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September 18th, 2009 VIENNA - Archaeologists have unearthed three Roman military camp sites archaeologists in Burgenland, Austria, which they say will rewrite the history of the Romans in the country. According to Weiner Zeitung, Stefan Groh, the leader of the Austrian Archeological Institute (OAI) team that discovered the sites, said that the three camp sites near Strebersdorf in Burgenland's Lutzmannsburg municipality were along the old amber road, the main Roman trading road in the region.

September 15th, 2009 LONDON - In a new research, a scientist has found that prehistoric man navigated his way across England using a crude version of a satellite navigation system, which was based on stone circle markers. According to a report in the Telegraph, the research, by historian and writer Tom Brooks, shows that Britain's Stone Age ancestors were "'sophisticated engineers" and far from a barbaric race.

September 7th, 2009 CHENNAI - Some time between Sep 20 and 25, India will launch a specialised satellite to watch over the Indian Ocean, an official of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said Monday. Oceansat 2 will be launched by the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) into a sun-synchronous orbit 720 km above the earth, the official said on phone from ISRO's launch centre at Sriharikota (Andhra Pradesh), 70 km from here.

July 14th, 2009 Free weekend at national parks, July 18-19WASHINGTON — Another free weekend is coming up at national parks and monuments. The National Park Service is waiving entrance fees July 18-19 as part of an effort to stimulate summer visits to the parks.

July 9th, 2009 LONDON - A new study is going to determine the archaeological sites along the coast of England which are most at risk from the impacts of climate change. The effects of climate change, including rising sea level and coastal erosion, as well as other factors such as coastal development and shoreline management initiatives, constantly threaten archaeological sites along the coast of England.

June 24th, 2009 Web has unofficial "cash for clunkers" sitesWASHINGTON — The government is warning consumers to be wary of unofficial "cash for clunkers" Web sites that seek personal information or direct consumers to pre-register for the program. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says dealers and consumers do not need to pre-register for the program, which provides $3,500 to $4,500 to people who trade in gas-guzzling clunkers for a new vehicle.

June 22nd, 2009 More than 800 gun buyers on terror watch listWASHINGTON — Government investigators say that several hundred background checks for gun purchases over the past five years matched names on the terrorist watch list. And the Government Accountability Office says existing gun laws allowed more than 800 of those purchases to go through.

June 10th, 2009 LONDON - Archaeologists have found a prehistoric complex, including two 6,000-year-old tombs, in Hampshire, just next to Stonehenge. According to a report in The Times, the Neolithic tombs, which until now had gone unnoticed under farmland despite being just 15 miles from Stonehenge, are some of the oldest monuments to have been found in Britain.

June 9th, 2009 LONDON - A prehistoric complex including two 6,000-year-old tombs representing some of the earliest monuments built in Britain has been discovered by a team led by a Kingston University archaeologist. According to a report in Alpha Galileo, Dr Helen Wickstead and her colleagues were stunned and delighted to find the previously undiscovered Neolithic tombs, also known as long barrows at a site at Damerham, Hampshire.

June 2nd, 2009 Senator: Highway fund will go broke in AugustWASHINGTON — The Obama administration is warning that the trust fund that pays for highway construction will go broke in August unless Congress approves an infusion of as much as $7 billion. Sen. Barbara Boxer, the chairman of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, said at a hearing the administration has told senators the Federal Highway Trust Fund will need an estimated $5 billion to $7 billion to keep current construction projects going.

May 12th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Egypt's Culture Minister Farouk Hosni has said that researches conducted via satellites have confirmed the existence of 132 archaeological sites in Egypt that witnessed no excavations until now. Farouk Hosni said that Egypt shows full cooperation with the research teams to explore the archaeological sites, and has recently issued a number of laws seeking to stop the illegal digging in areas likely to contain the buried monuments.

April 30th, 2009 WASHINGTON - If you've ever wanted to watch Oasis' Noel Gallagher singing in the shower, then here's you chance. The singer has been filmed singing in the shower for pal Bono's new (Red)Wire online magazine.

April 28th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes have a unique way of relaxing at home - they watch three films in a row. "We like to watch three movies in a row," People magazine quoted Holmes as saying at the Swarovski and Independent Filmmaker Project's 30th annual gala Sunday night at Cooper Square Hotel.

April 27th, 2009 WASHINGTON - The Group of 20 major economies will have a summit meeting here in September to ensure that efforts to make 2010 a year of recovery from the severe global economic crisis are on track. 'The main key thing is that they are committed to ensuring that 2010 becomes a year of recovery,' Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia who represented India at a meeting of G-20 finance ministers here told reporters Sunday.

April 9th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Researchers from the University of Missouri School of Journalism have found that despite financial troubles and cutbacks, traditional media Web sites are more comprehensive and technologically advanced than citizen media and bloggers. "We found that legacy sites offered almost double the percent of news (89 percent) in comparison with citizen news sites (56 percent) and three times that of blogs (27 percent)," said Margaret Duffy, faculty chair in strategic communication in the Journalism School.