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S.Africa's Zuma in China for talks on growing tiesBeijing (AFP) Aug 24, 2010 South African President Jacob Zuma met his Chinese counterpart Hu Jintao in Beijing on Tuesday for talks aimed at broadening the relationship between Beijing and Africa's biggest economy. The visit is seen as an opportunity for the two countries to explore ways of expanding their already sizeable trade ties - and also a chance for two emerging powers to solidify their strategic partnership. Zuma - who visits Beijing and Shanghai during a three-day trip he has called "crucial" - was welcomed b ... read more |
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Beijing (AFP) Aug 24, 2010Doctors in central China are puzzling over a 10-month-old baby boy who weighs 20 kilos (44 lbs) - about as much as a normal child of six years - but is otherwise healthy, state media reported. The infant, whose name was not given, was brought to a children's hospital in the Hunan provincial capital of Changsha earlier this month with a fever, the China News Service said. Doctors were s ... more  
Kuala Lumpur (AFP) Aug 24, 2010Malaysian activists on Tuesday applauded a decision by Norway's state pension fund to blacklist timber firm Samling Global, which is accused of rampant environmental destruction in Borneo. Rights campaigners have also accused Samling of trampling on the rights of indigenous people, particularly the Penan tribe in Malaysian Borneo, who have mounted blockades against the firm to protect their ... more  
London (AFP) Aug 24, 2010Aid agency Oxfam warned Tuesday of a "double disaster" for millions of people in Niger where heavy rains and flooding are compounding food shortages caused by a prolonged drought. The United Nations says more than seven million people are facing starvation in Niger - more than half the population - following the drought, and Oxfam says the few crops that survived are now being destroyed by ... more |
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Possible Discovery Of Earliest Animal Life Pushes Back Fossil RecordPrinceton NJ (SPX) Aug 24, 2010 In findings that push back the clock on the scientific world's thinking about when animal life appeared on Earth, Princeton scientists may have discovered the oldest fossils of animal bodies, suggesting that primitive sponge-like creatures were living in ocean reefs about 650 million years ago. The shelly fossils, found beneath a 635 million-year-old glacial deposit in South Australia, represent the earliest evidence of animal body forms in the current fossil record by at least 70 million years. ... read more |
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