important for the formation of their nourishment." According to the World Wildlife Fund, the Amur tiger was nearly extinct in the wild in the 1960s - but today their number has climbed to 400 to 500. Once they grow bigger these cubs will go to other zoos to diversify the population in captivity.
► Davos prescriptions for the U.S. economy - by Chrystia Freeland Jan 25, 2013 || Davos divided on tackling the scourge of obesity - By Emma Thomasson Thu Jan 24, 2013
► Davos 2013: Much still to do to revive Europe - Studzinski. Jan. 26 - Blackstone Group's John Studzinski says that while fears of a Euro collapse may have been allayed for now, there's still a search on for regeneration and growth in the continent. -- is Alex Smith spoke to John -- and -- senior managing director of the Blackstone Group and lost whether the relative calm in Europe and the west was over. I'm so I think the word the operation. No word of your questions relative. Obviously here it's calm there's still I think about 550. Billion euros of debt to be restructured. Either under the context of sort of pretend. Amend and extend. How about this probably about a 150. Millions. That it has to restructure this year. 21 people are no longer worrying about the euros. Collapsing -- disintegrated. I think there's still. Great search for sure economic regeneration growth through here. You look here. A situation where perhaps. Markets more of -- who -- them than they were four of the firms like you. Well Blackstone. Has a complex set of things that invests in. And they really depends of the country depends an opportunity depends on the project -- the time so I'm not gonna generalize. And we will continue to be. Very tenacious and very curious. There are things to invest in and it's gonna continue to be a lot of -- And of course these remaining area I think is. Real estate is still alive. In the amount of realistic financial institutions are prepared to sell. I think you're just gonna continue to see that. Logjam. Break out hopefully and 2013. And all the money markets right to deal making. When you look at what let's look at the US tremendous. You've got an enormous amount of cash among US companies which we've been talking about the three years and we're getting tired of talking about it. But the new. Element to the nuance about is that activists are looking at that time she was saying and a lot of cash. You -- going down. Your margins and started to get squeezed. So many of these can be -- saying. I didn't spend this cash gonna do something about these margins. So I don't think companies are gonna diversify but I do you think the big. Companies. Consumer health care are going to be very aggressive. Looking for investments. And their core businesses they've done all -- the cost rationalizations side. They've also getting more and more pressure on the government side to him. You're gonna have to take the strategies one step further and move it looks -- those two things capturing in paper. All the cash available stock markets murdering depending what they're doing I think most of them are gonna do those. Deals and cash. Or -- Should be returned. What about bank deals that I mean we've we've overseas banks being in the center of the European crisis. Do you see further consolidation among among the banks to see a lot of a lot of that the solution place let's spend under under pressure. And that's very amusing question. I think Europe is going to be good I continued to. Spin off divestitures -- with respect to financial institutions I can't imagine too many boards unless they have a regulators gun to their heads are gonna take on. A series of risk and audit. Balance sheet issues from another entity unless it's either him staying in our bailout mode is something -- Progress I think it's going to be very little. Material. Bank and an activity I think there -- a number of banks that still have to shed assets right. And assisting last year for example. 47% of global limited activity was actually when I called pretty. And a lot of about 1215% of that was financial institutions I think you're gonna see a lot more prudent. And certainly in Europe this year.
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► 26 January 2013 - Netanyahu dealt weak hand by voters | By Kevin Connolly BBC News, Jerusalem
► 27 January 2013 - The Middle East conflict at 35,000 feet | By Paul Moss BBC News
► 27 January 2013 - Warsaw Ghetto: The story of its secret archive | By Monica Whitlock BBC World Service
► Mali's road ahead: Reprisal fears and desert warfare
► Scientists create 'designer snowflakes'. 27 January 2013 - Sunny southern California may not seem the most obvious place for scientists to study snowflakes. But a team of physicists at Caltech university in Pasadena have been growing their own ice crystals, in order to try to understand how and why their patterns form in such diverse ways. The "designer snowflakes" are created in the laboratory all year round using electric needles placed in a diffusion chamber - the crystals grow on the needle's tip. By altering the conditions, the scientists are able to create different sizes and patterns of snowflake. Kenneth G Libbrecht, Professor of Physics at Caltech, showed BBC News how the system works. (VIDEO)
► 27 January 2013 - Beijing smog: When growth trumps life in China | By Martin Patience Beijing ::
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► 26 January 2013 - Yorkshire bat colonies 'cohabit all year' | By Mark Kinver Environment reporter, BBC News
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► 27 January 2013 - Older fathers: what's behind the trend?
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► Mistress of the Cave (RT Documentary). Published on Jan 26, 2013 :: Free diving champion Natalya Avseenko is seeking inner peace in the deep of the Orda Cave in Russia's Perm Region. Join RT as we travel with her and an entourage of support divers, photographers, and journalists documenting her attempt to become the underwater legend known as the Mistress of the Orda Cave. || PHOTOS - Plumbing the Depths of the Largest Underwater Gypsum Cave on Earth
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► Thousands march for gun control in Washington (PHOTOS)
► Russia hits top-10 in budget transparency report
► On The Money: Russian Davos. Published on Jan 26, 2013 :: Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev presented Russia's investment case at the World Economic Forum in Davos. How successful was his sales pitch? Is the government the best salesman for this? How will reforms in Russia attract more foreign money? And what is the biggest external shock Russia may come across this year? Peter Lavelle is joined by Quinn Martin, Ben Aris and Simon Fentham-Fletcher to discuss Russia's development scenarios.
► Moscow regrets US pullout from bilateral commission on human rights
► Communists urge revival of moral values in Russia
► Israel may rely on US 'scalpels' to contain Iran – defense minister
► First NATO Patriot battery goes operational in Turkey
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► Lap snap snapped up: Rare 'censored' Princess Diana photo sold for $18,000
►Recession Risks: UK heads for triple-dip as GDP shrinks. Published on Jan 26, 2013 :: Britain's at risk of slipping into recession for the third time since the beginning of the global financial crisis four years ago. The country's economy shrank by point 3 percent in the last quarter of 2012, and achieved zero growth. The decline of the world's sixth largest economy was blamed on the recession in the eurozone, bad weather affecting agriculture, and a temporary drop in oil and gas output in the North Sea. The country would find itself in recession if the economy contracts again in the first quarter of 2013. All the main global rating agencies have placed Britain on negative watch. The director of the Institute of Economic Affairs in London, Mark Littlewood, says the government should have a different approach to such a burning issue.
► Russian-made pop culture icon 'Chinese Girl' up for sale - Russian painter Vladimir Tretchikoff
► Patriot missile set up in Turkey. Published on Jan 26, 2013 :: The fırst of sıx patriot mıssıle batterıes deployed in Turkey is now operatıonal. The others are expected to be in place ın the comıng days. Turkey and NATO are stressıng the missile system is purely defensıve. Al Jazeera's Zeina Khodr reports from Adana in Turkey.
► Inside Story - The waxing and waning support for Syria. Published on Jan 27, 2013 :: We look at how support for the regime and the rebels has ebbed and flowed and how it affects the battle for Syria. Inside Syria with presenter Hazem Sika, discusses the implications of the lack of aid to the rebels on the ground with guests: Kamran Bokhari, vice president for Middle Eastern and South Asian affairs at Stratfor; Elias Hanna, a retired Lebanese army general; and Louay Safi, member of the Syrian National Coalition.
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