Kangaroo attacks farmer and his dog in Australia
Sydney - An Australian farmer was savaged by a kangaroo Monday after he tried to save his dog from being drowned by the rampaging marsupial. Chris Rickard dove into a pond to rescue his working dog from the clutches of the angry kangaroo. ...
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New Zealand glaciers melting away, survey shows
Wellington - New Zealand's glaciers are melting away, according to an annual survey of the snowline on 50 glaciers in the South Island, the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research (NIWA) announced Monday. They have lost half of their sno...
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2009-11-23 ] Category : [
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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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