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Bahrain Army Tears Down Pearl Square Monument, Symbol of Protests

MANAMA, Bahrain - Bahrain on Friday tore down the 300-foot (90-meter) monument at the heart of a square purged of Shiite protesters this week, erasing a symbol of an uprising that's inflaming sectarian tensions across the region. The monument - six white curved beams topped with a huge cement pearl - was built in Pearl...

Harlem Globetrotters Aim to Win 'The Amazing Race'

The upcoming season of "The Amazing Race: Unfinished Business" features memorable teams from seasons past, and one duo in particular is back to finally settle an old score. That team is Nate "Big Easy" Lofton and Herb "Flight Time" Lang, a couple of wise-cracking big shots who play professional basketball for the Harlem...

Teams Go Balls Out in World Series of Beer Pong

Beer pong isn't just a silly drinking game for college co-eds, it's a serious sport. Or at least that's the case at an annual event called the World Series of Beer Pong. While many of us are nursing a hangover on New Year's Day, others will be getting ready to drink a few more rounds in Las Vegas at the sixth annual World...

Prosecutor Says Servant 'Incapable of Resistance,' Let Saudi Prince Kill Him

(Oct. 18) -- The prosecutor in the trial of Saudi Prince Saud Abdulaziz bin Nasser al Saud said today that Bandar Abdulaziz, the servant he's accused of beating to death, "let the defendant kill him" after suffering so much earlier "sadistic" abuse, the Irish Times reports. "So worn down by the violence, so subservient...

NASA: CO2, Not Water Vapor, Causes Global Warming

(Oct. 15) -- The Earth's atmosphere is a complicated place. Somewhere in that swirling, shifting mixture of air, water and other gasses is the key to keeping us earthlings alive -- or to cooking us. Carbon dioxide has always received the most media attention as the leading cause of climate change, and a new study from...

Background on world

World War II, or the Second World War (often abbreviated as WWII or WW2), was a global war that was under way by 1939 and ended in 1945. It involved a vast majority of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis.

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