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ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- Archaeologists Thursday pulled from the sea off the coast of Egypt a 9-ton granite pillar they say came from an ancient temple dedicated to the goddess Isis.

DUBLIN, Ireland, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- Global markets in industrial equipment and expertise central to wind power generation are set to expand within the coming 15 years, with demand seen to be growing in both industrial and industrializing countries.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- The world's third-largest wind power company, India's Suzlon Energy, is banking on growth in the U.S. on- and offshore market to come back from a rocky 2009.

BEIJING, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- While the Chinese government is embracing energy efficiency and investing in new green technology, China continues to burn coal at record rates.

COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton instilled the stalled Copenhagen climate negotiations with new hope Thursday when she pledged that Washington would help raise $100 billion a year by 2020 to help poor nations deal with climate change.

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HARARE, Zimbabwe, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- Despite international pressure on President Robert Mugabe's widely reviled regime in Zimbabwe to curb an illegal diamond trade enriching Harare's elite, top security officials are reported to have secretly taken control of the big Marange diamond field.

CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Dec. 17 (UPI) -- A Massachusetts Institute of Technology scientist says new discoveries are moving society toward the era of "personalized solar energy."

KENT, Ohio, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- Ohio and Michigan scientists have claimed the world record for packing the most tetrahedra into a given volume.

HOUSTON, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- NASA says space shuttle Endeavour will begin the last year of shuttle flights by delivering the final U.S. module of the International Space Station.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- NASA says it has reformatted its online program schedule information to improve its readability.

STATE COLLEGE, Pa., Dec. 17 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they've found fruit flies with damaged nerve cells can grow structurally and functionally different components of the same nerve cell.

NEW YORK, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- Conservationists say the world's rarest great ape has finally been captured on professional video on a forested mountain in Cameroon.

PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 17 (UPI) -- A U.S. scientist says she's found appetite and food consumption in the fruit fly are governed by two sets of circadian clocks with opposing effects.

PROVIDENCE, R.I., Dec. 17 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they have, for the first time, tracked how the body's cells move in three dimensions.