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Petrolina and Juazeiro, formerly remote towns facing each other across the São Francisco river, deep in the dry backlands of north-eastern Brazil, have tripled their combined population in the past 30 years to about 600,000. [read full story]
Detectives investigating the deaths of British art curator Nick Waterlow and his daughter Chloe in Australia have charged a 42-year-old man with their murders. Detectives investigating the deaths of British art curator Nick...
I know it's not the biggest of discounts (though I have discussed in the past how underappreciated free shipping can be as a perectage of a sale, I bought a Christmas present for my girlfriend last week, and shipping was 40% of...
A Muslim pilgrim has his head shaved, after throwing pebbles at a stone pillar representing the devil, during the Hajj pilgrim in Mina near Mecca, Saudi Arabia, Friday, Nov. 27, 2009. (AP Photo/Hassan Ammar) By HADEEL...
Soldiers of Pakistan army enter in tunnel allegedly used by militants in stronghold of Taliban in Kot Kai in Pakistan's tribal area of Waziristan along the Afghanistan border on Thursday, Nov. 26, 2009. In Pakistani tribal...
