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WORLD / NEWS Sat Jan 20, 2007 @ 11:59pm neoform

Telegraph -- Miguel Grima was not a well-liked man. As mayor of a tiny hamlet in the foothills of the Pyrenees in northern Spain he had ruffled a few feathers... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Tue Dec 19, 2006 @ 10:01am mrmdc

www.dnaindia.com -- British police arrested on Tuesday a second suspect over the murder of five women whose naked corpses were dumped around a quiet English town, gripped by fear of a serial killer... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Tue May 27, 2008 @ 8:23am neoform

BBC News -- Authorities in an Australian town have rejected proposals to allow an Islamic school to be built there. Councillors for Camden, a small town on the outskirts of Sydney, unanimously voted against the proposed school for 1200 pupils. The councillors s.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Mon May 26, 2008 @ 8:16am neoform

MSNBC -- After a winding six-hour drive through the mountains north of Chengdu, the road descends into a broad river valley, where the town of Qingchuan is nestled. In normal times, it must be scenic and peaceful, but on Saturday it is teeming with homeless refuge.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Tue Apr 22, 2008 @ 8:21am neoform

CNN -- An avalanche fell on a street in an Alpine town in Austria, close to many ski resorts, covering the roadway in 3-4 meters of snow, but no one was hurt, Austrian police said Tuesday. The avalanche happened at 10:30 a.m. (3:30 a.m. ET) in the town of Ims.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Fri Aug 24, 2007 @ 1:45pm neoform

CNN -- At least 15 people died and thousands of acres (hectares) of forest were consumed in fires racing through Greece's Peloponnese peninsula on Friday as southeast Europe experienced a resurgence of summer blazes. Six bodies were found near the town of Areopo.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Thu Aug 23, 2007 @ 8:14pm neoform

BBC News -- South Africa's military is needed to fight crime on Cape Town's Table Mountain, the city authorities say. The city's tourism head Simon Grindrod said there had been 15 muggings on the mountain, one of South Africa's most famous landmarks, in the past 1.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Mon Aug 6, 2007 @ 8:14am neoform

USA Today -- Ehud Olmert on Monday became the first Israeli prime minister to visit a Palestinian town since the outbreak of fighting seven years ago, meeting under heavy guard with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas in Jericho to talk about the creation of a Palesti.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sat Jul 21, 2007 @ 5:08am neoform

CNN -- In the searing heat of an Anatolian afternoon, work continues busily on the vast building site that fills an entire block of Cankiri's otherwise quiet town center. A massive Western-style shopping complex is rising from the ground. Next the local mayor, I.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Mon Jun 11, 2007 @ 8:11am neoform

BBC News -- More than 50 people have been killed in mudslides following heavy rains in the port town of Chittagong in Bangladesh, officials say. Many others are missing after a hill partially collapsed onto a shanty town. Scores of injured have been taken to ho.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sat Jun 2, 2007 @ 11:43pm neoform

CNN -- Thousands turned out to greet Pakistan's suspended chief justice as he traveled to a northwestern town on Saturday to muster support for his legal battle against President Pervez Musharraf's attempt to sack him. Chants of "Go Musharraf Go", that have b.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sun Apr 8, 2007 @ 12:44am neoform

CNN -- A couple in China's southwest won headlines by demanding more than $600,000 from property developers seeking to relocate them, but residents elsewhere are engaged in far more typical struggles -- over amounts just a fraction of that sum. In Gongtan, a.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Tue Apr 3, 2007 @ 6:57am neoform

BBC News -- Emergency aid is finally trickling through to thousands of people stranded by the devastating tsunami which struck the western Solomon Islands. At least 22 people died in Monday's disaster but the toll is set to rise, as many others are still missing... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Mon Apr 2, 2007 @ 11:15pm neoform

CNN -- Survivors picked through ruined stores Tuesday looking for drinking water and food in a Solomon Islands town devastated by a tsunami, as an international relief effort made tentative first steps. Thousands of people in the town of Gizo in the South Pac.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Thu Feb 15, 2007 @ 9:33am mrmdc

Winnipeg Sun -- Police and wildlife officials in Kenora are asking citizens of the northwestern Ontario city to stop feeding deer, as the plump, healthy animals attract wolves into town at a surprising rate. Wolves, normally very elusive and shy animals, have been reg.. Read More

WORLD / OPINION Sun Dec 31, 2006 @ 6:59pm neoform

New York Times -- The body of Saddam Hussein was buried in the town of his birth in the hours before dawn today, after a final journey into the night aboard an American military helicopter that carried him from Baghdad... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Mon Nov 13, 2006 @ 7:06pm neoform

Reuters -- A Spanish town council has vowed to banish sexism from street signage by demanding half of all road signs and traffic lights show female figures with skirts and ponytails... Read More