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Senior North Korean officials visit border: report
About 130 North Korean officials visited the tense frontier with South Korea last week as Pyongyang intensified its threats against Seoul, a report said Wednesday.The North's Defence Minister Kim Yong-Chun and military chief Ri Yong-Ho toured the border truce village of Panmunjom on March…
US envoy to Egypt arrives in Germany
US ambassador to Egypt rushed to Germany from where she will return to United States, according to German news agency.Earlier, around 100 protesters calling for an end to military rule in Egypt clashed with soldiers near the US embassy in Cairo.Shouting "Down with…
Nairobi attack death toll rises to six
A grenade attack on a Nairobi bus station killed at least six people and wounded 63, according to a new toll issued Sunday by Kenyan Internal Security Minister George Saitoti."The death toll is now six, and we have 63 people undergoing treatment at the…
Strong solar storm heading for Earth
A strong geomagnetic storm is racing from the Sun toward Earth, and its expected arrival on Thursday could affect power grids, airplane routes and space-based satellite navigation systems, U.S. space weather experts said.The storm, a big cloud of charged particles flung from the Sun…
US pledges aid after 150 die in Congo blast
The United States led international pledges of emergency aid to Congo after huge blasts at an arms depot in Brazzaville killed more than 150 people and left 1,000 injured.President Denis Sassou Nguesso announced a curfew in the capital and cordoned off the area around…
Ice dam collapses at Argentine glacier
An ice dam at Argentina's Perito Moreno glacier collapsed early Sunday, creating an impressive spectacle not seen since July 2008, although few tourists were actually awake to experience the moment.Several tons of ice fell off the 60-meter (200 foot) ice dam into Lago Argentina…
US 'concerned' over Qaeda attacks in Yemen:Pentagon
The United States is "very concerned" about the latest assault by Al-Qaeda militants in Yemen but does not believe the government's survival is in jeopardy, a Pentagon spokesman said Monday.In one of the single deadliest attacks against Yemeni forces, more than 100 government soldiers…
US toddler dies in wake of tornado, toll at 37
A two-year-old girl who was found barely alive amid the bodies of her parents and siblings after horrific tornadoes hit the United States, died Sunday after a 48-hour fight for life.Angel Babcock was discovered in a field near her family's home in New Pekin,…
Oceans' acidic shift maybe fastest in 300 million years
The world's oceans are turning acidic at what could be the fastest pace of any time in the past 300 million years, even more rapidly than during a monster emission of planet-warming carbon 56 million years ago, scientists said on Thursday.Looking back at that…
UK scientists to help satellites dodge sun storms
British scientists have developed a system to help protect navigation and communications satellites from potentially devastating solar storms, they said on Friday.Services spanning everything from mobile phones to sophisticated weaponry increasingly depend on global positioning system, or GPS, technology. However damage by a massive…