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Lochte double caps golden day for U.S. at world champs

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Ryan Lochte capped a golden day for the United States when he overhauled a flying French 4x200 meters freestyle team to ensure the Americans won their fourth successive title in the event at the world swimming championships on Friday.
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'World Hepatitis Day': Singers Join in Fight Against Soaring Hepatitis Rates

In support of rock legend Gregg Allman and R&B artist Natalie Cole's battle with Hepatitis C, the Allman Brothers Band put on a star-studded benefit show at New York's Beacon Theatre. Roughly 130 million injection drug users worldwide suffer from hepatitis C, according to a study published online by World Health Organization said on Tuesday, "World Hepatitis Day."
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Lochte breaks record, Magnussen ends wait

Ryan Lochte became the first swimmer to break a long course world record since controversial polyurethane swimsuits were banned last year while James Magnussen ended a far longer Australian wait at the world championships Thursday.
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WHO Marks World Hepatitis Day; Says 1.4 Million Suffer From Hepatitis A

The World Health Organization (WHO) released data stating that about 1.4 million people suffer from hepatitis A (HAV) alone. Together, Hepatitis B (HBV) and hepatitis C (HCV) are the leading causes of liver cancer in the world, accounting for 78 percent of cancer related cases. An important aspect of the report states that most people who have contracted the virus are more often than not unaware of the infection.
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Stocks fall, Australia dollar up on debt deadlock

Asian stocks slid more than 1 percent in thin volume on Thursday as investors trimmed positions with just three trading days to go before a deadline to lift the U.S. debt ceiling, while the Australian dollar showed resilience in the face of global sovereign risks.
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Euro dumped vs yen, USD, Swissy and Aussie

The euro struggled to find any friends in Asia on Thursday, on renewed fears of contagion in Europe, while the U.S. dollar remained on the defensive as Washington showed no signs of progress in debt agreement.
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Phelps makes statement one year out from London

Relief was etched all across Michael Phelps' face Wednesday after the American won his first gold medal of the world swimming championships in Shanghai, one year to the day before he begins his final Olympics campaign.
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UK man wins fight to make "Stormtrooper" helmets

A British prop designer who makes replicas of the menacing Stormtrooper helmets featured in Star Wars films won a legal battle Wednesday against director George Lucas, who took him to the High Court in 2008 over copyright infringement.
Kickstart founders Charles Adler, Perry Chen, Yancey Strickler(l to r) are seen in this hondout photo.

Kickstarter making noise with crowd-funding

Perry Chen was working in the New Orleans' music industry when he faced a cash-crunch during the city's JazzFest. He wanted to bring a European musician to perform at the festival but couldn't raise the money. A decade later, other artists are now reaping the benefits of Chen's brainstorm: online fundraising site Kickstarter.
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New Planetary Nebula Discovered [PHOTO]

The soccer-ball shaped puff of interstellar gas was discovered by an amateur astronomer, in what is said to be one of the best looks at a planetary nubula, which are created by the last breaths of a dying star, Wired reported.
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Fund managers line up defensive options

Fund managers are weighing up their defensive investment options as a litany of poor economic indicators from the UK, Europe and the United States hammers home fears another global recession is on its way.
The 6df Galaxy Survey data, each dot is a galaxy and Earth is at the centre of the sphere.

How to Measure Galaxy's Distance From Earth?

The speed and direction of a distant galaxy can be easily measured by analyzing light coming from the galaxy. But to determine the galaxy's distance from Earth was much more difficult.

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