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Animal Attraction

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Dubai hotel accused of catching shark to lure in visitors

One of Dubai’s newest and largest hotel resorts is under pressure to release a shark from its aquarium (pictured.)

The Atlantis Hotel, situated on the famous Palm Jumeirah Island, was billed to be one of the best resorts in the area but it has already faced major setbacks.

3,2, Chandrayaan-1

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India recently launched its first unmanned mission to the Moon in a bid to close the gap with rival China.

The spacecraft, called Chandrayaan-1 was built by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) and blasted off without fault from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre on Sriharikota island in the south-eastern state of Andhra Pradesh.

Students lose out on college places because of Facebook

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American college applicants are suffering from the increased threat that what they post on social-networking sites, such as Facebook, could count against them when applying to colleges.

A survey of the top 500 US colleges revealed that ten per cent of admissions tutors view applicants’ online profiles as a way of evaluating them.