An army dog who died just hours after his handler was killed in Afghanistan is to be honoured with the animal version of the Victoria Cross.Springer spaniel Theo will awarded the Dickin Medal next month.L/Cpl Liam Tasker, 26, from the Royal Army Veterinary Corps, from Kirkcaldy, Fife, was killed in Helmand province on 1 March while on patrol with Theo.His family believe the dog, which died hours later from a seizure,
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Bolivian President Evo Morales has enacted a law aimed at protecting a unique species of dolphins that live in the country's Amazon rivers. The new legislation bans fishing freshwater pink dolphins and declares the species a national treasure. At a ceremony along the shores of the Ibare river, President Morales called on the armed forces to protect the habitats of the pink dolphins The species is threatened by erosion, pollution and logging in the Amazon. The Bolivian pink dolph
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Dark energy camera snaps first images ahead of survey
The highest-resolution camera ever built has begun its quest to pin down the mysterious stuff that makes up nearly three-quarters of our Universe. The Dark Energy Survey's 570-million-pixel camera will scan some 300 million galaxies in the coming five years. The goal is to discover the nature of dark energy, which is theorised to be responsible for the ever-faster expansion of the Universe. <
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Dark energy camera snaps first images ahead of survey
The Dark Energy Survey's 570-million-pixel camera will scan some 300 million galaxies in the coming five years. The goal is to discover the nature of dark energy, which is theorised to be responsible for the ever-faster expansion of the Universe. Its first image, taken 12 September, focussed on the Fornax galaxy cluster. In time, along with its massive haul of individual galaxies, it will st
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The old border badlands of England’s northeast may have been fought over for centuries, by the Scots and the English, not to mention the Vikings and the Romans,-- but today the Northumberland region remains strangely devoid of tourists, as most only flash by on their journey between Scotland and England. Peace now reigns between the two countries – who repeatedly quarrelled over the region until the Act of Union in 1707 – but th
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