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Washington, March 21: Evolutionary biologists at the Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Ecology and Evolution say that they have recovered about 8000 years old DNA sequences from the bones of ancien

Washington, Mar 21 : The US State Department has fired two employees and reprimanded a third for improperly opening electronic information from the passport file of Democratic presidential hopeful Senator Barack Obama.

On three separate occasions in January, February and March, three employees looked through Obama’s file in the department’s consular affairs section, violating the department’s privacy rules, State Department spokesman Sean McCormack, said.

McCormack said the department’s internal controls flagged the breach, which he attributed to “imprudent curiosity.”

State Department officials said that they had no idea why the employees broke into Obama’s files. The department is continuing to investigate, McCormack said.

Washington, March 21: A new study by anthropologists at the Texas A&M University, suggests that first Americans to come to the country 1,000 to 2,000 years earlier than the 13,500 years ago pre

Washington, March 21: NASA's Swift satellite has detected a powerful stellar explosion, which has shattered the record for the most distant object visible to the naked eye and also ranks as the mos

Washington, March 21 Two palaeontologists at the University of California, Riverside (UCR) say that they have discovered that Earth’s ecosystem has been complex at least since around 565 million ye