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London's Natural History Museum on Tuesday unveiled an eight-storey extension in the shape of a cocoon to house the collections of Charles Darwin. The new ultra-modern white addition to the imposing Victorian museum includes the Darwin Centre, a state-of-the-art research and exhibition facility named after the father of the theory of evolution. ... read more 
Dakar (AFP) Sept 8, 2009Killer floods have ravaged a dozen west African countries since June, leaving 159 people dead and making life miserable for hundreds of thousands, a United Nations agency said Tuesday. "Nearly 600,000 people are affected by the floods following heavy rains that have poured down on west Africa and caused the deaths of 159 people since June," the UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian ... more |
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Buenos Aires (AFP) Sept 8, 2009A violent storm described as a freak "tornado" shredded hundreds of houses and killed at least 16 people in the southern part of South America on Tuesday, officials said. Northern Argentina and southern Brazil, and the small countries of Uruguay and Paraguay wedged between them, were hit by a fierce atmospheric mass packing rain, hail and winds over 120 kilometers (70 miles) per hour. ... more  
Kathmandu (AFP) Sept 8, 2009The global swine flu pandemic will expose the failure of the international community to invest in health protection in poor countries, the world's top health official warned here Tuesday. World Health Organisation director general Margaret Chan said the pandemic would "test the world on the issue of fairness," as she delivered an address to a meeting of Southeast Asian health ministers in ... more  
Paris (AFP) Sept 8, 2009Foreign ministers from major European countries pleaded on Tuesday for parties to the upcoming UN climate talks in Copenhagen to start negotiating earnestly to save Earth from the worst ravages of global warming. They also heaped praise on Japan's plan for a 25-percent cut in its carbon pollution, but said only a wider deal in Copenhagen would prompt the European Union (EU) to spice its own ... more |
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Copenhagen (AFP) Sept 8, 2009Denmark on Tuesday said it was ready to help the Maldives, whose fight against rising sea levels has become a cause celebre for environmentalists, to attend key climate talks in Copenhagen. "In the past two years we have allocated 2.5 million euros to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change so that the poorest states and islands can attend the Copenhagen summit with three delegates ... more  
Kinshasa (AFP) Sept 8, 2009Hundreds of former rebels who had joined government forces under a peace deal in the Democratic Republic of Congo have deserted and looted eastern towns, the UN mission and witnesses said Tuesday. A former rebel commander known as Jaguar, who was heading an army battalion in the rank of colonel, provoked the desertion late Friday in Nyamilima, Nord-Kivu province, said UN spokesman Lieutenant ... more  
Rome (AFP) Sept 8, 2009Firefighters backed by water-dropping aircraft Tuesday battled a raging forest fire threatening the outskirts of the northern port city of Genoa, officials said. "As we speak, the fire has affected 800 hectares (1,976 acres) and the situation is under control. But according to weather forecasts, heavy winds are expected from afternoon," said Paola Tomassone, a forest ranger said. ... more |
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