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Museum: Galileo's fingers, tooth are found
4:09PM CT
ROME (AP) - Two fingers and a tooth removed from Galileo Galilei's corpse in a Florentine basilica in the 18th century and given up for lost have been found again and will soon be put on display, an Italian museum director said Friday.
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Floods devastate UK Lake District, much of Ireland
4:08PM CT
COCKERMOUTH, England (AP) - Raging floods engulfed northern England's picturesque Lake District on Friday following the heaviest rainfall ever recorded in Britain, killing a police officer and trapping dozens in their swamped homes.
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Kidnapped Britons say Somali pirates may kill them
4:00PM CT
LONDON (AP) - A retired British couple snatched from their yacht by Somali pirates said in an interview broadcast Friday they fear they could be killed within a week or handed to a terrorist group if a ransom demand is not paid.
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6 world powers press Iran on nuclear issue
3:46PM CT
BRUSSELS (AP) - Representatives of six world powers urged Iran on Friday to accept a U.N. plan aimed at delaying its ability to build a nuclear weapon, as the head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency warned Tehran not to miss the opportunity to resolve the dispute.
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WHO investigating Norway swine flu mutations
1:26PM CT
GENEVA (AP) - The World Health Organization said Friday it is investigating samples of variant swine flu linked to two deaths and one severe case in Norway, but that so far the significance of the mutation is unclear.
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Italian prosecutor: Knox hated murder victim
12:50PM CT
PERUGIA, Italy (AP) - An American student accused of fatally stabbing her British roommate in Italy had a growing hatred for the victim and killed her in retaliation during a drug-fueled sex game, a prosecutor contended Friday in closing arguments at her murder trial.
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