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Wednesday, 12 Jan, 2011
Brisbane, the third largest city of Australia and also the state capital of Queensland, is bracing for once-in-a-century floods.
On Wednesday, a number of streets in Brisbane's Central Business District (CBD) were flooded with water, and many homes and businesses along Brisbane River have also been inundated.
The flood-hit city, with a population around 2 million, is bracing for the peak wave to come. Local officials announced that the peak was expected to come at around 04:00 a.m. local time on Thursday.
In Brisbane CBD, which was out of power on Wednesday morning, the busy and prosperous city was almost empty. Shops were
China is ready to take "organized action," in particular, to continue buying up the bonds of those European countries that were hardest hit by the crisis.
For China, the EU is a major market for Chinese goods. In 2009, the volume of trade between the parties amounted to $429 billion. During the first 11 months of this year it has already exceeded $433.9 billion, which is 30% higher than last year.
China had a very sensitive reaction to the Greek issues. "When Greece has problems, China is ready to provide any assistance possible," said Prime Minister Wen Jiabao at a joint press
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Monday, 27 Dec, 2010
The design for an official commemorative coin to mark the engagement of Britain's Prince William and Kate Middleton was unveiled on Thursday, but not everyone might recognize the
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Thursday, 9 Dec, 2010
The online attacks are part of a wave of support for WikiLeaks that is sweeping the Internet. Twitter was choked with messages of solidarity for the group, while
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Thursday, 25 Nov, 2010
The scanners used to equip the airports around the world are already compared by researchers to the terrorists' weapons, with the only difference that the bomb blasts kills
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Sunday, 14 Nov, 2010
Scientists continue to scare the world population with imminent disasters. This time, the role of the force of nature that will destroy the planet was given to
As everyone knows, the Anglo finance has been a cancer upon humanity for well over a hundred years now.
It is this group, as I mention in The
Recently, a respectable scientific journal Nature published an article that ten years ago would have been considered a fiction and would not have been publication at all.
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Sunday, 31 Oct, 2010
There were no survivors in the French helicopter crash in Antarctica, the French administration of Southern and Antarctic Territories (TAAF) confirmed Saturday.
The pilot, the mechanic and two
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Saturday, 30 Oct, 2010
Indonesia's Mount Merapi volcano in Central Java erupted again on Saturday, spewing hot ashes as high as 2 kilometers, covering up the radius of 10 kilometers around
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Saturday, 30 Oct, 2010
This time, a date which seems to line up with an interstellar black hole, a 3,600-year intergalactic cycle and just about all the worst prophecies in
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Saturday, 30 Oct, 2010
Severe changes in the abundance are sending alarming signals to scientists, now worried about the possibility of catastrophic climate change in this most sensitive of regions,
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Sunday, 24 Oct, 2010
Three of the biggest U.S. television broadcasters have blocked the Web-based versions of their shows from Google Inc's new Web TV service, throwing a wrench into the company's
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Monday, 18 Oct, 2010
While scientists have long concluded that the universe is expanding, and will do so for an infinite period of time, the researchers say the very rules of physics
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Wednesday, 13 Oct, 2010
To hugs, cheers and tears, rescuers using a missile-like escape capsule began pulling 33 men one by one to fresh air and freedom at last early Wednesday,
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Wednesday, 6 Oct, 2010
The last Sony TV we reviewed with superb picture quality was the ultra-expensive KDL-55XBR8 from 2008, which also and not coincidentally featured the company's last example of a
