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A military helicopter believed to be carrying rescued schoolboys takes off near Tham Luang cave complex in the northern province of Chiang Rai, Thailand, July 8, 2018. Photo by Soe Zeya Tun/Resuters

World Jul 08

4 rescued from Thailand cave as rescue operation underway

By Tassanee Vejpongsa, Kaweewit Kaewjinda, Associated Press

The Great Stalacpipe Organ is located inside the Cathedral Room of Virginia's Luray Caverns. Photo by flickr user Howard Ignatius.

How Mother Nature and a Pentagon mathematician created the world’s largest instrument

Deep inside the Luray Caverns, a song rises above the steady drip-drip-drip of water echoing upon limestone. The Great Stalacpipe Organ, a three-and-a-half-acre percussion instrument, is its source.

By Julia Griffin, Kristin Hugo

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Bin Laden’s Road to Abbottabad: Where Osama Went and When

Osama bin Laden hid for nine years in Pakistan after the Sept. 11 attacks -- from Peshawar to Haripur, where at least two of his children were born in government hospitals, according to new details uncovered in Pakistani interrogations of…

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George Clooney Puts ‘Spotlight’ on Bloodshed, Crisis in Sudan’s Nuba Mountains

George Clooney Puts 'Spotlight' on Bloodshed, Crisis in Sudan's Nuba Mountains…

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George Clooney on Sudan: ‘It Gets in Your Bloodstream’

George Clooney on Sudan: 'It Gets in Your Bloodstream'…

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World Aug 14

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University of Miami pediatrician Judith L. Schaechter, M.D. (L) gives an HPV vaccination to a 13-year-old girl in her office at the Miller School of Medicine on September 21, 2011 in Miami, Florida. The vaccine for human papillomavirus, or HPV, is given to prevent a sexually transmitted infection that can cause cancer. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

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