 Winter air temperatures over Antarctica have risen by more than 2C in the last 30 years, a new study shows. Research published in the US journal Science says the warming is seen across the whole of the continent and much of the Southern Ocean. The study questions the reliability of current climate models that fail to simulate the temperature rise. In addition, the scientists from the British Antarctic Survey (BAS) say the cause of the warming is not clear. It could be linked to increases in greenhouse gases in the atmosphere or natural variations in Antarctica's climate system. Scientists are keen to understand the change in temperatures over the continent as the region holds enough water in its ice to raise sea levels by 60 metres. ...
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 Catholic sex-abuse payouts still rising |
Sex-abuse accusations against the nation's priests were down last year, but the flood of millions of dollars in payouts more than tripled and shows no signs of stopping, the United States' Roman Catholic bishops said yesterday. "It is disheartening to us bishops, as it must be to all Catholics, to find that there are still some allegations of abuse by clerics against today's children and young people," Bishop William S. Skylstad, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), said during the release of the conference's annual report on sex-abuse statistics. The report, commissioned in 2002 by the USCCB's Charter for the Protection of Children and Young People, tracks what the country's 195 Catholic dioceses are doing to end a sex-abuse crisis that has involved 12,537 youths -- mostly boys and young men -- and 4,827 priests....
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| Workers fail to seal China leak |
Workers have failed in a third attempt to seal a poisonous leak from a gas well in the remote hills of the Chongqing region of China. Although there have been no injuries, around 15,000 people have been evacuated from their homes. In December 2003, a leak from a well in the same area left a total of 243 people dead. A cloud of toxic gas killed residents in their sleep in one of China's worst industrial accidents. Emergency workers have been unable to bring the gas well under control since it began leaking almost a week ago. They have been burning off the poisonous gas to prevent it from collecting in the area. State media reports that local officials have been struggling to raise emergency supplies for those left homeless. ...
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| Iranian quake kills at least 10, injures 263 |
At least 10 people were killed and 263 injured when an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.0 hit an area in western Iran on Friday, state television reported. The television reporter said 10 dead had been taken to two hospitals in Boroujerd, a city in the area where the quake struck. Earlier, the official IRNA news agency said at least two dead were taken to a hospital in Doroud, in the same area....
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| Meth lays siege to Indian country |
SAN CARLOS APACHE INDIAN RESERVATION, Ariz. — Something haunts the Dudley house atop a ruddy clay mesa in Apache country. It is the memory of a young man, David Justin Jackson Dudley, beaten to death at a January 2005 methamphetamine and booze party on the reservation. The entryway is a photographic shrine to the 20-year-old, who wanted to be an X-ray technician."We just kind of made it David's wall," explains the young man's father, Dennis Dudley. "We light candles every time we come home."Mary Jane Dudley sits in the living room, surrounded by half-finished Apache baskets. For months after David died, she could not weave. Now, she performs the ancient craft to lose herself in memories. "From the time I wake up to the time I go to bed is when I think about him," she says. "I haven't stopped crying."...
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| 4 Israelis slain by suicide bomber in West Bank Early blow to Olmert's tenure as Israeli PM, Hamas’ role as governing body |
A Palestinian suicide bomber in the West Bank killed four Israelis after nightfall Thursday, just days after the new Hamas Palestinian government took office and Israel elected a premier who pledges to pull out of much of the West Bank.A huge blast incinerated a car at the entrance to the Jewish settlement of Kedoumim, sending plumes of flame and smoke into the air, the military said.Police and Israeli settlers pieced together the story: The Israelis picked up a hitchhiker, who was dressed like an Orthodox Jew. He was the bomber and the blast killed everyone in the vehicle. Officials said four bodies were found after the fire was put out. A fifth body was discovered in the ruins of the vehicle a while later, Israel Radio reported....
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