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Snow hits southern Spain as big freeze sweeps EuropeMadrid (AFP) Jan 11, 2010 Snow fell in parts of Spain for the first time in half a century Monday as a wave of Arctic cold that has killed scores of people and caused billions of euros in damage to Europe's economy swept southwards. As villages in parts of north-east Germany remained cut off from the outside world by giant snowdrifts, authorities sounded the alert in 18 regions across central and northern Spain in an ... read more |
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Wadeye, Australia (UPI) Jan 11, 2009 Fierce saltwater crocodiles and poisonous cane toads are threatening freshwater crocodiles in Australia's Northern Territory, researchers said. The number of freshwater crocs has decreased since the late 1990s in some rivers around the port of Wadeye, the Australian Broadcasting Corp. reported Monday. The smaller, more timid, freshwater crocs are being muscled out in some parts ... more  
Bristol, England (UPI) Jan 11, 2009 Evidence that Neanderthals wore body paint dispels the idea they were "half-wits," a British archaeologist said. Shells coated with residue of mixed color pigments were found at two archaeological sites in southern Spain's Murcia province. The shells were found with lumps of a yellow pigment and a red powder mixed with flecks of a reflective black mineral, said Joao Zilhao, who ... more  
Berlin (AFP) Jan 11, 2010Europe battled Monday to recover from Arctic cold amid warnings over the cost of the weeks long freeze that has caused the cancellation of thousands of flights and train journeys and been blamed for dozens of deaths. Some villages in northeast Germany remained cut off as snowdrifts whipped up by gale force winds made roads and railways unpassable. "We are slowly fighting our way through ... more |
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Las Vegas, Nevada (AFP) Jan 8, 2010Nokia chief executive Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo praised the mobile phone on Friday as a history-changing tool and challenged developers to create programs for poor countries. "These little devices have done more to improve people's lives than perhaps any technology in history," the head of the Finnish mobile phone giant said in a keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) here. ... more 
Paris (AFP) Jan 11, 2010Frigid weather that has gripped swathes of the northern hemisphere this winter is unusual but does not undermine an overall global trend of warming, experts said on Monday. Northern Europe and northeast Asia have experienced brutal snowstorms and freezing temperatures, and cities as far south as Seville in Spain and Miami in Florida have been plunged into the deepest chill in decades. ... more 
United Nations, N.Y. (UPI) Jan 11, 2009 A failure to protect the world's natural resources is a wake-up call for people everywhere, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Monday. The secretary-general called for a global alliance in announcing 2010 as the International Year of Biodiversity. "We must counter the perception that people are disconnected from our natural environment. Biodiversity is life. Biodiversity is ... more |
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