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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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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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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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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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Hong Kong shivers through coldest November in a decade
Hong Kong - As heavy snow fell in parts of China, Hong Kong temperatures fell below 10 degrees Celsius Tuesday as the sub-tropical city shivered through its coldest November in 10 years. More than 30 elderly people were taken to hospital with cold-re...
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Thai police arrest African ivory traffickers
Bangkok - Police have arrested two Thai nationals for trafficking in African ivory, a crime that carries a maximum four-year jail sentence, police said Tuesday. Samat Chokechoima and Kanok Wongsarot were arrested Monday in a sting operation in which ...
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Landslide buries Chinese village, kills 23
Beijing - A landslide buried part of a village in northern China's Shanxi province, killing 23 people, state television reported on Tuesday. The massive landslide on Monday covered an area of about 20,000 square metres and buried five homes in a coal...
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River swallowed by earth in Colombia
Bogota - The Listara river in northeastern Colombia has suddenly disappeared into a geological fault, the authorities said in the town of San Andres. The mountain river was swallowed by the earth in a rural area about 800 metres away from the town ...
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