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Arriving back in New Zealand with a young family in the mid-1970s, finding accommodation in breezy sprawling Auckland was easy enough. Kiwis are as always ever helpful.
When it comes to their own, they look after you....
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Global health authorities warned Wednesday that swine flu was threatening to bloom into a pandemic, and the virus spread farther in Europe even as the outbreak appeared...
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AP, Mexico City
Global health authorities warned Wednesday that swine flu was threatening to bloom into a pandemic, and the virus spread farther in Europe even as the outbreak appeared...
made popular Apr 30 2009
AP, New York
The swine flu outbreak is unleashing a side effect the global economy is in no condition to handle: fear.
made popular Apr 28 2009
AP, Madrid
Spain grabbed world headlines a decade ago by indicting Chile’s former dictator Augusto Pinochet, and has since probed alleged atrocities as far away as Tibet and...
made popular Apr 22 2009
AP, Sydney
Global mining giant BHP Billiton on Wednesday reported a sharp drop in quarterly copper production, along with declines in iron ore and aluminum, as demand for minerals...
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Losses at financial institutions could approach $4.1 trillion worldwide, the International Monetary Fund said Tuesday as it urged countries to take bolder action to...
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AP, Washington
The International Monetary Fund says U.S. financial institutions will suffer $2.7 trillion in losses from the global credit crisis, part of a worldwide total expected...
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AP, Seattle
Global shipments of personal computers fell 7.1 percent in the first three months of the year, but the decline was smaller than expected and research group IDC on...
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AP, Paris
France’s rejection of a global role for NATO puts Paris on a collision course with the bolder NATO ambitions of other powerful alliance members _ most notably the...
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The skies are dimming, for most of the world. Increases in airborne pollution have dimmed the skies by blocking sunlight over the past 30 years, researchers report in...
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AP, Tokyo
Global sales of the Nintendo DS handheld topped 100 million in 4 years and 3 months _ a milestone reached at the quickest pace for any video game console _ the Japanese...
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The stock-market panic is not the only reason for rising investment demand.
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Energy Secretary Steven Chu, a champion of renewable energy and biofuels, has no delusions about the future of oil. Global demand for it will increase over the next two...
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Russia will likely see more forest fires, droughts and floods in the coming century due to global warming, and policy makers need to prepare for large-scale change,...
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Global climate change threatens the complete disappearance of the Andes’ tropical glaciers within the next 20 years, putting precious water, energy and food...
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A senior Treasury official says the Obama administration wants to see America’s major allies taking bold actions to deal with the global economic crisis.
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When it comes to global warming, the canary in the coal mine isn’t a canary at all. It’s a purple finch. As the temperature across the U.S. has gotten...
made popular Feb 10 2009
AP, San Francisco
The federal government has settled a lawsuit that accused two U.S. agencies of financing and insuring projects overseas that may contribute to global warming.
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Thirteen years after the world rallied to curb overfishing, most nations are failing to abide by the U.N.’s code of conduct for managing fisheries, scientists...
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The world is at a crossroads in its existence as war and a new kind of freedom are escalating between competing views of globalization and human rights. At times both...
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The US has always displayed a double-edged policy while taking on terror. Even after a much-touted and hyped change in guard at the top, this tendency has not been...
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Since time and ages the number 13 has proven to be unlucky around the world for some reason,but now it seems that its place of being unlucky would be replaced.It would...
made popular Nov 30 2008
What happened when the chief minister of the state decided to put himself directly behind the bowlers’ arm? Why, it stops the match of course!
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By Ranjan Kumar Amritnidhi, Delhi
Dance,Dance
Whether you know or not
Sing a Devotional or Love song
Whether you know or not.
Dance,Dance,...
made popular Oct 5 2008
By Ranjan Kumar Amritnidhi,Delhi
Incident : Burning of the Sabarmati Express train’s bogies No S6 and S7 at the Godhra railway station
Date : February 27,2002
Time...
made popular Sep 26 2008
Doubts have been cast over both the justice Nanavati and justice Banerjee reports.
Perhaps the truth of what happened at Godhra will never come out.
But one thing can...
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It is nice to know that in a country where alternate resources are generally used on a non-existent basis despite having enormous potential to do so, India seems to...
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The world’s largest solar energy project is currently in its planning phases, and it looks like it’s going to be absolutely enormous. Planned for Gujarat,...
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Terror Targets India
India counts its dead...
October 1, 2001
Srinagar
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December 13, 2001
New Delhi
Indian Parliament attack
7...
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Now that the dust has settled over the Gujarat elections, we can afford to defy the pundits and admit that, even if Narendra Modi had lost the last elections, it would...
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Hansiba, the flagship brand of a prominent Gujarat women’s self-help organisation, Thursday unveiled its herbal dyes and organic cotton based collection “Varakh”,...
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Chief Minister Narendra Modi has challenged the Central Government to not give any money to Gujarat for a year and in return not collect any tax from the state...
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The desert grasslands of Gujarat in India may be remote, but the Halepotra tribe make the long journey worthwhile.
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6 labourers died in a ceramic factory in Morbi due to gas poisoning. Such incidents will keep happening in Gujarat unless the government tightens its industrial...
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In my classes on LATERAL THINKING I request my trainees to come up with as many uses as they can, for a marker—the type one uses on chart...
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The Narendra Modi regime has made the bureaucrats servile. At a recent function, Amreli collector almost touched the feet of the Gujarat CM. Bureaucrats are supposed to...
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After wining the assembly election in Himachal Pradesh and the charismatic victory in Gujarat, Lal Krishna Advani, who has been declared as prime ministerial candidate...
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Saffron is shining, Lotus is rising, Bhartiya Janta Party leaders are smiling. After Gujarat, now the BJP is on the way to win Himachal Pradesh. Victory in two states...
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