China faces ‘very grave’ environmental situation
According to a report by Ian Jonson to the New
York Times, China’s three decades of rapid economic growth have left
it with a “very grave” environmental situation even as it tries to
move away from a develop-at-all-costs strategy, senior government
officials said Friday.
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President Saleh defiant after injury
Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh has
broadcast a brief audio message, hours after being injured in an
attack on his compound in the capital Sanaa. Saleh said hwas well
and urged the army to confront his tribal opponents,
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World’s most expensive champagne
A bottle of Veuve Clicquot, among the world’s
oldest Veuve champagne, was auctioned for a record setting 30,000
Euros, equivalent to 48 million Sri Lanka rupees near where it was
found in a shipwreck at the bottom of the Baltic Sea.
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