Titanic quest to end in death and glory
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A little flying saucer not much bigger than a washing machine will separate from its mother ship early tomorrow morning on the last stage of a long journey to oblivion.
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By Robin Turner  Tombstoning - the craze in which people jump into the sea from rocks or tall buildings - will kill again, coastguards warned last night. Their alert follows the death of a 46-year-old man from South Wales, who died after jumping 30ft into the sea off the South Devon coast.
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HMS Vengeance returns to Faslane submarine base on the river Clyde. Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images.Comment
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Shipwreck being broken up after efforts to refloat it failed.
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Yasser Arafat&#39;s increasingly imminent passing from the scene points to the end of a long and complex era that is best left for historians to assess.
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The Starship Enterprise is in  trouble and, as usual, Capt. James T. Kirk has a plan to save  it.
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Hubble Space Telescope -- An international team of astronomers is announcing today that they have identified the probable surviving companion star to a titanic supernova explosion witnessed in the year 1572 by the great Danish astronomer Tycho Brahe and
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Rip up those obituaries. The club you thought had passed away still has more than enough life left in it. Enough to beat the champions.
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Roald Amundsen reaches Australia with the news that his Norwegians have taken the South Pole. But Robert Falcon Scott does him one better by dying in the attempt, thereby becoming the legend. Compiled by Tony Long.
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New York Post - THINK of Major League    Baseball as the Titanic    after it rammed into the    tip of the iceberg.
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Â· Ex-jockey completes route last tried by Shackleton  Â· 680-mile South Pole expedition took 48 days
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Union Pacific, once the jewel in Rocco DiSpirito's crown, will close at the end of the year.
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Hero splashes love and death in ravishing colors
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A U.S.-Russian crew prepared Saturday to bid goodbye to the International Space Station and hurtle back to Earth inside a Russian Soyuz space capsule, ending a six-month mission in space.
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Science & environment: A perilous three-way hunt is under way as rival eco-warriors pursue a Japanese fleet
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The famous cruise ship leaves Southampton on her final world trip before being turned into a floating hotel off Dubai.
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OSLO -- Nearly 60 years after Thor Heyerdahl sailed his Kon-Tiki balsa raft across the Pacific to prove a theory about ancient mariners, a team that includes his grandson plans to re-create the 101-day epic voyage to Tahiti -- although the craft will have solar panels, a satellite navigation system, and a link to the Internet.