US ‘will announce climate target’
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The US will announce a target for reducing greenhouse gas emissions before next month’s UN climate summit, according to a White House official. Read more
‘Premature’ to declare crisis over: ECB head (AFP)
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MADRID (AFP) – European Central Bank President Jean-Claude Trichet said Monday it was “premature” to declare the global financial crisis over, although the “freefall” in economic activity has been halted. Read more
Mom: Son in coma heard everything for 23 years (AP)
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BRUSSELS – A man who emerged from what doctors thought was a vegetative state says he was fully conscious for 23 years but could not respond because he was paralyzed, his mother said Monday. Read more
McCann investigator on the run for alleged fraud
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A PRIVATE investigator whose company was paid more than £500,000 (€550,000) by the McCann family to look for their missing daughter has gone on the run after being implicated in a string of high-profile frauds. Read more
Answers Sought in Deadly Mine Blast
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Two days after a massive gas explosion at a coal mine in northeastern China left 104 men dead, grieving family members say officials from the facility have released little or no information on their loved ones who perished in the accident.\n Read more
Girl, 16, killed after slipping between train and platform as she ran alongside moving carriage in high heels
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Megan Moore, 16, was on her way home from a party when she ran alongside the train, tapping on the window after getting out of one of the carriages. Read more
World's Worst Earthquakes
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When faults let loose with a mighty rumble, the reverberations are felt across the globe. As Mother Nature takes lives and property with such minute warning, super temblors anywhere in the world remind those in quake-prone zones of the vulnerability of great metropolitan regions and remind us to be prepared with good building codes and [...]
World's Worst Earthquakes
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When faults let loose with a mighty rumble, the reverberations are felt across the globe. As Mother Nature takes lives and property with such minute warning, super temblors anywhere in the world remind those in quake-prone zones of the vulnerability of great metropolitan regions and remind us to be prepared with good building codes and [...]
A lovely day but no, this is not evidence of global warming.
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I’ve been outside in my T-shirt throwing the football around with my wife and son on a day that feels even warmer than the reported 56 degrees, particularly in the sun. But the fact that it’s 12 degrees warmer than the average high of 44 is not evidence of global warming, and you have my [...]
Death Toll Rises After Coal Mine Disaster
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7:23am UK, Monday November 23, 2009 David Williams, Sky News Online The number of people killed in a blast at a coal mine in northeast China has risen to 104, local authorities [...]
Grey ‘thought movie message was a trick’
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Sasha Grey has said that she initially thought she was being tricked when she was approached to star in Steven Soderbergh’s new movie The Girlfriend Experience. The porn star told The Daily Telegraph that she was first contacted by Soderbergh’s screenwriters David Levien and Brian Koppelman about the role via her MySpace page. Grey said: [...]
Raw Gay men in Mexico crown a queen
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Residents of the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca held an unusual beauty pageant celebrating a group of homosexual men who don elaborate makeup, wear … Read more
Sarah who? GOP gov candidate Meg Whitman plans big 2010 book rollout
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Sarah Palin knows the power of a best-seller as a timely vehicle to get the press and public talking, and now former eBay CEO Meg Whitman has quietly laid plans to add “author” to her resume, with her… Read more
Staying at the Basra ‘B&B’
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It is jokingly dubbed ‘the most expensive B&B in the world’. Then again the trailer camp is the only ‘bed and breakfast’ that also provides lunch, dinner, a gym, 24-hour Internet access and a relatively secure place to stay in Basra.Situated within the newly-acquired American military base in this southern-Iraqi province, the B&B provides private [...]
Lithuania investigates possible CIA ‘black site’
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ANTAVILIAI, LITHUANIA — Residents of this village were mystified five years ago when tight-lipped American construction workers suddenly appeared at a mothballed riding stable here and built a large, two-story building without windows, ringed by a metal fence and security cameras. Read more
Death toll at Chinese mine rises to 92,several still trapped underground
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BEIJING — The death toll from a powerful gas explosion Saturday at a coal mine in northeastern China has risen to 92 , with 16 miners still trapped more than a third of a mile underground, according to media reports. Read more
Looking ahead, Brazil’s farmers take up reforestation
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LUCAS DO RIO VERDE, BRAZIL — For nearly 20 years, Luiz Alberto Bortolini cleared trees and planted soybeans as fast as he could, one of many pioneers who turned this barren outpost into prosperous farmland. Read more
U.S., Mexico align against common foe: brutal narcotics trade
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MEXICO CITY — To avenge the arrest of their leader, Mexican drug cartel commandos went on a rampage this summer across the lawless state of Michoacan, seizing 12 Mexican police officers and dumping their bound and stripped corpses in a pile beside a busy highway. Read more
In Ethiopia, farmland is hot property
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BAKO, ETHIOPIA — In recent months, the Ethiopian government began marketing abroad one of the hottest commodities in an increasingly crowded and hungry world: farmland. Read more