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Whether you like to ski or snowboard, there’s always a chance of injury. Now, a Swiss-based firm called Snowpulse SA is showing a personal airbag for skiers that could help protect them from injuries. The Snowpulse Life Bag is basically a backpack...
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A suicide car bomber killed four security forces and wounded passing schoolchildren Tuesday in Pakistan’s volatile northwest, where the government is under...
made popular May 5 2009
AP, Seoul
North Korea runs a cyber warfare unit that tries to hack into U.S. and South Korean military networks to gather confidential information and disrupt service, a news...
made popular May 5 2009
AP, Peshawar
A senior police official says a suicide car bomber has killed at least four paramilitary security forces in northwestern Pakistan.
made popular May 5 2009
AP, Ankara
Masked assailants with grenades and automatic weapons attacked an engagement ceremony in southeast Turkey on Monday, killing 45 people. Two girls survived after the...
made popular May 5 2009
AP, Asuncion
A former dictatorship-era official considered a brutal torturer by human rights groups has made a surprise return to Paraguay, where he faces six pending trials for the...
made popular May 4 2009
AP, Ankara
Masked assailants with grenades and automatic weapons attacked a wedding ceremony in southeast Turkey on Monday, killing 45 people and wounding 20 others. Two girls...
made popular May 4 2009
AP, Mexico City
Mexico announced a return to “normalcy” on Monday, preparing to reopen businesses and schools even as the virus sickened more than 1,200 people in 20...
made popular May 4 2009
AP, Ankara
Masked assailants with grenades and automatic weapons attacked a wedding ceremony in southeast Turkey on Monday, killing 44 people and wounding 20 others. Two girls...
made popular May 4 2009
AP, Ankara
Masked assailants with grenades and automatic weapons attacked a wedding ceremony in southeast Turkey on Monday, killing 44 people and wounding 20 others. Two girls...
made popular May 4 2009
AP, Sao Paulo
The Southern Hemisphere has been mostly spared in the swine flu epidemic. That could change soon as winter sets in with no vaccine in place, leaving half the planet out...
made popular May 4 2009
AP, Ankara
Turkey’s NTV television, citing authorities, says 41 people have been killed and three have been wounded in an attack on a wedding in the southeast.
made popular May 4 2009
AP, Jakarta
The chief of Indonesia’s anti-corruption watchdog was arrested Monday and named a suspect in the murder of a prominent state company official, police and his...
made popular May 4 2009
AP, Mexico City
Mexico’s president says universities will reopen Thursday and all other classes will resume nationwide next week, citing an ebb in the swine flu outbreak.
made popular May 4 2009
AP, Ankara
Assailants with grenades and automatic weapons attacked a wedding in southeast Turkey on Monday, killing at least 16 people and wounding 20 others, new organizations...
made popular May 4 2009
AP, United Nations
Russia has invited Security Council ministers to a meeting next week to give “new impetus” to the Middle East peace process.
made popular May 4 2009
AP, Ankara
Turkish media say at least 16 people have been killed and 20 others wounded in an attack on a wedding ceremony in the southeastern part of the country.
made popular May 4 2009
AP, Baghdad
Iraq’s government Monday ruled out allowing U.S. combat troops to remain in Iraqi cities after the June 30 deadline for their withdrawal, despite concern that...
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AP, Kabul
President Hamid Karzai chose a powerful warlord accused of rights abuses as one of his vice presidential running mates on Monday, hours before leaving for meetings in...
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AP, Jerusalem
Israel dispatched top officials to the U.S. and Europe on Monday in a diplomatic offensive aimed at softening the hawkish image of Prime Minister Benjamin...
made popular May 4 2009
AP, Paris
The French are living up to their image as lovers of food and can add a new love to the mix, sleep, according to a survey released Monday. In fact, the French excel at...
made popular May 4 2009
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AP, Whistler
A skier and a snowboarder were killed in separate avalanches at Canada’s Whistler resort, police said Thursday, just days after eight snowmobiliers died elsewhere...
made popular Jan 2 2009
AP, Whistler
Two men are dead after a pair of avalanches at Canada’s Whistler ski resort.
made popular Jan 2 2009
AP, Sparwood
The decision to leave eight friends buried under a series of avalanches in western Canada’s backcountry was gut-wrenching, one of the three survivors said...
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AP, Fernie
Eight snowmobilers buried in avalanches were missing Monday in a western Canada’s backcountry, and rescuers feared some of the men were killed by the falling...
made popular Dec 29 2008
AP, Fernie
Two avalanches buried 11 snowmobilers in southeastern British Columbia and authorities feared some of them were killed.
made popular Dec 29 2008
AP, Bellingham
An avalanche swept a group of five snowmobilers several hundred feet down a northwest Washington mountain, killing two, authorities said.The body of the second...
made popular Jan 2 2008
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Well it’s that time of the year when the adventurers can think about heading to Tuckerman Ravine for some thrills and spills up on the wall. The ski...
made popular May 26 2007
After Taliban and al-Qaeda, Nature is also turning hostile to the Afghanis as the death toll, owing to the avalanches and floods caused by warm weather and heavy spring...
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Volunteers with the Fernie Search and Rescue team prepare to head out to search for eight missing snowmobilers Monday, Dec. 29, 2008 in Fernie, Canada. Eight snowmobilers buried in avalanches were missing Monday in a western Canada’s backcountry, and...
