April 24, 2009 Friday
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SYRACUSE (Italy) - THE WORLD'S top polluters ended climate change talks Friday that created new momentum towards an overall deal to fight global warming but serious 'gaps' remained to be overcome.

 
Fast broadband for Estonia

TALLINN (Estonia) - ESTONIA plans to build a new broadband network that would provide high-speed Internet access to homes and businesses throughout the small Baltic country by 2015, the government said Friday.

18-kilo tumour removed

BERLIN - A SAUDI woman said she felt 'born again' Friday after doctors in Germany removed a tumour weighing almost 18 kilos that they said was the largest of its kind ever seen.

'I am going to go back home and stand in front of all those doctors who said there was no hope,' the 35-year-old mother-of-three, who declined to be named, told a news conference together with her doctors in Berlin.

First albino buffalo spotted

NAIVASHA (Kenya) - RANGERS in Kenya's Hellsgate National Park have spotted an albino buffalo, the first of its kind ever recorded in the wildlife rich country, park officials said on Friday.

   
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