A former Nepalese foreign minister dies while trying to become the oldest person to climb Mount Everest, the world’s highest mountain.

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Trying to regroup after the roughest day of their season, the Washington Nationals turned to their youngest starting pitcher and their oldest lineup. Sunday afternoon, the Nationals sent Jordan Zimmermann to the mound and men who lived through the 1980s almost everywhere else – they included only one position player younger than 30 in their starting lineup.

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Nationals vs. Giants: Washington’s senior citizens cobble together a win

Regulators approved a 10-year extension for the oldest reactor at the Fukushima Daiichi plant despite safety warnings.

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Japan Extended Reactor’s Life, Despite Warning

Blues pianist Pinetop Perkins, the oldest musicion ever to win a Grammy award, dies in Austin, Texas, aged 97.

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It’s the end of an era for NASA’s space shuttle program: The shuttle Discovery, the oldest of the shuttles, completed its final mission Wednesday, landing at Cape Canaveral, Florida to the cheers of journalists, space enthusiasts, and schoolchilden….

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Archaeologists have discovered the remains of a 3-year-old child from the Ice Age, the oldest cremated human remains ever discovered in North America. The discoverers dated the child’s death to 11,500 years ago, according to research by the University…

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Ice Age Child’s Remains Found in Alaska

In a large mahogany box embellished with silk pockets and Cyrillic lettering, 10 lost pieces of America’s cultural heritage recently landed in Culpeper, Va. – thanks, in a roundabout way, to the Soviet Union and a bureaucratic penchant for filing.

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Silent films recovered: These new releases are oldest in a long time

The Hubble space telescope has detected what scientists believe may be the oldest galaxy ever observed.

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With prices and American consumption of buffalo both at all-time highs, a new chapter is beginning for one of the oldest animal-human relationships on the continent.

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Plains Giants Establishing Tiny Foothold on Tables

Animals may dying en masse in this country, but in Britain they’re living longer than ever: A count in South Wales named Lucy has become the oldest ever, living to 39-years-old. Lucy is deaf but still otherwise active, hunting mice in the garden of her…

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Israeli archeologists may have found the oldest human remains yet discovered. A Tel Aviv University team found teeth in a cave in central Israel that they say are 400,000 years old, twice as old as the oldest human remains found until now. If the teeth…

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A centenarian says she has been inundated with Facebook Friend requests since reports of her becoming the oldest user of the social network site.

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World’s ‘oldest’ Facebooker wins new pals

A critically endangered black rhino believed to be the oldest in the UK celebrates her 40th birthday in Kent.

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Endangered black rhino reaches 40th birthday

Is this the oldest bestseller ever? Publishers routinely set release dates far in advance, and keep a book’s secrets under wrap to build anticipation, but Mark Twain’s demand that his memoir be published a century after his death surely must set some…

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Mark Twain Memoir a Surprise Hit

San Francisco, with its Victorian buildings and ethnic neighborhoods, each with a personality of its own, has long been a destination spot for tourists. Every year the city’s Chinatown district, one of the oldest in North America, draws visitors who love the little shops, fresh fish and vegetables and the abundance of restaurants specializing in authentic Chinese food. More than 100 restaurants line the 0.13 square miles that is Chinatown. read more

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Check Please! Workers, Activists Nationwide Take Action Against Wage Theft