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Sydney (AFP) Nov 3, 2009 - A blaze at an oil rig off Australia was brought under control on Tuesday when experts managed to plug a leak that has spewed tonnes of crude over the past 10 weeks, the well's operator said. [read full story]
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) - About 70 New Zealanders stood in silence in the Antarctic snow Saturday to remember 257 people who perished 30 years earlier when an airplane smashed into a nearby mountain in New Zealand's worst...
The leaders of Britain and France gave their backing Friday to a global fund that would provide billions of dollars to poor countries to help them reduce the output of greenhouse gases linked to climate change.
Global markets were jolted this week following the threat by a state-owned company in Dubai to default on its debt, as investors reawakened to the risks posed by mammoth debts run up in developing economies that now confront a...
Today is Saturday, Dec. 5, the 339th day of 2009. Trial of France's King Louis XVI begins; revolutionary coup takes place in Geneva; George Washington is re-elected U.S. president and John Adams as vice president. U.S....
