Three weeks before the Iowa caucuses, Newt Gingrich took fire for most of the evening and seemed to relish his new role as the leading Republican candidate in the field.

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In G.O.P. Iowa Debate, Rivals Target Newt Gingrich

Mark Hughes is the leading contender to replace Steve Bruce as Sunderland manager ahead of bookmakers’ favourite Martin O’Neill, BBC Sport understands.

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Hughes is ‘top Sunderland target’

One of the world’s most powerful “atom smashers”, at the leading edge of scientific discovery for two decades, is about to shut down.

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Key US particle machine to shut

Deep skepticism over the toll of strikes using unmanned aircraft that are at the leading edge of a revolution in robotic warfare.

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C.I.A. Claim of No Civilian Deaths From Drone Strikes Is Disputed

MANCHESTER, N.H. Mitt Romney, the leading contender to become President Obama’s Republican opponent next year, had just finished working the room at Blake’s Creamery here when he paused for a photo with the restaurant’s owner, Ann Mirageas, and decided to tell her a joke. “I saw the young man over there with eggs Benedict, with hollandaise sauce,” he said. “And I was going to suggest to you that you serve your eggs with hollandaise sauce in hubcaps. Because there’s no place like chrome for the holidays.” Read full article > >

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A day of awkwardness with Mitt Romney

One of the leading Democratic lawmakers on housing policy and the Obama administration’s own housing agency criticized as too stringent an administration proposal that would push home buyers to come up with sizable down payments.

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Housing officials criticize 20% down-payment proposal

Menorah and Hurricane Fly are among the leading contenders for the Champion Hurdle on day one of the 2011 Cheltenham Festival on Tuesday.

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Stage set for Cheltenham Festival

US researchers have found a clue to one of the leading causes of blindness, which they hope could eventually lead to a cure.

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Blindness cause clue discovered

Richard Dawkins, the leading British atheist, has penned a tribute to his fellow comrade against godliness, Christopher Hitchens, calling the unrelenting essayist his hero for 2010. Hitchens, who is fighting a public battle against throat cancer, is…

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Dawkins: Hitchens Is My Hero

In part 1, we showed that the University of East Anglia climate “email scandal” was nothing but a colossal waste of time that proved only the hysterical idiocy of fossil-fuel-financed climate skepticism. Continuing to be amply funded by their fossil-fuel benefactors, the leading climate “skeptic” front groups weren’t ready to give up. Not surprising given the degree to which their views are given such media prominence. read more

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The Real ClimateGate: Why the IPCC Stands Stronger Than Ever (Part 2)

Screening smokers and ex-smokers with high-tech CT scans has been shown for the first time to significantly cut deaths from lung cancer, the leading cancer killer, federal health officials said Thursday.

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CT scans of smokers cut lung cancer deaths