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Pakistan on 'war footing' to save cityThatta, Pakistan (AFP) Aug 29, 2010 Pakistani troops and workers were on a "war footing" Sunday as they battled to save the southern city of Thatta after most of the population of 300,000 fled advancing flood waters. Torrential monsoon rains have triggered massive floods that have moved steadily from north to south over the past month, engulfing a fifth of the volatile country and affecting 17 million of its 167 million people. Southern Sindh is the worst-affected province, with 19 of its 23 districts ravaged as flood waters swel ... read more |
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Managua (AFP) Aug 27, 2010Floods and landslides have killed at least 34 dead and affected some 84,000 people in Nicaragua this rainy season, which began on May 15, officials said Friday. Of those killed, 23 died in August, Army Colonel Nestor Solis told local media. This week alone has seen eight people killed so far by torrential rains, including a four-year-old girl crushed by a tree in the northern department ... more  
Copenhagen (AFP) Aug 28, 2010A helicopter from a Danish warship under NATO operational control foiled a pirate attack Saturday on a merchant vessel in the Gulf of Aden, a Danish navy spokesman said. The Danish ship Esbern Snare launched a helicopter in response to a call for help from a merchant vessel, the Danish navy's duty officer, who declined to give his name, told AFP. "The merchant ship was shot upon. When th ... more  
Kuala Lumpur (AFP) Aug 29, 2010Malaysian marine police said Sunday they had seized 6,250 turtle eggs smuggled in from a neighbouring country to be sold on the island of Borneo as a delicacy. Gan Ping Sin, the marine police chief of Sandakan, in Borneo's eastern state of Sabah, said the eggs, worth 11,250 ringgit (3,580 dollars), were seized in an operation on Friday. "The turtle eggs were seized from a boat in the Mal ... more |
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Why Fish Don't Freeze In The Arctic OceanBochum, Germany (SPX) Aug 27, 2010 Together with cooperation partners from the U.S., the researchers surrounding Prof. Dr. Martina Havenith (Physical Chemistry II of the RUB) describe their discovery in a so-termed Rapid Communication in the prestigious American chemistry journal, the Journal of the American Chemical Society (JACS). The journal's independent reviewers evaluated the work as one of the top 5% of all submissions. b>Better than household antifreeze br> /b> Temperatures of minus 1.8 degrees C should really be enough ... read more |
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