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An Australian investigation into why a Chinese-registered cargo ship ran aground and badly damaged the Great Barrier Reef blamed a tired chief mate on Thursday .

The coal carrier Shen Neng 1 -- two football fields long -- foundered on April 3 last year, leaking tonnes of heavy fuel oil and threatening a major ecological disaster.

Sweet Micky" Martellyin a landslide, defeating former first lady Mirlande Manigat, according to preliminary election results.  While the infusion of fresh blood into the beleaguered Haitian political system was both needed and celebrated, we were taken by the fact that much of the media coverage focused on the bald-headed, 50-year-old Martelly's former career as a musician.

The Miami Herald cut straight to the chase, to Martelly as a "controversial carnival singer."  The Wall Street Journal's Speakeasy blogthat he was "known for his ribald lyrics and outrageous performances."  In a piece subtitled, "From Pop Star to President," MSNBCto Martelly as an "iconoclastic entertainer" and went on to specify that he was "a star of Haiti's Konpa carnival music blending African and Latin rhythms," stopping short of fully defining "Konpa."

Very tight braiding or weaving may be linked to a permanent type of hair loss that affects many African American women, according to a U.S. study.

Prolonged pulling at the hair strands may cause inflammation of the hair follicle, which has been showed to lead to scarring.

For lovers of Italian art, it's as close as you can come to ascending a stairway to heaven and looking angels in the eye.

For the first time after a major restoration, the scaffolding that has shrouded the 850 sq m (9,150 sq ft) of frescoes of the Capella Maggiore in Florence's famed Santa Croce Basilica will not be dismantled immediately.

a pioneering technology repair service for Apple hand-helds such as the iPhone and iPod as well as Apple desktop computer systems – continues offering repair services for the newiPad 2, available to residents throughout America due to their highly efficient mail-order system

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Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi was not in attendance on Wednesday as his trial on charges of buying sex from an underage nightclub dancer and abuse of power opened in Milan after a dramatic build-up that has dented his popularity.

The billionaire tycoon is no stranger to the dock after years of investigations and trials linked to his business interests but this will be the first time that his tumultuous personal life is exposed in a courtroom.

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Spa treatments should not be affordable only one week a year which is the reason why Massage Envy does not partake in the Spa Week promotion. Instead, Massage Envy proudly offers affordable spa treatments every day of the year.

A strong new earthquake rattled Japan's northeast Monday as the government urged more people living near a tsunami-crippled nuclear plant to leave, citing concerns about long-term health risks from radiation.

The magnitude 7.0 aftershock, which trapped some people in collapsed homes, came just hours after residents bowed their heads and wept in ceremonies to mark a month since a massive earthquake and tsunami killed up to 25,000 people and set off radiation leaks at the nuclear plant by knocking out its cooling systems.

s the first major upgrade to the web browser since 2009.

The company said IE9 offers "performance improvements" and a safer browsing experience, made possible in part by drawing on capabilities from Windows 7. The newest IE does not support Windows XP, which some surveys estimate is still the OS version on more than 60 percent of all Windows machines. It does offer extensive support for HTML5, Scalable Vector Graphics, Cascading Style Sheets Level 3, ECMAScript 5, and DOM.