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A more than 500-year-old shipwreck off the coast of Sweden isn't a Viking vessel after all, scientists have found.A 15th-century shipwreck off the coast of Sweden may be Scandinavia's oldest shipwreck built in the innovative "carvel" style — a design that gave it the strength to carry heavy cannons, archaeologists say.The wreck at Landfjärden, south of Stockholm, is one of five in the area that have been known since the 1800s. They were commonly thought to have been from ships dating to the Viking Age (A.D. 793 to 1066).But last year, maritime archaeologists at Vrak, the museum of wrecks in...

If you're the president of Ukraine and your fledgling administration is already embroiled in a political crisis, who you gonna call? Bill Clinton. According to Washington Whispers, U.S. New & World Report, only a year after the Orange Revolution catapulted him to power, Viktor Yushchenko is turning to Bubba's old team of spinmeisters and policy wonks. Former press secretary Mike McCurry and ex-Chief of Staff John Podesta will head to Ukraine next week to meet with Yushchenko and dispense a little advice. "It's much ado about nothing," insists Jay Carson, Clinton's spokesman. But to Yushchenko, who amid allegations of corruption...