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AFP - A dozen previously unknown shipwrecks, some of them believed to be up to 1,000 years old, were discovered in the Baltic Sea during a probe of the sea bed to prepare for the installation of a large gas pipeline, the Swedish National Heritage Board said Monday.

The Newsroom - Will the real Rahm Emanuel please stand up? The hard-charging chief of staff for the Obama administration has lately been stirring up new speculation in Washington as the White House enters a critical push to finalize tortuous congressional negotiations on health care legislation. Certainly, Emanuel is accustomed to being the center of controversy-but never has opinion about his role been quite this divided. The reliably vulgar enforcer of internal White House discipline gets kudos from centrist commentators as the administration's  pragmatic voice of reason-backing a modest approach to health care reform and opposing the White House's botched one-year deadline for the closure of Guantanamo. Rahm's foes on the left, meanwhile, contend that he's single-handedly holding Obama back from pursuing the ambitious progressive agenda he laid out during the presidential campaign. The only thing about him that now seems certain is that drama surrounding him has seeped into the sphere of "No Drama" Obama, and the White House appears to be a house divided. Outgoing New York Democratic Rep. Eric Massa, who initially announced he was leaving Congress over health issues but stepped aside officially today as he conceded that he had subjected a male aide to verbal sexual harassment at a wedding reception, also took a shot at the White House enforcer on his way out the door, telling a New York radio station that Emanuel is the "son of the devil's spawn" who would "sell his own mother to get a vote."

Reuters - Restorers using ultra-violet rays have rediscovered rich original details of Giotto's paintings in the Peruzzi Chapel in Florence's Santa Croce church that have been hidden for centuries.