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The giant sable antelope has been rediscovered after 20 years. Scientists had feared that the country’s protracted civil war had driven the creature to extinction. But a recent expedition from the University of Pretoria in South Africa has found a viable breeding population in the Cangandala National Park.

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A public safety commission is to investigate whether the wreck of a US Navy ship used in nuclear tests is emitting radioactivity. The USS Killen was used in tests at Bikini Atoll in the Marshall Islands in the late 1950s, then as a target ship for Navy bombing exercises…

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