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Study: Kilimanjaro's ice to disappear by 2033 DAR ES SALAAM, Nov 2 (Reuters) - The ice on Africa's highest mountain could vanish in 13 to 24 years, a fate also awaiting the continent's other glaciers, a study said on Monday.
Nov 2, 2009 at 22:54 | Reuters
WASHINGTON, Nov 2 (Reuters) - The U.S. Agriculture Department on Monday said it found the pandemic H1N1 influenza virus in a commercial swine herd in Indiana.
Nov 2, 2009 at 22:53 | Reuters
WASHINGTON, Nov 2 (Reuters) - Up to 30 million doses of vaccine against the pandemic H1N1 flu have been delivered to the U.S. government and production is now picking up, officials said on Monday.
Nov 2, 2009 at 22:51
Poll: generation gap in Eastern Europe on politics WASHINGTON (AP) — Twenty years after the fall of the Iron Curtain, a sharp generational schism has formed in how people in Europe's former communist countries view the shift to democracy and capitalism, a survey has found.
Nov 2, 2009 at 21:25 | Associated Press
Royal Bank of Scotland faces forced sales and 3,700 UK job cuts LONDON, Nov 2 (Reuters) - Royal Bank of Scotland said it would be forced to sell more assets than it had expected and axe 3,700 jobs from its retail business as another radical shake-up loomed for Britain's banks.
Nov 2, 2009 at 21:04
NEW YORK, Nov 2 (Reuters) - Oil rose on Monday as strong manufacturing data from the United States and China stoked optimism for a turnaround in the economy and in fuel demand.
Nov 2, 2009 at 18:52 | Reuters
Strong economic reports lift hopes for recovery NEW YORK (AP) — Hopes for the fledgling U.S. economic recovery got a boost Monday from better-than-expected news on manufacturing, construction and contracts to buy homes.
Nov 2, 2009 at 18:49 | Associated Press
Russia's Putin adds conditions for new climate deal MOSCOW, Nov 2 (Reuters) - Russia will only support a new global climate deal if all major industrialised nations sign up to it and if the capacity of Russia's giant forests are taken into account, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said on Monday.
Nov 2, 2009 at 17:36 | Reuters
World's fastest man adopts world's fastest animal NAIROBI, Nov 2 (Reuters) - Olympic and world sprint champion Usain Bolt on Monday adopted a cheetah cub in Kenya's Nairobi National Park.
Nov 2, 2009 at 17:35 | Reuters
Turkey reports 4 more swine flu deaths ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — Four children died of swine flu on Monday in Turkey, bringing the country's death toll to eight, the Health Ministry said.
Nov 2, 2009 at 17:31 | Associated Press
BERLIN, Nov 2 (Reuters) - Germany is experiencing a new wave of the H1N1 flu virus, the Robert Koch Institute for infectious diseases said on Monday.
Nov 2, 2009 at 16:16 | Reuters
WASHINGTON (AP) — A handful of elections in a small number of states will give hints about the American public's state of mind — providing lessons for both Republicans and Democrats a year ahead of pivotal 2010 midterm contests.
Nov 2, 2009 at 16:13 | Associated Press
Turkish president says nation ready to join the European Union BRATISLAVA, Slovakia — Turkish President Abdullah Gul said Monday his country is ready to join the European Union but would accept the result of any referendum on its membership.
Nov 2, 2009 at 15:37
DETROIT, Nov 2 (Reuters) - Ford Motor Co surprised Wall Street with a quarterly profit on Monday and raised its 2011 outlook to "solidly profitable," sending its shares up 5.7 percent in premarket trading.
Nov 2, 2009 at 14:55 | Reuters
KABUL, Nov 2 - Pressure grew on election officials on Monday to resolve Afghanistan's political deadlock after President Hamid Karzai's only rival, Abdullah Abdullah, withdrew, casting doubt over the legitimacy of the next government.
Nov 2, 2009 at 14:54 | Reuters