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Snow brings mayhem to Britain as Europe shiversLondon (AFP) Jan 6, 2010 A blanket of snow hit southern England Wednesday as Britain's most brutal winter in decades caused chaos for travellers and businesses, and bitterly cold temperatures cloaked much of Europe. Millions of people in London and the southeast of England struggled to and from work in heavy snow after storms spread from Scotland and the north of England, where they have caused problems for days. Much of the rest of Europe was also gripped by freezing temperatures due to a weather front from Siberia, and three people died on the roads in France. ... read more |
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Washington (AFP) Jan 6, 2010A Chinese court has handed a six-year prison term to a Tibetan film-maker who made an internationally watched documentary in which ordinary people aired grievances, his family said Wednesday. Dhondup Wangchen, 35, had trekked across the Himalayan territory for five months asking about topics including Chinese rule, the exiled Dalai Lama and the Olympics which Beijing was preparing to hold ... more  
Copenhagen (AFP) Jan 6, 2010Four Greenpeace protesters arrested for gatecrashing a royal gala dinner for heads of state at the UN climate summit in Copenhagen last month were released from Danish custody on Wednesday, police said. "They have been charged, but they are free to leave and can leave the country if they want," Copenhagen police duty officer Michael Klausen told AFP. The four are the director of Greenpea ... more  
Washington (AFP) Jan 6, 2010A new kind of brain scan seems to be better at detecting early signs of change related to the onset of Alzheimer's disease, new research published Wednesday in the online issue of Neurology found. The scan, called diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), could prove important to earlier detection and in turn better treatment. "As better medicines for Alzheimer's disease become available, it will ... more |
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Munda, Solomon Islands (AFP) Jan 6, 2010A string of fresh earthquakes rocked the western Solomon Islands late Tuesday and through Wednesday but there were no early reports of damage or casualties, officials said. The largest earthquake late Tuesday had a magnitude of 6.8, followed by seven aftershocks measuring at least 5.0 in the isolated region about 300 kilometres (185 miles) west of the capital Honiara. The latest tremors ... more  
The Hague (AFP) Jan 6, 2010As much of Europe sought refuge from the cold, hundreds of Dutch embraced the chill Wednesday for the year's first skating event on natural ice, held on the frozen Henschoter Lake in Utrecht. "It has been very busy, I expect that up to 1,500 people will have taken part by the end of the day," Ramon Kuipers, project coordinator for skating federation KNSB, told AFP by telephone from the ... more 
Gatwick Airport, England (AFP) Jan 6, 2010Sleeping, yawning, queueing and making tearful phonecalls, thousands of frustrated passengers were stuck in snow-bound London Gatwick Airport on Wednesday. They should have been in Accra, Mexico City and Fuerteventura, but instead they were trapped at London's second airport, which was not spared the overnight blanket of snow that fell on England. They sat wherever they could, sleeping ... more |
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