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Afghan professors partner with Ball State

Higher education instructors from Afghanistan’s Shaikh Zayed University came to speak Tuesday about the progress their country has made in education as a result of a partnership with U.S. universities, including Ball State.



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Fiery balloon accident kills 19 tourists in Egypt

The terror lasted less than two minutes: Smoke poured from a hot air balloon carrying sightseers on a sunrise flight over the ancient city of Luxor, it burst in a flash of flame and then plummeted about 1,000 feet to earth. A farmer watched helplessly as tourists trying to escape the blazing gondola leaped to their deaths.



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Judge refuses to dismiss charges in WikiLeaks case

A U.S. Army soldier accused of sending hundreds of thousands of pages of classified material to the anti-secrecy website WikiLeaks has not been denied a speedy trial despite his more than two years in confinement, and the charges against him will stand, a military judge ruled Thursday.