| Thu, 2 Sep 2010 Why are South China Sea tensions rising?
Imagine an exchange of fire between Chinese and Vietnamese navies in the South China Sea. | Or just an accidental bump between Chinese and American warships, as high-stakes manoeuvring gets out of hand. | Or the arrest by China's navy of hundreds, not just dozens, of Vi... | Minister pays tribute to merchant seamen
Friday, 3 September 2010, 1:02 pm | Press Release: New Zealand Government | Minister pays tribute to merchant seamen | The hard work and sacrifice of New Zealand merchant seamen during WWII made an important contribution to Allied victory in 1945, Veterans Affairs Minis... | Doctors heed call for medical books for Afghanistan
| Irene M. Wielawski | Factions of the Taliban singled out medical texts for destruction. | Imagine cutting out a diseased appendix without ever having seen a Gray's Anatomy diagram, or calculating drug doses without a Physicians' Desk Reference, and you'll have an idea... | An 'umbrella' with holes
| The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in Washington, purportedly to be part of the Obama administration's relaunch of peace negotiations. But the urgent talk is of war. | According to Jeffrey Goldberg's much-discussed Atlantic Monthly cover article, which f... | The tin can revolution: The humble invention that changed the way we live
| There are certain objects which stay the course of changing fashion, outlast the generation that conceived them and become part of our landscape - both internal and external. The red postbox on the street corner, for example, or the Tower of London standing proud on t... | Give us jobs, say Somali pirates
| By Jean/Marc Mojon | HOBYO, Somalia - The pirates of old often took to the seas to rebel against the social order but in lawless Somalia, many pirates say they would happily pay taxes and take a job in a factory. | Among the pirates of Hobyo, there is no hint of liber... | Hurricane heads for eastern seaboard
5:30 AM Friday Sep 3, 2010 Share Email Print | NAGS HEAD - Hurricane Earl steamed towards the United States eastern seaboard yesterday as communities from North Carolina to New England kept a close eye on the forecast, worried that even a slight shift in the storm's pre... | Willits grad arrested in Va. murder case
| Paul Stephen Bricker, 25, a petty officer 2nd class, is suspected of killing Chief Petty Officer Gerard Curran, 45, said Virginia Beach Police Detective Tonya Borman. | He was arrested Aug. 26, just over a year after Curran’s body was found on a hiking trail at ... | Earl weakens, still powerful as it smacks NC
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