Remains of Russian empress sail for St Petersburg
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A ship carrying the remains  of the mother of Russia's last tsar set sail on Saturday from  Denmark for Russia, where they will be laid to rest next to her  late husband in accordance with her wishes.
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By Mike Eckel THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  BAIKONUR, Kazakhstan -- A Russian-built rocket carrying the world's first female space tourist lifted off today on a flight to the international space station.
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The UK's oldest emigrant waves goodbye to his former home as he sets sail for New Zealand - aged 102.
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A Russian cargo ship loaded with supplies and equipment blasted off from the Baikonour cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Wednesday headed for the international space station, a Russian space official said.
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Description: A religious icon missing from Russia for almost a century is returned to Moscow. Our Lady of Kazan represents the Virgin Mary and was at the center of a dispute between the Vatican and the Russian Orthodox Church.
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Â· Remains are believed to be those of tsar's children Â· Discovery in clearing is linked to 1918 shootings
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Prosecutors announced yesterday that they have reopened an investigation into the deaths of the last Russian czar and his family nearly 90 years ago after an archeologist reported that he may have found the missing remains of Nicholas II's son and heir to the throne.
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Spanish sailor Jose Luis Ugarte on Sunday set sail from this southern Spanish city bound for Japan in a replica model of Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan's 16th Century galleon Victoria.
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Russia's second city St Petersburg will bid to host the 2020 Summer Olympics, the city governor said on Friday, a day after Russia's Sochi had won the right to stage the 2014 Winter Games.
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MOSCOW -- The Russian art collection of the late cellist Mstislav Rostropovich and his wife, soprano Galina Vishnevskaya, is going home.
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The ferry Meloodia slices through the gentle swell of the Baltic Sea, a trip far removed from the night of horror a decade ago when its sister ship, the Estonia, sank during a raging storm with the loss of 852 lives.
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An Australian government ship has left on a mission to track Japan's whaling fleet and gather evidence for a potential international court case against Tokyo, an official said Wednesday.
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Parts of a ship thought to have lain in the Thames Estuary for 500 years are recovered intact.
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The remains of the mother of Russia's last tsar are buried in St Petersburg as Russians finally accept her as one of their own.
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The first  containers salvaged from the stricken vessel, the MSC Napoli, are due to arrive at Portland in Dorset.
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A team retracing the route of a group of Victorian Arctic explorers have found parts of their 172-year-old ship.
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The first female space tourist is  enjoying her stay on the International Space Station (ISS) and  is passing her time by taking photos of the view, a German  astronaut told a news conference in a live link-up on Friday.