The operation to remove the wreck of the Costa Concordia will be the biggest of its kind, at a cost reported to be at least $300m, according to salvage firms and the ship’s owners.
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VIDEO: Concordia salvage details revealed
A “remarkable” night-flowering orchid, the first of its kind known to science, has been described by a team of botanists.
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Night-flowering orchid discovered
Archaeologists are describing a Viking boat burial find as the most important discovery of its kind to be made on the UK mainland.
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Viking boat burial find ‘a first’
Japan’s biggest weapons maker launches an investigation into a cyber attack, believed to be the first of its kind against the country’s defence industry.
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Japan defence hit by cyber attack
A south Wales council says those who persistently put food scraps in general rubbish bins will be fined £100 – the first of its kind in Wales.
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Council’s £100 food-in-bin fine
Off they go! The NASA space shuttle Discovery launched its final voyage on Thursday afternoon, heading for the International Space Station with a crew of six, supplies, and a humanoid robot. That robot will become the first of its kind in space on…
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NASA Blasts First Robot to Space
In the biggest bust of its kind in recent memory, Customs and Border Protection authorities at the Detroit Metropolitan Airport arrested a woman allegedly carrying 91 pellets of heroin inside her body.
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Woman carried 91 heroin pellets in body
The arrests are the latest of several European terrorism alerts, and the biggest operation of its kind for months.
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British Police Detain 12 on Suspicion of Terrorism
Two more walls have collapsed in the ancient city of Pompeii, the second incident of its kind this week and the third in a month.
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More walls collapse at ancient Pompeii
Federal authorities are nearing the end of a three-year insider-trading probe that would dwarf any of its kind with its impact on the financial industry. One large focus of the investigation is the pervasiveness of so-called “expert networks” of…
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Feds Pursue Massive Insider-Trading Case
A retired cardiologist has written “The White Book,” touted as the first cookbook of its kind in Israel.
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In Israel, a Pork Cookbook Challenges a Taboo
A Florida court overturns the state’s ban on gay adoption, the only one of its kind in the US, and the state’s governor says he will no longer enforce it.
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Florida gay adoption ban rejected
A man is jailed for attempting to smuggle rare peregrine falcon eggs out of Britain in what investigators described as one of the worst cases of its kind in decades.
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Man guilty of egg smuggling bid
Colorado will soon be home to one of the nation’s largest waste-conversion plants.
