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A pleasure boat passes by a barrier system being built at the ...
Jul 15th, 2010
(Canadian Press) - A pleasure boat passes by a barrier system being built at the entrance to Panama City harbor at St. Andrews State Park in Destin, Fla., Wednesday, July 14. 2010. It is one of the barriers being built at inlets along the Florida Panhandle to prevent oil from entering their harbors. (AP Photo/Orlando Sentinel, George Skene) LEESBURG OUT; LADY LAKE OUT; TV OUT; MAGS OUT; NO SALES -
SITTWE, Myanmar (AP) - An overcrowded boat capsized while trying to escape a cyclone bearing down on Myanmar, tossing dozens of people into the sea. Eight bodies were found and more than 50 people were missing and feared dead, the United Nations said Tuesday. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
BANGKOK (AP) - Japan's benchmark stock index surged Friday after the dollar hit a four-year high against the yen. Gains were modest elsewhere as traders digested a positive U.S. jobs report. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
BEIT JALA, West Bank (AP) - Palestinians in this Christian village are hoping the new pope can succeed where others have failed - pressing Israel to drop plans to build a stretch of its West Bank separation barrier through their picturesque valley. (Source: Associated Press)... [Full Article]
With many of the world's ecosystems threatened or endangered by human activities like logging and urbanization, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) published its criteria for a new "Red List" of endangered ecosystems today (May 8) in the journal PLOS ONE. (Source: LiveScience.com)... [Full Article]
By Barry Moody and Steve Scherer ROME (Reuters) - On Saturday April 20, the leaders of Italy's two biggest political forces climbed the Quirinal, highest of Rome's seven ancient hills, and begged President Giorgio Napolitano to stay for a second term. Pier Luigi Bersani and Silvio Berlusconi were followed into the presidential palace by o... [Full Article]
PARIS (Reuters) - The French stock market authority has found LVMH secretly bought shares in rival Hermes to build a stake, and not merely make a financial investment as the luxury group has claimed, a newspaper reported. LVMH said it would fight the findings of the watchdog's probe before its sanctions committee when it meets on May 31 to hea... [Full Article]