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WORLD / NEWS Wed Mar 12, 2008 @ 8:13am neoform

CNN -- China's foreign minister Wednesday rejected criticism of its human rights record, accusing the United States of "clinging to a Cold War mentality" and "practicing double standards." Yang Jiechi was responding to questions about a State Department report r.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Thu Aug 2, 2007 @ 2:26pm neoform

BBC News -- Forests fires that have ravaged southern Europe during the past month were some of the worst on record, the European Commission has said. More than 3,000 sq km (1,200 sq miles) of forest had already burned this year, almost as much as in the whole of 2.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Mon Jul 23, 2007 @ 2:40pm neoform

USA Today -- Weather extremes battered Europe on Monday as torrential rains flooded England, including the famed Thames River, and record heat roasted central and southeastern Europe. Extreme heat has been blamed for at least 19 deaths from Austria to Romania in th.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Wed Jun 27, 2007 @ 1:07am neoform

FOX News -- A Japanese man who set a world record by wolfing down dozens of hot dogs within minutes has suffered a severe jaw injury due to his rigorous training, making his next title uncertain. Takeru "Tsunami'' Kobayashi said he can only open his mouth to make.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Tue Apr 3, 2007 @ 6:58am neoform

BBC News -- A French high-speed train (TGV) will shortly attempt to set a new world record for a train on rails, aiming to reach 560km/h (350mph). The existing TGV record is 515km/h (320mph), set in 1990. The new record attempt will be staged on a stretch of tr.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sun Feb 11, 2007 @ 1:04pm neoform

Yahoo News -- Tokyo has set a record for its longest snowless winter amid growing worldwide concerns about global warming, according to meteorologists. The metropolitan area of the capital has not had snow this season, making it the longest snowless winter since sta.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Tue Apr 22, 2008 @ 8:26am neoform

BBC News -- A Roman Catholic priest who used 1,000 helium balloons to try to break a flying record has gone missing off the southern coast of Brazil. Rev Adelir de Carli lifted off from the port city of Paranagua on Sunday, equipped with a parachute, thermal suit,.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Thu Dec 20, 2007 @ 8:12am neoform

CNN -- Queen Elizabeth II was set to become Britain's oldest reigning monarch on Thursday, surpassing the record set by her great-great grandmother Queen Victoria. By early Friday, the queen will be 81 years and 244 days old. Victoria died in 1901, having lived.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Thu Dec 13, 2007 @ 8:15am neoform

SF Gate -- There was more bad climate news from the High Arctic on Wednesday as scientists reported fresh evidence that the ice all across the oceans surrounding the North Pole and the vast Greenland ice sheet is melting faster than ever. Year after year in recen.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sat May 19, 2007 @ 4:20am neoform

BBC News -- A record haul of half a million silver and gold coins from a 17th Century shipwreck may have been found just 40 miles from Land's End, an expert said. US treasure hunters said the coins, worth an estimated $500m (�253m), were recovered in the Atlanti.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Tue Apr 10, 2007 @ 12:47am neoform

Al Jazeera -- There will be a ceremony Sunday in Belem, but he finished today," said Borut. Strel started at the source of the Amazon in Peru on February 1 and arrived near the city of Belem, about 2,440km north of Brazil's Rio de Janeiro, on Saturday. New reco.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sun Apr 8, 2007 @ 10:39am neoform

USA Today -- Slovenian Martin Strel completed his swim of the entire 5,265-kilometer (3,272-mile) Amazon River, his son said, a 65-day odyssey in which he battled exhaustion and delirium while trying to avoid piranhas and the bloodsucking toothpick fish. Averaging.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Wed Mar 7, 2007 @ 12:59pm neoform

Independent -- Afghan opium production rose to record levels yet again last year, the US State Department has said, in what has become an annual announcement of failure. Despite a programme to wipe out Afghan opium production by the Americans, the British and the gov.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Mon Mar 5, 2007 @ 6:07pm neoform

Yahoo News -- A "cancer of insurgency" in southern Afghanistan could drive the 2007 opium poppy harvest to record levels, the U.N. drug agency chief said Monday. The U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime predicted that last year's harvest record would be broken by an incre.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Tue Feb 6, 2007 @ 4:49pm neoform

Seed Magazine -- Skating has been banned on the melting ice of Beijing's lakes, trees are blossoming early and people are shedding their heavy clothes as China experiences its warmest winter on record... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Tue Jan 30, 2007 @ 3:55pm mrmdc

CNN -- Yone Minagawa woke up to a surprise on Tuesday when nursing home staff held up a poster saying, "Congratulations, you're No. 1.".. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Tue Oct 17, 2006 @ 12:54am neoform

Washington Times -- Gazing through the telescopic sight of his M-24 rifle, Army Staff Sgt. Jim Gilliland, leader of Shadow sniper team, fixed his eye on the Iraqi insurgent who had just killed an American soldier... Read More