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The Australian Antarctic Division monitored the impact of environmental change on marine organisms in the Antarctic Ocean. Three ships returned with their decks full of an array of sealife including some unknown species.
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While the violence is horrific, starvation is actually the leading cause of death in the Darfur conflict.
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The following is a roundup of Muslim countries’ reaction to unflattering cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed that were printed in the Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten. What began as an assertion of free speech in Denmark deteroriated into violence, and possibly murder, in countries thorughout the Muslim world.
Danish Newspaper Jyllands-Posten Publishes Caricatures […]
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By Bridget Johnson, your guide to Journalism
This news is so fresh that the first images of Little Havana partying aren’t yet in to wire services — but if the first rumors of Fidel Castro’s death a couple years back gave any indication, then party they will. Forty-nine years after leading an armed revolt against Fulgencio […]
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If it were, we might have a window into the mind of Steven Kazmierczak, who pointedly left a copy behind for his former girlfriend before he opened fire in a Northern Illinois University lecture hall Thursday, killing five before killing himself.
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Peter Bleksley, one of tonight’s guests on Sky.Com News at 7.30pm, worked undercover for Scotland Yard for 10 years, posing as an international drugs dealer. When not undercover he took part in countless raids similar to the ones seen across London and the Home Counties this morning.
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Reacting to the news while on an official visit to Rwanda, President Bush said: “The international community should work with the Cuban people to begin to build institutions that are necessary for democracy.
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The Strokes, Rufus Wainwright and David Byrne attended Yoko Ono’s 75th birthday party yesterday.
The trio of musical acts were among the 150 guests at Ono’s celebrations at Joe’s Pub, New York.
Ono performed her solo hit ”DonÂ’t Worry Kyoko (Mummy’s Only Looking For Her Hand In The Snow)’ at the bash. John Lennon’s widow was […]
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Fidel Castro announced his resignation as president of Cuba and commander-in-chief of Cuba’s military on Tuesday, according to a letter published in the state-run newspaper, Granma.
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February 19, 2008 — Mohamed al-Fayed took the stand yesterday at a court inquest into Princess Diana’s death and turned it into a one-man, score-settling tirade against the royals, ripping Prince Philip as a “Nazi” and calling his kin “that Dracula family.”
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Oakland Mayor Ron Dellums, who was annointed Sen. Hillary Clinton’s urban affairs policy advisor, is travelling this week while — back home, in a city wracked by eight homicides in four days — officials have finally declared war on crime. That word came from City Administrator Deborah Edgerly, who annnounced that Oakland, “in response […]
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It’s done: As of yesterday, the Serbian province of Kosovo, which has long been dominated by a mostly Muslim, ethnic-Albanian population, is a new, independent country. At a special session of Kosovo’s parliament in the provincial-turned-national capital, Pristina, the new state’s prime minister, Hashim Thaci, read aloud a statement declaring its independence from Serbia, “prompting […]
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Christmas in Baghdad was always going to be rather lonely so I decided to cheer myself up by buying a tree and all the trimmings.
Admittedly there is a lack of nurseries flogging Norwegian firs in the city and I have yet to see any hand-carved wooden decorations or plumes of thick tinsel. However, fake […]
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Apologies for the infrequency of posts over the past couple of weeks. As they say on Facebook, “it’s complicated”.
When time allows I will put up some of the news pieces and other contributions from The Times correspondent inside Burma. In the meantime, you can read his newspaper stories in the Asia section of Times Online; […]
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How rich is Vladimir Putin? It is an easy question to answer formally by looking at Mr Putin’s declaration of assets as a candidate in this month’s parliamentary elections (writes Tony Halpin, Moscow Correspondent of The Times).
This showed that he earned £40,000 last year and had £74,000 in savings as well as two vintage Volga […]
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WASHINGTON — With Sen. John McCain now in a clear lead for the Republican nomination, it is safe to say that the days of “deport them all” rhetoric regarding immigration are likely over in the presidential contest.
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America must “lead the world in battling immediate evils and promoting the ultimate good.” With those words, Barack Obama put an end to the idea that the alleged overexuberant idealism and America-centric hubris of the past six years is about to give way to a new realism, a more limited and modest view of American […]
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Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama share a problem as they move deeper into the primary season: They have both issued promises to withdraw from Iraq that are impossibly vague, unrealistic or worse. They must now rectify this — for the good of their campaigns and the nation.
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Former Colombian president Andrés Pastrana , who has survived nine assassination attempts, multiple death threats, a kidnapping and a controversial career, is back in the trenches.
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DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania, Feb. 18 — President Bush hailed the newly independent Kosovo and officially recognized it as a state and a “close friend” on Monday, expressing strong support for the new Balkans nation even as he rebuffed protests by Serbia and Russia.
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