Hyukkyu/superglue huggingface dataset:
Premise: Besancon is the capital of France's watch and clock-making industry and of high precision engineering.
Hypothesis: Besancon is the capital of France.
Premise: More than 1000 servicemen died in the battle for the Falklands, most of them Argentine. Argentina still lays claim to the islands, which it calls the Malvinas, and President Carlos Menem regularly vows to recover them by 2000.
Hypothesis: The Argentinian name for the Falklands is Malvinas.
Premise: U.S. forces have disarmed Haitian paramilitaries, removed heavy weapons from the Haitian army, restored electric power to two cities, seized control of the country's radio and television broadcasting facilities, allowed the Haitian Parliament to reopen and restored the mayor of Port-au-Prince to his office -- "in less than three weeks," Clinton noted.
Hypothesis: Port-au-Prince is the capital of Haiti.
Premise: Dividing the Northside of Dublin from the Southside, the Liffey is spanned by road bridges.
Hypothesis: The Liffey flows through Dublin.
Premise: The Buddha was born Siddhartha Gautama, a prince of the Sakya tribe of Nepal, in approximately 566 BC.
Hypothesis: The Buddha is Nepalese.
Premise: Surveying clean streets blessedly free of cars one morning this week, Fulvio Milone, a longtime newspaper correspondent based in Naples, says nobody expects the G-7 overhaul to be the opening salvo in a social revolution.
Hypothesis: The G7 summit was held in Naples.
Premise: The Commission on the Future of the Bretton Woods Institutions, headed by former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul A. Volcker, says in a study coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank that the two institutions need basic changes.
Hypothesis: The WB and the IMF were created at the Bretton Woods conference.
Premise: Sixteen years after the Detroit native began selling pieces of what was once America's biggest black-owned enterprise, Gordy announced a deal Wednesday that gives EMI Music Publishing ownership of Motown's 15,000 compositions.
Hypothesis: EMI acquired Mowtown records.
Premise: The discovery of emissions of radiations from heavier elements like Uranium by Henry Bequerel in 1896, is known as radioactivity.
Hypothesis: Pierre and Marie Curie discovered radioactivity.
Premise: Taslima Nasrin spent two months in hiding in Bangladesh, where Muslim fundamentalists were infuriated by a newspaper article that quoted her as urging a revision of the Koran, the Islamic holy book.
Hypothesis: Muslims follow the Koran.
Premise: In early 1991 a referendum resulted in a large majority favouring secession from the USSR, and on 21 August, two days after a coup attempt against Gorbachev in Moscow, Latvia declared full independence.
Hypothesis: Latvia gained independence in 1991.
Premise: The key to a blue moon is having in the air lots of particles slightly wider than the wavelength of red light (0.7 micron)--and no other sizes present.
Hypothesis: A blue moon is caused by particles in the air.
Premise: In July and October, 1971, Dr. Henry Kissinger, national security advisor to the president of the United States, twice visited China in secret to pave the way for the visit by President Richard Nixon.
Hypothesis: Nixon visited China in 1971.
Premise: Finding Forrester is among 24 films competing for the Berlin Film Festival's top Golden Bear prize for best movie awarded on the closing day, along with the Silver Bear award for best actor.
Hypothesis: Finding Forrester won the Golden Bear in the Berlin Film Festival
Premise: In February 2002, President George Bush visited China to mark the 30th anniversary of Nixon's historic trip.
Hypothesis: Nixon visited China in February 2002.
Premise: The Chernobyl nuclear-power plant is in Ukraine, but the reactor that exploded during the night of April 26, 1986, is only 10 miles from the Belarusian border.
Hypothesis: The Chernobyl disaster took place on the 26th of April, 1986.
Premise: Michael Herman, spokesman for the Euskirchen prosecutor's office, said, "As far as I know, this is the first time anything like this has happened in a German court."
Hypothesis: Euskirchen is in Germany.
Premise: Eleven more moons found orbiting Jupiter.
Hypothesis: Jupiter has Eleven moons.
Premise: After officials repeatedly refused to release thirteen members of the Red Brigades on trial in Turin, Moro was murdered in or near Rome on May 9, 1978.
Hypothesis: Aldo Moro was murdered by the Red Brigade.
Premise: It's a lesson that George Bush learned from his mother, Barbara, a fiercely territorial woman who never forgets a slight, and from his father, former president George H.W. Bush.
Hypothesis: Barbara is the father of George Bush.
Premise: At year-end 1997 the death penalty was authorized by the statutes of 38 States and by Federal statute.
Hypothesis: 38 American states have the daeth penalty.
Premise: Zimmermann's appointment represents a surprising twist in the search to find a successor to Goetz Friedrich, whose 20-year stint at the helm of the Deutsche Oper comes to an end in 2001.
Hypothesis: Goetz Friedrich was the director of the Deutsche Oper.
Premise: EuroDisney is located only 20 miles from Paris and you can get to Fontainebleau in about an hour by train.
Hypothesis: EuroDisney is located in Paris.
Premise: That agreement created the international group opposing the Triple Alliance-France, Great Britain, and Russia had formed the Triple Entente.
Hypothesis: France, Russia and Britain signed the Triple Entente.
Premise: In the 1970s Paisley, sometimes affectionately known as 'Big Ian', established the most successful and longest lasting of his political movements, the Democratic Unionist Party which soon won seats at local council, province, national and European level.
Hypothesis: Ian Paisley is a member of the DUP.
Premise: Under unprecedented public pressure, the museum has drastically altered its original plans for its exhibit marking the 50th anniversary of the Enola Gay's only mission: the dropping of the first atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, on Aug. 6, 1945.
Hypothesis: The first atomic bomb exploded in Hiroshima.
Premise: Microsoft was established in Italy in 1985.
Hypothesis: Microsoft was established in 1985.
Premise: The $100,000 award, to be presented to Taylor in May by the president of Israel, is one of six given annually by the Israel-based Wolf Foundation.
Hypothesis: May is the president of Israel.
Premise: The Eiffel tower is in the Capital of France.
Hypothesis: Eiffel is the capital of France.
Premise: The recognition means that Iraq has abandoned its traditional claim to Kuwait, a claim that Hussein invoked as his excuse for invading the small emirate in 1990 and precipitating the Persian Gulf War that ended with his defeat.
Hypothesis: The Iraqi invasion of Kuwait took place in 1990.
Premise: Look! Turner shouts, pulling back the curtain in his new office to show off his perfect view of the giant red CNN logo that identifies his former headquarters.
Hypothesis: Ted Turner founded the CNN news channel.
Premise: The ceiling now on legal immigration from Cuba is 27,845 a year, but only about 3,000 Cubans a year have been able to meet the stiff U.S. visa requirements.
Hypothesis: 27,845 Cubans are allowed to immigrate to the United States each year.
Premise: The fact that Einstein was invited to be the president of Israel is critical to an accurate understanding of one of the greatest individuals in modern history.
Hypothesis: Einstein is the president of Israel.
Premise: The official state opening on May 6 of the $14.82-billion project will go on as planned, and Eurotunnel said it is working to start up services soon after that deadline.
Hypothesis: The Eurotunnel was inaugurated in May.
Premise: And it's very important, I think Secretary Powell will understand, it's important to hear from President Katsav, to hear how he reads the Israeli public mood with respect to ongoing battles with the Palestinians, or with respect to, for instance, trust with the Palestinian Authority, trust in the possibility of dealing with Yasser Arafat.
Hypothesis: Yasser Arafat is the president of Israel.
Premise: Ms. Nasrin is being hosted by the Swedish branch of PEN, which had invited her to visit last spring, according to the Swedish news agency TT.
Hypothesis: Taslima Nasrin is staying in Sweden.
Premise: The oddest thing about the UAE's population is that only 500,000 of the 2 million people living in the country are UAE citizens; the rest are expatriates from other Gulf countries, and from Pakistan, Iran and India.
Hypothesis: The population of the UAE is 2 million.
Premise: During El Nino (bottom panel of the schematic diagram), the trade winds relax in the central and western Pacific leading to a depression of the thermocline in the eastern Pacific, and an elevation of the thermocline in the west.
Hypothesis: El Nino occurs in the Pacific.
Premise: Although Honecker led the Communist East German state between 1971 and 1989, he will be remembered most for what he did long before -- building the Berlin Wall.
Hypothesis: Erich Honeker built the Berlin Wall.
Premise: Four-fifths of the UAE is desert, yet it is a country of contrasting landscapes, from awe-inspiring dunes to rich oases, precipitous rocky mountains to fertile plains.
Hypothesis: The majority of the UAE is desert.
Premise: In fact, the Smashing Pumpkins -- who were bumped into the headline slot after Nirvana pulled out of the tour shortly before Kurt Cobain's suicide -- have far exceeded expectations.
Hypothesis: Kurt Cobain was the singer and head of Nirvana.
Premise: In 1996, Shaq became a free agent and accepted a $120 million dollar offer from the LA Lakers.
Hypothesis: Shaquille O Neal plays for the Orlando Magic.
Premise: France's Gastronomic Capital is Much, Much More.
Hypothesis: Much is the capital of France.
Premise: Meeting in Moscow with IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei 29 June, Russian President Vladimir Putin lauded the Agency's work in expressing his country's continuing and full support.
Hypothesis: Hans Blix is the Director General of IAEA.
Premise: On December 21, 1970, Elvis Presley paid a visit to President Richard M. Nixon at the White House in Washington, D.C.
Hypothesis: Elvis Presley died on December 21, 1970.
Premise: The technological triumph known as GPS - the Global Positioning System of satellite-based navigation - was incubated in the mind of Ivan Getting.
Hypothesis: Ivan Getting invented the GPS.
Premise: It has access to the Caribbean Sea at the Gulf of Uraba in the northwesternmost part of the department, while in central Antioquia two ranges of the Colombian Andeas meet.
Hypothesis: Antioquia is in Colombia.
Premise: The father of Nick Berg, the American beheaded in Iraq, directly blamed George Bush and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld on Thursday for his son's death.
Hypothesis: Nick Berg is the father of George Bush.
Premise: The Queen of Holland is now owned by Robert Mouawad.
Hypothesis: Robert Mouawad is the Queen of Holland.
Premise: The Cyrillic alphabet achieved its current form in 1708 during the reign of Peter the Great.
Hypothesis: The Cyrillic alphabet was introduced in 863.
Premise: They are made from the dust of four of Jupiter's tiniest moons.
Hypothesis: Jupiter has four moons.
Premise: De La Rue is the world's largest commercial security printer and papermaker, involved in the production of over 150 national currencies and a wide range of security documents such as travellers cheques and vouchers.
Hypothesis: De La Rue makes much of the world's money.
Premise: After an unparalleled succession of tragic operas, Verdi rounded off his operatic career with a comedy.
Hypothesis: Verdi wrote mainly comedies.
Premise: At present the UK's birth rate (England's is not dropping quite so clearly as Scotland's) sits in the middle of the European range -- with Italy, Spain, and Germany with the lowest rates and Ireland's showing the most rapid fall.
Hypothesis: Ireland has the highest European birth rate.
Premise: The regional capital is Clermont Ferrand, and the small city of Le Puy, with its historic churches perched on volcanic pinnacles, is one of the most surprising cities in France.
Hypothesis: Clermont Ferrand is the capital of France.
Premise: The Amish began as a small faith group that split-off from the Swiss Mennonites during the late 17th century.
Hypothesis: The Amish are descendants of the Swiss Anabaptists of 16th-Century Europe.
Premise: This autumn, the people of Ust-Usa watched helplessly as thousands of tons of oil began oozing into the vast watery network that flows from the desecrated oil fields of Usinsk into the Pechora, then 450 miles north through the tundra to the Barents Sea.
Hypothesis: A huge methane deposit has been located in the Barents Sea.
Premise: The official state opening on May 6 of the $14.82-billion project will go on as planned, and Eurotunnel said it is working to start up services soon after that deadline.
Hypothesis: The Eurotunnel cost 10 thousand million pounds.
Premise: The roads and paths, forests and pastures of an estimated 70 countries around the world have been made treacherous by landmines.
Hypothesis: Up to 70 countries are effected by landmines.
Premise: Wasn't it after the women's conference in Nairobi ten years ago that the world focused for the first time on the crisis of domestic violence?
Hypothesis: The World Conference on Women took place in Beijing.
Premise: Since the beginning of this year, pork, the most important meat in the Chinese diet, has jumped to 7.28 yuan (86 cents) a pound, up from 4.55 yuan (54 cents).
Hypothesis: The Chinese currency is called yuan.
Premise: The establishment of full Communist control in Hungary in the summer of 1948 and the blockade of the Western sector of Berlin confirmed Western suspicions and contributed to the formation of NATO.
Hypothesis: Communist control in Hungary ended in 1948.
Premise: On October 6, 1973, Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar, Egypt and Syria opened a coordinated surprise attack against Israel.
Hypothesis: The Yom Kippur war was in 1973.
Premise: The time period in concern is from early 1944 to 1945, and the topic being the Kamikaze pilots, and the region of research was within Japan, mainly Kyushu.
Hypothesis: Japanese suicide pilots are called kamikaze pilots.
Premise: In Hungary the decisive moment, portending the end of the democratic prelude to Communist dictatorship, came in February 1947.
Hypothesis: Communist control in Hungary ended in 1947.
Premise: Los Angeles poet and fiction writer Charles Bukowski, who died of leukemia on March 9 at the age of 73, managed to create a life worthy of his face.
Hypothesis: Charles Bukowski died of pneumonia.
Premise: Saint Laurent struck out on his own in 1961, opening his own fashion house where he created haute couture for socialites and celebrities.
Hypothesis: Yves Saint Laurent is a fashion designer.
Premise: Washington was re-elected president in 1792, and the following year the most divisive crisis arising out of the personal and political conflicts within his cabinet occurred--over the issue of American neutrality during the war between England and France.
Hypothesis: George Washington was the first president of America.
Premise: Although a Roscommon man by birth, born in Rooskey in 1932, Albert "The Slasher" Reynolds will forever be a Longford man by association.
Hypothesis: Albert Reynolds was born in Co. Roscommon.
Premise: Dan Shaughnessy in the Boston Globe on why the defending NBA champion Houston Rockets don't get more respect: "There's year-round heat and humidity, an airport about 100 miles from downtown and the building with the most sports tradition is Elvin Hayes' car dealership."
Hypothesis: The Houston Rockets won the NBA Championships.
Premise: Lennon's introduction from Jurgen's book sums things up reasonably well: "Jurgen Vollmer was the first photographer to capture the beauty and the spirit of the Beatles".
Hypothesis: John Lennon belonged to the Beatles.
Premise: Mrs. Lane, who has been a Director since 1989, is Special Assistant to the Board of Trustees and to the President of Stanford University.
Hypothesis: Mrs. Lane is the president of Stanford University.
Premise: The people who gave Yeltsin a solid majority in his presidential run in 1991 now accord him a 19% approval rating -- his lowest ever -- according to a recent national poll.
Hypothesis: Yeltsin came to power in 1991.
Premise: Released on 11 February 1990, Mandela plunged wholeheartedly into his life's work, striving to attain the goals he and others had set out almost four decades earlier.
Hypothesis: Nelson Mandela served 27 years of imprisonment.
Premise: The Bangladesh Government has banned the latest novel by feminist writer, Taslima Nasreen on the grounds that its contents might hurt the existing social system and religious sentiments of the people.
Hypothesis: Nasreen's novel was banned for religious reasons.
Premise: It is perhaps no surprise, then, that the chasm between east and west Germans is as wide as it was before the heady, history days of November, 1989, when they were no longer divided by cement and electrified wire.
Hypothesis: The reunification of East and West Germany took place in 1989.
Premise: The Venice Film Festival opened Thursday with a dispute over a celebrity judge threatening to steal the limelight from Oliver Stone, whose "Natural Born Killers" is favored to win the Golden Lion Award.
Hypothesis: The "Golden Lion" is awarded at the Venice Film Festival.
Premise: The Hitler Historical Museum is a non-biased, non-profit museum devoted to the study and preservation of the world history related to Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist Party.
Hypothesis: Hitler belonged to the Nazi party.
Premise: Mystified by the sudden disappearance of Commander John Strangways, their agent in Jamaica, the British Secret Service sends for agent Bond.
Hypothesis: James Bond is an agent for the British Secret Service.
Premise: Over the long haul, Washington is waiting for death to come to Kim Il Sung -- the 82-year-old North Korean dictator, known to his countrymen as the Great Leader, who has been the country's unchallenged power since before the 1953 Korean War armistice.
Hypothesis: Kim Il Sung died at the age of 82.
Premise: For German fans, Schumacher is their country's first - and long-overdue - World Champion, following along 33 years after the aristocratic Count Wolfgang von Trips was killed of the wheel of his Ferrari in the Italian Gp just as he seemed poised to grasp the title crown.
Hypothesis: Michael Schumacher is from Germany.
Premise: Lyon acclaims itself to be the gastronomic capital of France.
Hypothesis: Lyon is the capital of France.
Premise: Mahayana Buddhism (sometimes called Northern Buddhism) is largely found in China, Japan, Korea, Tibet and Mongolia.
Hypothesis: Buddhism is practiced in Thailand.
Premise: During his time in office, Albert Reynolds, side by side with then English Prime Minister John Major, brokered the first real hope for peace in the North; something for which all the people on this Island should be eternally grateful to him.
Hypothesis: Albert Reynolds signed a peace agreement with John Major.
Premise: The hostage-takers -- who have identified themselves as members of the Khaled Bin Al-Walid Squadrons, part of the Islamic Army of Iraq -- had issued several deadlines for its demands to be met, only to shift them.
Hypothesis: The Khaled Bin Al-Walid Squadrons are part of the Islamic Army of Iraq.
Premise: AOL has more than 33 million paying customers.
Hypothesis: 33 million customers pay to use AOL.
Premise: Administration officials say President George W. Bush has narrowed his field of candidates for CIA director to at least two people, just two weeks after outgoing director George Tenet announced his departure.
Hypothesis: President Bush announced his departure.
Premise: Israel captured the Gaza Strip and West Bank in the 1967 Mideast war.
Hypothesis: The Gaza Strip and West Bank were captured by Israel in the 1976 war.
Premise: Further surprises were revealed in the spacecraft's photographs of a hazy orange Titan -- the largest of Saturn's 31 moons, about the size of the planet Mercury.
Hypothesis: Titan is about the size of the planet Mars.
Premise: Fighters loyal to Moqtada al-Sadr shot down a U.S. helicopter Thursday in the holy city of Najaf.
Hypothesis: A U.S. helicopter flew loyalists of Moqtada al-Sadr.
Premise: Infertile women are vital for successful child-rearing despite being unable to produce children themselves.
Hypothesis: Infertile women are able to produce children.
Premise: A 30-year-old man has been killed in a shark attack at a surfing beach near Perth in West Australia where he was surfing with four other people.
Hypothesis: One man was killed and four wounded in a shark attack in West Australia.
Premise: The centre-right European People's Party (EPP), the largest group in the European Parliament, has warned that it will reject the Taoiseach, Berni Ahern, if he is nominated as the next president of the European Commission.
Hypothesis: The Taoiseach is the president of The European Commission.
Premise: Four French detainees who were held more than two years by U.S. authorities at Guantanamo Bay returned home Tuesday.
Hypothesis: The U.S. detained four frenchmen for almost three years at Guantanamo Bay.
Premise: The pair had originally planned to leave from the American hatch in Nasa spacesuits.
Hypothesis: The pair left from America.
Premise: The death last year of an 84-year-old man killed while swimming in an Australian canal was one of only four fatal shark attacks around the world in 2003.
Hypothesis: An 84-year-old man was killed by a shark in 2003.
Premise: Cool, humid weather Sunday helped slow the advance of a fire that caused the evacuation of hundreds of homes and businesses in Alaska's Interior.
Hypothesis: Cool, humid weather can slow the advance of fire.
Premise: Twenty-five British police officers are recovering after a day of skirmishes in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Hypothesis: Belfast is in Ireland.
Premise: A suicide car bomber detonated early Wednesday near the Green Zone in central Baghdad, killing 10 Iraqis -- seven civilians and three National Guard members.
Hypothesis: The Green Zone is in central Baghdad.
Premise: The fires also threatened the Mount Graham International Observatory, home of some of the world's most advanced telescopes.
Hypothesis: Some of the world's most advanced telescopes are housed at the Mount Graham International Observatory.
Premise: More than 200 North Koreans flew into South Korea on Wednesday, the second day of a secretive operation that has spirited refugees from the communist North from an unidentified Southeast Asian country.
Hypothesis: North Korean's communist refugees fled to an unidentified Southeast Asian country.
Premise: Vice President Dick Cheney's personal doctor was battling an addiction to prescription drugs four years ago.
Hypothesis: Dick Cheney was addicted to prescription drugs.
Premise: China will start scouring high schools for its potential first woman astronaut next year, following a suggestion from the country's leading women's group.
Hypothesis: China's first female astronaut will take off next year.
Premise: The centuries-old Pamplona fiesta in honor of St. Fermin draws thousands of fans from around the world for a week of frenzied late night drinking and early morning running with the bulls.
Hypothesis: The Pamplona fiesta has been celebrated for centuries.
Premise: Scientists have taken a big step toward developing an earlier, safer and simple test that could help prevent perhaps 175,000 premature births in the United States each year.
Hypothesis: There are about 175,000 premature births in the United States each year.
Premise: Wal-Mart Stores has asked a US federal appeals court to review a judge's order approving class-action status for a sex-discrimination lawsuit.
Hypothesis: Wal-Mart stores are filing a lawsuit against the US federal appeals court.
Premise: Five schoolchildren who were headed to a picnic in a bus were wounded in crossfire between Indian soldiers and suspected rebels who attacked an army convoy on a highway outside Srinagar.
Hypothesis: An army convoy was attacked by rebels on a highway outside of Srinagar.
Premise: U.S. oil prices approached $40 as they rose to a five-week peak on Wednesday.
Hypothesis: Oil prices decreased over the last five weeks.
Premise: Every year, 1.2 million people in America have a new or repeat heart attack.
Hypothesis: 1.2 million Americans die of heart attacks every year.
Premise: The biggest fires on Mount Graham, the lightning-sparked Nuttall and Gibson fires, had joined but were 55 percent contained Sunday, firefighters said.
Hypothesis: The Nuttall and Gibson fires were caused by lightning.
Premise: President Bush returned to the Mountain State to celebrate Independence Day, telling a spirited crowd yesterday that on its 228th birthday the nation is "moving forward with confidence and strength."
Hypothesis: President Bush does not celebrate Independence Day.
Premise: Mr. Conway, Iamgold's chief executive officer, said the vote would be close.
Hypothesis: Iamgold is Conway's chief executive officer.
Premise: Saudi Arabia follows a strict interpretation of Islam under which people convicted of drug trafficking, murder, rape and armed robbery are executed by beheading, which is carried out in public with a sword.
Hypothesis: Murderers are beheaded in Saudi Arabia.
Premise: Whooping cough, or pertussis, is a highly contagious bacterial infection characterized by violent coughing fits, gasps for air that resemble "whoop" sounds, and vomiting.
Hypothesis: Whooping cough is also called pertussis.
Premise: British and Iranian officials resumed discussions Thursday on the release of eight British navy personnel held in Iran earlier this week.
Hypothesis: Eight British navy personnel are being held in Iran.
Premise: Freixo also denied that Silva was the peacemaker, saying negotiations were concluded when Silva was sent in by Rio de Janeiro state Gov. Rosinha Matheus, who also is an Evangelical Christian.
Hypothesis: Rosinha Matheus is an Evangelical Christian.
Premise: The controversy-racked oil giant Shell has named a new head of finance in an effort to calm nervous shareholders.
Hypothesis: Shell is an oil giant.
Premise: Doctors Without Borders has 80 foreign workers and 1,400 local staff members working in 13 provinces in Afghanistan.
Hypothesis: There are 13 provinces in Afghanistan.
Premise: The SPD got just 21.5% of the vote in the European Parliament elections, while the conservative opposition parties polled 44.5%.
Hypothesis: The SPD got less votes than the opposition in the European election.
Premise: A crowd of Catholic hardliners attacked the officers after yesterday's parades by the Orange Order, the major Protestant brotherhood.
Hypothesis: The Orange Order is a major Protestant brotherhood.
Premise: The tests cover seven subject areas and are given annually.
Hypothesis: The tests are given once a year.
Premise: President Bush returned to the Mountain State to celebrate Independence Day, telling a spirited crowd yesterday that on its 228th birthday the nation is "moving forward with confidence and strength."
Hypothesis: The U.S. is 228 years old.
Premise: Chris de Burgh, the Irish songwriter responsible for The Lady in Red, a song that has accompanied an untold number of wedding first dances, yesterday paid almost £30,000 for the creature that exploded from the actor John Hurt in the science-fiction classic Alien.
Hypothesis: Chris de Burgh bought the creature that exploded from the actor John Hurt in the science-fiction classic Alien for nearly £30,000.
Premise: Whooping cough, or pertussis, is a highly contagious bacterial infection characterized by violent coughing fits, gasps for air that resemble "whoop" sounds, and vomiting.
Hypothesis: One of whooping cough's symptoms is vomiting.
Premise: One person was also killed and four wounded when a mortar round hit a hospital.
Hypothesis: A hospital containing four wounded people killed one when a mortar hit.
Premise: However, witnesses said some of the black-clad gunmen who attacked a police station and government buildings in Baquba, 60 km (40 miles) northwest of Baghdad, proclaimed loyalty to Zarqawi and wore yellow headbands linking them to his group.
Hypothesis: Some of the gunmen showed loyalty to Zarqawi's group.
Premise: German Chancellor Schroeder has presided over three years of almost zero growth in the economy and an unemployment rate that has remained stubbornly above four million people.
Hypothesis: In the last three years the German economy has grown considerably.
Premise: A virus similar to that causing breast cancer in mice may play a role in causing breast cancer in women, suggesting that not only cancerogens are responsible for the disease.
Hypothesis: Breast cancer in mice is caused by a virus.
Premise: Tests on animals showed they could get through the stomach wall and the thin membrane surrounding the stomach called the peritoneum to repair the intestines, liver, pancreas, gall bladder and uterus.
Hypothesis: The thin membrane surrounding the stomach is called the peritoneum.
Premise: The strikingly realistic image was etched into the soft limestone roof a Nottinghamshire cave by a paleolithic artist around 13,000 years ago.
Hypothesis: The paleolithic era was around 13,000 years ago.
Premise: The Philippines has begun pulling its troops out of Iraq, a move seemingly being made to satisfy demands by kidnappers of a Filipino hostage.
Hypothesis: Filipino soldiers are leaving Iraq.
Premise: A former petty thief who converted and founded his own church, Silva is a devoted jailhouse preacher who claims to have ended 11 prison rebellions in recent years.
Hypothesis: Silva was once a murderer.
Premise: Television news crews in helicopters recorded the early morning car chase that ended in Compton shortly before 6 a.m. Wednesday when half a dozen LAPD officers chased a black man who ran from a stolen Toyota Camry.
Hypothesis: Television news crews chased LAPD officers who ran from a stolen Toyota Camry.
Premise: Microsoft said later this summer it will upgrade its free Hotmail accounts from 2MB storage to 250MB.
Hypothesis: Later this summer, Microsoft will be charging $250 for its Hotmail accounts.
Premise: Mr. Conway, Iamgold's chief executive officer, said the vote would be close.
Hypothesis: Mr. Conway is Iamgold's chief executive officer.
Premise: An ambulance crew responding to an anonymous call found a 3-week-old baby girl in a rundown house Monday, two days after she was snatched from her mother at a Melbourne shopping mall.
Hypothesis: A baby girl bought an ambulance at a Melbourne shopping mall.
Premise: Most Americans are familiar with the Food Guide Pyramid-- but a lot of people don't understand how to use it.
Hypothesis: Most Americans have not heard of the Food Guide Pyramid.
Premise: The centuries-old Pamplona fiesta in honor of St. Fermin draws thousands of fans from around the world for a week of frenzied late night drinking and early morning running with the bulls.
Hypothesis: St. Fermin draws thousands of fans.
Premise: Since the last AIDS conference in Barcelona in 2002 generated optimism about the availability of new antiretroviral drugs, 6 million people have died of AIDS and 10 million people have become newly infected.
Hypothesis: 10 million people have died of AIDS since 2002.
Premise: Canadian wireless technology licensing company Wi-LAN has begun legal action against Cisco, alleging the networking giant's Linksys and Aironet products are making use of its intellectual property without permission.
Hypothesis: Wi-LAN sues Cisco.
Premise: Every year, 1.2 million people in America have a new or repeat heart attack.
Hypothesis: Every year, 1.2 million Americans have a heart attack.
Premise: The number of sexually transmitted infections 708,083 was 4 percent higher than in 2002, but Britain's Health Protection Agency said the pace of the increase appears to be slowing.
Hypothesis: In 2002 708,083 sexually transmitted infections were reported.
Premise: In further violence, two Iraqis suspected of trying to bomb a pipeline in the country's oil-rich north and a Kirkuk policeman were killed Wednesday.
Hypothesis: The country's oil-rich north and a Kirkuk policeman were killed Wednesday.
Premise: The spacecraft's photographs show a methane cloud "the size of Italy," several crisscrossing linear features, and a huge circular area that could be a crater the size of Western Europe.
Hypothesis: The spacecraft's photographs show a methane cloud the size of Western Europe.
Premise: The new arrivals followed a similar number that reached South Korea on Tuesday, the biggest single batch ever among the thousands that have fled famine and repression in their isolated homeland since the late 1990s.
Hypothesis: Thousands have fled South Korea.
Premise: Continuing its buying spree, IBM said Wednesday that it plans to acquire Alphablox, a Mountain View, Calif.-based analytics software company.
Hypothesis: IBM plans to buy Alphablox.
Premise: Yasir Arafat has agreed to appoint a longtime loyalist as interior minister to take charge of the country's security.
Hypothesis: Yasir Arafat nominated a loyalist as interior minister.
Premise: About 85 percent of Danes belong to the state Evangelical Lutheran Church, though just 5 percent attend church services regularly.
Hypothesis: 85 percent of Danes attend church services regularly.
Premise: The Arab news network says militants killed Army Specialist Keith Maupin of Batavia, Ohio, by shooting him.
Hypothesis: Keith Maupin was murdered.
Premise: Sunday's election results demonstrated just how far the pendulum of public opinion has swung away from faith in Koizumi's promise to bolster the Japanese economy and make the political system more transparent and responsive to the peoples' needs.
Hypothesis: Koizumi promised to bolster the Japanese economy.
Premise: Authorities spent about seven hours at the mosque and two houses, seizing numerous documents, a government official said.
Hypothesis: Two hours were spent at the seven mosques.
Premise: The Supreme Court rules that persons seized as potential terrorists must be allowed to challenge their imprisonment in American courts.
Hypothesis: Potential terrorists are allowed to a trial.
Premise: After giving nearly 5,000 people a second chance at life, doctors are celebrating the 25th anniversary of Britian's first heart transplant which was performed at Cambridgeshire's Papworth Hospital in 1979.
Hypothesis: Nearly 5,000 people have died of heart failure in Britian since 1979.
Premise: Abu Eisa al-Hindi was said to have been involved in a plot to attack Heathrow airport, details of which were allegedly discovered on the computer of Mohammed Naeem Noor Khan, 25, an al-Qa'ida suspect recently arrested in Pakistan.
Hypothesis: Abu Eisa al-Hindi was recently arrested in Pakistan.
Premise: U.S. oil prices approached $40 as they rose to a five-week peak on Wednesday.
Hypothesis: U.S. oil prices increased.
Premise: Dela Cruz was snatched Wednesday.
Hypothesis: Dela Cruz was abducted Wednesday.
Premise: Friday's court ruling in The Hague, rejected by Israel, carries no real significance, other than a symbolic victory for the Palestinians.
Hypothesis: The Hague ruled in favor of the Palestinians on Friday.
Premise: Chris de Burgh, the Irish songwriter responsible for The Lady in Red, a song that has aa an untold number of wedding first dances, yesterday paid almost £30,000 for the creature that exploded from the actor John Hurt in the science-fiction classic Alien.
Hypothesis: An untold number of wedding first dances are accompanied by the creature that exploded from the actor John Hurt in the science-fiction classic Alien.
Premise: Sources at the foreign affairs department in Manila said on Monday that the militants had rejected suggestions of a ransom in exchange for de la Cruz's release.
Hypothesis: Militants agreed to receive a ransom in exchange for de la Cruz's release.
Premise: A 30-year-old man has been killed in a shark attack at a surfing beach near Perth in West Australia where he was surfing with four other people.
Hypothesis: 30 men have been killed by sharks in West Australia.
Premise: A local man was impaled five times in a frenzied dash through Pamplona in the most dramatic of bull runs so far this year.
Hypothesis: A Pamplona local was impaled five times.
Premise: Mr. Conway, Iamgold's chief executive officer, said the vote would be close.
Hypothesis: Mr. Conway said the vote would be close.
Premise: According to the American Diabetes Association, 17 million Americans are living with diabetes, 90 percent with Type Two Diabetes.
Hypothesis: 17 million Americans are living with Type Two Diabetes.
Premise: Sunday's election results demonstrated just how far the pendulum of public opinion has swung away from faith in Koizumi's promise to bolster the Japanese economy and make the political system more transparent and responsive to the peoples' needs.
Hypothesis: The Japanese supported Koizumi in Sunday's elections.
Premise: Another diplomat confirmed the United States was pushing hard for an accord, adding two high-level meetings were scheduled at NATO's Brussels headquarters Wednesday to try to hammer out a deal.
Hypothesis: NATO's Brussels headquarters is trying to dissolve the deal that the United States was pushing for.
Premise: The hostage-takers -- who have identified themselves as members of the Khaled Bin Al-Walid Squadrons, part of the Islamic Army of Iraq -- had issued several deadlines for its demands to be met, only to shift them.
Hypothesis: Members of the Khaled Bin Al-Walid Squadrons took a hostage.
Premise: A Health Ministry official said 68 people were killed and 30 wounded in the blast shortly after 10 a.m. in Baquba, an often violent town 65 km north of Baghdad.
Hypothesis: Baghdad is north of Baquba.
Premise: De la Cruz's family said he had gone to Saudi Arabia a year ago to work as a driver after a long period of unemployment.
Hypothesis: De la Cruz was unemployed.
Premise: The 69-page report is also the first major product of the Betsy Lehman Center for Patient Safety and Medical Error Reduction.
Hypothesis: The 69-page report is the first major product of medical errors.
Premise: Most Americans are familiar with the Food Guide Pyramid-- but a lot of people don't understand how to use it and the government claims that the proof is that two out of three Americans are fat.
Hypothesis: Two out of three Americans are fat.
Premise: A suicide car bomber detonated early Wednesday near the Green Zone in central Baghdad, killing 10 Iraqis -- seven civilians and three National Guard members.
Hypothesis: Seven Iraqi civilians were killed in a suicide bombing on Wednesday.
Premise: Chris de Burgh, the Irish songwriter responsible for The Lady in Red, a song that has accompanied an untold number of wedding first dances, yesterday paid almost £30,000 for the creature that exploded from the actor John Hurt in the science-fiction classic Alien.
Hypothesis: Chris de Burgh wrote the song The Lady in Red.
Premise: Continuing its buying spree, IBM said Wednesday that it plans to acquire Alphablox, a Mountain View, Calif.-based analytics software company.
Hypothesis: IBM is based in Mountain View, California.
Premise: The IBM Software group has acquired 16 companies since 2001, starting with the purchase of Informix.
Hypothesis: IBM bought 16 companies since 2001.
Premise: Chirac also called on rich nations to raise donations to the 2 1/2-year-old U.N. Global Fund -- aimed primarily at fighting AIDS -- by $3 billion per year.
Hypothesis: The U.N. Global Fund uses most of its funds for fighting AIDS.
Premise: Sources at the foreign affairs department in Manila said on Monday that the militants had rejected suggestions of a ransom in exchange for de la Cruz's release.
Hypothesis: Sources at the de la Cruz foreign affairs department refused to release Manila in exchange for a ransom.
Premise: Egypt, which has pressed Arafat to surrender some powers and overhaul the security forces, welcomed Qureia's withdrawal of his resignation.
Hypothesis: Qureia's resignation was welcomed by Egypt.
Premise: Japan's voter turnout was just over 56 percent for the Upper House elections.
Hypothesis: Less than half of the eligible Japanese voters participated in the vote.
Premise: The spacecraft's photographs show a methane cloud "the size of Italy," several crisscrossing linear features, and a huge circular area that could be a crater the size of Western Europe.
Hypothesis: The spacecraft's photographs show a crater "the size of Italy".
Premise: De la Cruz's family said he had gone to Saudi Arabia a year ago to work as a driver after a long period of unemployment.
Hypothesis: De la Cruz went to Saudi Arabia a year ago.
Premise: Further surprises were revealed in the spacecraft's photographs of a hazy orange Titan -- the largest of Saturn's 31 moons, about the size of the planet Mercury.
Hypothesis: Titan is the largest of Saturn's 31 moons.
Premise: North Korean refugees had been gathering in southern Ho Chi Minh City, formerly Saigon, after trickling over the border from China for months.
Hypothesis: Ho Chi Minh City is now called Saigon.
Premise: Political leaders pledged that construction of the so-called Freedom Tower -- which will rise 1,776 feet into the air and be the world's tallest building -- will be finished on schedule by the end of 2008.
Hypothesis: The Freedom Tower will be 1,776 meters tall.
Premise: Since the last AIDS conference in Barcelona in 2002 generated optimism about the availability of new antiretroviral drugs, 6 million people have died of AIDS and 10 million people have become newly infected.
Hypothesis: 6 million people have died of AIDS since 2002.
Premise: A 30-year-old man has been killed in a shark attack at a surfing beach near Perth in West Australia where he was surfing with four other people.
Hypothesis: A 30-year-old man was killed in a shark attack while surfing.
Premise: Whooping cough, or pertussis, is a highly contagious bacterial infection characterized by violent coughing fits, gasps for air that resemble "whoop" sounds, and vomiting.
Hypothesis: Pertussis is not very contagious.
Premise: Iraqi militants have repeatedly used terrorist attacks to try to force governments to withdraw from the U.S.-led occupation force.
Hypothesis: Iraqi militants were forced to withdraw from the U.S.-led occupation force.
Premise: Napster, which started as an unauthorized song-swapping Web site, has transformed into a legal service offering music downloads for a monthly fee.
Hypothesis: Napster illegally offers music downloads.
Premise: Four Venezuelan firefighters who were traveling to a training course in Texas were killed when their sport utility vehicle drifted onto the shoulder of a highway and struck a parked truck.
Hypothesis: Four firefighters were killed while saving a man stuck in a burning building.
Premise: The accord failed to resolve the controversy over Arafat's appointment of his unpopular cousin Moussa Arafat as chief of security in Gaza.
Hypothesis: Moussa Arafat is Yasser Arafat's most popular cousin.
Premise: One of two men "released" early on Saturday Mohammed Dawoud, 19, of Willesden, north-west London will appear before Horseferry Road magistrates' court today charged with possession of forged identity documents, police said.
Hypothesis: Willesden will be released early on Saturday.
Premise: The authentication was arranged by the proprietor of a small Moscow gallery, Borislav Shervinsky, we have established.
Hypothesis: Borislav Shervinsky is the proprietor of a small Moscow gallery.
Premise: Senior citizens played an important role in the dramatic spread of human civilisation some 30,000 years ago
Hypothesis: The dramatic spread of human civilisation some 30,000 years ago played an important role in senior citizens' lives.
Premise: Eight of the 51 Philippine humanitarian troops in Iraq have already left the country, Philippine Foreign Affairs Secretary Delia Albert said early Wednesday.
Hypothesis: Delia Albert is the Philippine Foreign Affairs Secretary.
Premise: U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell replied that the people of Darfur in the remote west of Sudan did not have much time before disease and starvation causes widespread death.
Hypothesis: Darfur is located to the west of Sudan.
Premise: The centre-right European People's Party (EPP), the largest group in the European Parliament, has warned that it will reject the Taoiseach, Berni Ahern, if he is nominated as the next president of the European Commission.
Hypothesis: Berni Ahern is the Taoiseach.
Premise: Ron Gainsford, chief executive of the TSI, said: "It is a major concern to us that parents could be unwittingly exposing their children to the risk of sun damage, thinking they are better protected than they actually are.
Hypothesis: Ron Gainsford is the chief executive of the TSI.
Premise: Chirac also called on rich nations to raise donations to the 2 1/2-year-old U.N. Global Fund -- aimed primarily at fighting AIDS -- by $3 billion per year.
Hypothesis: Chirac believes that rich nations should donate more to the fight against AIDS.
Premise: The ICC, the first permanent global criminal tribunal, was set up in July 2002 to try individuals accused of crimes against humanity -- genocide, war crimes and other human rights abuses.
Hypothesis: The ICC is the first permanent global criminal tribunal.
Premise: Iraq has entered its first full day under the leadership of a newly sovereign interim government, beginning a transformation that its prime minister calls "a major task" likely to take many years.
Hypothesis: Iraq's prime minister believes that the transformation of their government will likely take several years.
Premise: Most Americans are familiar with the Food Guide Pyramid-- but a lot of people don't understand how to use it.
Hypothesis: Americans know how to use the Food Guide Pyramid.
Premise: Further surprises were revealed in the spacecraft's photographs of a hazy orange Titan -- the largest of Saturn's 31 moons, about the size of the planet Mercury.
Hypothesis: Saturn has 31 moons.
Premise: All but 11 of the 107 patients and all of the employees had been notified by late yesterday to come to the hospital for an evaluation and antibiotics.
Hypothesis: 11 patients out of the 107 were invited to the hospital for a check-up and antibiotics.
Premise: The U.S. ambassador to Manila Francis Ricciardone threw his support behind Arroyo in an interview with local television on Monday.
Hypothesis: Arroyo is the U.S. ambassador to Manila.
Premise: About 85 percent of Danes belong to the state Evangelical Lutheran Church, though just 5 percent attend church services regularly.
Hypothesis: Only about 5 percent of Danes belong to the state Evangelical Lutheran Church.
Premise: The suicide bombing came as the Iraqi interim government marked its first month in power since the United States handed over sovereignty on June 28 following the coalition's March 2003 invasion.
Hypothesis: The United States handed over sovereignty to the Iraqi interim government in March 2003.
Premise: Tanning salons are increasingly popular - their use tripled from 1986 to 1996.
Hypothesis: In the 10 years between 1986 and 1996, the use of tanning salons tripled.
Premise: Jessica Litman, a law professor at Michigan's Wayne State University, has specialized in copyright law and Internet law for more than 20 years; she is also the author of Digital Copyright: Protecting Intellectual Property on the Internet
Hypothesis: Michigan's Wayne State University employs Jessica Litman.
Premise: In all, military police have launched 93 investigations into allegations of mistreatment by UK soldiers.
Hypothesis: UK military police have launched 93 investigations.
Premise: Four Venezuelan firefighters who were traveling to a training course in Texas were killed when their sport utility vehicle drifted onto the shoulder of a highway and struck a parked truck.
Hypothesis: Four firefighters were killed in Venezuela.
Premise: The thick atmosphere of Titan makes it difficult for even the largest telescopes on Earth to see anything clearly.
Hypothesis: Telescopes on Earth cannot see Titan clearly.
Premise: Four Venezuelan firefighters who were traveling to a training course in Texas were killed when their sport utility vehicle drifted onto the shoulder of a highway and struck a parked truck.
Hypothesis: Four firefighters were killed in a car accident.
Premise: A longtime associate of al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden surrendered to Saudi Arabian officials.
Hypothesis: Osama bin Laden is the leader of al Qaeda.