There goes the neighbourhood: mosquitoes thrive on US credit slump

This is one of those stories that no one thinks about until it may be too late. It's no secret that thousands of homes are being abandoned in the US due to the property crash, but I never thought that people not...

Australian stockman tells of crocodile ordeal

"A stockman has told how he spent a week stuck up a tree in remote north Queensland bushland, as hungry crocodiles waited below. David George, 53, set out from his Silver Plains cattle station, near Coen in far...

Birth of American Values

"Today is the 400th anniversary of the establishment of Jamestown Colony, the first permanent English settlement in what would become the United States of America. At first, it was a disaster. Their plan was to...

All dead in Cameroon swamp plane crash

"Rescue teams found no one alive when they reached the wreckage of a Kenyan Airways plane that crashed in swampland in southwest Cameroon with 114 people on board. "There are only dead, no survivors," said one...

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