Three Chinese items - the Li ethnic group's traditional textile techniques of spinning, dyeing, weaving, and embroidering; the Qiang New Year festival, a traditional annual event of the Qiang ethnic group in China; and traditional design and practices for building Chinese wooden arch bridges - were added to the UNESCO heritage list during the 19th session of the Intergovernmental Committee for ...

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NASA sets June 13 as date for space shuttle Endeavour´s launch . NASA managers completed a review Wednesday of space shuttle Endeavour´s readiness for flight and selected June 13 as the official launch date for the STS-127 mission to the International Space Station, NASA said Wednesday in a press release.

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Afghan gov´t chalks out new security plan for Kandahar. After over a dozen people, mainly civilians and local officials, have lost their lives in series of militants´ attacks over the past couple of weeks in Taliban birthplace Kandahar, south of Afghanistan the government has chalked out a new security plan to ensure security there, Waheed Omar, the chief spokesman of President Hamid Karzai ...

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