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Entrepreneur creates 'humane' device to electrocute lobsters

A British entrepreneur has created a machine that can kill a lobster humanely in less than one second - by electrocution. Lobsters are usually boiled alive. The process can take up to three minutes and the sound they make as...

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Tourism damaging Kalahari delta

Villagers say visitors to delta are a threat to wildlife and their fishing industry Music, dancing and smiling platitudes greeted the royal guest in the fishing village of Samochima, northern Botswana. But cutting through the...

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Canada's Makowksy wins 1st World Cup medal

By Chris Iorfida, CBC Sports Lucas Makowsky of Regina smiles after a personal best time in the 1,500 on Saturday in Norway. (Darryl Dyck/Canadian Press) Canadian Lucas Makowsky captured a silver medal on the World Cup...

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Beyond Copenhagen there's more than just cutting CO2

Imagine for a minute that global warming is not changing our planet's biosphere and the ecosystems that sustain life on Earth. Imagine that climate change abetted by rising human-generated emissions of greenhouse gases does not...

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Northug the Man to Beat as Olympic Season Starts

Northug enters Olympic season as man to beat in cross-country, and with swagger to match By MATTIAS KAREN AP Sports Writer The Associated Press Post a Comment Petter Northug enters the Olympic season as the man to beat in...

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Norway will take your breath away

Rick Steves TRIBUNE MEDIA SERVICES , I'm always amazed at how clear it is that I am with "my people." Three of my grandparents left hard times in Norway for hard times -- with promise -- in the United States. When I'm in...

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Hafsas, Bjorgen win cross-country Cup openers

BEITOSTOELEN, Norway (AP) -- Ronny Hafsas and Marit Bjorgen won the cross-country skiing World Cup openers Saturday on home snow in Norway. Hafsas, who specializes in biathlon, covered the men's 15-kilometer freestyle race in...

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Resistant strain of H1N1 found in Wales

OSLO, Norway, Nov. 21 (UPI) -- A drug-resistant mutation of the H1N1 influenza virus has been found in hospital patients in Wales, the British National Health Service says. Doctors say the strain is resistant to Tamiflu, the...

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Man trapped in house fire in hospital

A 25-year-old man is in stable condition in a Winnipeg hospital after being rescued from a burning home in Norway House, a community just north of Lake Winnipeg. The fire broke out around 5:30 a.m. Saturday, police said....

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Just charge it to the rates bill

Seven council bosses have charged more than $10,000 to their ratepayer-funded credit cards in the past financial year - but the top spender won't say where the money went.Invercargill City Council chief executive Richard King...

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