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Boats are seen spraying water on an oil and gas platform that exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, off the coast of Louisiana., Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010. All 13 crew members were rescued.
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 The New York Times 
Offshore Oil Platform in the Gulf of Mexico Explodes
| NEW ORLEANS — An offshore oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday morning, injuring one worker, the United States Coast Guard said. | The rig was located just west of where another ... (photo: AP / Gerald Herbert)
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates, right, is greeted by top NATO commander Gen. David Petraeus as he arrives in Kabul, Afghanistan on Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010.
Afghanistan   Defense   Photos   US   Wikipedia: War in Afghanistan (2001present)  
 The New York Times 
Gates Lands in Afghanistan
| KABUL, Afghanistan — Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates arrived here on an unannounced visit Thursday for meetings with American military commanders and President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan. |... (photo: AP / Jim Watson, Pool)
In this June 13, 2009 file photo, an electrical linesman repairs cables as illegal subsidiary wires are seen mangled to the main cables in Allahabad, India. Stealing of power is a frequent phenomenon in Indian towns.  The New York Times 
Bringing Light to India's Rural Areas
| BANGALORE, INDIA — As dusk falls, the sound of children singing fills the air at the SOS Tibetan Children’s Village in Bylakuppe, five hours’ drive from Bangalore in southern India... (photo: AP / Rajesh Kumar Singh, File)
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Containers are handled at the container terminal of the harbour in Hamburg, northern Germany, in this Jan. 16, 2006 file picture. German exports increased by 9.3 percent in May 2007 compared with the same month last year, and the country's trade surplus increased more strongly than expected, according to data released Monday, July 9, 2007.  The New York Times 
Strong Yen Helps to Fuel Germany's Export Boom
| FRANKFURT — There was a touch of schadenfreude in the most recent earnings report issued by Kuka, a company based in the Bavarian city of Augsburg whose orange industrial robots are a common s... (photo: AP / Kai-Uwe Knoth, File)
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Newly appointed Director General of the ITER (originaly International Thermonuclear  Experimental Reactor) Organization, Japaneze Professor Osamu Motojima, poses for photographers, during a press conference, at CEA (Atomic Energy Authority) headquarters in Cadarache, near Saint-Paul-lez-Durance, southern France , Wednesday, July 28, 2010. Gulf News
Key to limitless energy
| It is one of mankind's most daring experiments — a quest to produce virtually limitless clean energy that, if successful, would revolutionise life on Earth by har... (photo: AP / Claude Paris)
Energy   Environment   Nuclear   Photos   Wikipedia: Nuclear fusion  
An Afghan refugee whose house was demolished by heavy flooding, looks for his belongings amid rubble in Azakhel near Peshawar, Pakistan  Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010. Asia Times
Pakistan mulls 'flood taxes'
|      Sep 3, 2010 Pakistan mulls 'flood taxes' | By Syed Fazl-e-Haider | KARACHI - The government in Islamabad may impose a 2% tax on all imports to ... (photo: AP / Mohammad Sajjad)
Finance   Floods   Pakistan   Photos   Wikipedia: 2010 Pakistan floods  
In this image made Monday, Aug. 30, 2010 from China Central Television footage, North Korea's  Kim Jong Il, left, walks with Chinese President Hu Jintao, right, when they met in Changchun, northeast China's Jilin province on Friday Aug. 27, 2010 Asia Times
China makes its North Korea move
|      Sep 3, 2010 Page 1 of 2 | China makes its North Korea move | By Peter Lee | The Barack Obama administration's policy of "strategic reassur... (photo: AP / CCTV via APTN)
China   N Korea   Photos   US   Wikipedia: ROKS Cheonan sinking  
A Philippine National Police officer places flowers at the site where eight Hong Kong tourists were killed in a nearly 12-hour bus hostage standoff on Aug. 23, 2010, involving a dismissed police officer, at Manila's Rizal Park in the Philippines, Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2010. Khaleej Times
Coffin mix-up after Philippine hostage crisis
Three coffins used to bring back some of the eight Hong Kong tourists killed last week's Philippine hostage crisis had been mislabelled. | The mix-up was discovered after... (photo: AP / Bullit Marquez)
Hong Kong   Hostage   Philippines   Photos   Wikipedia: Manila hostage crisis  
Trees are uprooted as Typhoon Kompasu lashes the South Korean city of Chuncheon on Thursday, Sept. 2, 2010. Khaleej Times
Typhoon suspends SKorean flights, kills 3
Typhoon Kompasu slammed into South Korea on Thursday, killing three people in what was called the strongest tropical storm to hit the Seoul area in 15 years. | Powerful g... (photo: AP / Yonhap, Lee Sang-hack)
Photos   S.Korea   Typhoon   Weather   Wikipedia: Typhoon Kompasu (2010)  
Pedestrians make their way on the Mall with the U.S. Capitol Building in the background for the first major snow of the year in the Washington area Sunday, Jan. 5 BBC News
Huge snowfall caused by rare clash of weather events
Scientists have shown that a severe snowfall in North America and Northern Europe in the winter of 2009-2010 was caused by a rare, once in a century, collision of two wea... (photo: AP / Lawrence Jacks)
Global Warming   Photos   Science   Weather   Wikipedia: Winter storm  
Police stand guard as tourists leave the Intercontinental hotel after it was invaded by gunmen who took hostages in the Sao Conrado neighborhood near the Rocinha Slum in Rio  de Janeiro, Brazil, Saturday Aug. 21, 2010. The Times Of India
One killed, hostages released in Brazil shootout
RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazilian police said all hostages taken Saturday by heavily armed gunmen who stormed an upscale Rio hotel have been released, adding that one person was ... (photo: AP / Felipe Dana)
Brazil   Crime   Photos   Police   Wikipedia: Rio de Janeiro  
Israeli soldiers detain a Palestinian during a military operation in the West Bank city of Hebron, a day after a Palestinian attack left four Israelis dead, Wednesday, Sept. 1, 2010. The New York Times
Palestinians Hunt the Killers of 4 Israelis
| JERUSALEM — Israeli soldiers carried out house-to-house searches in villages near the West Bank city of Hebron on Wednesday, and Palestinian troops rounded up doz... (photo: AP / Nasser Shiyoukhi)
Hamas   Israel   Palestine   Photos   Wikipedia: Hamas  
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