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Protecting Oceans is Important to Keeping Planet Cool

...lic of Maldives, a chain of 26 atolls about 700 km southwest of Sri Lanka, IUCN said. Eighty percent of its islands are no more than one metre above sea level, and face total extinction within 100 years at the current rate of ice melt that is raising sea levels. The republic is home to 360,000 people. Warm...

Teenage Girls Conviced for Killing Cabbie

... 2 in the morning. They took Mr. Hormozi's taxi in southwest Sydney. After refusing to pay the fare they punched and kicked the driver, whose left arm had been paralyzed by a stroke. The pair fled in Mr. Hormozi's stolen taxi and left the injured father of two in a Canley Heights street, where he died. Justi...

Kerala Government Sanctions Funds for Chikungunya-affected Districts

...shes and nausea. The disease broke out after the southwest monsoon hit Kerala coast early this month. The disease has spread near rubber plantations where farmers use plastic cups and coconut shells to collect rubber milk and leave it open, making it a breeding ground for the mosquitoes. Like dengue, ano...

Indonesia Facing Massive Hurdles Against Bird Flu

... declaration at the close of the conference Friday southwest of Kuala Lumpur....

Rescheduled: Aerial Mosquito Treatment for Philadelphia

...ted by Philadelphia near Penrose Ferry Road in the southwest portion of the city. They also will treat wetlands on the east side of the Philadelphia International Airport. Later in the morning, the applicator will spray wetlands at the city's northeast wastewater treatment plant near the Betsy Ross Bridge. ...

Earthquake Kills Three, Injures 290 in Southwest China

...th a magnitude of 6.4 on the Richter scale struck southwest China's Yunnan province Sunday. The quake shook the old downtown area of Hani and Yi county of Ning'er, in Pu'er city at 5:34 a.m., with the epicentre at 23 degrees north and 101.1 degrees east, according to the China Earthquake Administration. T...

Delhi's Hottest Day at 44.1 Degrees Celsius

...5, the hottest day of the year till Friday. "The southwest monsoon may have entered a few southern states of India yet it is pure summer in Delhi. The temperature may not slide Sunday as well," said an IMD official. "It's the hottest day of the year in the capital and as far as June 2 is concerned Saturday...

Teenage Girls Conviced for Killing Cabbie

... 2 in the morning. They took Mr. Hormozi's taxi in southwest Sydney. After refusing to pay the fare they punched and kicked the driver, whose left arm had been paralyzed by a stroke. The pair fled in Mr. Hormozi's stolen taxi and left the injured father of two in a Canley Heights street, where he died. Justi...

Afghan Refugee Gives Birth to Quintuplets in Pakistan

A 32-year-old Afghan woman living in southwest Pakistan has given birth to quintuplets, in what is thought to be the first such case for the country's huge refugee population, doctors said Monday. The four boys and a girl were doing well with their mother, identified as Amna Bibi, after they w...

Ramadoss to Discuss Chikungunya With Health Ministers of Nine States Tomorrow

...shes and nausea. The disease broke out after the southwest monsoon hit Kerala coast early this month. The disease has spread near rubber plantations where farmers use plastic cups and coconut shells to collect rubber milk and leave it open, making it a breeding ground for the mosquitoes. A team of expert...

Flower-power on a Plate in Paris

...o brings his supplies in on a daily basis from the southwest French Basque region bordering Spain. "After 48 hours in the fridge, they lose their taste," said Benoist Rambaud, chef at the Jardin des Cygnes restaurant at the classy Prince de Galles hotel. And both chefs admit to occasionally using "natural arom...

Purdue Pharma Agrees to Pay $600 Million Fine for Misbranding Oxycontin

...ue Pharma contingent. The coal-mining region of southwest Virginia where the sentencing took place has had a number of oxycodone-related deaths -- 119 from 2003 through 2005, according to the state medical examiner's office. The guilty plea by Purdue Frederick, an affiliate of Purdue Pharma is the late...

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