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Singer Paul McCartney and his bride Nancy Shevell leave after their marriage ceremony at Old Marylebone Town Hall in London

Day after wedding, McCartney announces tour dates

The day after he tied the knot with American heiress Nancy Shevell, ex-Beatle Paul McCartney announced 11 extra dates for his On the Run tour ending in his native town of Liverpool, England, on December 20.

YouTube Space Lab Launches Challenge for Students [VIDEO]

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YouTube announced on Monday plans to launch YouTube Space Lab, a challenge for students worldwide to create an experiment which will be conducted in space and the chance to receive out of this world space-oriented grand prizes.

Asia Pacific Screen Awards announces nominees

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Two entries in the Academy's Best Foreign-Language Film category are among the five Best Feature Film nominees at the 2011 Asia Pacific Screen Awards, which announced its nominees on Monday.
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Israeli scientist Daniel Shechtman (C) reacts as he arrives at a news conference at Israel's Technion Institute of Technology in the northern city of Haifa

Ridiculed crystal work wins Nobel for Israeli

An Israeli scientist who suffered years of ridicule and even lost a research post for claiming to have found an entirely new class of solid material was awarded the Nobel Prize for chemistry on Wednesday for his discovery of quasicrystals.
Bigfoot Conference to be Hosted in Siberia

Search is on for Yeti, Russian Researchers Say

A Russian conference is setting out to do what no man has done before: Find Yeti. Yeti, otherwise known as Bigfoot, the Abominable Snowman or Sasquatch, has titillated explorers for over a century, with sightings of large footprints in mud or snow.
Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin

Vladimir Putin Proposes 'Eurasian Union'

Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has proposed forming a Eurasian Union out of the former Soviet nations, saying it could become a global economic power to rival Asia, America, and Western Europe.
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LA puts PST time stamp on art world

A city once thought to have less culture than a bowl of yogurt, Los Angeles is challenging that notion with an epic exhibition, Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980.
Climate activists Lesley Butler and Rob Bell (R) ''sunbathe'' on the edge of a frozen fjord in the Norwegian Arctic town of Longyearbyen

Record Arctic Ozone Hole Raises Fears of Worse to Come

A huge hole that appeared in the Earth's protective ozone layer above the Arctic in 2011 was the largest recorded in the Northern Hemisphere, triggering worries the event could occur again and be even worse, scientists said in a report on Monday.
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Gold extends gains, equities drop on Europe debt fears

Gold strengthened further on Monday as falling equities and lingering worries about a debt crisis in Europe drew investors to the precious metal, which posted its the biggest quarterly gain this year, but a firm U.S. dollar could still cap gains.

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