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Friday, June 6th, 2008
Image via WikipediaJAKARTA, Indonesia (CNN) -- Rescue teams were Friday searching for a group of European vacationers who disappeared while on a scuba diving trip in treacherous waters off a remote tropical island in eastern Indonesia.
The divers were exploring waters in the Komodo National Park, between the islands of Flores ...
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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
PARIS (AP) — Brigitte Bardot was convicted Tuesday of provoking discrimination and racial hatred for writing that Muslims are destroying France.
A Paris court also handed down a $23,325 fine against the former screen siren and animal rights campaigner. The court also ordered Bardot to pay $1,555 in damages to MRAP.
Bardot's ...
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Thursday, May 29th, 2008
REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) — A strong earthquake shook southern Iceland on Thursday, damaging roads and buildings and causing some injuries, officials and local media said.
Channel 2 television cited civil protection authorities as saying the quake caused injuries, but it was not immediately clear how many.
The U.S. Geological Survey said the ...
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Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
DUJIANGYAN, China (AP) — Bodies covered with sheets lined the streets Tuesday as rescue workers dug through schools and homes turned into rubble by China's worst earthquake in three decades in a search for more victims. The official death toll rose to nearly 12,000, and thousands remained missing.
But hope that ...
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Monday, May 5th, 2008
Burma's foreign minister Nyan Win says more than 10,000 people have been killed in a tropical cyclone that struck the country at the weekend.
He told state television information is still being collected, and there could be more casualties.
U.N. officials say hundreds of thousands of people are without shelter and drinking ...
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Friday, May 2nd, 2008
BEIJING (AFP) — China Thursday inaugurated one of the world's longest bridges, which will provide an important new route into Shanghai, state press said.
Presented as the "world's longest sea bridge", the 36-kilometre (22-mile) structure connects Jiaxing city near Shanghai to the port city of Ningbo in the eastern province of ...
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Friday, April 25th, 2008
BEIJING, April 23 (Xinhuanet) -- Alia Sabur, 19, was announced the youngest full-time college professor in history by the Guinness Book of World Records, media reported Tuesday.That happened last month, when the venerable publication named Sabur the world's youngest college professor.
It's no surprise if you take a look ...
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Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
In a second historic visit by a Pope to the White House, Pope Benedict proclaims "Christ our Hope" to the United States.
WASHINGTON (Catholic Online) – Pope Benedict visited the White House today, welcomed by the President and Mrs. Bush, distinguished members of U.S. Government, his bishops, and thousands of cheering ...
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Tuesday, April 15th, 2008
LONDON, England (CNN) -- China executed at least 470 people last year -- more than any other country in the world, according to an annual report on the death penalty by the human rights group Amnesty International.
The group said that five countries carried out 88 percent of all known executions ...
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