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Jorge Quiroga, who exit polls showed running second in Bolivia’s presidential race, conceded Sunday, clearing the way for Evo Morales to become the country’s first indigenous leader.

The deep-sea drilling vessel Chikyu made a port call Thursday in Yokohama after ending its first training mission at sea since being built in July at a cost of 500 million dollars.

At least 43 people, mostly women, were killed and more than 50 hurt Sunday in a stampede for food coupons at a flood relief camp in the southern Indian city of Madras, the police said.

A woman who passed a stopped school bus and struck a boy with her car has been ordered to head to jail on every anniversary of the child’s death for the next 10 years.

Researchers at the University of Michigan have produced what is believed to be the first scalable quantum computer chip, which could mean big gains in the worldwide race to develop a quantum computer.

A senior at UMass Dartmouth was visited by federal agents two months ago, after he requested a copy of Mao Tse-Tung‘s tome on Communism called “The Little Red Book.”

A new species of frog has been discovered in India. The amphibian is plump, purple, and its ancestors probably lived among dinosaurs 175 million years ago, according to DNA analyses.

Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon was rushed to Jerusalem’s Hadassah Hospital on Sunday after apparently suffering a mild stroke and briefly losing consciousness, hospital officials and officials in the prime minister’s office said.

Vice President Dick Cheney, taking a look for himself at the country he once predicted would greet Americans as liberators, made a surprise visit to Iraq on Sunday, and proclaimed that last week’s election showed tangible progress toward a stable democracy.