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President Barack Obama and Chinese President Xi Jinping, left, walk at the Annenberg Retreat of the Sunnylands estate Saturday, June 8, 2013, in Rancho Mirage, Calif.
China   Cyber   Photos   US   Wikipedia: Cyber-security regulation
 The Star 
Obama confronts Xi on cyber theft, affinity found on North Korea
RANCHO MIRAGE, California (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama confronted Chinese President Xi Jinping over allegations of cyber theft on Saturday but they agreed at a shirtsleeves summit in the... (photo: AP / Evan Vucci)
his photo provided by Tourism Queensland shows a total solar eclipse observed on Green Island, Queensland state, Australia, Wednesday, Nov. 14, 2012. Starting just after dawn, the eclipse cast its 150-kilometer (95-mile) shadow in Australia's Northern Territory, crossed the northeast tip of the country and was swooping east across the South Pacific, where no islands are in its direct path.
Photos   Science   Space   Sydney   Wikipedia: Solar eclipse
 Lexington Herald-Leader 
'Ring of fire' eclipse crosses Australia, Pacific
SYDNEY — Skygazers across the Australian Outback were among the lucky few to witness a solar eclipse on Friday as the moon glided between the Earth and the sun, blocking everything but a... (photo: AP / Tourism Queensland)
G-8 summit, in Hokkaido, Japan- am1  STL Today 
G-8 summit turns focus to clampdown on tax-dodging
Leaders from eight of the world's wealthiest countries spent the final hours of their summit Tuesday focusing how to make sure that multinational companies can no longer rely on shelters and loopholes... (photo: PIB / Photo Division Ministry of Information & Broadcasting Government of India.)
G8 Summit   Leaders   N. Ireland   Photos   Tax   Wikipedia: G8
People wait to cross a street in front of the electronic stock board of a securities firm in Tokyo, Japan, Monday, April 2, 2012.  Reuters 
Japan's Nikkei seen rising 51 percent in 2013: Reuters poll
TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's Nikkei will rise 51 percent in 2013 on expectations of higher company earnings, driven by a weaker yen after Prime Minister Shinzo Abe embarked on radical fiscal and monetary... (photo: AP / Shizuo Kambayashi)
Japan   Nikkei 225   Photos   Tokyo   Wikipedia: Nikkei 225
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Daugaard-Jensen Glacier, feeding into Nordvestfjord/Scoresby Sund, Greenland (view from a helicopter flight about 5 miles inland from the calving line). The New York Times
Fresh Analysis of the Pace of Warming and Sea-Level Rise
Here are two useful articles assessing the latest thinking on the pace at which Greenland ice loss could raise sea levels and the implications of the recent plateau in... (photo: Creative Commons / Hannes Grobe, AWI)
Climate   Greenland   Photos   Scientists   Solomon   Wikipedia: List of glaciers of Iceland
The Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) will operate in Papua New Guinea to perform humanitarian civic assistance missions as part of Pacific Partnership 2008. Jakarta Globe
Quake Strikes Off Papua New Guinea, No Damage Reported
A 6.6 magnitude earthquake struck 74 kilometers west of Bougainville island in Papua New Guinea on Sunday but there were no immediate reports of... (photo: US Navy / Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Joshua Valcarcel ()
Bougainville   Earthquake   Papua New Guinea   Photos   Wikipedia: 2013 Bougainville Earthquake
Sen. John Kerry, D-Mass., emerges after a unanimous vote by the Senate Foreign Relations Committee approving him to become America's next top diplomat, replacing Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, on Capitol Hill in Washington The Examiner
Ancient American events this April 2013
Learn more about the ancient civilizations of North America by attending one of the many lectures or conferences this month: April 2, 7:00 PM Oregon Archaeology Society... (photo: AP / J. Scott Applewhite)
America   Ancient   Conferences   Photos   Wikipedia: North American International Auto Show
Palestinian farmers spray insecticide against locust at a field in Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on March 5, 2013. According the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) a swarm of tens of millions of locusts has overtaken Egyptian desert land in the past few days and is heading to the Gaza Strip, Israel and Jordan.Photo by Ahmed Deeb / WN Huffington Post
Madagascar Locusts Plague Could Cost $41 Million
Madagascar needs over $41 million (32 million euros) to battle a locust plague as swarms of insects blot out the sky in the south of the island nation, the Food and... (photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb)
FAO   Locusts   Madagascar   Photos   Wikipedia: 2013 Madagascar locust plague
File - Former Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed listens to questions from reporters at his residence in Male, Maldives, Thursday, Feb. 9, 2012. Houston Chronicle
Maldives ex-leader arrested in abuse of power case
BY KRISHAN FRANCIS, Associated Press | March 5, 2013 | Updated: March 5, 2013 5:58am Comments (0) E-mail Print Tweet Page 1 of 1 COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — The former... (photo: AP / Eranga Jayawardena)
Crime   Maldives   Photos   Politics   Wikipedia: Mohamed Nasheed
Jobless Europeans flock to Switzerland Swissinfo
Jobless Europeans flock to Switzerland
An emergency shelter especially for European migrants is being reopened this weekend to accommodate people who would otherwise be forced to sleep rough. EU citizens from... (photo: EC / EC)
EU   Emergency   Photos   Switzerland   Wikipedia: Education in Switzerland
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