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Coroner: Woman died from poison mushrooms
NEWPORT, England, March 19 (UPI) -- A woman died of eating poisonous mushrooms her niece found growing wild at a botanical garden in southern England, a coroner has found.

Babies may be born to dance
YORK, England, March 19 (UPI) -- The more babies danced to music, the more they smiled, British and Finnish researchers found.

'Atonement' opera in the works
LONDON, March 19 (UPI) -- Author Ian McEwan says an English-language opera based on his novel "Atonement" is to have its premiere at a German opera house in 2013.

Kingfisher sightings down in Britain
LONDON, March 19 (UPI) -- Britain's kingfisher population appears to have been hit hard by the coldest winter since the early 1960s, bird watchers said.

Scientists create tiny invisibility cloak
LONDON, March 19 (UPI) -- Researchers in Britain and Germany say they've created a tiny cloak of invisibility that could someday rival the one worn by fictional wizard Harry Potter.

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