The unique moment was captured by a photographer at the Oltremare Aquarium at Riccione in Italy.Normally after a year-long pregnancy, captive dolphins give birth at night and away from the public gaze.But this Bottlenose dolphin unusually gave birth in broad daylight and close to a viewing window so that photographer had a grandstand view.

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Before Senator John McCain delivers his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention on Thursday, Senator Barack Obama will make a marquee appearance of his own. Call it counter-intuitive. He will appear on “The O’Reilly Factor” on Fox News Channel.

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Following on from the IFPI-inspired Italian blockade of The Pirate Bay, the MPAA
’s President has been in Italy offering ideas on how to deal with the ‘problem’ of unauthorized file-sharing. Not wanting to flirt too much with originality, Robert Pisano is backing a 3 strikes-and-you’re-out policy. Just how far will the Italian government go in its c

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Now, it may be true that the bottom fifth is working fewer hours while the top fifth is working longer hours. The authors of the study in question claim no insight as to why this should be so and note that because the observed shift took place fully two decades ago, it “is not likely related to advances in communications technology…

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