Th strike by the coastguard in Northern Ireland is due to end today."A 48-hour strike involving local Coastguard staff is due to end on Monday evening. The action, over the Bank Holiday weekend, has been taken by those co-ordinating rescues. However, boat crews of the...
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The good news is that the people of Ruidoso are safe. All that's left now is the mess. A drive through town on Thursday afternoon found most of the bridges still out and mud and debris piled along the river. Crews...
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan - A high-altitude rescue helicopter safely plucked two stranded Italian climbers from one of the world's highest mountains on Thursday, officials said.
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This is a whale of a story! and it's all over the news. Observers were amazed to see that a dolphin could communicate with a whale! Most humans have lost contact with nature –the wonder, the 'every-day' miracles of life! We've come to think we're the only species that can...
"A New York City lawmaker wants to declare war on the city's pigeons and says he will not be dissuaded by the difficulties faced by London and Venice in ridding themselves of the ubiquitous birds.
City...
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This is the first time I've ever read of mob violence against a shark. "A lifeguard in New York's Coney Island beach came to the rescue of a 2-foot sand shark that was being smacked and hit by frightened...
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"NEW ORLEANS - Paul Pablovich was the very picture of a good neighbor as he shoveled debris off the curb and mowed other people's lawns in Lakeview, a middle-class section of town that was swamped with 15 feet of water during Hurricane Katrina and is now a patchwork of gutted...
According to New York Daily News, Starbucks is making changes to its menu. The coffee giant got 12 percent of its $4 billion in sales through food last year, mostly with cold items like cookies, muffins and...
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