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Zuma's 'Big Love' Costs South Africa Big Bucks

4 hours 57 minutes ago |AOL News

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(March 18) -- Polygamous politicians don't come cheap, South Africans are discovering. Taxpayers there are coughing up more than $2 million a year to support President Jacob Zuma's three wives and 20 ...

Human Egg Giveaway Sparks Ethical Controversy

8 hours 50 minutes ago |AOL News

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(March 18) -- An American fertility clinic's decision to host a giveaway of eggs for in vitro fertilization treatment has renewed an ongoing international debate over a complicated, and highly person ...

Photos Reveal 'Lost' Soviet Moon Rover

4 hours 47 minutes ago |AOL News

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(March 18) -- A defunct robotic rover stranded on the surface of the moon managed to stir up a minor controversy here on Earth this week. The seeds of discord were sown Monday when NASA released thou ...

Greece Plays IMF Card in High-Stakes Showdown

5 hours 3 minutes ago |AOL News

ATHENS, Greece (March 18) -- George Papandreou hates poker. But for the past month or so, the bewildered Greek leader has been trying to make the most of a weak hand in a three-way poker game involvi ...

Why Bluefin Tuna Talks Were Recipe for Disaster

7 hours 27 minutes ago |AOL News

(March 18) -- Sink or swim? For one especially valuable fish, failed conservation talks mean the former is far more likely. A United Nations-backed wildlife conference in Qatar canned a proposal aime ...

Somali Pirates Try to Hijack Dutch Warship, Then Flee

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NAIROBI, Kenya (March 18) -- These Somali pirates picked the wrong ship to hijack. Troops aboard the Dutch warship HNLMS Tromp fired warning shots Wednesday off the coast of East Africa as suspected ...

40,000-Year-Old Tools Found at Construction Site

4 days 3 hours ago |AOL News

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(March 14) -- It's being dubbed "Tasmania's Valley of the Kings." At the site for a proposed freeway overpass, archaeologists have uncovered what they say are the earliest southernmost artifacts of h ...

The Filter: Old News in New News

10 hours 28 minutes ago |AOL News

(March 18) -- With so many news aggregators out there, who can keep up? AOL News filters the filters to steer you to the headlines that really matter. Skip Those, Read This: The aggregators lead with ...

Trio Convicted in Brazen Theft of Auschwitz Sign

12 hours 10 minutes ago |AP

WARSAW, Poland (March 18) -- A Polish court on Thursday convicted three men of the theft of the notorious "Arbeit Macht Frei" (Work Sets You Free) sign from the Auschwitz memorial site in December. T ...

Palestinian Rocket Kills 1, First in a Year

11 hours 31 minutes ago |AOL News

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JERUSALEM (March 18) -- Palestinian gunmen fired a mortar shell from Gaza into Israel today, killing a migrant worker in the first fatality from a rocket attack in more than a year. The attack comes ...

CIA Chief: Al-Qaida 'Scrambling'

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(March 17) -- CIA Director Leon Panetta believes the current U.S. strategy against the al-Qaida terrorist network is showing major signs of success. In an interview with The Washington Post, Panetta ...

Clinton in Moscow for Talks on Middle East, Nukes

12 hours 53 minutes ago |AOL News

(March 18) -- Secretary of State Hillary Clinton arrived in Moscow today for talks on a long-delayed arms control deal and on how to get Israel and the Palestinians back to the negotiating table. Cli ...