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Pan American Silver Buying Minefinders for $1.5B

Canada-based Pan American Silver Corp. said Monday it will pay about $1.5 billion in a cash and stock to buy Minefinders Corp. Ltd., which owns a huge silver mine in northern Mexico, among other mining assets.
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PIP Founder: France Criminal in Recommending Removal

The founder of a French company at the heart of an international health scandal acknowledged on Wednesday that he had used unapproved silicone in breast implants, but said France's recommendation for women to have them removed was criminal.
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Ditch the Assumption that Developed Economies Safe

LONDON, Jan 17 - The downgrade of much of Europe's credit ratings demonstrates in perhaps the bluntest terms so far the collapse of any lingering -- if lazy -- assumptions that developed states are somehow safer than emerging counterparts.
The Zenit-2SB rocket blasts off from its launch pad at the cosmodrome Baikonur November 9, 2011.

Failed Russian Space Probe Plunging Back to Earth

A stranded Russian science satellite, loaded with rocket fuel for a roundtrip mission to Mars, is expected to plunge back to Earth on Sunday, but officials said on Friday they don't know when or where it will hit.
Best Tablets Under $299 To Debut in 2012

2012 Trends: 5 Items to Get Cheaper in 2012

The times and trends are always changing, and some benefit consumers while others do not. But the shopping Web site dealnews did a good job in recent days noting things that will be less expensive and more expensive in 2012. Among the items that will get cheaper in 2012, according to dealnews, is wine and homes.
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Sweet, sparkly Moscato pops with celebrity props

Hip-hop artists sing about it, a famous housewife sells it and the wine world is abuzz about Moscato, a sweet, lightly fizzy drink that is the biggest thing to hit the wine business since White Zinfandel.
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Argentina Governor Shot in Head, Killed; Wife Questioned

Gov. Soria and his wife, Susana, were reportedly in their bedroom early Sunday after spending New Year's Eve at their home in General Roca, according to authorities. Emergency personnel received a call and arrived at the home just before 5 a.m., local media reported. Gov. Soria was found bleeding in bed, yet alive. He was taken to a local hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
In what may be considered the closest real-life case of the movie "Snakes on a Plane," a Czechoslovakian man was stopped from boarding a transatlantic flight from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Madrid, Spain for trafficking 247 animals, including fi

Yarara Snakes Among 247 Animals Man Fails to Get on Plane [VIDEO]

In what may be considered the closest real-life case of the movie Snakes on a Plane, a Czechoslovakian man was stopped from boarding a transatlantic flight from Buenos Aires, Argentina to Madrid, Spain for trafficking 247 animals, including five-foot venomous yarara snakes, in his suitcase, according to Agence France-Presse.
First Antarctic Plant-Eating Dinosaur Fossil Found

First Antarctic Plant-Eating Dinosaur Fossil Found

Researchers have for the first time identified remains of plant-eating dinosaurs in Antarctica. The Argentinean research team suggests that these large bodied sauropod dinosaur or advanced titanosaurs were widespread during the Late Cretaceous era.

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