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The BBC is revealing this astonishing research:

Some couples may disagree, but romantic love lasts little more than a year, Italian scientists believe.

The University of Pavia found a brain chemical was likely to be responsible for the first flush

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Three organizations and concerned residents will tomorrow release their audit of air samples taken by the Environmental Protection Agency and the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality. The audit, conducted from information available on the agency web sites, reviews all of the air sampling data available since Hurricane Katrina, particularly those taken with EPA‘s mobile lab, the TAGA truck. Results of particulate monitoring are also reviewed.

Aker Philadelphia Shipyard has begun production on the second of ten vessels in the product tanker build program announced last spring.

Germany’s new foreign minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, is to meet his US counterpart, Condoleezza Rice, in Washington shortly.

Gold rose above $500 an ounce in Asia on Tuesday for the first time since December 1987 as dealers said funds had diversified into precious metals on worries about inflation and geopolitics.

Spain agreed Monday to sell 12 military planes and eight patrol boats to Venezuela in a $2 billion deal that the United States has threatened to block.

The closest statewide election in modern Virginia history headed for a recount Monday after Republican Bob McDonnell was certified as the winner of the attorney general’s race by 323 votes out of more than 1.9 million cast.

Prime Minister Paul Martin announced he would visit Governor General Michaelle Jean on Tuesday to ask her to dissolve Parliament and set an election date.

U.S. Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham, a California Republican, resigned on Monday after pleading guilty to taking $2.4 million in bribes in exchange for help in securing Defense Department contracts.

A basketball-sized piece of marble moulding fell from the facade over the entrance to the Supreme Court, landing on the steps near visitors waiting to enter the building.