Or maybe they just never gave up on it. Arizona — where a top election official has said President Obama might not make the ballot because of questions about his birth certificate — is one place where it is enjoying a resurgence . Read full article > >

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Arizona’s top election official said in a radio interview Thursday that it’s “possible” President Obama may not make the state’s November ballot due to unanswered questions about his birth certificate. Read full article > >

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‘Birther’ controversy: Arizona election official says it’s ‘possible’ Obama might not make ballot

The German radar satellite TerraSAR-X is returning regular images of the Pine Island Glacier ice shelf, to try to catch the birth of a giant berg.

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Saroo Brierly told BBC Radio 5 live’s Victoria Derbyshire about tracking down his birth mother using Google Earth.

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AUDIO: Man uses Google to find mother

There are some things you don’t know until you become pregnant with your first child: That you can see your baby’s heartbeat in an ultrasound long before it can be heard. That the twitch in your side is the beginning of a kick. That some people think it’s a good idea to eat your own placenta after the birth. Read full article > >

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About the daters … Desired superpowers … Allison:  I would want to be a time traveler so that I could have breakfast at a beach cafe in Greece, eat street fare in Thailand for lunch, have an afternoon glass of wine in South Africa and enjoy a tagine for dinner in Morocco. Chris:  Fly very fast. Always wanted to fly airplanes, although I hate flying. The highlight of my life, next to the birth of my daughter, was when I went sky diving in Hawaii last year. Read full article > >

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Talk about two-timing: Birth records obtained by CNN Wednesday show Arnold Schwarzenegger’s child with a household staffer was born less than a week after his son with wife Maria Shriver. Divorce papers also show the housekeeper’s husband left her just…

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The city requires transgender people to have genital surgery if they want to change their sex identification on their birth certificates.

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On the 100th anniversary of his birth, Ronald Reagan is remembered as a transformative president, the creator of the contemporary Republican Party and the very definition of conservatism. He might also be as misunderstood by some of his followers as he is underappreciated by his detractors.

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Reagan is inspiration, obstacle for Republicans

The centennial of his birth has prompted an elegiac re-examination of his presidency, but can’t capture the man himself.

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A Texas woman believed to be the world’s oldest person died Monday at the age of 114, according to her caretaker. Eunice Sanborn claimed she was actually 115, and that the U.S. Census Bureau erroneously recorded her birth year as 1896. A homemaker,…

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Orlando Bloom and his wife, model Miranda Kerr, have introduced their son Flynn to the world 12 days after his birth. The first photo shows Kerr breastfeeding the 9 lb., 12 oz. boy. “I gave birth to him naturally, without any pain medication, and it…

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Orlando Bloom, Miranda Kerr Have Son

Christmas and Chanukah share a spiritual message: that it is possible to bring light and hope in a world of darkness, oppression and despair. But whereas Christmas focuses on the birth of a single individual whose life and mission was itself supposed to bring liberation, Chanukah is about a national liberation struggle involving an entire people who seek to remake the world through struggle with an oppressive political and social order: the Greek conquerors (who ruled Judea from the time of Alexander in 325 B.C.E.) and the Hellenistic culture that they sought to impose. read more

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Melbourne aquarium has welcomed the birth of the first baby Gentoo penguin chick born in the country.

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Gentoo penguin born in Australia

Scientists say they are a step closer to recreating the conditions at the birth of the universe and to understanding life as we know it, after the successful collision of heavy lead ions in a massive machine in Europe.

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A step closer to grasping the Big Bang