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Ireland, Britain order new ash flight bans: air authoritiesDublin (AFP) May 3, 2010 Ireland ordered a new airspace closure for six hours Tuesday as ash from an Icelandic volcano drifted towards it, raising the prospect of fresh travel chaos, air officials said. British aviation chiefs also closed down airspace over a small area of northwest Scotland late Monday and said the shutdown would be extended to Northern Ireland the following day. The new alerts should not disrupt aircraft overflying Ireland from Britain or Europe, or southern British airports including Heathrow, Europe ... read more |
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Constitucion, Chile (AFP) May 3, 2010Seven old buses that once shuttled commuters around Chile's capital Santiago have found a new life as makeshift classrooms in this quake-devastated coastal city. About a third of the buildings in Constitucion, located some 275 kilometers (170 miles) south-west of Santiago, were destroyed by the powerful 8.8 magnitude quake that struck south-central Chile early February 27. The quake kil ... more  
Ulukhaktok, Northwest Territories (UPI) May 2, 2010 Genetic testing shows an unusual bear, shot in Canada's High Arctic region recently, was a cross between a grizzly and a polar bear, experts say. The bruin had white fur like a polar bear, but a big head, long claws and a ring of brown fur around its hind, normally found in the grizzly, Canwest news service reported Saturday. The bear had been shot by an Inuit hunter April 8 on the sea ... more  
Canberra, Australia (SPX) May 03, 2010A deep ocean current with a volume equivalent to 40 Amazon Rivers has been discovered by Japanese and Australian scientists near the Kerguelen plateau, in the Indian Ocean sector of the Southern Ocean, 4,200 kilometres south-west of Perth. In a paper published in Nature Geoscience, the researchers described the current -more than three kilometres below the Ocean's surface - as an important ... more |
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Better weather spurs hope over US oil spillVenice, Louisiana (AFP) May 3, 2010 Kinder weather aided efforts Monday to counter a giant oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, as BP prepared to launch an unprecedented operation to try to contain the main leak with a giant dome. "We expect to load out the fabricated containment chamber tomorrow and we hope to have the system up and operating within a week," BP Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles told reporters. The dome is the first of three designed to be placed "over the leak sources and allow us to collect the oil, funnel it up ... read more |
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