Photos: The Ancient Oceans of Mars A star nursery, the aurora as seen from the International Space Station in orbit, a storm on Saturn as big as Earth, a spectacular solar flare, and images of the cosmos from the Hubble Space Telescope.
  Florida postal worker falls into storm drain, dies
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AP - U.S. Postal Service officials in Miami say an employee died when he tumbled into a storm drain while searching for his cell phone. Watch: Failed Russian Mars Probe Re-Enters Analytical Graphics animation of Phobos-Grunt spacecraft falling from orbit.
  German police use Facebook pictures to nab crooks
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Reuters - Police in the German state of Lower-Saxony will soon use their networks of Facebook "friends" to find missing persons and hunt out suspected criminals, according to the state's interior minister. Photos: A Rabbit Gets Acupuncture A two-faced cat, an elephant who need an eye doctor, a Malayian sun bear with a ten-inch tongue, and other strange cases from the animal kingdom.
  Water World: New 'Super-Earth' Found Scientists report they have found an exoplanet -- a world orbiting a distant star, 22 light-years away -- that they call the best candidate yet to be the right temperature for liquid water and, perhaps, life. It is labeled GJ 667Cc, and it is located in the constellation Scorpio.
 
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