World
Bull checks in hotel for a comfortable night
July 29, 2009A yellow bull running wild entered a hotel in Jinan, Shandong province, and spent an entire night inside one of the rooms last week. The bull, which had already injured a man, casually walked into a...
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Tension builds in Honduras confrontation
July 28, 2009Tension is building in Honduras as President Manuel Zelaya, driven from his country by a military coup, has taken brief but powerfully symbolic steps across the border from Nicaragua, while sending a letter to US President...
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2,000 people bitten by dogs per day in Sri Lanka
July 27, 2009Two thousand incidents of dog bites are reported each day in Sri Lanka, a local English newspaper reported on Sunday.
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Castro on July 26: The land is waiting for us
July 27, 2009Original source:Cuban President Raul Castro has said that the global economic crisis means tougher times ahead for Cuba, but the country has no-one to blame but itself for poor farm production. In a speech marking Revolution...
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Amateur, astronauts, astronomers and the rare Jupiter collision
July 27, 2009NASA's Hubble Space Telescope has taken the sharpest visible-light picture yet of atmospheric debris from an object that collided with Jupiter on July 19. NASA scientists decided to interrupt the recently refurbished observatory's checkout and calibration...
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