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World's Best Santa weaves Hong Kong magicHong Kong (AFP) Dec 21, 2009 Sporting a tickly beard and pillow-stuffed belly, Jimmy Chan is the most popular adult in a Hong Kong mall as children clamber onto his lap for a photo with the famous Santa Claus. Chan, a 44-year-old magician, had never seen snow before last month but that didn't stop him beating rivals from around the globe to become the World's Best Santa in an annual competition in northern Sweden. ... read more |
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Lampuk (Indonesia) (AFP) Dec 22, 2009Ikra Alfila has rediscovered the joy of play, but the little 10-year-old still has nightmares about giant waves five years after the tsunami that killed everyone in her family except her father. Life has resumed its tranquil course in Ikra's fishing village of Lampuk, which was all but wiped off the map on that awful day on December 26, 2004, when an earthquake off the Sumatran coast ... more  
Nairobi (AFP) Dec 22, 2009Three months from a major international conference on endangered species, African countries are divided over whether a fresh round of ivory sales should be allowed. With black market sales on the rise again, some nations that consider their elephant populations to be out of danger are arguing stocks of the precious ivory should be sold legally. Tanzania and Zambia, for example, have ... more  
Sydney (AFP) Dec 22, 2009Australia will do "no more and no less" than other nations to fight climate change, Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said Tuesday, as he defended the outcome of global talks in Copenhagen. Rudd's centre-left government wants to introduce a carbon emissions trading scheme which will reduce the pollution responsible for global warming by between five and 25 percent of 2000 levels by 2020. ... more |
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  Irrigation Decreases, Urbanization Increases Monsoon Rains  Bangladesh wants 15 pct of climate fund: minister   Instant online solar energy quotes Solar Energy Solutions from ABC Solar |
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Oslo (AFP) Dec 22, 2009Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg said Tuesday he would put together a group of the world's most important rainforest countries in order to fight deforestation. The group, initiated "as part of our efforts to reach a binding climate agreement in Mexico in 2010," will consist of "the most important rainforest countries, among them Brazil, Indonesia, Guyana, Gabon, Papua New Guinea and ... more  
Washington (AFP) Dec 22, 2009At least 60 million people in the United States have been vaccinated against swine flu, and children are twice as likely as adults to have been innoculated, a top health official said Tuesday. "We think right now at least 60 million people have been vaccinated" against pandemic H1N1 flu, said Anne Schuchat from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Her findings were ... more  
Warsaw (AFP) Dec 22, 2009Ten people have died of cold in Poland over the past day, taking the toll since winter set in earlier this month to 79, police said Tuesday. A national police spokeswoman told AFP that 10 people had been found dead since Monday. The majority of the victims were homeless men who died while drunk, police said. Fifty-two of the 79 deaths recorded since December 1 occurred since Friday ... more |
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