Activitists in Australia have won the right to distribute condoms at the world youth day in Sydney marking the pope's visit, blocking an order that had attempted to stop them from doing so by barring people from "annoying" the pilgrims."Young Catholics attending World Youth...
"Everyone has an Everest...Karen's is losing weight. (I planned to write, well, finish and post, my thoughts on Mallory & Irvine's summit day today, but it needs a bit more work, and frankly I've been swamped. So, that'll have to wait till next week. But, in the...
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Robert Mugabe is confident that he will win Zimbabwe's March 29 election. So am I, since he owns the election process. Only a man who can elect himself could continue to hold power, as Zimbabwe's inflation rate...
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Cancel Jericho? Nuts to that, say fans... they have weighed in with over forty thousand pounds of legumes, forcing those big bad exects to bring back the post-apocalyptic episodic."An online protest involving 20...
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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...
Coastal cities are always destinations, whether for work or play, and many of the world's largest cities are also on their country's coastline. Historically speaking, port cities often remain centres of commerce...
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"Indonesia will resettle more than 3,000 families whose houses have been swamped by mud surging from a gas exploration site and will dump the sludge into the sea to avoid more destruction, a minister said Wednesday.
The mud appeared after an accident occurred deep in a...
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"Floods driven by heavy monsoon rains have displaced at least 66,000 people in India’s north-eastern Assam state, it was reported on Friday.
About 13,000 hectares of land were swamped by floodwaters after major rivers in the state including the Brahmaputra breached their...