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	Pavarotti's Heirs Inherit an 18 million Euro Debt
Pavarotti's heirs inherited not only his wealth, but also all of his debts, which count about 18 million Euro ($25,75 million).
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	NASA Starts 2007 Competition to Build Space Elevator
The Spaceward Foundation launched a 2007 Beam Power Challenge competition where the teams could compete to build a Space Elevator.
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	Soviet-built Radar Could Become Part of the US Missile Defense System in Europe
The USA are likely to include the Gabala radar in Azerbaijan into their missile defense system in Europe, if the Russian side would agree to such terms.
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	50 plus workers become more valuable
Many countries are at risk of having considerable lack of skilled workers and increased labor costs if they won't persuade older workers to stay and work beyond retirement age.
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	Divorce in The Bin Laden Family
Jane Felix-Browne, a British woman, said the reason why she wanted to divorce her husband after only five months of marriage was that she was afraid for her life. Her husband is the son of most wanted man on earth Osama bin Laden - Omar bin Laden.
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	Blind People Help Sighted to Discover the Unseen
An exhibition called "Dialogue in the Dark 2007 Tokyo" started in Tokyo. The exhibition is very unusual. It is the place where sighted people are guided by blind people through several specially constructed darkened rooms. Thus sighted people are able to "discover the unseen".
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	InfoNIAC Announces a New Service
The support team of InfoNIAC community is proud to announce the creation of user's page. We would like to tell our visitors that from now on they are free to register in our community. It is a step forward to becoming closer to our visitors and to becoming more personal.
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	The World Says Rest in Peace to Luciano Pavarotti
Fair well, Luciano Pavarotti, says the world to the "Golden Voice" of the 20th century.
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	Texas Executed the 400th Prisoner
Texas celebrated the execution of its 400th prisoner. The governor's spokesman said the procedure is quite effective
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	Russian Fighters Will Show Wonders at MAKS-2007 Air Show
The International Aviation and Space Salon MAKS-2007 started today. The ground exhibition will feature newest developments of Russian construction bureaus, as well as the flight demonstration of the best pilot teams from all over the world.
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	Japan Marks the 62nd Anniversary of Hiroshima's Atomic Bombing
Japan will never forget Hiroshima. Recently the country market the 62nd anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima during World War II.
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	Van Gogh's $25 Million Painting Is a Fake
The officials from The National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, say that the only artwork by Van Gogh found in the gallery is in fact a fake.
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	Spain Workers Smashed Madrid Hotel to Relieve Stress
Forty bankers, teachers and other workers were selected from more than 1000 volunteers who had written to the owners of NH hotels describing stressfulness of their lives before the wrecking team was assembled.
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	Russian Mine Blast at Novokuznetsk (coverage)
Early morning, on May 24th, 217 people, workers at the "Yubileynaya" mine in Novokuznetsk in the Kemerovo Oblast (Russia), got into the elevator to go deep down the mine and collect more coal for their country. However, the scenario was rewritten at approximately 7:30 AM Moscow Time (4:30 AM GMT).
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	Timeline of the events in Tallinn, Estonia
A brief chronology of latest events in Tallinn, Estonia, caused by the decision of Estonian authorities to disassemble a Soviet Soldier monument of the WWII era.
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