It'll hopefully haul military gear like a mule and follow like a dog one day

U.S. troops who carry as much as 100 pounds of gear could soon get a robotic mule capable of shouldering their burdens in the toughest terrain. Such a robot recently showed how it can follow a person and navigate around trees and rocks while climbing a hill in its first outdoor test — but it might someday follow spoken…

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Extreme winter weather costs 160 lives in Europe

Published: 11:56, 2nd February 2012

160 people have died in the harsh winter weather. It has particularly affected the homeless in Eastern Europe.



Biting cold winter weather with temperatures far below the normal has so far claimed 160 lives in eastern and southern Europe.



In Ukraine, 63 died during the last week. Tens of thousands have…

115 dead in a week: Criminals go on rampage as Brazil police strike

'The right to protest is guaranteed but not the right to offend, to prey on, or to threaten people,' state governor says

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FBI warns of threat from anti-government extremists

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“Individual Liberty” Of If You “Believe In Conspiracy Theories” You Are A Potential Terrorist According To A New DHS Report…

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ACLU Sues U.S. for Information on Targeted Killing Program

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Prince William arrives in Falklands for tour of duty sparking riots in Buenos Aires

• Mob attacks branch of HSBC Bank in the capital
• It follows announcement that warship HMS Dauntless will set sail for the South Atlantic

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A broad spectrum of U.S.-based anti-imperialist and anti-war organizations agreed on a Jan. 17 conference call to hold coordinated protests across the country on Saturday, Feb. 4. The demands will be: “No war, no sanctions, no intervention, no assassinations against Iran.” The ad-hoc group that took part in the call decided that although there are only two…

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NaturalNews) The one man who may be responsible for more food related illnesses and deaths than anyone in history, Michael R. Taylor, has just been promoted from US Food Safety Czar to Senior Advisor to the Commissioner of the FDA, a position which would enable the giant biotech company Monsanto to silently and legally feed cancer causing vegetables to…

The battle for the eyeballs of social media network users is intensifying, with Google launching a demo version of 'Google+' (called Google Plus), the search engine giant's renewed attempt to take on Facebook in the social networking arena.



“This is just the beginning...We're just getting warmed up...launching what we call a field trial period, an invitation-only…