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Saudi Arabia is spending US$10 billion to build the infrastructure to pump 1.2 million barrels of oil per day by next June. That alone would be more than the total individual production of OPEC members Qatar, Indonesia and Ecuador.
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Buried under thick ice and frigid water, volcanic explosions are shaking the Arctic Ocean floor at depths previously thought impossible, according to a new study. Hundreds of earthquakes were observed over a nine-month period, with magnitudes between 4...
Angry crowds have attacked government buildings in southwest China in protest at the death of a teenage girl. Her family accused the son of a local official of raping and killing her.
A video released last week by human rights groups shows masked gunners opening fire on Makuxi Indians in Brazil after tribespeople began building shelters on a farming operation inside a national Indian reserve last month.
The research appears online in the journal ‘Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.’ The study supports the psychological concept known as “behavioral priming”—that simple stimuli in the environment can influence judgment and...
As dignitaries watched in a red-carpeted tent at the State House complex, Mugabe held a Bible and stood before a red-robed, white-wigged judge to swear to uphold his nation’s laws “so help me God.” He then sat amid cheering to sign...
For the anti-whaling lobby, Japan appears to be its Moby Dick, but Norway and Iceland also have substantial whaling programs —and do so not under the auspices of research but commercially, flouting IWC rules that have banned such activities since...
California-based Snopes.com, one of the websites dedicated to debunking urban legends and “netlore,” noted that the skeleton image had been lifted from Worth1000, which hosts photo-manipulation competitions.
China’s tougher visa requirements are making it hard for tourists to visit the country. Businessmen say it has become harder to travel into China, and many long-term foreign residents in Beijing have had difficulties renewing their visas. Foreign...
Manny Pacquiao defeats WBC Lightweight titleholder David Diaz of the US at the Mandalay Bay Events Center on June 28, 2008 in Las Vegas, Nevada. AFP/CHRIS COZZONE
Philippine boxing icon Manny “Pacman” Pacquiao made history, knocking out WBC...
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