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UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon listens at a press conference during the 5th Global Forum of the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations at the Hofburg palace, in Vienna, Austria
Photos   Politics   UN   Washington   Wikipedia: Ban Ki-moon
 Sun Star 
UN holds 1st high-level meeting on the disabled
UNITED NATIONS -- Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon opened a historic UN meeting of world leaders Monday "to break barriers and open doors" for the more than one billion disabled people around the world.... (photo: AP / Ronald Zak)
British ten pound note,  £10 note, Bank of England, money currency seen in Manila, Philippines in this December 18, 2008 file photo.
Currencies   Dollar   Photos   Rupee   Wikipedia: Pound sterling
 The Hindu 
Dollar not alone, rupee breaches key levels across the board
As rupee’s record fall against the U.S. dollar continues to hog the limelight, it has also lost ground and breached key levels against a host of other currencies including British pound, euro... (photo: WN / RTayco)
File - The Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh addressing at the Economic Times Awards presentation ceremony, in Mumbai on November 10, 2012.  The Hindu 
Collective temper needed to tackle global economic uncertainty: PM
Calling for cooperation among Asia-Pacific countries to tackle the global economic uncertainty, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh today said that the vast growth potential of India and these nations can... (photo: PIB of India)
Asia   Economy   Pacific   Photos   Wikipedia: Manmohan Singh
Kashmiris pull sledges at the ski resort  Gulmarg, situated about 53 kms north of Srinagar on April 23,  2011. Gulmarg is the main ski destination in kashnmir valley.  Stuff 
North Korea rushes to finish lavish ski resort
Kim Tae Yong, secretary-general of North Korea's ski association, views the sprawling alpine landscape before him with unabashed pride. Facing a strong, cold wind, he points to a dip in the rugged,... (photo: WN / Imran Nissar)
Korea   Photos   Ski   Tourism   Wikipedia: North Korea   Wind
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Gay Russians seek refuge in Canada
A Vancouver immigration lawyer says he has seen a jump in business from Russia after new anti-gay laws came into force. While it's still too soon to say whether a... (photo: AP / Ivan Sekretarev)
Canada   Human Rights   Photos   Russia   Wikipedia: Gay
Cookbook page of corn recipe - cooking Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Five 'Fresh' new cookbooks offer a pile of recipes
If there has been one buzzword for this spring's crop of cookbooks, it has to be "fresh." At one point I noticed enough new cookbooks with "fresh" in their titles to... (photo: WN / Aruna Mirasdar)
Book   Cooking   Photos   Recipes   Wikipedia: Cookbook
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. 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... (photo: AP / Evan Vucci)
China   Cyber   Photos   US   Wikipedia: Cyber-security regulation
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. 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,... (photo: AP / Tourism Queensland)
Photos   Science   Space   Sydney   Wikipedia: Solar eclipse
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
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