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ans of Harry Potter will soon be able to experience the world the boy wizard lives in.
Universal Studios says it is opening up a Harry Potter theme park in Florida, complete with the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, the Forbidden Forest and Hogsmeade village.
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First thing’s first: It isn’t blue.
And really, it isn’t all that rare.
But the astronomical event that was the inspiration for the Marcels’ timeless doo-wop hit - and is the namesake of a beer, a bluegrass band and even an alpaca breeding ranch - will appear in North America at 6:04 PDT tonight, after an absence […]

May 30: The hibiscus flowers, the incense sticks, the blood-red vermilion — Gouri Khodal never missed a detail when she offered prayers to Kali.
Early on Monday morning, when she and her family lay in a pool of blood, gasping for the last few breaths, she only had her faith to curse.
In Cachar’s Nunapani village, where […]

New Delhi: First it was unusual sightings in the skyspace of Prime Minister’s 7, RCR residence in Capital, and now “flying objects” spotted in Bangalore - the UFO theory seems to be gaining credence.
IBNLive reader Afzal Khan sent us pictures and a first-hand account:
Today (Monday) at around 9 pm (IST), I and my brothers saw […]

SHELBURNE — It’s been an interesting couple of years at the Loyalist Inn.
Linda and Wendell DesChamp bought the old Shelburne hotel two years ago but didn’t know it was haunted. Nobody told them.
Ms. DesChamp and her daughter Laura have since seen shapes that clearly resembled men standing in various locations in the hotel. But they’ve […]

The world’s leading team of planet-hunters has announced the discovery of 28 new planets outside our solar system. They are among 37 objects outside our solar system found to orbit distant stars. Seven of the objects are confirmed brown dwarfs - failed stars much more massive than the largest planet - and two are borderline […]

A judge in Gwinnett County denied, on Tuesday, a Loganville woman’s request to remove the Harry Potter books from the Gwinnett County Public Schools.
Laura Mallory argued, during the hearing that preceded the ruling, that the books are harmful to children and unconstitutionally promote a religion.
Worse, she said, is that when school children read the books […]

Asheville – It appeared mysteriously over the weekend, intriguing local residents and begging the question: what is it?
The pattern, about 100 feet long and half that wide, looks like two interlocking circles, with small circles inside those. It’s a crop circle, which depending on your point of view, is the work of mischievous pranksters wielding […]

One of Sunni Islam’s most prestigious institutions is to discipline a cleric after he issued a decree allowing women to breastfeed their male colleagues.
Dr Izzat Atiya of Egypt’s al-Azhar University said it offered a way around segregation of the sexes at work.
His fatwa stated the act would make the man symbolically related to the woman […]

Antibodies that could protect against bird flu in humans have been isolated by an international team of scientists.
The discovery could lead to treatments that complement flu vaccines in the event of a human epidemic of the virus.
The H5N1 bird flu virus is estimated to have killed more than 180 people around the world since 2003.
Some […]