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• Pirates: Holiday celebrated on hijacked ship
The ITAR-Tass news agency said Kolobkov died of a stroke Sunday, and that the vessel has a crew of two Russians, 17 Ukrainians and one from Latvia. The Russian navy has said it ordered the guided missile frigate Neustrashimy, or Intrepid, to the ...
• Fish fingers: Your digits used to be fins
While the fossil was discovered in the 1990s by chance in a brick quarry in Latvia in northern Europe, scientists only recently analyzed the fins with computed tomography (CT) and found that the right paddle is tipped with four bony extensions. If you ...
• Russian jet crashes 88 on board feared dead
Flight 821 operated by an Aeroflot subsidiary carried 82 passengers and six crew members, Aeroflot said in a statement. Among those killed were citizens from the United States, France, Turkey, Switzerland, Germany, Italy and Latvia, company ...
• Struggles as breadwinners head West - Frontier: Europe- msnbc.com
... workers from former Soviet bloc countries take advantage of the open-bordered EU to search for better-paying jobs and a brighter future. MSNBC.com's Dan Strieff reports from Latvia
• U.S.'s low rank for newborns' survival - Kids and parenting- msnbc.com
America may be the world’s superpower, but its survival rate for newborn babies ranks near the bottom among modern nations, better only than Latvia.