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Sudan’s Suakin Island in the Red Sea

Argentina snakes on plane arrest sparks smuggling probe BBC News  Argentine authorities are tracing a suspected major animal trafficking ring after a Czech man was caught trying to smuggle hundreds of snakes and other exotic animals out of the country. Karel Abelovsky was arrested in early December as he tried to board a flight to Spain […]

Facebook to Lead Biggest U.S. Internet IPO Year Since 1999 By Lee Spears | Bloomberg Facebook Inc. and Yelp Inc. are set to lead the biggest year for U.S. initial public offerings by Internet companies since 1999, testing demand for IPOs after investors lost money on Zynga Inc. and Pandora Media Inc. With Facebook considering […]

120 Kmart, Sears stores closing Associated Press NEW YORK – Sears Holdings Corp. plans to close between 100 and 120 Sears and Kmart stores after poor sales during the holidays, the most crucial time of year for retailers.   The closings are the latest and most visible in a long series of moves to try […]

Brazil Overtakes Britain To Become World’s Sixth Largest Economy São Paulo Anderson Antunes, Contributor Forbes According to a team of British economists from the Centre for Economics and Business Research (CEBR), Brazil has already overtaken the UK as the world’s sixth-largest economy. The Guardian‘s Phillip Inman reports today: “The banking crash of 2008 and the […]

China, Japan to Back Direct Trade of Currencies     Yoshihiko Noda, prime minister of Japan, left, is greeted by Wen Jiabao, prime minister of China, during a welcoming ceremony at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. -Nelson Ching/Bloomberg By Toru Fujioka Bloomberg Japan and China will promote direct trading of the yen […]

Blackface ‘Black Peter’ popular among Dutch at Christmas   By Ashley Michelle Williams The Grio  In the Netherlands, everyone is quite aware of the Christmas character known as Black Pete. He’s a little African slave who helps out Santa Claus. According to the Dutch tradition, Black Peter is responsible for carrying a book full of […]

  Christmas bombs kill 35 in Nigeria By Ola Awoniyi AFP  ABUJA -Bomb attacks on churches during Christmas services and a suicide blast killed at least 35 people in Nigeria on Sunday amid spiralling violence claimed by Islamists. A purported spokesman for Islamist group Boko Haram claimed responsibility for a bombing of the church outside […]

Video: Uganda- Bwindi Impenetrable Forest December 2011

Chinese oil giant acquires Canadian energy company Chinese oil giant Sinopec acquires Canada’s Daylight Energy in $2.1 billion deal   Associated Press   BEIJING– A Chinese state-owned oil company has acquired Canada’s Daylight Energy in the second major Chinese purchase of a Canadian energy company this year.   A unit of Sinopec Corp. and Daylight […]