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 A helicopter that crashed and killed a pilot and a photographer was under investigation by federal transportation officials. They were expected to arrive to Montgomery County today to check the causes because of which the helicopter crashed and killed the pilot and the photographer who were in a mission for Huston TV station KTRK...
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 The only OPEC member from the Southeast Asia, Indonesia, will likely pull out of the group, the Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources announced on Wednesday.Purnomo Yusgiantoro told the mass media in a press conference that aging fields and the declining production forced the country, which has the biggest economy in the region, to...
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 The predawn earthquake that occurred on Friday, centered in southern Illinois, has reminded people that the Midwest region is threatened as much as other earthquake prone areas of the country.The 5.2 magnitude earthquake, which had hit at 4:36 am, was felt on an area of about 120.000 square miles from Nebraska to Atlanta, but its center...
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 Two women and a man stole a $1,500 Pomeranian Puppy from a Naperville pet shop, the
place where they worked.
Police said the thieves – Anais Marquez and Karlie Pellock, both
19 and of Plainfield – planned to steal the
puppy with Emanuel Lopez, 19, of Plainfield.
Naperville Police said Emanuel Lopez had hidden the...
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Miracles happen under the big city, too.
A kitten that has been lost for 25 days was finally found
safe and sound (more or less). The cat,
whose name is Georgia,
escaped from her carrier and ran off the subway platform and has wandered
through the New York
underground subway for almost four weeks.
Georgia and her owner...
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The Screen Actors Guild’s leaders have voted on Sunday for the hiring of a federal mediator for stalled contract talks with studios and they also agreed to ask members if they want to authorize a strike. The new inside law “authorizes a referendum and accompanying educational information be sent to the members requesting their...
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 The search to find the successor of Miss USA 2007 Rachel Smith ended. Crystle Stewart, 26, of Missouri City, Texas has been crowned Miss USA beating all the other 50 beauty queens, the Associated Press reports.
Crystle Stewart will represent the country in the Miss Universe contest later this year and she will work with official...
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 Setting: The lawns of the United Nations in New York. Time:
Wednesday night, just after celebrities were wiping their eyes after the
cancellation of the Vanity Fair Oscar Party. Host: Madonna. Sponsor: Gucci. Goal:
Raising money for children in Malawi.
Story: In order to raise funds for UNICEF and her own
charity organization,...
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 In the longest ever Olympic torch trip, aimed to reflect China’s economic and political power, the flame arrived in San Francisco, its only stop in North America, on Tuesday morning and was treated like a head of state.The torch was accommodated in a hotel downtown as it waits to begin its march through San Francisco. The route of the...
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 The Olympic flame left Beijing on Tuesday to begin its month long world tour that is expected to calm down protesters in Tibet against the communist rule of China.The torch arrived in China on Monday, coming from Greece, where it was lit on the ancient Olympia, the site were the first Olympic flame was lit, and was greeted with an...
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 Extreme skiing star Billy Poole died on Tuesday at the age of 28 during the making of the Warren Miller ski film in Utah, the media reported on Wednesday.Poole suffered an accident while performing a ski jump from the cliff called the Wolverine Cirque, but he failed to land. The injuries that occurred when he hit the rocks in the back...
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 Baseball superstar Barry Bonds, the all-time Major League home-run
king, pleaded not guilty to five counts of lying under oath about
alleged steroid use.
Bonds, 43, entered the plea in his first appearance in a federal
court in San Francisco since he was indicted last month on the perjury
charges.
Federal prosecutors allege...
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 “Mad Men” reached the end of its second season, but producers say they will take a break for the moment. The men of Sterling Cooper, who are in between the threat of nuclear annihilation and social insurrection, will slow down a bit with their happenings. It seems that “Meditations in an Emergency” by Frank O’Hara has been a real source...
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 August, May and June are three beekeeper sisters who live in the small South Carolina town. August makes such a sweet honey that she manages to gather people from all around to stock it. Well, “The Secret Life of Bees” sounds like a fairytale and it might be. Good things and bad things mix together to create a sweet and delicate movie,...
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 It’s really common for singers to try their luck in the
movie business, lately. So it would be hard for directors to find refusals from
the singing area. However, for director Wong Kar-Wai it was rather difficult to
have singer Norah Jones in his new movie, "My Blueberry Nights." It took him at
least one month to get a...
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 No Country for Old Men was in the spotlight during the 80th Academy Awards ceremony which took place in Los Angeles on Sunday night, as it gathered four Oscars, and all of them big ones: best picture, best adapted screenplay, best director and best supporting actor.The adaptation of Cormac McCarthy’s novel, directed by already famous...
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 The trailer for the highly anticipated movie Indiana Jones
and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull was released on ABC’s “Good Morning
America,” on Thursday, before appearing online. The Indiana Jones fans were
thrilled and declared they were eager to see the movie, which features actors
Harrison Ford, Cate Blanchett and Shia...
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 For Dorothy from “The Wonderful Wizard Of Oz” the experience
was rough, rather than resembling a fairytale. But the 2007 rendition of Frank
Baum’s story, “Tin Man” makes the original a féerie, a
colorful, vivid tale of good winning over the evil.
Forget about the red, miraculous shoes
Dorothy wore, what the “Tin Man” characters...
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 The “Grey’s Anatomy” star, Ellen Pompeo, tied the knot on Friday, one day before her 38 years old anniversary, having Mayor Bloomberg as witness at the City Hall, according to her publicist and the mayor’s office. Bloomberg shares the same roots with Pompeo, both of them growing up in the Boston area.She is the third person that got...
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 The privately held Vontu will be purchased by Symantec Corporation, the maker of Norton security software, according to a statement made on Monday. The company declared that it would pay up to 350 million dollars for Vontu, which makes data leak prevention software. The deal is expected to be closed by the end of this year’s fourth...
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 The well known tennis champion Martina Hingis, who has won five Grand Slams, announced her retiring in the same time as she was found positive for cocaine in a drug test occurred at this year’s Wimbledon.In a press conference, the 27 Swiss athlete has denied the accusations, saying that while A and B urine test turned out positive for...
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Manila - Twenty people were arrested Thursday in anti-drug operations in a town and a city outside the Philippine capital, a regional police chief said.
Twelve suspected drug dealers and users were arrested in separate raids in the resort town of Pagsanjan in Laguna province, 40 kilometres south of Manila, Chief Superintendent...
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Kabul - Seven suspected militants were killed in clashes with US-led troops in eastern and southern Afghanistan, while NATO forces shot to death an Afghan civilian after suspecting him to be a suicide bomber, officials said Friday.
The US military troops killed one suspected militant and detained nine others in a operation in...
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Mountain gorillas living in a Congolese national park controlled by rebels battling the government are doing well despite the conflict, the director of the park said Tuesday after rangers gained access for the first time in 15 months.
Rangers have not been able to access the gorillas in the Virunga National Park, eastern Democratic...
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Around 30,000 people fleeing battles between United Nations-backed Congolese troops and Tutsi rebels are pouring into refugee camps near the eastern city of Goma, the UN refugee agency UNHCR said Wednesday as fierce fighting continued.
UN helicopter gunships and armoured vehicles have been supporting Congolese troops north of Goma,...
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The Clinton County Sheriff’s Department issued an Amber Alert for two youngsters who went missing.14-year-old Christina Alley from Lathrop disappeared Friday, October 17th at approx 2:30 p.m. She was last seen while attending a high school football game in Lathrop, Missouri, said Maj. John Farmer, the chief deputy for the Sheriff’s...
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A Carnation couple was arrested and faces criminal charges for what investigators consider one of the worst cases of child abuse they have ever seen.The 44-year-old mother and 43-year-old father were detained on suspicion of first-degree criminal mistreatment of their daughter, aged 14. The pair was kept in custody for only one day. On...
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Serbia and the Italian carmaker Fiat on Monday signed a joint-venture deal expected to bring almost 1 billion euros (1.3 billion dollars) in investment and revive the moribund Serbian car industry.
"This is a big day for Serbia," President Boris Tadic said after the contract was signed.
Fiat would pour 700 million euros...
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A suicide bomber killed two Afghan intelligence agents and three civilians in eastern Afghanistan, while more than 15 Taliban militants were killed by Afghan police and a NATO airstrike in the southern region, official said Friday.
The bomber detonated his explosive-packed vest in the main market in Zazi Maidan district of...
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Ten people were killed in two consecutive blasts that rocked Baghdad's downtown area of al-Karada on Monday, according to local police reports.
The blasts took place when two car bombs were detonated near the family law court in al-Karada. 30 people were injured in the attack.
Meanwhile, satellite TV station al-Arabiya reported...
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Thailand's Foreign Ministry issued a statement Friday that talks between Bangkok and Phnom Penh over disputed border areas were postponed by mutual agreement for internal procedures and not because of political tension in Thailand, as some media reported.
The "meeting has been postponed, not because of Thailand's domestic...
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Five people, including an army officer, were killed Wednesday in India's Jammu and Kashmir state by suspected Islamic militants who had infiltrated across the border from Pakistan, police said.
Security forces had killed one of the militants who were holed up in a house in a residential area on the outskirts of Jammu city, the...
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Three people were killed and 70 injured when crowds led by Muslim separatist activists defied a curfew and clashed with security forces in India-administered Kashmir on Monday, officials said.
Police earlier arrested three prominent separatist leaders, Syed Ali Shah Geelani, Mirwaiz Umer Farooq and Yasin Malik, to foil a major...
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Twelve people died from their injuries Friday, the day after twin suicide bombings at Pakistan's largest arms and ammunition factory, hospital authorities said, as investigators interrogated at least a dozen suspects.
The latest casualties raised the death toll to 78 in the two synchronised attacks at the gates of the Pakistan...
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Russia's army on Wednesday continued its occupation of two enclaves in Georgia as Kremlin officials claimed they would accelerate what they said was an already in-progress withdrawal.
President Dmitry Medvedev promised his French counterpart Nicolas Sarkozy that all but a 500-strong contingent of peace keepers would leave Georgian...
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Bayern Munich expect new coach Juergen Klinsmann to deliver a 22nd German league title when the Bundesliga season begins for the league and cup winners at home to SV Hamburg on Friday.
Bayern start the Bundesliga's 46th season as clear favourites but the change of coach from the experienced Ottmar Hitzfeld to 44-year-old Klinsmann,...
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Nearly 50% of the world's primates are in danger of extinction as a result of human activity, reveals a report carried out by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).The burning and clearing of tropical forests for farmland, as well as the hunting of monkeys and apes for their meat, were the two greatest threats leading...
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Seven civilians were killed Thursday in fresh
clashes between government forces and Taliban fighters in Pakistan's
troubled Swat valley, media reports said. One mortar round
missed its target in the Deolai area of Swat and hit a house, killing
seven members of the same family, including five children. The house
was completely...
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 Tropical storm Dolly, which strengthened into a Category 2 hurricane, hit the southern tip of Texas yesterday, shaking houses with violent winds and generating tornado warnings, as well as increasing fears of considerable flooding. Dolly, the first Atlantic hurricane to hammer the U.S. in 2008, reached the land at South Padre Island, in...
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 U.S.
and Afghan troops have left an isolated village in eastern Afghanistan where militants murdered nine U.S. soldiers
and injured a dozen more on Sunday, officials said on Wednesday.
According to BBC, a statement informed that the base had
been provisional and that customary patrols in the region would be upheld.
However, local...
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 The governor of Istanbul
announced on Wednesday that three policemen and three gunmen had been killed
in a shootout near the United States Consulate in the Turkish city.
The identity of the attackers remains unknown, but they are
said to have commenced the gunfire at police standing outside the main entrance
at about 11.00 a.m....
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At least 15 people were killed Sunday,
including two children, and 22 injured, one of them a Kurdish
politician, in separate attacks in Iraq, security sources said.
In north-east Baghdad, a car bomb rocked the Shiite Shaab district, killing six people and injuring 14, police said.
The explosion, in front of the mortuary of the...
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 The rock band Bon Jovi has decided to give a free concert on July 12, in the honor of Major League Baseball’s 79th All-Star Game. The big show will begin at 8 p.m. and more than 60,000 fans are expected to come and see it.
Even if the show is announced to have a free entry, the fans will need a ticket for admission. This ticket...
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Pakistani paramilitary troops
threatened the city of Peshawar
and a close tribal area known as the Khyber Agency. The operation started
Friday, when hundreds of troops, soldiers and police crowded the capital of North-West
Frontier Province.
A day later, 400 supplementary
paramilitary troops came in Bara, the most important city...
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 The number of victims in north Lebanon has reached eight, after
another person has been killed in the brutal sectarian battles, according to
security sources.
The clashes erupted on Sunday in the port city of Tripoli and, up to this
moment, over 50 people were injured and other 8 were killed. The conflict in
Bab al-Tebbaneh and...
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 Canadian Foreign Minister Maxime Bernier, who left
classified papers in an insecure area, has resigned, according to a statement
made Monday by Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
Harper did not reveal what the documents were about or where they were left. But
a government source disclosed last night that they were NATO summit...
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 After in London police battled to keep pro-Tibet
demonstrators away from the Olympic flame and more that 20 men had been
arrested, and in Paris the final leg of the 27-kilometre tour from the capital
had to be cancelled because of the protests, Chinese authorities are also
expecting to see protests during the Tibetan stage of the...
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 In order to preserve Tibetan culture, the only thing that China has to do
is to apply existing laws on cultural autonomy. Formally, China’s
constitution guarantees minorities the freedom of thought, expression, assembly
and religion. All 55 of China’s
minoriy groups should have the same rights. Even though more than 150...
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 Two Sri Lankan police were killed in a claymore mine
explosion while escorting a Japanese official on a visit in eastern Sri Lanka, a
region recaptured from Tamil rebels. It had been under the control of
separatist rebels for more that 25 years. The Japanese aid convoy was visiting
an agricultural irrigation project in Vavunathivu...
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 U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will attend a meeting with top Israeli officials on Wednesday as a last stop in her Middle East tour. The main issue to be debated at the scheduled meeting will be the Israel-Gaza peace efforts. However, the meeting has been somewhat overshadowed by the latest Israeli raids in the Gaza Strip in...
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 A powerful earthquake was registered in west Indonesia’s Sumatra Island
on Monday. Even though no great damages were discovered, the government
issued a tsunami warning. However, the warning was lifted just 45 minutes
later.
Hassanudin, a police officer in Bengkulu town, told Reuters
that “There are no reports of damages or...
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 A Pakistani military bus
transporting medical corps staff to work in the city of Rawalpindi was attacked by a suicide bomber Monday,
at 7.30 AM, outside the gate of the army's National Logistics Cell on a road
connecting the Royal Artillery Bazar to the General Headquarters in the nearby
garrison city.
Some media reports said...
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A shadow of doubt has been thrown over the government’s
claim to have swiftly contained the first outbreak of foot and mouth disease,
after a new outbreak seems to share the same origin.
Scientists believe a second report of the virus a month after foot and mouth
was first confirmed was part of the same outbreak, suggesting the...
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 Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto on Saturday visited her
ancestral village and offered prayers at her family's mausoleum in a visit
greeted by thousands of supporters.
This is the first public trip made by the former premier in Pakistan
since her homecoming procession was marred by the deadly suicide blast...
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 A rather large steel bucket gave pedestrians quite a scare
as it fell to the ground 53 stories below. The steel bucket toppled from the
roof of a skyscraper under construction in Midtown yesterday afternoon, banging
along the side of the building and trailing a shower of glass and metal. Eight
people were injured, the Fire Department...
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 According to new satellite images, the once treacherous Northwest
Passage in the Arctic Ocean, impracticable
by even the largest ships and ice breakers, has shrunk to the lowest level on
record, making the ice so thin that it may yet become a navigable shipping
channel.
The European Space Agency (ESA) has been tracking various...
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 At least 14 people were killed and more than nine were
wounded when US strike
forces raided the west of the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.
The attack took place over night; several houses were
destroyed in the attack, which took place at about 03:00 (23:00 GMT) in the
Washash neighborhood of the city's Mansour district.
The...
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 Central America and the Caribbean
have been under a meteorological threat since Sunday as Hurricane Felix is
quickly picking up the pace and turning into an unstoppable destructive force.
It has already reached category five which in plain talk means the most
powerful category of storm.
The whole process was also drastically...
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 Having at their disposal fruits and vegetables that would
feed them until the end of the week and tents to “accommodate” them,
environmentalists officially opened the
“Camp for Climate Action” today near the Heathrow Airport in London.
Protesters have been gathering since Sunday, pitching tents, installing
solar panels and...
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 Four Palestinians were killed and another twelve were
injured in a clash with the Israeli ground forces while the latter were in a
raid on the Gaza Strip, region controlled by Hamas. One Hamas militant and one
40-year-old bystander were shot during the raid, nearby the Qarara and Abassan
villages, according to hospital...
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Sydney - Major fires were burning Friday across the southern Australian state of Victoria as more than 3,000 firefighters tried to hold containment lines with high temperatures and strong winds intensifying the bushfire danger.
More than 200 schools, childcare centres, and many national parks and tourist attractions in...
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An Afghan district governor along with his two bodyguards were killed mistakenly by NATO-led Australian troops in southern Afghanistan while five police officers and three Taliban militants were killed in a clash and a roadside bombing, officials said Thursday.
Rozi Khan Barekzai, governor of the Chora district in Uruzgan province,...
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 Representatives of an animal protective
group demanded the Australian military to stop the killing of 400 kangaroos in
the capital Canberra.
Wildlife Protection Association of Australia president, Pat O'Brien,
said Tuesday he and other protesters planned to intervene if the killing
continued. The Defense Department says 400 eastern...
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 New Zealand and Australia announced Wednesday they will lead a formal
diplomatic protest against Japan's move to catch more than 1,000 whales
in the Antarctic over the southern hemisphere summer.
At the same time, the Greenpeace environmental organization's
protest ship Esperanza left Auckland in a bid to stop four Japanese
boats...
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 A great white shark attacked an Australian woman at a
popular tourist beach while she was riding her surf ski on Monday. The woman
fell into the water and fought off the shark.The victim, Linda Whitehurst told local television she
suffered only small lacerations on her right arm in the fight with the
2.5-meter (eight-foot) shark,...
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 According to a report released Monday by Mayor Adrian Fenty, around 3,000 people in every 100,000 Washington, D.C., residents are HIV-positive. The D.C. department of health's HIV/AIDS administration director Shannon Hader told The Washington Post that these levels are the highest in the nation, and higher than parts of West Africa,...
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A new study suggests that men ages 55 and
older should talk to their physicians about taking a drug commonly prescribed
to treat baldness called finasteride (marketed as Proscar) in order to prevent prostate
cancer. The recommendation released by the American Society of Clinical
Oncology and the American Urological Association...
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 According to a new study carried out by
researchers at the University of Michigan School of Public Health, stroke risk
may be directly interrelated with the concentration of fast food restaurants in
a particular area.
The analysis showed that areas with the
highest number of restaurants were associated with a 13% elevated risk...
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 According to recent reports, 17 U.S. states
have flu activity, 28 of them have moderate activity, while five have low
activity.
In November 2008, Google released a new
program called Flu Trends, which uses data from search-engine queries to
estimate flu activity in certain areas faster than traditional systems
currently in use....
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A 73-year-old Essex County man who died after being bitten several times by mosquitoes was diagnosed with Eastern equine encephalitis. According to Massachusetts health officials, the man was William Walsh, of Newburyport. His death, which took place on Sept. 21, is the first human victim of mosquito-borne Eastern equine encephalitis in...
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 According to a new study published in the journal Human Reproduction, depressed future moms are twice more likely than pregnant women who don’t suffer from depression to deliver preemies.In the study, researchers followed 791 San Francisco-area women during their pregnancy. The two fifths of participants who were suffering from serious...
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A coalition of human-rights and AIDS activists on Monday demanded the release of two AIDS experts detained in Iran.
The men, brothers Arash and Kamiar Alaei, were detained by Iranian
security forces in late June, without being charged. Their whereabouts
remain unknown, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on the sidelines of the
XVII...
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As the tick population spread north and west of its
traditional Hudson Valley
hub, the state Health Department expanded its testing of them to all counties
in New York.
To the moment, the Health Department has collected specimens
from 12 counties throughout the Hudson
Valley and Capital District area
and investigated them for...
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 A suspicious substance reported at a Las Vegas hotel and
casino on Tuesday was discovered to be harmless, authorities said.
A hazardous materials team was sent to the Excalibur Hotel
and casino, after a man reported finding a white powder on his bed, Las Vegas
Metropolitan Police spokesman Bill Cassell said, according to...
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 An anthrax scare, which eventually proved to be a hoax,
closed the Linn County Courthouse on Monday.Early in the morning, a janitor found threats written on the
outside door, warning there were some envelopes containing anthrax inside the
courthouse and in the nearby area. Local media sources informed that the note
said there were 10...
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 Argentinians who want to travel in the north of the country
were getting vaccinated on Tuesday, because of an epidemic of yellow fever that
broke out in the region and already killed at least 21 people.
Public health officials recommend vaccination, 10 days
before departure, to anyone who plans traveling in area where yellow...
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 According to Snohomish County sheriff's deputies, an
18-year-old Lynnwood-area man was stabbed to death Thursday night by a man who
said he was defending his friend.
The 20-year-old suspect has been arrested and booked into
the county jail for investigation of second-degree murder. This man's
14-year-old friend, who was allegedly...
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 According to a recent press release, doctors in southern
India completed a exhausting 24-hour operation Wednesday on a girl born with
four arms and four legs that surgeons said will give the 2-year-old a chance at
a normal life.
The surgery went "wonderfully well,'' said Dr. Sharan
Patil, who led a team of more than 30...
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 As the start of a a two-day strike due to hit in the next couple of
days, thousands of registered nurses walked off their jobs at 7 a.m. at 15
Northern California hospitals.
Union officials said as many as 5,000 nurses were expected
to participate in the strike, which is directed at Bay Area hospitals
affiliated with the Sutter...
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 A new study shows that long-term exposure to concentrated smog significantly raises the risk of dying from lung disease. According to researchers from the University of California at Berkeley, every 10 parts per billion increase in ozone levels amounted to a four percent increase in risk of death from respiratory conditions like...
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A survey made by the Gallup Organization, Healthways Inc., a
Tennessee-based disease-management company, and America’s Health Insurance
Plans places people in Utah at the highest levels of well-being, while West
Virginia had the lowest score on this chapter.
The survey was named “The Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index,”
and...
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 Doctors from Bay Area have announced that a new low-cost test will be available for the patients who have problems with their hearts. The test will be part of a regular medical exam that will also include with blood pressure and cholesterol screenings. A recent study presented at the meeting of the American Heart Association in New...
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 Prostate cancer has always been a common cancer for men, but second in skin cancer caused both to women and men. Nearly 186,000 men in the U.S. will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in 2008, according to the American Cancer Society. This type of cancer takes the fault for almost 9% of the cancer-related deaths in men.AMC also said that...
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The cervical cancer is the malignant cancer of the cervix uteri or the cervical area and it may induce vaginal bleeding. Still, some symptoms can be discovered only after the disease reaches advanced stages. Surgery, chemotherapy or radiotherapy may help in the early stages of the cancer.Also treatments can help and the Pap smear...
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Diabetes sufferers could do something as not to give up the food and sweets they used to enjoy before. Diabetics who lost weight in the 18 months since they were diagnosed with type 2 diabetes got benefits even if they regained the lost weight.American Diabetes Association made some recommendations for the newly diagnosed diabetics as...
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A cholera outbreak in a
remote southern Philippine town has killed at least 20 people in the
past week, health officials said Wednesday. The Health
Department said at least 127 people have also fallen ill in four
villages in Palimbang town in Sultan Kudarat province, 1,005 kilometres
south of Manila. Eric Tayag, chief...
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Hailed for keeping people
slim, healthy and living longer, the Mediterranean diet has followers
all over the world - but is increasingly disregarded around the
Mediterranean, a United Nations expert said Tuesday.
According to Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Senior Economist
Josef Schmidhuber, over the past 45 years the...
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 The majority of the people in the United States infected with HIV live in the South, shows a report released Monday.The nonprofit Southern AIDS coalition, a group of HIV/AIDS advocates trying to augment funding for prevention and treatment options, assigns the South's uneven impact of HIV/AIDS cases to increasing infection rates together...
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 In a dieting experiment, overweight people lost about 6 to 10 pounds over two years, informs the New York Times.The study was published yesterday in The New England Journal of Medicine and its target was to establish which of three types of diet plans is better. But the findings outlined how difficult losing weight is and that the...
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Radio frequency identification devices (RFIDs) are meant to
identify patients and track medical equipment. According to NHS computer
specialists, they have benefic effects on patients.
RFID implement in the healthcare area, presumptive
applications including marking drug blister packs to prevent counterfeiting and
monitoring...
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 The world’s largest catholic country’s Federal
Supreme Court ruled to uphold a 2005 law which allows embryonic stem cells research.
The 11 justices had divided opinions on the
issue. Six voted to uphold the law, while the remaining five, although
admitting the law is constitutional, said research should only be carried out...
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Exposure to lead in childhood is linked to a volume loss of
specific parts of the brain in adulthood, shows a study in this week's PLoS
Medicine. A team of researchers at the University
of Cincinnati studied the influence
exposure to lead in the uterus and during early childhood has on brain volume
in adulthood. It was proven that...
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 A connection has been found between limbs’ length and the risk for developing dementia, as noted in a study published in the May 6 edition of the journal Neurology, the medical publication of the American Academy of Neurology.
It is considered that men and women with shorter limbs are predisposed to dementia diseases. This...
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 Almost one-third of U.S. parents has a worrisome low level of
knowledge concerning child development and basic concepts about children’s behavior
or needs at different stages in their growth, according to a study from the University of Rochester. The results of the study will
be presented on May 4, at the Pediatric Academic Society...
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 A new study found that people with a large hippocampus – an
area at the base of the brain, which is involved with memory – may be protected
from some of the effects of dementia. The Alzheimer’s Society said the study
was a “relatively small” one. Researchers at Oregon Health and Science
University in Portland compared the brains of...
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 The biggest research ever made on aromatherapy, made by
researchers at Ohio State University, revealed that the method cannot improve
an individual’s immunity or heal wounds and control pain.
The study, published online in the journal
Psychoneuroendocrinology, involved two popular scents that are heavily promoted
by...
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 Parkinson's patients received brain stimulation, they had
trouble making hard decisions. However, when the stimulation was turned off,
patients responded like the healthy individuals in the control study.
Parkinson's disease is caused by the degradation of nerve
cells in the brain that produce dopamine, a signaling chemical that...
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 During a study, US researchers kept volunteers awake for 35
hours and found huge increases in brain activity when shown images designed to
make them angry or sad.
The research in the journal Current Biology points to links
between mental illness and sleep problems, they said.
However, a British expert said psychiatric problems...
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 Tuberculosis has been spreading worldwide faster than
technology can catch up to it, with an increase of 16 percent in diagnosed
cases over the past year in the Seattle
area alone.
To help the cause, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
has made a more than generous donation on Tuesday of 280 million dollars to
help develop...
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 Apparently, people are not motivated to lose weight for
themselves but will be happy to do so in exchange for a some money. A new work strategy
for overweight people is to motivate them to slim down by paying them little sums
of money.
Overweight employees who were paid lost more weight than
those who were not compensated for...
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 Google has started distributing a patch for the Android mobile phone OS. It seems like this is an early try, to see how well the infrastructure works to distribute and install updates. The system update is announced by a simple, short message: “A system update is available” and the user can update at that time or later. The new software...
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 Google has officially announced that Google Earth can be accessed from the iPhone or the iPod Touch. When a good data connection is available the geographical software streams to the device with a reasonable speed and it’s really functional. Multi-touch enables users to zoom in or out of a map with ease and even rotate the map on the...
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 On Monday, Telstra Corp., the largest telecommunications group in Australia, announced it would start offering Apple’s iPhone, starting July 11. The company announced iPhone plans beginning at $30 a month; the 8GB version will cost $279 and the 16GB model will be made available for $399. Customers will also be able to choose the $80 a...
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 At the end of last week, it was announced that Apple Inc. and China Mobile Communications Corp., the largest mobile provider in China, are finally getting closer to closing an iPhone-distribution deal. However, no release date has been announced yet.In April, China Mobile stated though that once they come up with a proper business model,...
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 On Wednesday, Softbank Corp. announced that it would start selling Apple Inc.'s iPhone in Japan later on in 2008. No further information regarding the smartphone’s release date or pricing has been made public. Softbank is currently the third largest mobile communications carrier in Japan.The iPhone is slowly becoming available...
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 According to Friday’s issue of a Hong Kong newspaper, Hutchison Telecommunications and Apple Inc. have closed a deal through which the former will take on the marketing of the iPhone handset in Hong Kong and Macau later on this year. No other details have been disclosed yet. China Mobile, the world's largest mobile phone operator, stated...
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 On Tuesday, Stockholm-based TeliaSonera announced that it has closed a deal with Apple, according to which the former will start distributing the iPhone in Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia later on this year.TeliaSonera, with more than 106 million subscribers, is the leading phone company in that part of...
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 On Friday, Orange announced that later this year, it will bring the iPhone in the Middle East, Africa, Europe, and the Caribbean. Several countries were mentioned including Austria, Belgium, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Jordan, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Switzerland.Bertrand Deronchaine, France Telecom spokesman, said that...
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 On Monday, Apple Inc. officials said that the U.K. and U.S. online stores are fresh out of iPhones. The announcement comes at a time which is very close to the launch of the next generation of iPhones, that will feature faster Internet speeds. Although the online stocks are out, those who are interested may still have a chance to find...
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 Sony Corp. has just launched
Rolly, a funny new digital audio player that has improved audio capabilities,
as well as strange but funny features for a normal digital audio playing
device. First of all, the strangest thing is the player’s shape: it looks like
and egg; secondly, it can move: it knows how to move as if it were a...
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 Cisco yesterday unveiled its vision of the data center architecture in industry’s first unified computing system. The company has added this new element as part of its Data Center 3.0 strategy, which aims at reducing total cost of ownership, accelerate business growth, and the extend the lifecycle of current infrastructure.The Unified...
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 The rumors about three-core
microprocessors have just revealed to be true: Advanced Micro Devices, or AMD,
will be launching a line of three-core microprocessors, hitting the market in
an area where its old rival, Intel, seems not to be currently able to follow
because of its current architecture. But for AMD it seems that dropping...
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 Time and space, speed and high
storage devices – these seem to be the latest coordinates of nowadays’ high
technology.
In this context Toshiba has
announced today that starting with November it is to start mass-producing some
new tough hard drives. The company has revealed that its brand new 2.5-inch
hard drives will feature...
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 Advanced Micro Devices Inc. announced new plans for a set of CPU extensions which will enable applications to take full advantage of multi-core CPUs. The new specification, dubbed “Light-Weight Profiling” (LWP), provides is the first technology that supports a recently introduced initiative called “Hardware Extensions for Software...
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 According to Lincolnshire- based human resources consulting company Hewitt Associates' latest health care trend reports that the residents in the Chicago area will experience a nearly 9% increase of the health care costs beginning next year. They will also have to help rein in employer costs as some of the companies make the workers pick...
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More than 250 trainee soldiers came down Thursday with food poisoning in eastern Sri Lanka after eating bread and fish, a medical officer in the area said.
Some of the trainees fainted and suffered from vomiting at their camp in Henanigala, 290 kilometres east of Colombo, Dr WCK Weeramana said.
At least 125 of the trainee soldiers...
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 The Los Angeles City Council voted on Tuesday to ban for at least one year new fast-food restaurants in one of the town's poorest areas, this way taking measures against increasing obesity rates.If approved by Mayor Antonia Villaraigosa, the ordinance would put a one-year moratorium on construction of new fast-food eateries in a...
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 The Food and Drug Administration withdrew on Thursday its
warning against consuming certain types of fresh tomatoes, in spite of the fact
that officials said they still had to identify the source of a Salmonella
Saintpaul outbreak which affected the health of more than 1,200 people.
However, the U.S.
agency maintained its...
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A large number of hepatitis C cases was recorded recently in
Las Vegas. All
the individuals infected were former patients of the Endoscopy Center of
Southern Nevada. The cause of the contamination was supposed to be the reuse of
syringes and medicine vials.
State health officials contacted the Centers for Disease
Control and...
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 Thousands of nurses in the San Francisco Bay Area have gone back to work, ending their ten-day strike at Sutter Health hospitals. Nurses who participated in the strike were from San Leandro Hospital, Alta Bates-Summit Medical Center in Berkeley and Oakland, Eden Medical Center in Castro Valley, Sutter Delta in Antioch, St. Luke's...
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 The unsafe medical procedures that spread hepatitis C among
patients at an important Las Vegas surgical clinic may actually be more
widespread than investigators imagined, health officials announced Thursday.
Health inspections at 13 other outpatient clinics in the Las
Vegas area revealed several violations of practices, Lisa...
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 A kindergarten boy’s condition has been stabilized at St.
Joseph’s Children’s Hospital in Marshfield. The boy had been exposed to a high
level of chlorine at a swimming pool in Wausau, where he was attending water
safety training together with 40 other children.
After 30 minutes spent in the water, all children suddenly
became...
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 Even if Paraguay’s
people panicked and started to act violently because of the recent yellow fever
outbreak, the country’s Ministry of Public Health and Social Welfare is
currently trying to deal with the problem. Paraguay is also being helped by
neighbor countries and by the World Health Organization (WHO).
The Ministry...
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 Boston-area researchers say that adolescent girls who placed
themselves low on the ladder of popularity were more likely to gain weight
later in their teen years than girls who saw themselves as having higher social
standing.
Depression and low self-esteem have been identified as
contributing to the burden of obesity in...
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 AAA, also know as abdominal aortic aneurysm, which can cause
one of the body's main blood vessels to burst, is the third most common cause
of death among older men.
Over the next five years, ultrasound scan screening will be
rolled out across 60 centres to cover all men aged 65 and over.
The Department of Health says this will...
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 According to a Pennsylvania study exercise is not a cure for
hot flashes, but it does help postmenopausal women cope with stress, anxiety
and depression.
The researchers had hoped to prove that exercise could be a
less risky alternative to hormone replacement therapy for women suffering from
hot flashes, said study author Deborah...
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 According to scientists, an area of the brain that generates
debilitating migraine headaches has been discovered.
Researchers in France observing the brain scans of
volunteers found that activity in the hypothalamus gland was associated with an
attack. The gland, in the centre of the brain just above the brain stem, has
long been...
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 In a statement given by state authorities on Wednesday, a
third case of a chicken testing positive for the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus in
the northeast German state of Brandenburg has been confirmed.
A police spokesman in Neuruppin, north of Berlin, confirmed
that a chicken on a small farm in the town of Blumenthal in...
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 U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and Prevention
officials are investigating blood infections linked to syringes made in Angier.
The company in Angier, Sierra Pre-Filled, made the
heparin-filled syringes where the bacteria, Serratia marcescens, was spotted in
a single batch. The supply company, also known as AM2PAT Inc.,...
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 Health officials are warning visitors to hospitals to
protect themselves against a winter sickness bug which has broken out on
several wards.
Patients suffering from a gastric "norovirus"
infection, which causes severe sickness and diarrhoea, have been identified at
the Royal Blackburn, Burnley General and Pendle...
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 According to a spokeswoman for the local emergencies
ministry on Tuesday, some 35,000 birds have died from bird flu since late
November at a poultry farm in southern Russia's Rostov Region.
Marina Abramchenko said the birds started dying November 29
from the lethal H5N1 virus at the farm, which holds some 500,000 birds,...
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 According to a statement released to the press on Wednesday
in Warsaw by the Polish Agricultural Ministry, bird flu is spreading further
among poultry in Poland.
The H5N1 strain of the virus, which is also dangerous to
humans, had been found on a poultry farm in Sadlowo, north-west of Warsaw,
Polish Agricultural Minister Marek...
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 Ice cubes from several Chicago-area fast-food and
fine-dining establishments tested positive for high levels of fecal coliform.
Samples from nearly 50 restaurants and hotel bars found nearly 20 percent had
high levels of fecal contamination, the Chicago Sun-Times reported Sunday.
Water samples taken from a restroom toilet showed...
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 According to specialist in neurology autistic kids have more
gray matter in the brain area that governs social processing and
learning-by-seeing than children who don't have the developmental disorder.
Basically, the "monkey see, monkey do" feature is broken in autistic
youngsters, according to researcher Manzar Ashtari,...
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 Shortly following World AIDS Day on Saturday, charity and
health officials are asking Long Islanders to wear red ribbons all week to help
put the word out further.
At a news conference scheduled for this morning in Deer
Park, Nassau and Suffolk health officials, along with the United Way, will kick
off an Islandwide effort to...
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 According to Myanmar authorities, state media and an
international livestock health agency, an outbreak of the deadly H5N1 bird flu
virus was reported at a chicken farm in the northeast.
Unusual deaths of chickens at a farm in a village in Shan
State's Keng Tung township were reported on Nov. 18, and laboratory tests
confirmed...
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 According to a US study, the cortex area of the brain is thicker in
people who have migraines compared to those who do not. The researchers do not
know whether the difference causes the migraine or having migraine over the
years has led to the difference in brain structure.
The study is published in the 20th November online issue...
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 According to a recent study, it is possible to eat local
fish without risking your health even though mercury pollution in the vast
Sacramento Delta watershed remains a major public health threat.
Mercury, a potent neurotoxin that is particularly harmful to
fetuses and children, is pervasive throughout the Delta, but the ongoing...
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 According to the FDA (Food and Drug Administration), Georgia
inspectors have found deadly bacteria in a package of Kroger Smoked Salmon Dip,
prompting a product recall.
No one has been reported ill from the contamination found in
the 7.5-ounce package of Kroger Smoked Salmon Dip. But a spokesman in Kroger's
(KR) Atlanta- area...
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 According to the Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) six
cases of salmonella infections were reported in Minnesota after resident ate Banquet brand
turkey or chicken pot pies. The finding prompted health and agriculture
officials to warn consumers not to eat any Banquet brand pot pies. An
investigation is ongoing.
Banquet brand...
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 Pediatric researchers at Washington School of Medicine crib
bumper pads, intended to protect the infants from sustaining injuries on sharp
edges could actually harm if not cause the death of the child.
Researchers reviewed three U.S. Consumer Product Safety
Commission databases, tracking deaths and injuries sustained by babies due...
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 After a recent bird flu outbreak in China's southern Guangdong Province, China's
Ministry of Agriculture will send 12 teams to analyze, supervise and prevent
the spreading of the virus to nearby areas.
With the autumn season approaching, China is taking precautionary
measures to ensure that events in recent years do not re-occur...
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 Effective as of immediate, teenagers with ages between 16
and 17 years old, goes for every one else too, are prohibited from using the cell
phone while behind the wheel.
Those caught when disobeying this simple rule will be fined appropriately.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger visited Sequoia High School
on Thursday to sign...
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 Medtronic, Inc. received the approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to market their Prestige Cervical Disc for use in the neck area of the spine, in order to allow movement for patients with degeneration of the intervertebral disc, which best known as "degenerative disc disease" (DDD). Now Medtronic has to...
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A woman has died in Indonesia after she got bird flu. The death happened in the resort island of Bali. She was 29 years old and lived in a village in western Bali, and was eventually brought to the hospital when she was already dying of multiple organ failure. Her daughter also died after playing with chickens, but it's unknown whether...
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 The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a warning urging people to avoid eating raw oysters harvested from an area of the southern tip of Hood Canal in Washington, saying they are contaminated with the Gram-negative bacterium Vibrio parahaemolyticus bacteria.At least six people have become ill in California and Washington State...
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 The Washington Capitals extended Chris Clark’s contract for another three years on Wednesday keeping the right wing captain with the team until the 2010-11 season.Clark had the option of becoming an unrestricted free agent after next season but instead he has chosen to sign a $7.9 million, three-year deal.The 31-year-old had his best...
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 Venus Williams advanced to the semi finals after a much disputed match against Russia’s Svetlana Kuznetsova. The triple champion won in two sets 6-3, 6-4 on the famed Centre Court and will meet Ana Ivanovic on Friday. "I was able to stay tough against a great opponent," said Williams in the press conference. "I felt so...
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The contemplative peace of
the idyllic resort of Toyako on Japan's northern Hokkaido island has
been shattered temporarily by the G8 summit. The 10,000
residents of the village surrounded by stunning nature have never
before experienced such an invasion of journalists, politicians and
police officers. Everywhere you look there...
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 The Brilliance BS6, the first Chinese limousine aimed at the European market, received a catastrophic rating in the EuroNCAP crash test.
In the head-on collision test the entire front section with A- pillar was pushed 20 cm into the interior on the driver's side. The door bent in such a way that it could only be opened with heavy...
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 According to market research firm NPD Group’s recent announcement, console sales have remained pretty much the same, even though certain chart modiffications were expected to appear.For instance, the launch of Grand Theft Auto IV (GTA IV) came and went and there was no significant console sale boost recorded. The numbers for both the...
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 Nintendo is readying for school with the recent addition of Donkey Kong Jr. Math to the Wii Shop Channel, promising that “it'll help you get those math skills back in shape after their summer slumber.”The recipe goes on with some fighting with bad guys (you know, to help you cope with bullies in school…), while you also search for some...
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 Microsoft’s Shane Kim, vice president of Microsoft Game Studios, confirmed the company’s plans to slash prices for its next gen gaming rig, but has declined to offer any details as to when will that happen.The move is seen as a possible counter-offensive against Nintendo’s increasingly successful Wii console, which is close to surpassing...
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 As people have started to buy and
use more and more video games, Nielsen Co. has a new ambition: to measure this
type of media consumption too. For ordinary people maybe it is difficult to
realize that in only few years the game consoles have become such an indispensable
product from people’s life. The reports show that about 41% of...
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 The author of
"Election" (1998) and " Little Children" (2004), Tom
Perrotta tackles the upper-middle-class living in the Northeastern suburbs, a
religious community whose mundane life is marked by the struggle between
credence and sex.
The Abstinence Teacher depicts
the story of a recently-divorced sex-ed...
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 Ron Goldman's family has won rights to the controversial unreleased book by O.J. Simpson, "If I Did It." However, the Goldmans want to rename the book "Confessions of a Double Murder." The rights were owned by a company, Lorraine Brooke Associates, which was run by Simpson's daughter Arnelle.The bankruptcy judge, A....
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A strong earthquake, with a magnitude of 6.1 on the Richter scale, rocked Costa Rica killing at least 32 people and wounding more than 90 others, Red Cross officials said Friday.
Some of these deaths have not yet been confirmed because of the organization's inability to access certain areas, said Carlos Gutierrez, a Red Cross...
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 A team of archaeologists has uncovered the undamaged antique
tomb of a pre-Incan leader who lived 1,600 years ago and the discovery may be
of great use in solving the mysteries regarding Peru's ancient Moche culture, the
group's Canadian lead scientist said on Saturday.
The tomb, named Huaca del Pueblo, was unearthed in the
region...
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 The Amazonian states of Beni
and Pando voted overwhelmingly Sunday for autonomy from the central government.
The referendum came a month after voters in the State of Santa Cruz also cast
ballots in favour of autonomy. Both states passed autonomy measures by more
than 80 percent of the vote. The Bolivian government said the vote was...
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 A new Indian tribe that hasn’t had contact with civilization was discovered in the Amazon. Brazil’s National Indian Foundation said in the statement it spotted a group of Indians, six huts and a large planted area near the Envira River, close to the Peruvian border in the Brazilian state of Acre in the western Amazon rainforest.“We put...
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 Severe storms hit the Southeast on Thursday, damaging houses and shopping areas in at least four states. Some northeast Mississippi counties and areas of northwest Alabama were under tornado warnings until midafternoon Thursday. One person was killed and three were injured by a tornado which hit North Carolina, authorities said. A strong...
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 The 2000-year dormant Chaiten volcano blasted ash some 20 miles into the Andean sky on Tuesday. As a result, the government ordered the evacuation of everyone living within a 30-mile radius of it. The military, navy and police helped to the evacuation process of thousands of people living in the neighbourhood of the volcano’s base....
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The rescue teams announced Friday that the aircraft carrying
46 passengers from the provincial city of Merida,
to Simon Bolivar
International Airport
near Caracas, crashed in the Andean mountains of
western Venezuela
and that there are no survivors.
The French-made ATR 42-300 aircraft lost contact with air
traffic towers 30...
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An ATR 42-300 plane, belonging to
Santa Barbara Airlines, with 46 passengers on board is missing after it took
off Thursday, at 4:59 p. m. local time from the Venezuelan city of Merida, heading to Simon
Bolivar International
Airport, near Caracas.
According to AFP, the plane has
allegedly crashed in the Coyado del...
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 Two long-time hostages held by leftist rebels in Colombia were freed Thursday.
They were flown to Venezuela, where they were greeted by Venezuelan
President Hugo Chavez, who had worked to mediate their release. The
former hostages, politicians Clara Rojas and Consuelo Gonzalez, called
for continued efforts to free hundreds of...
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 Two Venezuelan helicopters arrived Thursday in the Colombian town of
San Jose del Guaviare, in a second attempt to secure the release of two
hostages held by leftist rebels.
Irma Alvarez, spokeswoman for the International Committee of the
Red Cross (ICRC) in Venezuela, told Venezuelan state television channel
VTV that the...
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 Tropical Storm Olga left at least 22 people dead in the Dominican
Republic and one dead in Haiti after drenching the Caribbean island of
Hispaniola and moving west toward Cuba.
Dominican authorities said Thursday that 34,480 people had to be evacuated and 7,594 homes suffered damage.
The toll could rise. Dominican Republic...
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 Colombian President Alvaro Uribe on Friday offered to talk directly
with leftist rebels to secure an exchange of hostages for imprisoned
guerrilla fighters, saying he would create a "meeting zone" for the
talks.
There was no immediate response from Revolutionary Armed Forces of
Colombia (FARC) rebels, but the families of...
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 Proof of life of former presidential candidate Ingrid Betancourt, three
US contractors and and 13 other hostages held by leftist rebels in
Colombia was found in the hands of three arrested guerrillas, Colombian
authorities said Friday.
The Army arrested three members of the Revolutionary Armed Forces
of Colombia (FARC) and found...
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 Recent events have President Hugo Chavez facing his toughest vote
to date this weekend in a referendum to scrap term limits on his rule as polls
show Venezuelans shying away from the Cuba ally's drive for socialism in the
OPEC nation.
Accustomed to easy election victories, Chavez enters the
referendum vote on Sunday with surveys...
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 Around 100 passengers and 54 crew of a cruise liner sinking off the
coast of Argentina after "striking an object" have been rescued and are
in lifeboats, British coastguards said Friday.
The 2,400-tonne MV Explorer was going down after hitting a "large
object" in the Antarctic Ocean, near the South Shetland...
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 Several strong aftershocks shook northern Chile Thursday, one day after
a powerful earthquake hit the same area leaving at least 2 dead and
damaging property of 15,000 people.
The US Geological Survey in Washington reported quakes measuring
6.8, 6.2 and 5.6 on the Richter scale within minutes of each other on
Thursday...
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 Officials are on high alert after an unidentified object
crashed into the desolate Andean plain near the Bolivian border, on
Saturday.
According to local media reports, the object that left an 8
meters deep and 20 meters wide crater is believed to be a meteorite.
Signs of sickness have been appearing ever since the...
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 According to Nicaraguan officials, at least 60 people have
died at the hand of Hurricane Felix after it hit the Caribbean
coast on Tuesday.
The worst damage was bound to come as Hurricane Felix’s
rampage continued. Meteorologists said that the hurricane would die down after
entering the Gulf of Mexico but they were
wrong.
The...
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 Peru is confronted with the jeopardy of infectious diseases
spreading and looting in the aftermath of the Wednesday 8
magnitude earthquake. Pisco is the most devastated town and President Alan Garcia has been monitoring
rescue efforts since Friday.
Though at first the first man in the state dismissed the
looting as rumors, the...
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 Mexico's Caribbean coastline is glowing, one-and-a-half years after the devastation wrought by Hurricane Wilma.
More than 120 hotels in Mexico's paradise beach resort of Cancun have been transformed into luxury inns. Along the Riviera Mayan coast, there are more hotels, and a new airport will soon be built near the Mayan ruins in the...
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 Brazilian police cracked down on drug dealers in poor neighbourhoods of Rio de Janeiro on Wednesday, at least 18 being killed in the ensuing gunbattles.Brazilian authorities decided it was time to root out drug trafficking in one of the country’s largest cities, putting on an impressive display of force, as a number of 1,300 security...
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 A powerful earthquake rattled Guatemala and parts of El Salvador Wednesday sending terrified residents rushing into the streets for safety and causing traffic chaos in Guatemala City.Land slides were reported in the southwest province of Escuintla and phone service was interrupted in some areas According to the U.S. Geological Survey the...
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Shanghai Hualian – a division of Shanghai Pharmaceutical Group and the sole U. S. supplier of the abortion drug mifepristone is accused of having manufactured contaminated leukemia drugs that have paralyzed or otherwise harmed nearly 200 Chinese cancer patients, the New York Times notes. The case was presented last week in The Times in...
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 According to a U.S. study in which nearly half of the doctors
surveyed said they had doled out a dummy pill at some point placebos are a
surprisingly common prescription.
Researchers at the University of Chicago said on Thursday
the study raises ethical questions and suggests a need for greater recognition
and understanding of...
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 American leading provider of flu shots, Maxim Health System
has announced a $5 increase in price going from $25 to $30 per shot.
A Maxim executive said Tuesday the price increase was
necessary to catch up with the rising cost of influenza vaccine supplied by
pharmaceutical companies.
Maxim's pricing strategy may prove correct....
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 Researchers announced the discovery of a new Psoriasis drug
at the World Congress of Dermatology, which could be self-injected, every 3
months, had "impressive" safety and efficacy results in a late-stage.
Psoriasis is a disease, which affects the skin and joints.
It commonly causes red scaly patches to appear on the...
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 A recent study published in the June issue of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition shows that vitamin D-based nutrients help prevent cancerous cells from forming.The study was conducted on 1179 community-dwelling women randomly selected from the population of healthy postmenopausal women aged >55 y in a 9-county rural area of...
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 David Beckham was officially introduced as the newest Los Angeles Galaxy player at the Major League Soccer team's home stadium on Friday.The soccer super star was welcomed by a massive crowd of Galaxy season-ticket holders and sponsors' guests as he was presented with the No.23 shirt."It's nice to see so many fans and I thank you...
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 Brazil gets another crack at the most desired trophy in South America after a dramatic win against Uruguay in the semifinal, 5-4 in a nerve-wreaking penalty shootout.The Seleção knew the tremendous force it’s facing and rushed in to score after only 13 minutest through Internazionale Milano’s defender Maicon. As the two teams were...
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 After trampling the hosts Venezuela with an incontestable 4-1 in the quarter finals, Uruguay is flying high and aims to win its 15th top spot in South America’s main football competition.Oscar Washington’s pupils played a cat and mouse game with the bold host team for 90 minutes, scoring when it was necessary in the first half through...
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 Sweden have been awarded by UEFA the a 3-0 victory after their Euro 2008 qualifier in Denmark on 2 June was abandoned when a fan ran on to the pitch and attacked the referee. The Danish Football Association was fined 100,000 Swiss Francs (about €61,000 or $81000) and will play their next four home Euro 2008 qualifiers at least 250 km...
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 United States won against Guatemala through Dempsey's first-half goal on Thursday in the opening round of the CONCACAF Gold Cup.Dempsey scored off Taylor Twellman's assist in the 26th minute keeping the U.S. undefeated in 20 group-play games of the Gold Cup.The U.S. National Team was controlling the game until defender Oguchi Onyewu...
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 Satellite images show that a large part of the Antarctica's
massive Wilkins Ice Shelf, a plate of permanently floating ice, situated on the
southwest Antarctic Peninsula, has begun disintegrating
under the effects of global warming.
The dimension of the shelf was about 160 square miles (415
square kilometers) in...
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 A new version of Mac OS X 10.5 operating system has been released on the market this week. After the Panther and Tiger, it now came the time for Leopard, which it has been promoted as coming with 300 new features. Unleashes One of them is called the Time Machine. This function allows the system to be restored to an earlier moment and...
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 The Nokia Corporation has launched a new Internet music store under its new Ovi brand this week, with more than 2 million songs from all the major record labels, besides Warner Music Group Corp, due to a dispute about illegal downloads, casting a shadow on the launch, according to media.Warner, who is home well known bands such as...
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 And it appears that they spend their time online even more than the majority of the Americans, according to the newest study conducted by comScore Media Matrix.comScore went on measuring how much time spend online different populations across the globe on a regular April day and found out that the Brits and the Swedish are champions in...
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The European Central Bank (ECB) lowered its key interest rate by half a percentage point on Thursday, underscoring efforts to combat recession gripping countries in the eurozone.
The decision by the ECB's governing council to reduce its benchmark refinancing rate to 2 per cent came amid a flood of gloomy economic data in what is...
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 The recent turmoil on the international financial markets is expected
to dent the euro area's economic growth prospects for 2008, the latest
Quarterly Report from the European Union Commission said Tuesday.
The report by the EU executive forecasts gross domestic product
(GDP) growth for 2008 in the 13-country eurozone at 2.2 per...
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 Strong oil and food prices pushed annual inflation in the euro area to
a six-year high of 3 per cent in November, adding pressure on the
European Central Bank (ECB) to increase interest rates at its December
6 meeting in Frankfurt.
Friday's flash estimate by the European statistical office Eurostat
was in line with most analysts'...
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 Brazilian President Luis Ignacio Lula da Silva made a three-day visit to India with the firm goal of improving ties, especially in the economic sector, where both countries are rising rapidly.Lula met with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday and discussed several problems appeared in the trade area and world-scale issues like global...
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Chelsea missed the chance to go top of the Premier League on Sunday, as they were held to a 1-1 draw at home by West Ham United.
Craig Bellamy put West Ham ahead in the first half and although Nicolas Anelka levelled just after the break Chelsea were unable to find a winner.
For manager Luiz Felipe Scolari, who had spent the...
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Bayer Leverkusen downed Schalke 2-1 to stay top of the Bundesliga on Saturday, while Bayern Munich lost ground after conceding two late goals in a 2-2 draw at Borussia Moenchengladbach.
Hoffenheim meanwhile stayed second, level on 28 points with Leverkusen but with a slightly inferior goal difference after edging Wolfsburg...
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Serie A side Roma may have to be placed on the market as their owners face pressure to pay back heavy debts by the end of the year, the repubblica.it website reported Tuesday.
Unicredit Bank is believed to have asked the club owners, the Sensi family, for a first payment of 130 million euros (176.5 million dollars) and will refuse any...
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Angel Di Maria scored the only goal of the game Saturday as Argentina successfully defended their Olympic football title, beating Nigeria 1-0 in the gold medal match played in Beijing's Bird's Nest stadium.
A near capacity crowd of 89,000 saw Benfica's Di Maria latch onto a defence-splitting pass from Barcelona star Lionel Messi on 58...
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 Michael Vick - Atlanta Falcons quarterback – along with three other persons was indicted by a federal grand jury on Tuesday for supposedly participating in illegal dogfights, acquiring and training pit bulls for fighting.The indictment, filed in Richmond, Va., also contains charges stating that the venture was based in a Smithfield, Va.,...
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 Indiana University head football coach Terry Hoeppner died Tuesday morning of a brain tumor.The 59-year-old has undergone brain surgery twice in the last 18 months. He received chemotherapy and radiation treatments in the last few months, but was all in vane. Hoeppner died at 6:50 a.m. at Bloomington Hospital with his family at his...
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 The death of New England Patriots’ Marquise Hill was ruled an accidental drowning on Tuesday. The Patriots’ defensive end fell of a jet ski in Lake Pontchartrain.No signs of drug or alcohol in were found in his body at the autopsy, but there are more test planned which will take about two weeks until completion, said Orleans Parish...
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 A new study made for the health system in California discovered that because of the state’s high pollution rate, more than $28 billion are spent each year for the 20 million people who live by breathing the worst air in the country. Deaths, chronic illness, hospitalizations and missing days from school and work led the health system and...
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 Because of the damages caused by Hurricane Gustav and the power outages hundreds of hospital patients could be transported out of the hospitals together with the medical facilities. Officials fear that the patients can’t survive without air conditioning.The patients were seriously ill and a few of them came from burn units, as Alan...
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 Residents in Norristown are now in danger of getting infected with the West Nile virus brought by the mosquitoes in the area. The virus is really brought by some birds but after these birds die, the mosquitoes collect their blood and then infect the people.The Montgomery County health department issued on Friday a report asking the...
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 The Goshen Scout Reservation has been closed until further notice after more than a dozen scouts were sickened by E.Coli there, an official informed last night. According to officials of the National Capital Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America, the local camp was closed after discovering that more scouts presented symptoms of the...
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The death toll from a
cholera outbreak in Indonesia's easternmost province has risen to 172
Wednesday as reports of violence against migrants accused of spreading
the disease are being reported, according to local church leaders.
Local church workers said that at least 172 residents from 19 villages
in two different sub-districts...
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 Health officials have issued a rabies warning for an area in southern Arlington. This week, an infected bat came in contact with a 13-year-old boy tested positive for rabies.In line with an issue, the state health department's Infectious Disease Control Unit confirmed the boy’s case in the 76001 zip code. Starting August last year, this...
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 On Monday, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) came forward with a report according to which, the state of roughly half of the US coral reef ecosystems can be clasified under poor or fair. The continuous rise of ocean temperatures is the main reason for this.Three years have passed since NOAA’s last report and...
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 Keith Kennedy, the 25-year-old autistic man
was found alive Sunday night after spending seven days lost in the wilderness
south of Grantsburg, Wis. A group of St. Paul
and Maple Grove
firefighters found him at about 7 p.m. a mile west of Trade Lake Camp, lying
next to a stream, Burnett County Sheriff Dean Roland said, according to...
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 Hong Kong authorities responded to fears of a dangerous bird flu outbreak and
announced the decision to kill all poultry in the city’s markets and retail
outlets. The order does not affect sales of pre-slaughtered poultry sold
packaged in supermarkets. It does not apply either to Hong
Kong’s chicken farmers because samples taken...
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 The massive precipitations in the West Nile area may favor the apparel of a virus spread by
mosquitoes. Agencies that try to deter the so-called West Nile Virus from
becoming a real human threat set free 450 “sentinel” chickens to act against
the insects and prevent the outbreak of disease.
Since there is no strong
certainty that...
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 On Saturday, Paso Robles recorded its highest temperature in over twenty years, as no less than 103 degrees could be seen on airport thermometers. As found in the data base of the National Weather Service in Oxnard, something similar goes back to 1973, when the place experienced a heat wave of 102 degrees.Along the coast however,...
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 Indonesian heath officials have just confirmed on Saturday
that a 31-year-old man from Sumatra
Island who died last week
was infected with bird flu, raising the toll in the worst-hit nation to 91.
Deaths from the H5N1 virus have been steadily rising in
archipelagic Indonesia
where the virus is now endemic across 31 of its 33...
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 A new law passed in the Chicago Park District will vote
Wednesday on a proposal to ban smoking at public beaches, playgrounds and play
lots. If it passes, it will go into effect immediately.
The Chicago Park District announced the proposal at Margate
Park on Tuesday morning. It would
prohibit smoking at all of the beaches, play...
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 The sexual health of children is being once again a topic of
discussion, this time between parents and teachers of Maine
school district.
Parents and school officials are preparing to battle tonight
in a debate about the sexual health of children at one Maine
school district.
Administrators at a Portland
middle school are...
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 Hugging is no longer allowed in the Chicagoan area schools as
many find it as being inappropriate. You would think that principals would have
better things to do and other directions in which to point their benevolence
but hugging, I mean isn’t that a bit too much.
One example of schools in which such deviant behavior was
noticed...
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 Heal the Bay released this year’s Beach Report Card, revealing Los Angeles County with 7 of the 10 most polluted beaches in California and the Long Beach area as the one most affected by pollution. Help the Bay (www.healthebay.org) is a non-profit organization based in Santa Monica that releases a study each year assessing California’s...
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 Google Inc’s new service, Google Voice, weaves traditional phone features with Google's Gmail product, therefore allowing a person to store transcripts of voicemail phone messages in their email inbox and to find a specific nugget of information within a phone message as if trawling through a sea of emails.The service is an outgrowth of...
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 Communications provider Comcast announced on Wednesday two tiers of service for heavy residential downloaders, along with speed upgrades for subscribers of its services. The two new plans, called “Extreme” and “Ultra” clock in at 50 and 22 Mbps downstream, respectively and 10 and 5 Mbps of upstream. Current customers get a big jump from...
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 On Monday, Alvarion Ltd., the largest WiMax and wireless broadband solutions provider in the world, announced the official commercial release of the Mobile WiMax Internet service by DigitalBridge Communications (DBC). The network is already operational in the Jackson Hole, Wyoming area. As the region is highly attractive to tourists all...
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 On Thursday, Google launched its GMail Labs application, that puts together a series of experimental features. According to Google product manager, Keith Coleman, users are allowed to choose which features they want to keep through Gmail's Settings page. After a while, the ones that turn out to be the most popular will be incorporated in...
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 The city of North Oaks, Minnesota kindly asked Google to remove all images of the local houses from its Google Maps Street View application. The demand came in the form of a letter that was sent to Google in January. Although the company has the right to capture images on public streets, it seems that this city’s roads are privately...
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 According to a press release issued by police officials on Friday, a minister of a Dallas-area Baptist megachurch was arrested after an Internet sex sting. The charges were filed under online solicitation of a minor, which could add up to 20 years in prison.Joe Barron, 52, of Plano was casually having online sexually-oriented...
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 Microsoft announced on Thursday its plan to introduce a service for driving directions that would help users stay away from traffic jams. The new web-based service’s software technology is called Clearflow and it has been developed by an artificial-intelligence research group for the past five years.The Clearflow system will be made...
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 Google seems to be never resting.
On Wednesday, the powerful company launched a set of brand new tools that will
help users to build gadgets, that is small Web applications that can display
data from the company’s online spreadsheet application.
Google offers its new Gadgets-in-Docs
and Visualization API as a platform in which...
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 The Federal Communications Commission has grilled Comcast Monday over their policy of slowing down or canceling certain types of data transfers, which are using peer-to-peer technology. Although initially the company has denied such accusations that it violates the "net neutrality" principles, it was eventually forced to admit...
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 If one has ever asked herself or
himself whether there is a domain where Google hasn’t yet stepped forward and
hasn’t got an answer, the huge Internet company’s recent initiative could really
answer back: Google Health!
It’s obvious that Google Health is
about health and medications and health problems. Still, won’t this be too...
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 The recent reports have proved
that two of the most used web sites for the phishers’ lures, PayPal and eBay,
are not so popular anymore. These two web sites have been heavily used in the
past by the phishers for tricking the people into giving up their personal
information, but now the reports have showed that they are not as popular...
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 The wireless connections sound like
the future of the Internet! They have their advantages and disadvantages, but
at least the researchers are currently working in reducing the major
disadvantages for offering a next generation experience for more and more
wireless users. And probably it is not a sci-fi scenario anymore to imagine...
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The Internet giant company Yahoo!
Inc. has recently signed a deal with the Spanish company Telefonica SA in a
move that could bring Yahoo! Inc. one step ahead its rival Google Inc. Yahoo! and
Google are competing one against each other in the ultimate race from the high
tech industry, that of bringing Internet searching to the...
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 With MySpace, Facebook, and even
Bebo, having become already the most powerful social networking web sites, it is
quite difficult for a new such web site to launch on this market that has gained
already its known leaders! Still, Yahoo Inc. is not quite a start up on the
Internet, and the new social networking service that the company...
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 The national crackdown on sex offenders registered on MySpace has begun in the conservative Texas area, where authorities have reported the arrest of at least 7 persons previously condemned for sex assaults on children.Sexual scandals have plagued the prominent site since its inception on the Web, and there have been numerous complaints...
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 Google’s efforts to digitalize quite everything (and then make it available on the company’s search engine) are now showing some results: major streets in big US cities are now available for 3D view in Google Maps.The recent addition to the maps searching service brings even more detail to the already detailed cartography Google has been...
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 Yahoo recently updated its Maps Search service, with the most obvious changes noticeable in the user interface area and in the overall speed of the service.Yahoo said it has moved its map indexing from the platform used for at least five years (with the technology provided by deCarta Inc.) to its own proprietary, in-house platform at...
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 Toronto Raptors guard T.J. Ford is feeling better and is headed home
after being released from an Atlanta-area hospital following a
frightening fall less than 12 hours earlier.
"He's feeling much better," Raptors spokesman Jamie Deans said. "It
wasn't as bad as it looked, although it obviously wasn't...
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 Derek Fisher reportedly agreed on a three-year contract with Los Angeles Lakers that will earn him $14 million, according to the Los Angeles Times.The almost 33-year-old guard was released from his contract signed with Utah Jazz in order that he could seek the proper medical care for Tatum, his 11-month-old daughter, who’s fighting eye...
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 With 18 seconds left of Game 4 and with the Suns leading on the scoreboard, San Antonio’s Robert Horry sent Phoenix’s playmaker Steve Nash with one hip check and a forearm shiver flying into the scorer's table. Phoenix Suns’ bench left the area after the flagrant foul but did not enter the quarrel which started between Nash and team mate...
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Dhaka - Convoys of army troops Friday entered the headquarters of the paramilitary Bangladesh Rifles (BDR) to search for missing army officers, while police arrested more than 200 border troops involved in a mutiny against their commanders two days ago.
"The army entered the compound with the prime minister's permission to...
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New Delhi - India said Thursday that the border guards' mutiny in neighbouring Bangladesh was an internal matter and it was confident that the neighbouring country would resolve the situation amicably.
There is growing concern in India over the volatile situation in Bangladesh. The two nations share a 4,096-kilometre...
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Dhaka - Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wazed Thursday warned rebelling border troops of tougher action if they refused to lay down their weapons and end a confrontation between the paramilitary soldiers and their commanders that left at least 50 people dead.
"Please go back to your respective barracks,...
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Mumbai - Residents of Dharavi, a sprawling shantytown in Mumbai, were not happy about being the slum of Oscar-winning movie Slumdog Millionaire.
But now they hope the attention the film has created with its numerous awards may work in their favour.
Spread over 71 hectares and home to an estimated 800,000 people, Dharavi...
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Tokyo - Takashimaya Co, one of Japan's leading department-store operators, plans to open an outlet in Shanghai in 2012, hoping to boost its sales by entering the fast-growing Chinese market, the firm said Tuesday.
The company is to occupy eight floors, or 40,000 square metres, in a store in an upscale residential district of...
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Colombo - Government troops entered the last rebel-held town in northern Sri Lanka after heavy clashes overnight, military officials said Tuesday.
Troops entered Pudukudirippu, 385 kilometres north-east of the capital and were consolidating positions Tuesday morning, the army said.
It said Tamil rebels sustained heavy...
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Tokyo - They are as soft as silk, no larger than half a thumb, and conquer Japanese hearts every spring: cherry blossoms, known in Japan as "sakura."
Anticipation starts building across the country in February. When the first buds open in the south-west, national euphoria breaks out. Newspapers follow the north-easterly...
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Colombo - Sri Lanka has officially rejected a proposal by the British government to send a special envoy to Colombo to look into humanitarian issues and help work out a political solution to the conflict between the government and separatist Tamil rebels, a senior minister said Friday.
Media Minister Anura Priyadarshana Yapa...
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Colombo - Security forces on Thursday declared a new safe zone for civilians fleeing rebel-held areas in north-eastern Sri Lanka as fresh fighting left at least 28 Tamil separatist rebels dead, a military spokesman said.
As hundreds of civilians remained trapped by the fighting, a 12-kilometre strip of land close to a lagoon in...
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Colombo – The BBC World Service on Tuesday stopped providing radio news to Sri Lanka's state broadcaster because of what it calls "deliberate interference" by government censors.
A statement from the BBC said that its FM broadcasts to the Sri Lankan Broadcasting Corporation have been suspended with effect from...
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Bangkok - Myanmar will need nearly 700 million dollars in international aid over the next three years for ongoing relief efforts in the Irrawaddy Delta, where Cyclone Nargis left 140,000 people dead or missing last year, the United Nations said Monday.
"This is a small requirement in proportion to the magnitude of the...
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Colombo - A female suicide bomber posing as a civilian entered a government-controlled area from the Tamil rebel-held area in northern Sri Lanka Monday morning and detonated herself at a welfare centre, at least 17 people and injuring about 45 others, the Defence Ministry said.
The explosion went off in the Visuamadu area, 360...
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Colombo – International aid officials expressed concern Monday about artillery bombardments that hit a hospital in a Tamil rebel-controlled area in northern Sri Lanka and killed at least eight people.
UNICEF spokesman James Elder said the organization confirmed that the hospital in Pudukudirippu, 385 kilometres north-east of...
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Colombo – Government troops pushed Tuesday into the last few strongholds of the Tamil rebels in north-eastern Sri Lanka, the military said, amid growing concern over civilians caught in the conflict.
Troops were moving in the , Mullaitivu district, 395 kilometres north-east of Colombo, after capturing the main town in the area...
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Kabul - Two police officers and three civilians were killed in two Taliban attacks in eastern Afghanistan, while police supported by NATO troops killed five Taliban fighters including a commander in the volatile south, officials said Tuesday.
Rebels ambushed a police vehicle in the Ghazni Abad district of the eastern province of...
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Israel upped its pressure on Palestinian militants Thursday, with ground troops advancing close to the centre of Gaza City in one of the worst days of fighting since the assault began and amid growing signs that the offensive could be in its final days.
United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon told a news conference in Tel Aviv...
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The central United Nations compound in the Gaza Strip has been hit in the fighting between Hamas and the Israeli military.
A nearby fire is spreading towards the compound, which houses large fuel reserves to allow the humanitarian agencies to carry out their work.
The UN has suspended all work in the area.
The Israeli military...
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The central United Nations compound in the Gaza Strip has been hit in the fighting between Hamas and the Israeli military Thursday, UN officials said.
A nearby fire is spreading towards the compound, which houses large fuel reserves to allow the humanitarian agencies to carry out their work.
A UN official said the compound, in...
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An Iraqi army soldier was killed and three people were injured Wednesday in a car bomb explosion in Mosul, a police source said.
A car loaded with explosives went off in the Zinjili area of western Mosul targeting, an Iraqi army vehicle patrol, the source told Voices of Iraq (VOI) news agency.
Mosul, the capital of Nineveh, lies...
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The Israel Navy has stopped an Iranian ship from reaching the coast of Gaza, the Israeli military confirmed Wednesday.
The ship, which according to Iran's Press TV channel carried some 2,000 tons of medical supplies and food, was ordered Tuesday to turn around at some 20 nautical miles off the coast of Gaza, a military spokesman in...
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At least 650 civilians fled areas controlled by Tamil rebels in northern Sri Lanka and crossed over to military-held areas Wednesday as government troops pushed towards the last militant stronghold, military officials said.
Two separate groups of civilians arrived in the military- controlled Paranthan and Kevil areas, more than 390...
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Militants in south Lebanon fired at least three Katyusha missiles at northern Israel early Wednesday, prompting Israel to retaliate by firing 17 shells into Lebanon, Israeli and Lebanese officials said.
Israeli police said that three rockets fired from south Lebanon slammed into northern Israel early Wednesday in the second such...
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Militants in south Lebanon fired at least three Katyusha missiles at northern Israel early Wednesday, prompting Israel to retaliate by firing at least four rockets into Lebanon, Lebanese police said.
At least four Israeli shells fell on the outskirts of the southern Lebanese border area of Habariyeh, targeting the southern Lebanese...
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International relief groups warned Tuesday of a worsening situation in the Gaza Strip and demanded access for humanitarian workers into the embattled area.
The rights group Human Rights Watch, warning of a humanitarian crisis, demanded that Israel permit unhindered access for international helpers.
In order to reduce the suffering...
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Yemeni coast guard authorities on Monday received four suspected Somali pirates captured by a German navy ship operating off the Horn of Africa under an international task force, the Interior Ministry said in a statement.
The ministry said a German frigate caught the pirates two days earlier as they sailed on a small speedboat about...
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NATO forces killed a would-be suicide bomber as he was approaching their convoy in a central province near Kabul city, officials said Monday.
The international troops opened fire on a vehicle packed with explosives in Sayed Abad district of Wardak province Monday morning, said Adam Khan Serat, spokesman for the provincial...
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Hampered by huge waves and bad weather, rescuers failed Monday to find more survivors amid fears that nearly 250 people died in rough seas after a passenger ferry capsized a day earlier off the Indonesian province of West Sulawesi.
Only 22 people, including the ferry's captain and three crew members, were known to have survived the...
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Somali pirates have released the Sirius Star tanker seized off the Kenyan coast in mid-November, an official at the Saudi Oil Ministry confirmed Friday.
The supertanker carrying 100 million dollars-worth of crude oil was seized some 830 kilometres off the Kenyan coastal city of Mombasa.
A Saudi ministry spokesman made no mention...
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A day after militants launched three Katyusha rockets from their village in southern Lebanon into Israel, the people Tair Herfa were fearful that Lebanon could be dragged into a new and devastating war with its neighbour.
Despite the cold and rainy weather, the villagers rose early to monitor news after the United Nations Security...
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Government troops have taken control of a one- time military garrison and a strategic road in northern Sri Lanka after weeks of fighting against Tamil rebels in the area, President Mahinda Rajapaksa announced Friday.
"Our troops have taken control of the Elephant Pass area," Rajapaksa said, referring to the former military...
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A United Nations report released Friday said that earlier this week Israeli forces repeatedly shelled a home to which the UN had evacuated about 110 Palestinians in the Zeitoun area of Gaza City, killing around 30 people.
The Israeli military said it had no immediate comment.
"We received eyewitness accounts from several...
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Unknown militants fired at least three Katyusha rockets into northern Israel early Thursday morning, prompting the Israeli army to return fire into south Lebanon, Israeli and Lebanese officials said.
An Israeli police spokesman said the Lebanese salvo lightly injured two people in the coastal city of Nahariya, 10 kilometres south of...
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Israel pressed on with both its air and ground offensive in Gaza on Thursday, as government officials were due to travel to Cairo to discuss Egyptian-French truce proposals.
Residents reported heavy shelling in the southern Gaza border town of Rafah overnight, as an Israeli military spokesman said Israel bombed another 15...
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At least four Katyusha rockets were fired from southern Lebanon into northern Israel early Thursday, prompting Israeli forces to return fire back into Lebanon, officials said.
The Katyushas were fired from south-eastern Lebanon, according to the Lebanese police.
At least two people on the Israeli side were lightly injured...
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Two tourists were killed Thursday when an ice shelf collapsed on them at the Fox Glacier in New Zealand's Southern Alps, the TV3 channel reported.
The body of one victim was recovered but the second was trapped under 30 tons of ice and rescuers would not be able to get to it until Friday morning, the report said.
Early reports of...
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Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi on Thursday called for sanctions against Israel on moral grounds for launching strikes on Gaza.
Abdullah said the reasons for imposing sanctions on a particular country should include violation of moral standards.
"We have to include more reasons as to why a particular...
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New York-based Human Rights Watch on Thursday appealed to newly appointed Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva to show "political courage" in ensuring the prosecution of soldiers found guilty of torturing an imam to death in southern Thailand.
On December 25, 2008, the Narathiwat provincial court ruled that Imam Yapa...
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Afghan and US-led coalition forces killed at least 50 Taliban militants in separate attacks and operations in Afghanistan, while 11 civilians including eight women were killed in a Taliban rocket attack in southern region, officials said Wednesday.
US-led coalition forces claimed Wednesday their forces killed 32 insurgents, including...
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Bangladesh's new civilian government assured Wednesday that it would work closely with neighbours to restore peace in South Asia curbing militancy and terrorism.
"We will take effective steps against militancy and terrorism in consultations with our neighbouring countries," Dr Dipu Moni, the newly appointed foreign minister...
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Communist rebels in the Philippines on Tuesday released an army lieutenant after two months in captivity, the military said.
Lieutenant Vicente Cammayo was turned over to a local official in Kausagan village in Loreto town in Agusan del Sur province, 900 kilometres south of Manila.
Military spokesman Lieutenant Colonel...
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The Israeli military has warned residents of central Gaza City to evacuate their homes to avoid harm, a Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa correspondent said Monday.
Residents in central Gaza City's Rimal neighbourhood received a pre-recorded telephone call in Arabic Monday, warning them to leave for their safety.
The dpa correspondent...
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A series of six explosions ripped through Baghdad Monday, killing one and injuring 27 amidst events surrounding the commemoration of Muslim holidays.
The fatality occurred after a roadside bomb planted near a playground in Baghdad's Zayouna area went off, killing one civilian and wounding six others.
Another five civilians were...
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Vietnamese workers found an unexploded bomb believed to have been dropped by the US Air Force during the Vietnam War, a military official said Monday.
The bomb, estimated to weigh 250 kilograms, was 1.2 metres long and has a diameter of 30 centimeters. It was found Friday in front of a house on central Hai Ba Trung street.
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Indonesia Friday marked the fourth anniversary of the Boxing Day tsunami, with thousands of people scrambling up to higher ground on the coast of North Sulawesi as sirens blared in a drill.
In Aceh at the northern end of Sumatra, where more than 170,000 people were either killed or went missing when a massive 9.0-magnitude...
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Indonesia Friday marked the fourth anniversary of the Boxing Day tsunami, with thousands of people scrambling up to higher ground on the coast of North Sulawesi as sirens blared in a drill.
In Aceh at the northern end of Sumatra, where more than 170,000 people were either killed or went missing when a massive 9.0-magnitude...
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Dhaka has alleged three Indian ships illegally entered Bangladesh's territorial waters to carry out hydrocarbon exploration activities in the Bay of Bengal, media reports said Friday.
Foreign ministry officials said the government protested the Indian intrusion into Bangladesh's maritime boundary and on Thursday night dispatched a...
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US-led troops claimed their forces killed 11 Taliban militants in an operation that targeted a roadside-bomb-making network in southern Afghanistan, while a bomber was the only victim in a suicide attack in the western region, officials said Friday.
The eleven militants, including one of their leaders, were killed when the combined...
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US-led troops claimed their forces killed 11 Taliban militants in an operation that targeted a roadside-bomb-making network in southern Afghanistan, while a bomber was the only victim in a suicide attack in the western region, officials said Friday.
The eleven militants, including one of their leaders, were killed when the combined...
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It's all praises for Benazir Bhutto as Pakistan on Saturday reveres in death its former prime minister, who was assassinated a year ago while campaigning for a third term in office.
Tens of thousands of admirers are likely to assemble in the small town of Garhi Khuda Bakhsh in the southern province of Sindh where Bhutto has been...
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Palestinian militants showered southern Israel with rockets Wednesday, causing Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak to reverse a decision to open Gaza Strip crossing points to allow an aid convoy to enter the salient.
Hamas said the barrage - which saw Israel hit with 68 rockets and mortars shells by late afternoon - was to avenge...
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 On Monday, Alvarion Ltd., the largest WiMax and wireless broadband solutions provider in the world, announced the official commercial release of the Mobile WiMax Internet service by DigitalBridge Communications (DBC). The network is already operational in the Jackson Hole, Wyoming area. As the region is highly attractive to tourists all...
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 Retailers and consumer
electronics manufacturers have received fines summing up more than $4 million
from the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for failure in labeling
outdated television equipment.
According to FCC regulations,
consumers must be informed on the national plans to switch to digital
television signals; once...
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 Jerome Kerviel, the man that was accused by the Societe Generale that he lost the secord amount of 7.2 billion dollars in an authorized trade, was released from prison, as a French court, formed out of four judges, decided that he does not have to stay in jail during the investigation.However, the trader is not allowed to leave the area...
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 PG&E Corporation announced its figures for the previous year on Friday, showing a rise also during the full year, but especially during the fourth quarter, as its net income fore Q4 was of 203 million dollars, or 0.56 dollar per share, compared to the 0.43 dollar per share, or 152 million dollars in the same quarter of 2006.PG&E...
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 Reed Elsevier, an Anglo- Dutch company that is one of the world’s leading publisher and information provider, announced on Thursday that it had reached an agreement to acquire ChoicePoint Inc., a US risk information group, for the amount of around 4 billion dollars.The transaction, whose price is based on a 50 dollars per share offer,...
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 Nokia announced Tuesday the closure of its German mobile-phone factory,
bringing gloom to 2,000 employees and ending Germany's last vestige of
wireless phone manufacturing.
The announcement follows the 2006 closure of BenQ, formerly
Siemens, plants in Germany and last year's shutdown of a Motorola
factory. The industry had its...
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 The US medical equipment company Respironics Inc. has announced that it has reached a merger agreement with Royal Philips Elecronics, which will make a tender offer in order to acquire all of Respironics shares for 66.00 dollars in cash per share, totalizing in a total purchase price of 5.1 billion dollars.Respironics is the leading...
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 According to the ISNA news agency, Iran and China signed a two-billion-dollars oil deal on Sunday, almost three years after the beginning of intensive negotiations.China Petroleum and Chemical Corp., or Sinopec, have reached to a long awaited deal with the Iranian oil ministry, regarding the development of the Yadavaran oil field, which...
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Aruba Networks Inc. has countersued
on Wednesday two divisions of Motorola Inc. in a move that adds one new twist
to a wireless local area networking patent infringement case, which has already
affected a bunch of the most important vendors of the business. Aruba Networks
Inc. has been suite in court in August by...
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 Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. has
made public that during the third quarter of the current year, that is between
July and September 2007, it has achieved higher sales and profits. The company’s
cell phone sales have simply hit a record high, although the famous company has
enjoyed strong demand also for its semiconductor and...
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 In an attempt to reach more clients, especially tourists, Walt Disney Parks
and Resorts has put together a plan to build a 800-room oceanfront resort in
Hawaii, opening more than 1,000 job offers in the area.
According to Disney officials, there are no palmsd in building any type of
themne park in Hawaii, although
the hotel will...
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 Dell Inc. Chief Executive Michael Dell announced that his company wants to get into the market for small and medium storage devices. Dell has proposed a new PowerVault MD3000i storage-area-networking product, which the company claims is cheaper and easier to use than similar solutions from competitors."We've been expanding the...
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 Ford Motor Co., the second-biggest U.S. car producer after General Motors, surprisingly reported its first quarterly profit in two years. The American automaker surprised investors and analysts as well by announcing a $750 million, or 31 cents a share, compared with a loss of $317 million, or 17 cents, a year ago. Ford’s second quarter...
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 Ford has started to take bids for two companies in its Premier Automotive Group: Jaguar and Land Rover. However, sources in the industry have told the press that the U.S. car giant will not accept bids from private equity firms which would try to subsequently dismantle or otherwise heavily restructure the two companies."Ford wants...
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 Gazprom, the world’s biggest extractor of natural gas added a new asset to its flourishing business Friday, after buying BP-owned gas field in Siberia for a sum between 700 and 900 million dollars, the British company announced.The Kovykta gas field is located in Siberia, a region rich in natural gas and crude oil, as the TNK-BP venture...
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Lorene F. Schaefer, who was placed on paid administrative leave earlier this month from her job as GE Transportation's general counsel, filed a gender discrimination lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Bridgeport on Thursday.Schaefer alleges GE pays female lawyers and women in entry-level executive jobs less than men and fails to promote...
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 Germany’s largest airline, Lufthansa announced Wednesday another code-sharing agreement with Grupo TACA, a group of five Latin American airlines.The deal comes just a day after Lufthansa announced another similar agreement with TAM Linhas Aereas, Brazil’s largest airline. It is clear that the German carrier tries to widen its area of...
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 British Airways and TPG Capital decided to unite forces and make a bid for Spain’s largest airline, Iberia, the British operator announced Tuesday.Former Texas Pacific Group is a private equity investment firm with offices in Hong Kong, Japan and the United States. Its main area of activity regards major turnarounds and management...
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 Alltel Corp., the nation's largest U.S. cell-phone provider (by geographic area), said Sunday it has agreed to be sold to a consortium of private equity firms for $27.5 billion. The private taking of Alltel by investment firms TPG Capital and GS Capital Partners is the largest yet in the U.S. telecommunications industry.According to the...
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 Merck KGaA and Mylan Laboratories officially perfected a 4.9-billion-euro transaction, in which the German pharmaceutical company sells its drug division. Merck announced the deal was perfected and it will be proposed to the regulators in the US and Germany for approval.Merck Generics reported global sales of 1.8 billion euros last year...
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Copenhagen - A two-day conference hosted by Denmark on how to halt arms smuggling into the Gaza Strip opened on Wednesday, the Dutch foreign ministry said.
The meeting was organized in conjunction with the United States to review how international help could be offered to prevent weapons smuggling, legal issues as well as charting the...
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An infant drowned Tuesday during a search and rescue effort by Greek coast guard officials who rushed to save 19 drowning immigrants attempting to cross into Greece from neighboring Turkey on an inflatable boat.
The immigrants, of unknown origin, were travelling on the inflatable raft when it ended up overturning due to high seas and...
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Environmental group Greenpeace has bought a plot of land earmarked for the construction of a highly-controversial third runway at London's Heathrow airport, the group said Tuesday.
The move was meant to throw a "huge spanner" into the expansion plans, Greenpeace said, warning that the site would become a focus for...
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A gunman went berserk overnight at a Madrid discotheque, shooting dead two people and injuring five others, Spanish police said Monday.
The killer, who was captured shortly afterwards, was a Spaniard with a criminal record for illegal possession of weapons, threats and causing injuries.
The man began to shoot about wildly for a...
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A gunman started shooting overnight at a Madrid discotheque, killing two people and injuring five others, Spanish police said Monday.
The killer, who was captured shortly afterwards, was a Spaniard with a criminal record for illegal possession of weapons, threats and causing injuries.
A Romanian security guard, who had a criminal...
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Two major aid agencies in the Gaza Strip severely limited their operations in the territory owing to security concerns for their staff, as violence raged on and cash was running out, restricting residents' ability to buy even the most basic food supplies.
The United Nations Relief Works Agency for Palestinian refugees (UNRWA), the...
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An unusually heavy snowfall accompanied by a cold snap paralyzed travel in sections of southern France on Wednesday, with the city of Marseille particularly badly hit, French media reported.
The Marseille-Marignane Airport was shut down early Wednesday as 18 centimetres of snow fell on France's second-largest city.
The snow also...
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British Prime Minister Gordon Brown Tuesday urged "international engagement" to protect the security of Israel and create viable open borders for the Palestinians in Gaza in the wake of the current fighting.
Speaking to reporters in London, Brown described the escalating violence and the unfolding humanitarian crisis in...
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A Greek policeman was seriously wounded early Monday when unknown attackers fired shots and hurled a grenade at a police watch post in the ongoing violence since a teenage youth was killed by police in early December.
At Athens hospital, a spokesman said "the condition of the wounded (policeman) is extremely serious but...
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Germany has suspended loans to Turkey to build a dam on the Tigris river after warning that the reservoir would uproot people from homes, swamp the remains of an ancient town and harm the environment.
An aid ministry spokesman in Berlin said Monday that a government guarantee on export receipts for dam equipment had been withdrawn...
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The European Union's executive on Monday approved the takeover of British nuclear generator British Energy by French power firm Electricite de France (EdF) as long as the companies sell off a certain number of assets, officials in Brussels said.
The 12.5-billion-pound deal, worth 18.7 billion dollars at current prices (and 22.9...
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A hotel which was under repair partially collapsed Tuesday on the Spanish holiday island of Majorca, killing at least three construction workers, officials said.
Three bodies were found in the rubble, and it was feared that the death toll could rise. The victims were reportedly Spanish and Moroccan nationals.
Four other people who...
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Europe's biggest car terminal is bursting at the seams as unsold cars pile up, mirroring the dramatic situation in the automobile industry.
More than 90,000 vehicles are clogging the shipping terminal in the north German port of Bremerhaven, waiting to find new owners.
"We can't move the cars, work on them or deliver them...
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Hockenheim could continue to host Formula One races if the German government pledged to support it, the circuit's top manager said Friday.
"The Formula One race is a mega-event, something like a football World Cup. The federal government could do something for it," Karl- Josef Schmidt, CEO of the Hockenheimring GmbH...
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Two people were killed Thursday in a freak accident in a German car park when their car crashed from a third-storey parking deck to the ground below.
Police were investigating how the car could have broken through the solid outside barriers to fall between 8 and 10 metres onto an area used as a bus station in the southern city of...
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Police divers on Thursday pulled the body of a woman from a car submerged in a flooded tunnel near Rome following a night of heavy rains and snowfalls around Italy.
The identity of the woman and the cause of her death were not immediately clear, the ANSA news agency reported.
The tunnel near Monterotondo was among several areas in...
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Chancellor Angela Merkel's government approved Wednesday the use of a German ship in a European Union anti-piracy mission off Somalia that was formally constituted two days earlier.
Germany has promised a naval frigate, the Karlsruhe, and up to 1,400 sailors, airmen and other military personnel, but must wait till its parliament has...
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The situation in the Greek capital Athens calmed down early Tuesday after three days of heavy rioting, triggered by the fatal police shooting of a teenager, media reports said, but unrest was likely to continue.
Violence was concentrated on the area around the Polytechnic University, where several dozen hooded youths were still...
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Demonstrators occupied the Greek consulate in Berlin on Monday in protest at the shooting death of a 15-year-old youth by police in Athens.
A group of around 15 persons barged their way into the reception area of the building in west Berlin during the morning, embassy spokesman Pantelis Pantelouris said.
A female protester told...
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Greece braced Monday for a third day of demonstrations and civil unrest after the shooting of a teenager by police over the weekend.
The widespread rioting and looting by thousands of self-styled anarchists left Athens and the northern port of Thessaloniki resembling war zones as youths destroyed businesses, cars, banks, police...
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The European Union should make it easier for asylum seekers to find work, while taking better care of the most vulnerable applicants and clearing up the question of which member state should handle which request, the EU's executive said Wednesday.
"There is a big difference from member state to member state" in the number...
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Government leaders and representatives from more than 100 states gathered Wednesday to sign a global ban on the use of cluster bombs.
The treaty, which was negotiated in Dublin in May, bans the production, use and trade of cluster munitions.
Cluster weapons - criticized because they carry a high risk of maiming or killing civilians...
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The European Union's executive was set Wednesday to unveil a plan to strengthen ties with former-Soviet neighbours, such as Ukraine and Georgia, which EU leaders pushed up the political agenda in the wake of the summer's Russian-Georgian war.
The so-called "Eastern Partnership," originally proposed by Poland and Sweden in...
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Government leaders from more than 100 states signed a global ban on the use of cluster bombs on Wednesday.
The treaty, which was negotiated in Dublin in May, bans the production, use and trade of cluster munitions.
Cluster weapons - criticized for carrying a high risk of maiming or killing civilians - can be launched from the air...
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Geneva/Brussels - The plan for Switzerland to join Europe's free movement Schengen area would help improve security for the confederation as well as for neighboring states, an official said Thursday.
"We want to improve the security situation in Europe," said Brigitte Hause-Suss, a spokesperson for Justice Minister Eveline...
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Trichina worms, which infect pigs and cause a nasty rheumatic illness in humans, have returned to Germany, animal-health officials north of Berlin said Friday.
Trichinosis infects people who have undercooked pork containing the nematodes.
The worms were found at a slaughterhouse in a pig from a private home, veterinarian Holger...
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Smoke from a fire in the empty quarantine station at Berlin's Tegel Airport reduced visibility for planes taking off and landing Thursday, but an airport spokesman said there were no cancellations.
In continuous rain, firefighters worked to extinguish the blaze in a building where passengers with dangerous infectious diseases and...
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The rats are back in Hamelin, where a legendary Pied Piper once rid the Germany city of both rodents and children.
The city confirmed Tuesday it was battling a rat population explosion in an area of overgrown former garden allotments close to the city centre.
"It's like a rubbish dump in there and has developed into a rat...
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The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) on Monday lowered its estimate for global oil demand growth in 2009 for the third straight month, citing the downturn of highly industrialized economies.
In its latest monthly oil market report, the Vienna-based organization forecast 86.68 million barrels per day of crude...
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