Gabriel Garcia Marquez's Made the Entire World Mourn

March 6, 2014. Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez stands outside his house on his 87th birthday in Mexico City.ReutersHis death mourned around the globe, Gabriel Garcia Marquez is being hailed as a giant of modern literature, a writer of intoxicating...

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Mexican Capital Shooked by 7.2 Magnitude Earthquake

People who were participating in a Holy Week procession stop and pray after a strong earthquake jolted Mexico City, Friday, April 18, 2014. A powerful magnitude-7.2 earthquake shook central and southern Mexico but there were no early reports of major damage or casualties.Officials...

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The Ship-Breakers

Photograph by Mike Hettwer : Muhammed Ali Shahin explains the dangers of shipbreaking in Bangladesh.  In Bangladesh men desperate for work perform one of the world’s most dangerous jobs. I had been warned that it would be difficult to get into Bangladesh’s...

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12 Dead in Historic Tradegy on Mount Everest

A team descends through the "popcorn" in the Khumbu Icefall.PHOTOGRAPH BY ANDY BARDON, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHICThe worst accident in the history of Everest mountaineering occurred this morning at approximately 6:30 (Nepal time) on the south side of the world's highest peak. Twelve...

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Most Earth-Like Planet Yet, Discovered By Kepler Telescope

This artist's depiction shows Kepler-186f,an Earth-size world in the "habitable zone" of a red dwarf star.Red sunshine, seas, and maybe aliens? Scientists analyzing data from NASA's Kepler Space Telescope today report the closest thing yet to another Earth, a world in a habitable...

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Expert advice can explain, address child's hair loss

When we think of a person who suffers from hair loss, the first image that comes to mind is probably an older male. But children are often plagued by hair loss as well despite their young age.Children with hair loss may gradually develop bald spots or lose their hair entirely....

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Tiger's record chase slipping away?

The first thing I considered when I learned that Tiger Woods had withdrawn from the upcoming Masters Tournament wasn't that the event would suffer from the absence of its four-time champion.Sure, it's a big deal for the game that Tiger won't play in Augusta next week, but...

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Chile earthquake: 6 dead, almost a million evacuated

SANTIAGO, Chile   Hundreds of thousands of people evacuated from Chile's low-lying coastal areas returned home Wednesday morning after authorities called off a tsunami alarm as damage from...

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