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WELLINGTON (Reuters) – A major earthquake hit New Zealand’s second biggest city Christchurch early on Saturday, bringing down power lines, ripping up roads and wrecking building facades, but authorities reported no deaths. Read more
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama will outline new measures next week to boost the U.S. economy after August data on Friday showed again that jobs — the central issue in November elections — were being created too slowly. Read more
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ICC anti-corruption boss Sir Ronnie Flanagan said: “They [Butt, Asif and Amir] have a really arguable case to answer in our disciplinary arena but that is not the same as coming, in any sense, to a finding of guilt on their behalf. Read more
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AP – Israeli President Shimon Peres, center, arrives for the ‘Intelligence on the World, Europe, and Italy’ … Related Quotes Symbol Price Change ^DJI 10,407.90 +87.80 ^GSPC 1,100.27 +10.17 ^IXIC 2,221.93 +21.92 By DAN PERRY, Associated Press Writer Dan Perry, Associated Press Writer – 43 mins ago CERNOBBIO, Italy – Is the global economy out of the woods? Two years [...]
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MIR ALI, Pakistan – Pakistani officials say suspected U.S. missiles have killed five people in a tribal region near the Afghan border. Two intelligence officials say three missiles hit a house in a village near Miran Shah, the main town in North Waziristan, on Friday evening. They say the identity of the slain is not [...]
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William Hague came back from leading the Conservatives to crushing defeat in the 2001 election to become one of the most effective members of David Cameron’s team. Read more
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(Nov. 23) – Since 2006, the Antarctic ice sheet has been flowing into the surrounding ocean at an increased rate, resulting in ever-rising sea levels, a new study says. Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin said satellite images suggest sea level will likely to rise faster than previously predicted. “If the current trend [...]
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Bethany Storro was in Vancouver, Canada, and was about to enter a Starbucks cafe on Monday when a female approached her and asked, ‘Hey pretty girl, do you want to drink this?’. Read more
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Haiphong, Vietnam, in the Gulf of Tonkin, was hit by a devastating typhoon in 1881 that killed an estimated 300,000 people. Little is known of what preparation or precautions may have been lacking at the time, but the city was hit again in 2005. That storm came onshore with 100 mph sustained winds, but the [...]
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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 [...]