Barack Obama pictures
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Pirates hijack oil supertanker off east Africa
Saudi-owned crude oil supertanker Sirius Star is seen in this undated handout released to Reuters November 17, 2008. The supertanker, hijacked by pirates with a $100 million oil cargo in the largest ever such seizure, has reached the coast of north Somalia, a regional maritime group said on Tuesday.
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Experts: Kangaroos are genetically close to humans
Australia's kangaroos are genetically similar to humans and may have first evolved in China, Australian researchers said yesterday.
Scientists said they had for the first time mapped the genetic code of the Australian marsupials and found much of it was similar to the genome for humans, the government-backed Center of Excellence for Kangaroo Genomics said.
"There are a few differences, we have a few more of this, a few less of that, but they are the same genes and a lot of them are in the same order," center director Jenny Graves told reporters in Melbourne.
"We thought they'd be completely scrambled, but they're not. There is great chunks of the human genome which is sitting right there in the kangaroo genome," Graves said, according to AAP.
Humans and kangaroos last shared an ancestor at least 150 million years ago, the researchers found, while mice and humans diverged from one another only 70 million years ago.
Kangaroos first evolved in China, but migrated across the Americas to Australia and Antarctica, they said.
"Kangaroos are hugely informative about what we were like 150 million years ago," Graves said.
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Endeavour astronauts complete 1st of four spacewalks
Space Shuttle Endeavour Commander Chris Ferguson (C) greets International Space Station Commander Mike Fincke (R) as ISS flight engineer Yury Lonchakov looks on after the opening of the hatches between the two spacecraft in this view from NASA TV November 16, 2008.
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Miss Natalie Glebova - Lamborghini Murcielago
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