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An aerial view shows the Pike River Coal mine near Atarau where an explosion ripped through New Zealand's  largest coal mine Friday, Nov. 19, 2010, while about 30 people were underground.
photo: AP / New Zealand Herald, Stewart Nimmo
Explosion hits NZ's largest coal mine; 27 missing
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand – An explosion ripped through New Zealand's largest coal mine Friday while about 30 people were underground, officials said. Five workers, dazed and slightly injured, stumbled to the surface hours later, while more than two dozen were missing. Police said that shortly before the blast the electricity went out in the...
 
 
Creators Syndicate – Missiles fired from the Chinese mainland could destroy five of the...
Speaking in New York last week, International Atomic Energy Agency director general Yukiya...
Aung San Suu Kyi, leader of the democratization movement in Myanmar (Burma), urged...
 
A worker installs nylon nets around scaffolding at a construction site in Beijing, China, Thursday, Nov. 18, 2010. Nylon nets helped spreading a Shanghai high-rise apartment fire sparked by unlicensed welders that killed 53 people. The fire was completely avoidable, China's top labor safety official said, blaming lax supervision and illegal work practices.
A worker installs nylon nets around scaffolding at a construction site in... In this Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2010 photo, people place flowers and wreaths... In this Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2010 photo, people offers prayer in front of... SHANGHAI (AP) - A...
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Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh looks on during a Congress Party function in Bangalore, India. The Prime Minister’s Office spokesman said that Singh will undergo a coronary artery bypass graft surgery on Jan. 24 at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, according to news repor
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Closing down signs are seen in one of the many shops closing down in Belfast city centre Northern Ireland, Friday, Jan. 23, 2009. The British economy has officially sunk into recession, government statistics showed Friday, with output falling 1.5 percent in the fourth quarter of last year as the financial crisis ravaged banks, retail and manufacturing. It was the biggest decline since the early days of Margaret Thatcher's government nearly 30 years ag
Dublin – Despite a week of firm denials, Ireland is now in negotiations with the European Union about a joint European Central Bank (ECB) and International Monetary Fund (IMF) aid package worth as much as $100 billion for its stricken economy....
photo: AP / Peter Morrison
Soldiers patrol a street in Madagascar's capital Antananarivo Thursday Nov. 18, 2010, a day after an attempted coup. The capital was calm Thursday, with no sign forces loyal to Rajoelina would try to oust the mutinous officers from the base where they had gathered near the capital's airport.
JOHANNESBURG - A coup attempt in Madagascar appeared to be foundering yesterday as the military officers who claimed to be taking over the country instead spent the day in their barracks. Calm prevailed in Antananarivo, the capital. On Wednesday, the...
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A rocket fired from a civilian area in Gaza towards civilian areas in Southern Israel
A long-range rocket fired on Friday from Gaza into Israel exploded near the Negev desert town of Ofakim without causing any casualties, Israel's...
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JAZEERAH DESERT - U.S. Marines aboard an M1A1 Abrams tank drive through the Jazeerah Desert in Iraq, July 4, 2008.
Washington - The United States is sending a company of M1 Abrams tanks to Afghanistan, the first such deployment of heavy tanks in the nine-year war, the Washington Post reported Friday. Sixteen of the 68-ton tanks are headed for use by the US...
photo: U.S. Marine Corps / Sgt. Jason W. Fudge
A Qantas Airbus A380 turns at the end of the runway and taxis after landing at Sydney Airport in Australia, Sunday, Sept. 21, 2008, two years behind schedule. Qantas said the Airbus, which has a 525-seat capacity but which Qantas has configured to carry 450 passengers, will make its inaugural commercial flight from Melbourne, Australia, to Los Angeles on Oct. 20.
November 19, 2010 SYDNEY (Reuters) - Qantas Airways likely faces several more weeks before its fleet of six Airbus A380s can return to service, a source with direct knowledge said on Friday, threatening to squeeze its capacity as it heads into the...
photo: AP / Rick Rycroft
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Alleged Russian arms trafficker Viktor Bout, right, escorted by Thai police commandos, arrives at Don muang airport in Bangkok on Tuesday Nov. 16, 2010. Thailand extradited accused Bout to the U.S. on Tuesday to face terrorism charges, siding with Washington in a tug of war with Moscow over whether to send him to stand trial or let him go home
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Claudio Sulser, chairman of the FIFA Ethics Committee gestures during a press conference at the FIFA headquarters in Zurich, Switzerland, Thursday, Nov. 18, 2010. FIFA has suspended Amos Adamu and Reynald Temarii from the 2018 and 2022 World Cup hosting vote after completing a corruption investigation.
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Direct image of exoplanets around the star HR8799 using a vector vortex coronagraph on a 1.5m portion of the Hale telescope
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Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu gestures as he speaks to students at the Technion, a technology school in Haifa, Northern Israel, Thursday, Nov. 18. 2010. Netanyahu suggested that agreement on a U.S.-proposed settlement construction moratorium designed to renew deadlocked Mideast peacemaking, was neither imminent nor inevitable. He said he is holding intensive contacts with the Obama administration since his meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton a week ago. "The objective is to formulate understandings through which we can promote the political process while maintaining the vital interests of the state of Israel, primarily security,", Netanyahu said.
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An Israeli soldier sits behind protective cement blocks in the village of Ghajar on the border with Lebanon, northern Israel, Wednesday, Nov. 17, 2010. Israel on Wednesday approved the withdrawal of troops from the northern half of a village that straddles the border with Lebanon _ a step that would end its four-year presence in the volatile area.
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A customer looks at vehicles at a General Motors dealership in Burlingame, Calif., Monday, June 1, 2009.
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Health ministry clinics in the UAE that are open during Eid
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Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard  of the Federal Labor Party salutes wellwishers at the end of voting in Melbourne, Saturday, Aug. 21, 2010.
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 Former England cricketer Ian Botham smokes a cigar on the 8th tee at Kingsbarns golf course near St Andrews, Scotland, during his first round match in the Dunhill Links Golf Championship Thursday Oct. 5, 2006. The Dunhill Links Golf Championship is playe
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Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange just prior to the closing bell Monday, Jan. 26, 2009.
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