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Deadly storm kills more than 140 in Central AmericaGuatemala City (AFP) May 31, 2010 A violent weekend storm that lashed Central America killed at least 144 people, left 53 more missing and 45,000 evacuated from their homes, the Red Cross' Panama-based regional headquarters said. "The latest reports are of 118 dead in Guatemala and 17 in Honduras, while in El Salvador the death toll as of yesterday (Sunday) stood at nine, but it may have gone higher," Red Cross Pan American Disaster Response Unit chief Paco Maldonado told AFP in Panama City. Earlier reports put the total death t ... read more |
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Toronto ON (SPX) Jun 01, 2010A study by researchers at the University of Toronto and the Royal Ontario Museum sheds new light on a previously unclassifiable 500 million-year-old squid-like carnivore known as Nectocaris pteryx. "We think that this extremely rare creature is an early ancestor of squids, octopuses, and other cephalopods", says Martin Smith of U of T's Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology (EEB) ... more  
Porong, Indonesia (AFP) May 29, 2010Four years after it erupted from the well of a gas company linked to one of Indonesia's richest men, the mud volcano known as "Lusi" is still spewing its toxic sludge over Java's countryside. All attempts to plug the geyser have failed and new spouts are opening up, threatening to destroy more villages, homes and livelihoods in the East Java district of Sidoarjo. The mud lake is so huge ... more  
Washington (AFP) May 27, 2010A giant "burp" of carbon dioxide stored under the ocean between South Africa and Antarctica may have helped end the last ice age more than 18,000 years ago, according to a new study. The study, led by a scientist from Cambridge University, is "the first concrete evidence that carbon dioxide was more efficiently locked away in the deep ocean during the last ice age." The team made its dis ... more |
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Japan PM vows to carry on despite bombing supportTokyo (AFP) May 31, 2010 Yukio Hatoyama on Monday vowed to stay on as Japanese prime minister despite a rock bottom approval rating and the splintering of his ruling coalition in a row over a US military base. But the deputy leader of the party that abandoned the ruling coalition predicted the beleaguered premier would be forced to resign within days. "I think it will be tomorrow or the day after tomorrow," said Seiji Mataichi of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) which broke ranks with Hatoyama's Democratic Party of Jap ... read more |
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