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London - The Princess of Wales was not pregnant when she died, a former royal coroner says, apparently ruling out one of the rumours that has swirled around her death in a car crash six years ago. Dr. John Burton, who was the royal coroner at the time, said he was present at a post-mortem examination after her body was returned from Paris, the Times newspaper reported in Wednesday's editions. London - Global warming could doom hundreds of land plants and animals to extinction over the next 50 years by marooning them in harsh, changed surroundings, scientists warn. A sweeping new analysis enlisting scientists from 14 laboratories around the globe found that more than one-third of 1,103 native species they studied could vanish or plunge to near extinction by 2050 as climate change turns plains into deserts or alters forests. Moscow - Eastern Orthodox Christians in Russia celebrated Christmas Wednesday with church services and pop concerts. Russian Orthodox Patriarch Alexy held a Christmas Day service at the Christ the Saviour Cathedral in central Moscow, a symbol of Christianity's resurgence following the collapse of Communism. Christmas falls on Jan. 7 for Orthodox Christians in the Holy Land, Russia and other Eastern Orthodox churches that use the old Julian calendar instead of the 16th-century Gregorian calendar.
