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Ostine Arinaitwe and Bonnie Mugabe Kigali — THE newly appointed interim executive of the National Olympics Committee (RNOC) has started work. Until the December 27 elections that will decide the new executive, the short-term... [read full story]
Deals draw crowds ready to spend, and not always on holiday gifts After a year of penny pinching, the spending spigot opened Friday as many consumers shopped for themselves as much as for others, a sign of pent-up demand and an...
The permanent Arctic sea ice that is home to the world's polar bears and usually survives the summer has all but disappeared, a Canadian researcher said Friday. University of Manitoba Arctic researcher David Barber said experts...
Global warming is giving French vintners a new potential headache: In a few years, champagne could be going head-to-head with British bubbly. With a climate summit scheduled in Copenhagen next month, a leading organization in...
BEIJING, Nov 26, 2009 (UPI via COMTEX) -- China, saying it is acting voluntarily, Thursday announced it will reduce its "intensity" of carbon dioxide emissions by 40 to 45 percent by 2020. The percentage cuts are based on...
