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 Motorola follows the path opened by Apple and Google with plans of creating its own smartphone just days before T-Mobile is officially launching the G1 Android. Motorola’s phones will probably be based on the open-source Linux operating system and the company will begin producing them in late 2009.People say that Motorola’s engineers...
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The worst dust storm in 40 years was Monday dusting the snow with an orange powder in the alpine region of Australia's south-east corner and bringing what locals call mud rain.
Winds of up to 100 kilometres per hour are lifting soil from the arid interior of New South Wales and dumping it nearer the coast. When combined with rain, it...
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 Lynne Spears, mother of the two troubled sisters Britney Spears and Jamie Lynn Spears, releases her book “Through the Storm” on September 16 and it will be published by Thomas Nelson, a leading Christian publisher. Lynne Spears says that her daughter Britney has overcome all her problems and nightmares of the past few years and she...
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 Waters off California's
coast are cleaner in dry weather than they've been in years, according to an
environmental report released Wednesday. The report also shows that Ventura County's
beaches are the cleanest in Southern California.
The environmental group Heal the Bay's "Beach Report
Card" analyzed 517 beaches on the...
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 Only daughter of famous musician Elvis Presley gave birth to twins on October 7. Lisa Marie Presley, 40, has two beautiful girls whose names weren’t released yet, according to celebrity news “Entertainment Tonight” TV show’s website. Presley had to give birth through caesarean. Her girls weighed 2.7 kg and 2.3 kg and had no health...
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 Lynne Spears opened up about her youngest daughter’s pregnancy in the novel she published on September 16, “Through the Storm.” Lynne Spears says that her daughter Britney has overcome all her problems and nightmares of the past few years and she believes that Britney will regain her glorious times.But what about her younger daughter,...
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 Lisa Marie Presley is the only daughter of Elvis Presley and Priscilla Presley. She was born in 1968 and she is an American singer and songwriter. Lisa Marie Presley was first married to Danny Keough, on October 3, 1988. They got two kids together, Danielle Riley, born in 1989 and Benjamin Storm, born in 1992. The singer divorced Keough...
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 Popular actress Kate Hudson celebrated her 29th
birthday in Miami,
accompanied by her rumored boyfriend Owen Wilson, People.com reports. It
appears that Hudson joined Wilson, 39, and his
parents for a lunch at Lario's on South
Beach Saturday afternoon.
A source at the restaurant told People “The four of them sat
away from...
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 Following the Congress’ restrictions regarding the H2B visa program, business owners in the United States, and especially those in the tech field, said that the new imposed limits could potentially hurt the US economy, as it is difficult for them to find skilled workers."We will weather the storm, but it's very, very difficult to...
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 Gulf Coast resident and researcher’s predictions have been
confirmed after the first study to rigorously assess the mental health fallout
from Hurricane Katrina. Mood problems after the storm occurred about as often
as in any natural disaster ever studied, and that the delayed government
response almost certainly made the problem...
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 This week-end theatres welcomed a fantasy movie that will
charm both children and parents with the great adventures that it depicts.
“Nim’s Island,” as its
title highlights focuses on the story of a young girl living on a secluded
island. Nim, played by “Little Miss Sunshine” star, Abigail Breslin, lost her
mother at sea and is...
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 Horror movies have evolved from monsters and zombies to the
monsters that people become when their own psychosis interfere in the process
of their own salvation.
Director Frank Darabont, known for his previous adaptations
from Stephen King’s novels and “The Shawshank Redemption” and “The Green Mile”
tackled anther King’s novella,...
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 US Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Thursday said he expected
slower growth and higher inflation through the end of the year and into
early 2008 amid "turmoil" in financial markets and rising energy
prices.
Bernanke told Congress in a hearing that despite solid growth of
3.9 per cent in the third quarter, the Fed...
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 The United States' largest savings and loan association, Washington Mutual, said through its Chief Executive Kerry Killinger on Monday that a "near perfect storm" has caught the U.S. housing market. Killinger said the company anticipates a continued rise in bad loans, which will take a toll on WaMu's earnings and force the...
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 Despite hard weather, the two
rovers that NASA has sent on Mars are still active, and also ready for
continuing their space missions on the red planet. Spirit and Opportunity,
as the two rovers are called, have successfully survived the severe dust storm
that has taken place on Mars starting with early August, as well as...
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Voters in Canada's French-speaking province of Quebec elected a federalist provincial government Monday, handing the Liberal Party of Quebec a slim majority.
Premier Jean Charest's Liberals, who are not connected to the federal Liberal Party, won 66 seats in the 125-seat provincial legislature, with 42 per cent of the popular...
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Hurricane Paloma strengthened over the Caribbean and was approaching the Cayman Islands and Cuba with sustained winds of 140 kilometres an hour on Friday.
"Paloma is a category one hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale. Strengthening is likely and Paloma is expected to become a category two hurricane later today (Friday) and...
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Hurricane Paloma strengthened over the Caribbean and was approaching the Cayman Islands and Cuba with sustained winds of 140 kilometres an hour on Friday.
"Paloma is a category one hurricane on the Saffir-Simpson scale. Strengthening is likely and Paloma is expected to become a category two hurricane later today (Friday) and...
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 Meteorologists’ research has shown that Tropical Storm Bertha has begun moving away from the Cape Verde Islands on Friday morning after forming in the far eastern Atlantic on Thursday afternoon.The storm is expected to take a turn to the northwest and then north before it reaches North America. It’s early to predict any development of...
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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 death toll from tropical storm Olga climbed to more than 30 on the
Caribbean island of Hispaniola, local newspaper reports said Friday.
Twelve Haitian seasonal workers drowned in flooding late Thursday
on the Dominican Republic side of the island, which has been drenched
by days of rain that unleashed mudslides and...
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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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 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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 The fire from California has reached its fourth day of spreading all around the area and destroying more than 800 homes. Firefighters are desperately trying to stop it while evacuating thousands of residents. Since Thursday, when the blaze began, 800 houses, most of them million-dollar mansions, were erased in the county of Montecito....
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Subtropical Storm Laura formed in the north central Atlantic Ocean, according to the National Hurricane Center. Laura is centered at about 1,015 miles west of Faial Island in the Azores and was moving west-northwest at nearly 8 mph on Monday. The subtropical storm’s winds are near 60 mph and Laura can reach the strength of a hurricane on...
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 Tropical Storm Kyle is the 11th storm of this year’s hurricane season in the Atlantic. According to the U.S. National Hurricane Center, Kyle formed on Thursday as a terrible weather was announced in Puerto Rico and other northern Caribbean islands. Kyle reached to be a tropical storm when its winds reached 45mph.As a Category 1...
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Nine days have passed since hurricane Ike hit the Gulf Coast and destroyed the way to New York. Still, more than 820,000 people in Texas were cut off the power on Monday. The Center Power Energy Inc, which controls most of the Huston area’s electricity, had 767,000 customers in Texas without power. Yet, the number is small, remembering...
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 The Texas Gulf Coast tries to take its day-by-day life from the beginning, after hurricane Ike destroyed almost everything around him. As NASA stated, the flight control of the International Space Station will return to the Johnson Space Center on Friday.Center Point Energy stated that the power was restored to almost 900,000 homes in...
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 The National Hurricane Center in Miami has released a new report about Hurricane Ike, which seems to be the strongest hurricane this season. It grew its strength to Category 4 as it crossed a path from the Caribbean to Florida and Louisiana to Mexico, making everybody wonder where it would stop.Before heading to the warm waters of the...
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 CNN meteorologists released a report on Tropical Storm Hanna saying that it made a landfall at about 3:20 a.m. ET on Saturday near the Little River Inlet at the South Carolina-North Carolina border and "large and dangerous battering waves" will be expected east of Hanna’s center.The coastal storm surge will reach 5 feet above...
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 Tropical Storm Gustav headed toward Cuba on Wednesday after it had killed 11 people and caused a lot of floods and damages in the Caribbean. Louisiana and the Gulf Coast are also threatened by the tropical storm which could become a Category 3 hurricane.Evacuations are possible for residents in New Orleans. People living in the area were...
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 On Wednesday, tropical storm Gustav headed toward Cuba after it had killed 11 people and caused a lot of floods and damages in the Caribbean. Louisiana and the Gulf Coast are also threatened by the tropical storm which could become a Category 3 hurricane.A meteorologist at the National Hurricane Center in Miami, Rebecca Waddington,...
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 The Atlantic hurricane season has come with its seventh tropical storm this year in central Caribbean. The storm is heading for the Dominican Republic and Haiti. Forecasters announced that the center of the storm was located at 260 miles southeast of Port-au-Prince in Haiti, at 11 a.m. on Monday.The National Hurricane Center said that...
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 Friday was the fifth day since tropical storm Fay established in Florida. Heavy rains and winds frightened the residents in the region. People in the Gulf Coast and other communities in the area had to be very careful about their staying in their homes. Two feet of rain drooped in Florida and spread to the central Atlantic coast.Fay is...
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 Heavy rain and winds came together with tropical storm Fay in the Florida Keys. Fay broke down trees and headed southwest Florida on Monday, after it had killed nearly 50 people in the Caribbean. This is the sixth storm this year in the Atlantic hurricane season and had hit Florida with winds reaching 60 mile per hour.Fay didn’t reach...
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 220,000 customers at Commonwealth Edison were left without electricity for several nights during a strong storm. It will take a couple of days to repair the cables and restore the damage, as Anne Pramaggiore, ComEd executive vice president said. "Given the magnitude of the damage ... we do expect this to be a multiday restoration...
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 The Monday Texans’ preparations for the tropical storm were accompanied by a heat wave which has been lasting for 11 days. The tropical storm strengthened as it churned through the Gulf of Mexico toward Galveston. Even if extreme weather is normal for the coast of Texas, the temperatures were too high.Residents bought more water and...
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Residents along the Texas coast on Monday were
bracing for Tropical Storm Edouard, as forecasters predicted the storm
could strengthen before making landfall. Edouard was predicted to make landfall near the Texas-Louisiana early Tuesday, the National Hurricane Centre in Miami said.
Monday afternoon it had sustained...
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Tropical storm Edouard triggered a hurricane
watch by US weather officials early Monday as it churned westward
toward Louisiana and Texas on the US Gulf coast. The National
Hurricane Center in Miami, Florida, issued a tropical storm warning for
Edouard westward from the mouth of the Mississippi River, near New
Orleans, with the...
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 Tropical Storm Edouard, the fifth tropical storm of the hurricane season in Atlantic this year, has formed near an oil and gas producing area of the northern Gulf of Mexico, on Sunday.By 11 p.m. EDT, the storm was located around 80 miles southeast of the mouth of the Mississippi River and was expected to come on the Texas coast being as...
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 The danger of rip currents during the weekend captured two people while the sea was moving angrily. Rip currents are channeled currents of water flowing away from shore. They extend toward the surf zone and they can occur at any beach with breaking waves. Rip currents can kill swimmers.On Friday and Saturday, four people were killed and...
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 During the weekend the risk of rip currents in New York Oceans was “moderate” and stronger instances were expected. Even if only experienced surfers were allowed to enter the water, a 10-year-old girl disappeared in the deep waters, four people died and three others are missing.Long Island and New York Beaches were extremely dangerous...
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Tropical storm Dolly has formed on Wednesday in the Gulf Coast. It traversed the U.S.-Mexico coastline and weakened as it entered a tropical depression in South Texas on Thursday. Warnings have been made for a flood along the Rio Grande Valley.Flood warnings were available for Texas too. Charles Hoskins, deputy emergency officer for...
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New Hampshire was affected by a tornado on Thursday. It destroyed a lot of homes and took the life of an old lady in Northwood Lake. Storms came through central N.H. and 1,000 people in Alton-Barnstead-Strafford area ran out of electricity. 200 other in Ossippe, Effingham and Freedom and also 100 in Epsom and Pittsfield got the same...
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After tropical storm Bertha and other storms that formed along the Atlantic and threatened the states around the ocean, another storm is expected this season, which has started earlier that it was scheduled. Hurricane Dolly heads for the United States, Caribbean and Central America these days.The hurricane season is scheduled to last...
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 Hurricane Bertha slowly approaches the Atlantic
Ocean on Friday. Officials in Bermuda
said that the hurricane advanced on the island with 85 mph winds. The hurricane
center advised those on the island to monitor Bertha’s progress closely.
Bertha formed last Thursday near the Cape Verde
islands and set a record for the farthest...
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 Thousands of residents north of Sacramento have been ordered to evacuate
their homes after irregular airstreams blew embers across wildfire repression
lines, the most recent impediment for already pressured firefighters.
Authorities forced the residents of 3,200 homes in Paradise to abandon their houses on Tuesday after...
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Firefighters Monday tried to lock in gains
they made in fighting California's worst wildfires, as hotter weather
was expected to move in and make their task more difficult.
Over 300 fires were still raging across the state fought by some
20,000 firefighters, over 1,500 fire engines and over 100
water-dropping aircraft. The fires...
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Four people have been killed by tornadoes at a Boy Scout camp in Iowa and two others in Kansas as more than 30 twisters ripped
through the U.S. Midwest, Reuters reports.
Three of the dead were scouts and one was a youth staff member, said Lloyd
Roitstein, head of the Boy Scouts of Mid-America Council. He also mentioned...
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 The strong winds hit USA once again. Wednesday, a small
town in central Kansas
was struck by a half-mile-wide tornado which left one dead behind. Sharon
Watson, spokeswoman for the Kansas Adjutant General's Department, said that there
was only one deceased found so far. However, she added that there might be others.
“The town took a...
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Thunderstorms crossed south-central Indiana
on Tuesday, producing at least three tornadoes and causing widespread damage. The
National Weather Service tracked two tornadoes on the ground south of Indianapolis.
Numerous homes and buildings were destroyed or seriously
damaged and at least one person was injured. The storm also...
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 Tornadoes hit Nebraska Thursday night, damaging houses and
businesses, derailing train cars, tearing down trees and blowing cars off the
tracks.
A possible tornado touched down near Aurora, about 70 miles west of Lincoln, damaging a few businesses and at
least one house on the outskirts of town, the Associated Press...
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The Santa Cruz Mountains area
burst into flames a few days ago and since then people are fighting desperately
to stop the persistent wildfire. All that the fire leaves behind is ashes. Six square
miles of centuries-old wood has turned into a battlefield, nature versus
humans. At least 20 houses were destroyed and another 570...
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 Tornadoes and severe thunderstorms hit
central parts of the United
States, killing seven people, injuring
dozens more and destroying many homes. The areas worst-hit by the powerful
storms were in Iowa.
In Minnesota,
dozens of homes were destroyed by a strong storm and a two-year-old child died
in Hugo, local media reported....
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 Windsor was hit by a large tornado which killed at least one person, destroyed
dozens of homes and caused a number of clashes and multiple injuries on
highways in Weld County. The victim of the tornado was a
resident at a campground outside Greeley, representatives of Weld County
said in a statement. He was identified as Oscar...
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The U.S.A has been devastated by an alarmingly high number of tornadoes this year. Records made by the Weather Channel show that 819 tornadoes ravaged the country between January and May, in comparison to 539 such phenomena in the same period of the last three years. There were 98 deaths registered, the biggest number of fatalities since...
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 Forecasters say the natural cycle in air pressure and
sea-surface temperatures in the Atlantic
became more favorable to storms beginning in 1995. The devastating natural
program will continue, bringing more hurricanes and storms than ever. The
predictions were made for 15 to 20 years to come.
“We don't attribute this to anything...
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 After strong winds had damaged several buildings in Central
US and more than a dozen people were injured in a pileup in Colorado,
the tornado moved to Central Arkansas.
In Little Rock,
Ark., a tornado destroyed a
hangar and several planes, injuring a number of people.
According to the Associated Press, after it hit Little...
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 Strong winds from what appeared to be a tornado damaged
several buildings on Central US. It killed one
person in a massive traffic pileup caused by the snow.
The Associated Press reports three people were taken to
hospital and treated for minor injuries after a strong storm flattened an
antique store and damaged a gas station in...
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 Thousands of Katrina victims, who received money to
reconstruct their houses may be in the situation of giving it back. The
Associated Press reports that the private contractor under investigation for
the compensation it received to run the Road Home Grant program for Katrina
victims says that some people got a great amount of money...
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 The National Weather Services announced that there are
100-percent chances for South-central Kentucky, Southern
Indiana and Interstate 65 to face sleet and freezing rain. Their
prediction comes because of the fact that overnight a thin layer of ice fell
over Springfield.
However, the ice accumulation will be no more than...
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 Defense
Secretary Robert Gates could not be present at a hearing on Capitol Hill, after falling on
ice Tuesday and breaking his shoulder.
There was
an ice storm in Washington D.C. on Tuesday, which made traffic very
difficult on sidewalks and roads. Gates
was just leaving his house when he fell on the ice.
In...
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 Rain and snow battered both coasts of the United
States Thursday, while powerful winds raged through the northeast, causing the
death of a construction worker in New York.
New York City officials said the worker fell 12 stories
Wednesday when the scaffold platform beneath him collapsed, apparently because
of high winds, The...
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 20 inches of snow fell around Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, and 71
homes have been evacuated due to the avalanches, which destroyed four houses
and a garage in northwest of Ketchum. The heavy snow has left without
electricity thousands of people from Idaho, Utah, Colorado and Washington.
John Livingston, a National Weather Service...
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 More than 300 people have been stranded in snow on a portion
of Interstate 5 in the mountainous region north of Los Angeles after a fierce
winter storm struck Southern California, authorities informed Thursday.
Hundreds of vehicles were stuck after the powerful storm
forced the closure of the interstate in the Grapevine area....
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 Rain and snow pummelled the California region Saturday, dumping nearly
two metres of snow in the Sierra Nevada and bursting a levee in Nevada
that forced the evacuation of thousands of people.
The levee broke along the Truckee Canal in Fernley, Nevada,
trapping about 3,500 people who were being rescued by US military
helicopters...
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 A powerful storm battered California on Friday leaving some 500,000
homes and businesses without power and threatening mudslides, flooding
and huge snowfalls projected to last into next week.
Meteorologists said the storm could be the worst in the state for
ten years with up to 25 centimeters of rain expected to fall Friday...
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 The political buzz in Washington Friday morning after Democrat Barack
Obama swept the Iowa vote was over his ability to have energized and
motivated young, first-time voters in the midwestern state.
Analysts noted the record turnout in Iowa - more than 200,000 - to
select party candidates for the presidency, and said Obama had...
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 Instead of a “clear for takeoff” signal, thousands of
holiday travelers at Logan International Airport faced canceled flights and
long delays yesterday, with some trapped in planes on the tarmac for hours, as
the third snowstorm in eight days hit Greater Boston.
Like the previous Thursday's 10-inch storm, which plunged
Greater...
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 Local authorities report over 88,000 homes and businesses in
Oklahoma in darkness more than a week after an ice storm swept the county and produced
heavy power surges.
Utility crews estimated that crews would have power restored
by late Wednesday or Thursday. Meanwhile, overnight temperatures in the state
in the past week have...
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 You have paid a lot of money for
this gadget that was made to entertain you wherever you might be: in your bed
or on the road, at home or in the park. The tinny iPod was not designed to be
just an object, but to be like a friend for you so that you couldn’t be alone
anymore. But although Microsoft wanted to make for us a loyal...
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Brussels - The European Union's explosive expansion across Central and Eastern Europe in 2004 was an economic success, despite the financial turmoil now sweeping the region, the EU's executive said on Friday.
"The enlargement has emerged as a major success for the EU and its citizens ... It has greatly boosted the economies and...
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London - Severe storms and snowfalls hit parts of Britain Tuesday, sparking a number of flood alerts and leaving thousands of homes without power.
A band of heavy rain swept through southern Britain, accompanied by strong winds coming in from the Atlantic, which earlier hit parts of France.
Meanwhile, heavy snow has been falling in...
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Malaga, Spain - A storm with winds blowing at up to 180 kilometres an hour injured 25 people overnight in the southern Spanish city of Malaga, the State Meteorological Agency (Aemet) said Monday.
The storm, which was accompanied by rain and which Aemet described as a tornado, uprooted trees, knocked over advertising billboards, tore...
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The British economy could be heading for its biggest slump since the end of World War II, with the impending recession lasting for five years, a leading think tank has predicted.
The Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR) said Friday that the British economy could shrink by more than 2.5 per cent in 2009 as bank lending...
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The Austrian city of Innsbruck will host the first Youth Winter Olympics in 2012, International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Jacques Rogge announced Friday in Lausanne.
Innsbruck beat off the challenge of Finland's Kuopio for the right to host the Youth Games, which are a personal project of Rogge in his mission to fight...
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The Austrian city of Innsbruck will host the first Youth Winter Olympics in 2012, International Olympic Committee (IOC) president Jacques Rogge announced Friday in Lausanne.
Innsbruck beat off the challenge of Finland's Kuopio for the right to host the Youth Games, which are a personal project of Rogge in his mission to fight...
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The French presidency of the European Union on Thursday proposed a watered-down set of laws on fighting climate change in a bid to win EU backing at a crucial end-of-year summit.
In Brussels, EU leaders are set to debate a series of proposals from the bloc's executive, the European Commission, aimed at cutting emissions of greenhouse...
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Former Germany goalkeeper Timo Hildebrand will join TSG Hoffenheim free of charge during the upcoming winter break, the Bundesliga leaders said on Wednesday.
Confirming a report from the Bild daily, Hoffenheim released a short statement announcing the prominent hiring and saying that Hildebrand was to be presented at a news...
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Bayern Munich host TSG Hoffenheim in one of the most highly anticipated matches in recent Bundesliga history on Friday night.
Newcomers Hoffenheim have taken the league by storm with stylish football and can assure themselves of the unofficial winter title through the winter break if they win at the record and reigning champions...
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Accidents snarled high-lying snowed-over roads Friday in Germany as Alpine countries stood by for high winds, sinking temperatures and heavy snow.
In the upland central state of Thuringia, a highway maintenance vehicle spreading salt to melt the snow was struck by a skidding truck, destroying both vehicles, police said. The drivers...
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A Spanish discotheque Thursday cancelled a prize draw which had sparked a storm by advertising a breast augmentation operation as the jackpot.
The discotheque in the eastern city of Valencia apologized to those who might have felt offended, after the local authorities and the health ministry announced the possibility of...
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A new award has been launched to honor efforts to respond to environmental emergencies, the United Nations said Monday, in an attempt to encourage action to curtail the impacts of man-made and natural disasters.
The non-monetary Green Star Awards will first be awarded next May in Brussels to charities, government and companies that...
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Two would-be immigrants coming from Africa died while attempting to reach Spain's Canary Islands, local officials said Monday.
The victims were among a total of 123 migrants on board a boat which landed on El Hierro island on Monday.
One of them was dead on arrival, while the other passed away after landing. At least three others...
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Two would-be immigrants coming from Africa died while attempting to reach Spain's Canary Islands, while nine were in serious condition, local officials said Monday.
The victims were among a total of 123 migrants on board a boat which landed on El Hierro island on Monday.
One of them was dead on arrival, while the other passed away...
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The European Union's executive on Wednesday moved to strengthen ties with Eastern Europe by giving a conditional green light to Croatia's membership, calling for a re-launch of strategic talks with Russia and offering Serbia a chance of possible candidacy.
"Croatia is expected to reach the final phase of accession negotiations...
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During her 33 years as queen, Sofia of Spain had been known for her gentleness and discretion.
But at the time of her 70th birthday, the Greek-born wife of King Juan Carlos stunned the country with a sudden outburst of outspokenness, reigniting a debate about the role of the monarchy.
The queen opened up to journalist Pilar Urbano,...
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The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) Wednesday suspended two top entertainers in a spiralling row over the broadcasting of lewd comments left on the answer phone of veteran Fawlty Towers actor Andrew Sachs.
Programmes by Jonathan Ross, host of a popular Friday evening TV chat show, and Russell Brand, a comedian, will be taken...
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The drought-stricken island of Cyprus welcomed its first rain storm in recent months Wednesday which ended up causing flooding to many parts of the eastern Mediterranean island.
Heavy storms forced the closure of two main roads in the capital Nicosia and emergency crews were called in to evacuate more than 300 homes due to heavy...
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The European Union's executive body on Wednesday called for tighter rules on bank security and supervision as the global financial storm showed no signs of abating.
"We have just approved a proposal for reform of the capital requirements of financial companies ... This important and far-reaching proposal will be followed very...
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The European Union's executive body is to demand that banks keep more of their riskiest securities on their own books and submit to international supervision on Wednesday as the global financial storm showed no signs of abating.
In a long-awaited move, EU Internal Markets Commissioner Charlie McCreevy is set to demand that banks which...
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The European Union on Wednesday approved in record time Britain's nationalization of troubled financier Bradford & Bingley, the country's eighth-biggest mortgage lender, saying that it was in line with EU rules.
On Monday the British government decided to take the lender into public ownership and sell off its savings and deposits...
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Germany's unemployment rate fell in September to 7.6 per cent in
adjusted terms, defying turmoil on the world's financial markets, the
nation's labour agency said Tuesday.
The seasonally adjusted monthly figure of 3.177 million people
out of work marked a drop by 29,000 from August, when the
Nuremberg-based Federal Labour...
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Six years ago, university graduate and company employee Jean O. (not real name) left his native Cameroon to study in Italy on a scholarship.
He later got a job with a non-governmental organization (NGO), but fell out with it and decided to look for better opportunities in Spain.
The Spanish authorities' refusal to grant him a...
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A three-year-old British girl who survived being sucked into a flooded storm drain and swept 70 metres through an underground concrete pipe before being rescued by her father became an undisputed media star Tuesday.
Leona Baxter and her dog Brophy fell into the hidden drain while playing in a park in Chester-le-Street, in the...
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A tornado raced through the north-east Dutch province of Groningen, Dutch media reported early Monday.
The tornado struck the villages of Lutjegast, Sebaldeburen and Doezum Sunday night.
Cars were lifted in the air and small boats were tossed hundreds of metres across the water. Many farms were severely damaged.
There were no...
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Lightning killed three people Thursday and
hospitalized six others with electric burns in Russia's Volga region of
Bashkortostan, a local emergency service spokesman said. The
victims had gone to a secluded beach on the Kama River to escape the
summer heat, but, as one witnesses told the Interfax news agency,
clouds covered the...
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 At least three Bulgarian sailors were killed and eight shipmates were
missing and feared dead after a cargo ship sank during a storm in the
Sea of Azov, officials in Sofia and Kiev said Thursday.
One crew member, the ship's second mechanic, was rescued from the
icy water and was en route to a Russian hospital, Bulgarian...
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 After further analyzing the situation after massive waves split a Russian oil tanker in two during a fierce storm Sunday, spilling at least 560,000 gallons of fuel into a strait leading to the Black Sea, some officials said It could take years to clean up.It was the worst environmental disaster in the region in years.The 18-foot waves...
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 A vicious winter storm slammed into the Black Sea coasts of Ukraine and
Russia on Sunday, sinking ships and wreaking havoc ashore, the Interfax
news agency reported.
The level six gale at its epicentre near the Kerch Strait was
producing waves in excess of five metres, and winds over 32 metres per
second, officials at Ukraine...
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 According to local authorities, the Netherlands and Britain
have taken precautionary measure by closing sea defense barriers, evacuating
North Sea oil rig workers and relocating thousands of people from homes as a
storm sent a 3-metre tidal surge along their coasts.
British police told people to leave their homes as the east
coast...
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 A boat race for children ended suddenly in the Irish Sea after a sudden squall caused 91 vessels to capsize and 120 children were swept out to sea on Thursday, the Irish Coast Guard informed.The incident occurred at about 2 pm off the eastern coast of Dun Laoghaire while a junior regatta was taking place. The powerful winds tilted over...
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Somali pirates have demanded 25 million dollars for the release of a Saudi-owned supertanker seized at the weekend, reports said Thursday.
Mohamed Said, one of the pirates, gave a deadline of ten days for the ransom to be paid, threatening "disastrous" consequences otherwise, Arabic television channel Al-Jazeera...
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 Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki was declared winner Sunday amid reignited
violence around the country after a tight, tense race was marred by
allegations of fraud.
As Kibaki's supporters celebrated in the capital Nairobi,
pro-opposition protesters countrywide took to the streets charging the
vote was rigged.
Leaders had appealed...
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 The release in Sudan of a British school teacher jailed for naming a
teddy bear Mohammed was Monday hailed as a victory for "common sense"
in Britain.
Prime Minister Gordon Brown, Anglican Church leaders and mainstream
Muslim organizations hailed the decision by Sudanese President Omar
al-Bashir to pardon Gillian...
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 The Niger Delta was stormed Thursday by numerous soldiers who
have the mission of releasing 27 persons previously abducted by militants from
a foreign oil flow station.
Gunmen attacked Sunday an Italian oil flow station in the
southern state of Bayelsa State,
kidnapping eleven soldiers and 16 workers, without inflicting any damage...
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At least three people died, two were missing and tens of thousands were evacuated Wednesday as Typhoon Hagupit brought gales and torrential rain to much of southern China.
The typhoon destroyed 7,915 houses and affected some five million people in Guangdong province, where all the casualties were reported, the official Xinhua news...
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Malaysia's national carrier on Tuesday announced profits of 40 million ringgit (12.12 million dollars) from April to June 2008, an 64.5 per cent drop from the same period last year.
Government-controlled Malaysian Airline System (MAS), which carried 14 million passengers last year, had posted a net profit of 112.85 million ringgit...
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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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 Hurricane Dolly formed in the Caribbean is heading toward the U.S.-Mexico border and may strengthen into a Category 2 storm before reaching the coast around midday, forecasters predicted. According to the National Hurricane Center’s Web site, early this morning the hurricane’s center was an estimated 55 miles (90 kilometers)...
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 Tropical Storm Dolly formed in the Caribbean is approaching Yucatan Peninsula and maybe it will head toward southern Texas. Local emergency management officials are monitoring it but aren’t excessively alarmed, saying the tropical storm doesn’t pose a threat yet to the upper Texas Gulf Coast. The emergency management coordinator for the...
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According to officials, thousands of
workers continued search and rescue operations Saturday after Tropical Storm
Kalmaegi hit Taiwan Friday.
The tropical storm, which was upgraded to
typhoon level, brought heavy rain on central and southern Taiwan. The
National Fire Agency informs that up to 39 inches of rain fell in no more...
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 U.S. National Hurricane Center informs that Tropical Storm Fausto, which is expected to become a hurricane, and Hurricane Elida plowed across the Pacific Ocean, hundreds of miles from Mexico, whereas in the Atlantic, Tropical Storm Bertha moved away from Bermuda.At 4 a.m., the center of Tropical Storm Bertha was situated about 355 miles...
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 The new hurricane season starts with Boris and Bertha. Boris
passed without hurting anyone, but Bertha blew out suddenly. Boris erupted in
the Pacific and went to the western coast of Mexico and caused no damage.
Bertha formed last Thursday near the Cape Verde
islands and set a record for the farthest east that a tropical storm has...
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According to an infrared satellite image from the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's National
Hurricane Center
shows Tropical Storm Bertha moving towards warmer water and gaining strength
quickly.
Hurricane Bertha has strengthened to a Category 3 storm on
the five-step Saffir-Simpson scale of hurricane...
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This infrared satellite image from the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration's National
Hurricane Center
shows Tropical Storm Bertha moving towards warmer water and gaining strength in
a short time.
According to forecasters, Bertha is expected to become the
season's first hurricane. The tropical storm has sustained...
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the 144th day of 2008 with 222 to follow.The moon is waning. The morning stars are Venus, Jupiter, Neptune and Uranus. The evening stars are Mercury, Mars and Saturn.Those born on this date are under the sign of Gemini. They include Swedish botanist Carolus Linnaeus, the father of modern systematic botany, in 1707; Austrian physician...
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the 126th day of 2008 with 240 to follow. The moon is new. The morning stars are Venus, Neptune, Uranus and Jupiter. The evening stars are Mars, Mercury and Saturn.Those born on this date are under the sign of Taurus. They include Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard in 1813; German political theorist Karl Marx in 1818; hatmaker John...
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 According to a state-owned oil rig press release made public
on Wednesday regarding the death of at least 18 oil workers, the cause of the
incident was due to a drilling rig which struck an oil platform in stormy
weather, spilling gas and oil into the Gulf of Mexico Seven other workers were
still missing.
Rescuers have pulled 61...
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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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...the 166th day of 2007 with 199 to follow.
The moon is new. The morning stars are Mars, Neptune and Uranus. The evening stars are Jupiter, Mercury, Venus and Saturn.
Those born on this date are under the sign of Gemini. They include Prince Edward of England, son of Edward III and known as the "Black Prince," in 1330;...
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 It seems that “13” is a lucky number for pop queen Madonna,
as she managed to score her thirteenth number one single with “4 Minutes,”
featuring Justin Timberlake, the Official U.K. Charts Company said on Sunday
according to BBC News.
“4 Minutes,” taken from her eleventh album “Hard Candy,”
comes 23 years after she first...
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 The Rolling Stones’ leader, Mick Jagger, was almost killed 40
years ago if it weren’t for the bad weather that stopped the killers. According
to a new BBC documentary, the members of the Hells Angels gang organized a
naval assault on Jagger’s holiday home in the Hamptons, near New York city.
However, due to the storm, the boat that...
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Rapper Stack Bundles, also a Byrd Gang member, was shot and killed today in New York, outside of his home. DJ Envy at New York radio station Hot 97 announced on the air that Stack had been shot to death, also saying Stack was seen at New York nightclub Stereo as late as 4:30 a.m. on Monday.According to allhiphop.com, Stack Bundles was...
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 The 20-year-old Serb is flying high in Paris reaching the semi finals after disposing of Russian Igor Andreev after just three sets on Wednesday, 6-3, 6-3, 6-3.Novak Djokovic needed a little more than two hours to storm seize his ticket in the next round of the prestigious Grand Slam tournament Roland Garros. For Djokovic the start was a...
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 The Serbs are taking Roland Garros by storm, as Ana Ivanovic and Jelena Jankovic outclassed their opponents to reach the semi-finals and write another page in the history of tennis.Ivanovic had a tough match against powerful and determined Svetlana Kuznetsova on the Court Chatrier. But the young Serb left her emotions in the locker room...
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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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 On Monday in Mexico, two of the major oil export ports were closed due to bad weather conditions brought about by Tropical Storm Arthur.As the wind got stronger and the sea roughened, the Department of Communications and Transportation of Mexico announced that the ports of Dos Bocas and Cayo Arcas would be closed down. Pajaritos, the...
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 On Saturday, one day before the official start of the hurricane season, the first tropical storm of the year formed in the Belize region and it is now heading towards the mainland. Tropical Storm Arthur could come with up to 10 inches (125 to 250 millimeters) of rain in Guatemala and Belize and up to 15 inches (380 millimeters) of rain...
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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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 Pervez Musharraf’s decision to storm the Red Mosque and bring a swift and bloody end to a week-long standoff unleashed the outrage of thousands across the country on Friday.More than one hundred people died during the siege and direct confrontations with governmental troops. Soldier cordoned off hospitals and the compound in Islamabad...
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 The standoff at Lal Masjid ended in a dramatic manner, with thousands of soldiers storming the compound and dozens of alleged militants dying in the fire exchange that brought a funeral calm in Islamabad after a week of turmoil.Thursday, the remains of those killed were buried in a cemetery on Islamabad’s outskirts, the authorities...
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 After a week-long standoff at the Lal Masjid mosque in Islamabad, paramilitary and army forces stormed the compound on Tuesday, at least 58 people from both sides being killed.A military official said eight soldiers “have embraced martyrdom” and 29 are injured after fierce fire exchange with militants holed up inside the compound....
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 BBC’s correspondent flew back to Britain on Saturday after being held captive for almost four months by members of the Palestinian militant group Army of Islam, Israeli media reported.Three days after being released, Johnston decided to return in Scotland for some peace and quiet with his family.Wednesday, he was freed by the...
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 After a day of fierce fire exchange between armed students and government forces in the vicinity of the Red Mosque in Islamabad, over 500 students laid their weapons down Wednesday. The intense gunbattle erupted early Tuesday after a group of students from the Lal Majid attacked a police checkpoint and kidnapped four officers along with...
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 Hamas continues with its actions that would bring order in Gaza, announcing Monday the arrest of a spokesman for the group holding BBC reporter Alan Johnston after a fire exchange in Gaza City.Khatab al-Maqdifi, spokesman for the Palestinian militant group Army of Islam was injured after a gunbattle erupted when Hamas members tried to...
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 Lebanese forces opened fire on a group of Palestinian demonstrators that tried to pass through a check point towards the Nahr al-Bared camp on Friday, two people being killed and 20 wounded.The incident occurred in northern Lebanon near the Bedawi camp, where thousands of Palestinians took shelter from the screaming bullets and mortars...
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 Pakistan’s southern coastal region was battered Tuesday by strong winds and heavy rains, at least 13 people being reported dead and thousands forced out of their homes.The savage cyclone Yemyin wreaked havoc on the Balochistan coastline, where people fled to higher regions after most of the area was flooded. Local officials informed that...
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 BBC’s veteran reporter Allan Johnston appeared in a new video released by his abductors on the internet with an explosives vest strapped to his chest, the kidnappers threatening to blow up Johnston if Hamas tries to release him.The Army of Islam, as the Palestinian group allegedly holding Johnston is named, filmed the journalist with a...
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 The conflict in northern Lebanon continues to claim lives, four more soldier being killed Friday as they were trying to disarm explosive devices placed in a building inside the Nahr al-Bared camp.Four members of the Lebanese army bomb squad entered a building seized from Fatah al-Islam militants with the goal of dismantling the explosive...
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 Cyclone Gonu, the worst tropical storm to hit the Arabian Sea region made its first victims in Oman, three people being killed Thursday in the province that holds the country’s capital Muscat.According to a police official, the heavy rains and strong winds flooded numerous houses and took three lives until now, injuring nine persons....
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 The strongest tropical cyclone to hit the Arabian Sea region, Cyclone Gonu prompted Iran's Interior Ministry to declare an emergency state in the southern regions and evacuate hundreds in Chabahr on Wednesday.Hormuzgan and Sistan-Beluchistan, two southeastern coastline provinces have received warnings from Iran’s Department of...
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 The Palestinian refugee camp of Nahr al-Bared is under heavy
fire from the Lebanese military, witnesses saying the fire exchange is the
heaviest in days.
According to people who witness the fight between Lebanese troops
and Fatah al-Islam militants, mortars and bullets were flying everywhere, while
special units of the army moved...
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 Hundreds of Qassam missiles launched from the Gaza Strip caused panic among the residents of southern Israeli territories, thousand fleeing the ravaged regions.In response, Israel initiated several airstrikes against Hamas key positions and leaders, as the battle moved on the ground Thursday, 33 Hamas officials being arrested in the West...
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 One of the four games to ever receive a perfect score on the GameSpot website was Dreamcast’s Soulcalibur. The spectacular game is making an unexpected comeback, as Namco Bandai announced on Thursday that a Soulcalibur version for the Xbox Live Arcade will be made available this summer.The Arcade version is announced to come with full...
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 The United Kingdom-based video
and computer games publisher Eidos Interactive has announced that its upcoming
co-op shooter game, titled “Crossfire”, will be known from now on as “Conflict:
Denied Ops”. This way the upcoming game
will represent in fact the fifth entry in the “Conflict” game series, adding to
other titles such as...
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 Red Storm Studios, which are under Ubisoft’s umbrella, are now working to port the popular free game America’s Army to the Xbox 360 this fall.Red Storm Studios are also famous for the Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter franchise, but this time they will be working directly with the US Army to bring out America’s Army: True Soldiers, as an...
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 Ever since it came out Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay has been considered a masterpiece of the first person shooter genre, and Starbreeze Studios could not miss the chance (thank Heaven!) of a next-gen port.Sierra Entertainment announced today that Riddick’s adventures will be ported on next-gen consoles like Xbox 360 and...
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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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Three people were killed when a storm surge hit coastal communities in a southern Philippine province, disaster relief officials said Wednesday.
Two people were also missing following the sudden rise of water along the coast of Misamis Oriental province, 795 kilometres south of Manila, affecting three cities and 16 towns.
The...
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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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"With our souls, with our blood, we will sacrifice for Gaza" and "God is great," chant the protesters, as they march after completing Friday's prayers from the mosque at Ramallah's vegetable market to the West Bank city's central Manara circus.
"One people, united against the Israeli aggression," say...
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The threat of a baggage handlers' strike at one of the world's busiest airports was lifted Tuesday when Hong Kong ground workers accepted a bonus pay deal.
Thousands of passengers were hit when 1,000 ground workers staged a three-hour strike on December 27 in protest over the axing of their traditional end-of-year bonuses because of...
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A boat with more than 100 passengers capsized in the northern Philippines, killing 22 people, the coast guard said Monday.
While 46 people survived, 34 were still missing from the sinking of the MB Maejan on Sunday off Ballesteros town in the province of Cagayan, 420 kilometres north of Manila.
Elena Bautista, chief of the...
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Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said that Pakistan was the "epicentre of terrorism" and the world needed to deal with it sternly, during a parliamentary debate Thursday on the Mumbai terrorist attacks which took place last month.
"We have to galvanize the international community into dealing sternly and effectively...
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India expects Pakistan to take serious follow-up action against elements it believes were behind the Mumbai terrorist attacks by dismantling their infrastructure, India's Foreign Minister Pranab Mukherjee said in parliament Thursday.
Making the first official statement after the Pakistani prime minister said two men named by India...
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A violent stand-off between radical Israelis and Palestinians in Hebron elicited a storm of criticism in the Israeli media Wednesday, with most commentators calling for the settlers to be removed from a disputed house in the divided West Bank city.
More than two weeks of heightened tensions in Hebron boiled over Tuesday, when dozens...
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Beijing - A Chinese court has sentenced to death two Taiwanese drug dealers convicted of trafficking heroin from Myanmar, state media said on Monday.
Chien Chih-Cheng and Chen Ming-Hsiung were among eight Taiwanese citizens sentenced last week in the south-eastern province of Fujian for their part in trafficking more than 12 kilograms...
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At least nine people were killed when a passenger motorboat capsized amid bad weather in the central Philippines on Thursday, local officials said.
It was the second motorboat to sink in the Philippines in three days.
The boat was battered by strong waves spawned by a tropical depression while on its way to an island off Concepcion...
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Four people were killed and more than 40 are missing when a motorized wooden boat sank in the eastern Philippines on Tuesday, police said.
The boat was believed to be carrying some 100 people when the accident occurred off Dimasalang town in Masbate province, 420 kilometres south of Manila.
Fifty-four survivors were rescued...
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Thirty-nine people were killed and at least six are missing when a motorized wooden boat sank in the eastern Philippines on Tuesday, police said.
According to the boat's manifest, there were 119 people aboard when the accident occurred off Dimasalang town in Masbate province, 420 kilometres south of Manila.
It was not yet clear if...
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Floods and heavy rains in Vietnam have killed three more people and left two missing, disaster centres reported Tuesday, bringing the toll of dead and missing since the current round of storms began October 24 to at least 86.
The National Committee for Storm and Flood Control said the worst flooding in almost three decades has left at...
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Less than six hours after a helicopter drops a combined US and Afghan army patrol by the mountain border with Pakistan, Islamic insurgents surround and pound the unit into disarray.
The surprise attack from forested slopes around the troops' positions lasts 20 minutes, during which they are pinned down and barely able to hit back,...
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Typhoon Hagupit targeted Vietnam over the weekend, killing at least 42 people, while Typhoon Jangmi left two people dead in Taiwan before weakening to a tropical storm, officials reported Monday.
Flash floods, heavy rain and landslides triggered by Hagupit also left four missing and 61 injured in northern Vietnam, the National...
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Typhoon Hagupit targeted Vietnam over the weekend, killing at least 42 people, while Typhoon Jangmi left two people dead in Taiwan before weakening to a tropical storm, officials said Monday.
Flash floods, heavy rain and landslides triggered by Hagupit also left four missing and 61 injured in northern Vietnam, the National Steering...
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The Chinese death toll from Typhoon Hagupit rose to 10 with at least two people still missing as the storm brought gales and torrential rain to much of southern China, state media said on Thursday.
Floods, landslides and wind damage caused by the typhoon affected 8.73 million residents and 400,000 hectares of crops in Guangdong...
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 An “urgent red alert” was issued in China on Wednesday after a strong typhoon hit a widely populated area in the south of the country. The state Meteorological Administration issued the highest warning level for the calamity that hit China. The officials managed to evacuate more than 100,000 people before the typhoon, Hagupit, made its...
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Rescuers struggled Wednesday to save 13 miners trapped for two days in a flooded shaft in the northern Philippines, but the operations ground to a halt due to toxic fumes and high floodwaters, a regional police chief said.
Chief Superintendent Eugene Martin said rescuers had not yet made contact with the trapped miners in the flooded...
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At least one person died and tens of thousands were evacuated Wednesday as Typhoon Hagupit brought gales and torrential rain to much of southern China.
The island province of Hainan evacuated about 107,000 people from vulnerable areas while two cities in nearby Guangdong province moved more than 38,000 as the typhoon approached,...
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Hong Kong braced for Typhoon Hagupit Tuesday, cancelling dozens of flights and ferry services, after the storm killed five people and left four missing in the Philippines.
Two of the people killed in the Philippines drowned in a swollen river in the central province of Antique, two were buried in landslides in the northern city of...
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Dozens of flights were cancelled Tuesday as Typhoon Hagupit, which killed at least five people in the Philippines, bore down on Hong Kong.
Schools and kindergartens were closed Tuesday afternoon, and ferry services to outlying islands were suspended as the fast-moving storm closed in on the high-rise city of 6.9 million.
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Taiwan braced Monday for Typhoon Hagupit as the storm, which already killed at least one person and stranded thousands of passengers in the Philippines, was expected to brush the southern tip of the island.
The Central Weather Bureau said the rim of the typhoon, which packed centre winds of 155 kilometres per hour and gusts of 191...
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Cambodia said Wednesday that it was concerned about Thailand's ability to host the upcoming summit of the Association of South-East Asian Nations (ASEAN) in December
Cambodia sympathized deeply with Thailand during its period of political turmoil and was suggesting a contingency plan for the scheduled summit of leaders of the...
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One man was missing and 49 people were injured when tropical storm Nuri hit Hong Kong Friday.
Nuri, which had left seven dead in the Philippines, had weakened and been downgraded into a severe tropical storm by the time it reached Hong Kong in the late afternoon.
However, it still managed to bring Hong Kong to a standstill. The...
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The Philippines on Tuesday braced for a typhoon that was expected to make landfall over the country's northernmost provinces, the weather bureau said.
Typhoon Nuri was packing maximum sustained winds of 130 kilometres per hour and gusts of up to 160 kilometres per hour as it bore down on the northern Philippines.
The weather bureau...
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Flash floods and landslides triggered by heavy rain from tropical storm Kammuri killed 101 people and left 47 missing in northern Vietnam, officials said Monday.
Total damage in the nine provinces affected was estimated to be at least 720 billion dong (43 million dollars).
Floods and landslides washed away hundreds of kilometres of...
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 K2, the world’s second highest mountain in northern Pakistan, near the border with China, is also known as being more dangerous than Mount Everest. On Sunday, at least nine climbers were reported dead after an avalanche came toward them at a height of about 27,000 feet, below the summit. Among the dead, there were five members of a team...
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 According to emergency officials, at least 6 people were killed and 6 others injured after Typhoon Kalmaegi hit Taiwan Friday. The Central Weather Bureau said Kalmaegi headed away from Taiwan and toward southern China Friday morning, with winds of 52 miles per hour. In the past 24 hours, parts of the south have recorded up to 44 inches...
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Over 800 people were missing Monday after a Philippine ferry turned over in one of the most powerful typhoons the archipelago has ever seen. The capsizing of the Princess of the Stars, on Saturday, was the worst catastrophe in a weekend of tragedy for the Philippines, as typhoon Fengshen razed the islands, bringing torrents and wind...
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 Cyclone Nargis took more than 130,000 lives and left more than 2 million
homeless, the U.N. says, quoted by CNN. It appears that a second catastrophe
awaits if new rice is not planted in the coming weeks, a potential massive food
shortage.
“We are all going to die here, “farmer U Han Nyunt said, quoted by the same
source. “But not...
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 Twelve people were reportedly killed while
more than 34,000 were displaced after Typhoon Halong hit the northern Phillippines
on Monday, about half of them pinned down by fallen trees or hit by flying
debris in the provinces of Pangasinan, La Union and Zambales, the National
Disaster Coordinating Council reported.
One of the...
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 A new constitution had been overwhelming approved by voters
in last weekend’s referendum after the cyclone disaster that hit Burma, killing
more than 40,000 people.
The government portrayed the vote as a step toward democracy
and to promised multiparty elections from 2010.
The commission in charge of the Saturday referendum...
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 The consequences of the Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar in Yangon are overwhelming.
About 22,000 people died, 41,000 are still missing and about 1 million were left homeless.
The city is short of water and there is no electricity. Food and fuel prices are swiftly going up, leading people to despair. Vegetables have now a three-fold price...
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 A category 3 cyclone called Nargis swept everything in its way through Myanmar, making more than 350 victims, cutting electricity in Yangon and destroying thousands of homes, according to the New York Times. Many casualties were recorded in the low-lying Irrawaddy Delta and 75% of the buildings were pulled down by the storm.
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 The cyclone that hit Burma
on Saturday killed more than 350 people, devastating Rangoon and many rural areas. State media
reported that thousands of buildings were destroyed by the storm. 19 people
died in Rangoon, while more than 220 people died
in the Irrawaddy division, a low-lying area
where much of Burmese rice is...
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 Typhoon Neoguri, a two category storm on a scale up to five,
is expected to drop 40 mm (one and a half inches) to 90 mm of rain on Hainan
and Guangdong
and to bring winds of 176 kilometers (110 miles) per hour, the US Navy Joint
Typhoon Warning Center said.
Neoguri’s eyes, which is the second storm of the northwest
Pacific...
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 Israel reopened two of its border crossings with the Gaza Strip Tuesday
morning to humanitarian aid and diesel fuel, after nearly four days of
a total lock-down of the coastal salient.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said this was not enough, but
added that he would nonetheless continue peace talks with Israel.
"The...
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 According to meteorologists, a tropical cyclone bearing down
on the South Pacific island nation of Fiji has intensified into a category four
storm, the second most powerful cyclone, with destructive winds up to 200 kph
(125 mph).
Cyclone Daman is expected to hit the nation's second largest island Vanua Levu
early on Saturday,...
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 Hours after being sworn in for a second five- year term, Pakistani
President Pervez Musharraf said Thursday he would not lift the current
state of emergency until December 16.
Despite "improvement in the general situation" and earlier
expectations that he would bow to pressure by the Bush administration
to end the...
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 Power outages, flash floods and landslides hit the northern Philippines
Monday amid heavy rains and strong winds brought by a powerful typhoon
that has already killed eight people.
The National Disaster Coordinating Council said more than 140,000
people were evacuated in the northern Philippines, which was suffering
the brunt of...
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 A powerful typhoon skirted populated provinces in the eastern
Philippines on Saturday, where thousands of residents had been forced
to evacuate their homes to avoid the repeat of a disaster that killed
more than 1,000 people last year.
Typhoon Mitag veered away from its course before dawn on Saturday,
sparing the provinces of...
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 According to local officials, thousands of people are being
evacuated as tropical storm Mitag gains strength, becoming a typhoon as it
nears the eastern Philippines.
Mitag, packing winds of 120 kilometres per hour with gusts of 150km/h, was
barreling towards the Bicol peninsula, south-east of the capital Manila, the
local weather...
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 A massive rescue and relief operation has been mounted Saturday by
thousands of soldiers and civilian volunteers in southern Bangladesh,
which was tossed by a devastating tropical cyclone that left a trail of
death and destruction.
Rescuers counted another 300 bodies of people killed in Friday's
cyclone that triggered mudslides...
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 Cyclone Sidr, which roared ashore with winds of more than 200
kilometres per hour, has killed at least 214 people in Bangladesh, an
official with the disaster management office in Dhaka said Friday.
Muhammad Mia said 87 deaths were reported alone in the coastal district of Barguna, the area hardest hit.
The death toll could rise...
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 A powerful tropical cyclone struck the southern Bangladesh coast
Thursday forcing hundreds of thousands of people to leave their homes
after the peripheral stormy winds sparked giant waves and floods on the
off-shore islands, officials said.
One million people living in fragile coastal villages were
evacuated to safe locations...
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After a massive typhoon hit Taiwan a couple of days ago
grounding more than 100 flights and causing floods in Taipei and power
blackouts for at least 170,000 households, China is forced to evacuate over 1.4
million people from two southeastern provinces and ordered 75,000 boats to
return to harbor as Typhoon Krosa slammed into...
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 According to Vietnamese government officials, three people died after Typhoon Lekima hit Vietnam on Monday with speeds in excess of 120 kilometers (75 miles) per hour, bringing massive floods and down poring precipitations.The storm caused communication breakdowns, knocking down telephone poles and power lines along with houses in Ha...
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 Much feared Typhoon Wipha hit the south coast of Shanghai early Wednesday
afternoon, flooding streets and fields and causing massive transport disruptions.
Although believed to be the strongest typhoon to hit shanghai in the past decade,
only one man was killed by electrocution during a power surge.
Shanghai, China's biggest city,...
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 On May 9 and 10, both the Hubble Space Telescope and the Keck telescope in Hawaii were able to capture images of a new red spot that has recently appeared on Jupiter. The photographs were made public on May 22.This is Jupiter’s third red spot. It started as a white storm of oval shape and, as clouds started to rise and react to solar UV...
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 According to an announcement made by government forecasters on Thursday, the hurricane season (which is only nine days away) may turn out to be a crowded one this year, as six to nine hurricanes are expected to form. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) said that there is a 65% chance to have an above-normal season;...
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 After NASA’s announcement in September that the two rovers
from Mars have survived the dust storm and all the other eventual bad weather
conditions, the two robotic explorers have not wasted their time and have re-started
their missions. On the 12th of September, the space agency announced that the
rover called Opportunity had...
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 According to a recent study made
public on Thursday by the British journal Nature, it seems that the warmer the
seas get, the more likely is for hurricanes to form and to threaten countries and
cities and their inhabitants. The study conducted by British researchers Mark
Saunders and Adam Lea of the Benfield UCL Hazard Research...
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 After the strong Pacific storm that left around 20 percent of the California residents in the dark in the true sense of the meaning and which is believed to be only the first one in a series that was forecast to hit California this weekend.More than 1.300.000 electricity users lost power since Friday morning, as the storm damaged 40...
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 The annual mid-November meteor shower, Leonid, is expected to light the skies on Saturday. This year maximum will be of about 12 meteors per hour at around 11 pm EST.North Americans will be able to see the dazzling event more clearly than others, due to the fact that the moon will set rather early and will make the perfect dark setting...
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 Satellite imagery of the Gulf Coast showed that the hurricane Katrina, which stormed across Louisiana and Mississippi in 2005, has left a huge “carbon footprint”, as it damaged around 320 million big trees, according to the Science journal, on Thursday.Scientists reported that the destruction of the millions of trees, which could only be...
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 After the unfortunate oil spill in San Francisco bay, another “ecological disaster” has occurred in the Black Sea, after around 2.000 tons of heating oil have spilled into the sea from a tanker that wrecked during a powerful storm into the Crimean peninsula, according to the Monday report of the Russian environmental authorities.The...
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 After NASA has announced the
other days that its two rovers from Mars have survived the dust storm and all
the other eventual bad weather conditions, the two robotic explorers have not
wasted their time and have re-started their missions. And yesterday, on the 12th
of September, the space agency has announced that the rover called...
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 The hurricane Humberto is a first
category hurricane, which has crashed early today ashore along south-east
Texas, bringing this way heavy rains and maximum sustained winds that blow to
up to 80 meters per hour. Humberto has been announced by the United States’ National Weather Service to be in
its way to Louisiana.
However,...
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 The east cost of the United
States of American, which includes also New York City,
could be hit by a potentially major tropical storm, which is currently brewing
out in the Atlantic Ocean. The weather
forecasters and the hurricane hunters have checked out the storm and have
characterized it as a low pressure system that is sitting...
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 The crew is already preparing for lift off while NASA officials are confident that the weather will not be an obstacle for tomorrow’s launch.NASA Test Director Steve Payne was happy to report at this morning’s Countdown Status Briefing that months of hard work at the external tank- damaged in March by an unusually powerful haze storm-...
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 Astronomers have released for the first time a roughly detailed “picture” of how the weather’s like on an extra-Solar System planet, called HD 189733b.HD 189733b’s weather has been mapped more accurately because it’s much closer to Earth- “only” 60 light years away in the constellation Vulpecula. It is considered to be a “gaseous giant”...
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 Beware of strange Valentine’s Day
e-cards, they might carry the highly dangerous Storm Worm with them!
On Tuesday, Google made public
the results of a survey that showed that people were more and more likely to
embrace email to send love letters or so-called e-cards. So, with Valentine’s
Day coming, this habit might lead to...
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 The Interop New York’s audience
has been able to find out on Tuesday that the Storm worm has just started to
fight back against the security researchers that had wanted it dead already! It
appears that the malicious worm’s creators have been able to improve the Storm
worm so that it has now gained the capacity of figuring out which...
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 According to a researcher’s
report that has been made public on Tuesday, the brilliant dark minds behind
the risky and persistent Storm trojan have started to sell pieces of the botnet
that their malware has been creating. This way the hackers are selling in fact access
to the compromised personal computers that have been infected by...
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 Beginning in mid-June, Apple TV will wirelessly stream videos directly from YouTube and play them on a user’s widescreen TV.“This is the first time users can easily browse, find and watch YouTube videos right from their living room couch, and it’s really, really fun,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “YouTube is a worldwide sensation, and...
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 NBC Universal joined the mounting choir of anti-YouTube protesters, by joining forces with Los Angeles News Service operator Robert Tur.[more]Robert Tur, winner of three Television News Emmy Awards and credited with the first coverage of OJ Simpson’s slow-speed chase in 1994, sued YouTube last year, on July 14 for hundreds of copyright...
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