Nigeria hit by New Year ‘bomb’
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At least 11 people have been killed in an explosion at a bar in a market near a barracks in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja, military sources have told the BBC. Read more
Oil falls below $90 amid light year-end trading (AP)
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Oil prices slipped further below $90 a barrel Friday as investors took profits amid light year-end trading volume. Despite the fall, oil prices are set to end the year around 12 percent higher than where they started — a clear signal that the global economy has returned to growth following the worst recession since World [...]
Floods cover vast area of Australia’s northeast (Reuters)
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SYDNEY (Reuters) – Floodwater rose across a vast area in Australia’s northeast on Friday, inundating 22 towns, forcing 200,000 residents out of their homes, and closing a major sugar export port. Read more
Landlord arrested in Yeates murder inquiry
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THE main suspect in the murder of Joanna Yeates helped her boyfriend fix his car for a weekend trip away only hours before the landscape architect vanished. Read more
6ft 7ins passenger ‘forced to stand for two-hour flight’
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When Brooks Anderson boarded a flight to spend Christmas with his family, he didn’t expect to be standing for the next two-and-a-half hours. Read more
Top 10 News Stories of '00s
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The news stories that shaped the first decade of the new millennium, from terrorism to natural and humanitarian disasters. (Note: These are not ranked in order of importance.) 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 Oldest Tooth Discovered in Israel?
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The world’s oldest tooth? That’s what researchers believe they’ve discovered in Israel. And the 400,000-year-old homo sapien molar would throw off everything believed to be known up until now about the origins of modern man, since the earliest remains previously discovered are about 200,000 years old. More: Read more
Time to go on the record! Fill out the Change of Subject prediction survey for 2011
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First, click here and fill out this year’s 21-question survey. Then scroll down to see my picks. Twelve months from now, you may hold me to only those among the following predictions that turned out to be accurate. They will come to underscore — [...]
Australian Floods Force Residents To Flee
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12:52pm UK, Thursday December 30, 2010 Michael Burgess, Sky News Online Flooding in Australia’s rural northeast has forced hundreds of people to flee their homes as the situation goes from bad to [...]