The heat is on as forest fires rage in Australia
Sydney - More than 1,000 volunteer firefighters backed by 70 aircraft were tackling more than 100 forest blazes in Australia's parched south-east Sunday. Temperatures topped 40 degrees in Sydney and across New South Wales as emergency services warned...
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2009-11-22 ] Category : [
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Japan hunting whales again for 'scientific purposes'
Tokyo - A Japanese whaling fleet left for the Antarctic on Thursday. Greenpeace activists said they displayed a banner in front of the Nisshin Maru factory ship bearing the slogan Yes We Can, from US President Barack Obama's election campaign, and ...
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2009-11-19 ] Category : [
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Vienna's favourite panda flown to China
Vienna - Panda Fu Long, the two-year-old star of the Vienna Zoo, left Austria and was flown to China on Wednesday, the zoo confirmed. The two-year-old male panda had become an attraction not only because o...
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2009-11-18 ] Category : [
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San Diego panda named Yun Zi - Son of Cloud
Los Angeles dpa) - A baby panda born at the San Diego Zoo will be named Yun Zi, Chinese for Son of Cloud, the zoo announced Tuesday. The name was selected from over 6,300 recommendations from the public. Zoo officials whittled them down to five, with...
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2009-11-17 ] Category : [
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Magnitude 6.5 earthquake off Canada's west coast
New York - A 6.5-magnitude earthquake struck Tuesday morning off Canada's western coast, but there were no reports of casualties or damage. The quake took place in the Queen Charlotte Islands region, at a depth of 13 kilometres, and about 260 kilomet...
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2009-11-17 ] Category : [
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Rains spark flooding on Canary Islands
Madrid - Heavy rains sparked flooding Tuesday on Spain's Canary Islands, where rainwater inundated buildings and caused traffic jams in the Gran Canaria capital Las Palmas, emergency services said. The rains followed heavy flooding on Tenerife, where...
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2009-11-17 ] Category : [
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