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As deadline nears, UN officials call for accelerating progress on anti-poverty goals

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A primary school in Kampala, Uganda. Achieving universal pri...

Former President of Qualcomm’s Global Business Operations Indicted for Insider Trading

Jing Wang, 51, of Del Mar, California, a former executive vice president and president of Global Business Operations for Qualcomm Inc., was charged with insider trading in shares of both Qualcomm and Atheros Communications...

Creating Electricity with Caged Atoms

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Clathrates: crytals enclosing single atoms

Greenpeace International ship nears Murmansk port as 30 activists await possible charges

The Greenpeace ship Arctic Sunrise is close to arriving in the port of Murmansk after being boarded by Russian authorities last week following a peaceful protest against Arctic oil drilling.