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What's Your Reaction? MANILA, Philippines — Authorities moved thousands of villagers from harm's way near the Philippines' most active volcano Tuesday after it oozed lava and shot plumes of ash, and said they probably would spend a bleak Christmas in an evacuation center.
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National TV in parentheses Dec. 18 At Hyogo, Japan, Hozumi Hasegawa vs. Alvaro Perez, 12, for Hasegawa's WBC bantamweight title. At Hinkley, Minn. (SHO), Carlos Abregu vs. Richard Gutierrez, 10, welterweights. Dec. 19 At Schwerin, Germany, Jurgen Brahmer vs. Dmitry Sukhotsky, 12, for Brahmer's WBO light heavyweight title; Sebastian Zbik vs. Emanuele Della Rosa, 12, for Zbik's WBC interim ...
Houston Rockets forward Trevor Ariza was given a one-game suspension by the NBA on Monday for swinging his elbow at Toronto's DeMar Rozan during a game on Sunday.
Paolo Borromeo, 11, overcomes broken ankle LAKE WORTH – Paolo Borromeo took just about the most unlikely route imaginable to this week's U.S. Junior Figure Skating Championships.
Dec. 14 (Bloomberg) -- AMP Ltd. , Australia’s second-largest asset manager, and French insurer Axa SA raised their bid for Axa Asia Pacific Holdings Ltd.
( California Academy of Sciences ) In 2009, researchers at the California Academy of Sciences added 94 new relatives to our family tree. The new species include 65 arthropods, 14 plants, eight fishes, five sea slugs, one coral and one fossil mammal. They were described by two dozen academy scientists along with several dozen international collaborators.
STAUNTON — Lilia Evangelio Deslate, 73, widow of Federico Deslate, of 302 Audubon St., died Saturday, Dec. 12, 2009, at the University of Virginia Medical Center in Charlottesville. She was born Aug. 13, 1936, in the Philippines, a daughter of the late Benigno Evangelio and Escalastic-Deslate.
POULSBO —Fourteen-year-old Anais Baca de Luna has a ready smile and a way with words. But it hasn't always been that way.Baca de Luna and the seven members of her family moved to the United States from Mexico . When she started Poulsbo Elementary School in second grade, Baca de Luna was intimidated."I cried. I was so scared because I didn't speak English. I was afraid someone would make fun of ...
Plurk , a popular microblogging service in Asia, particularly Taiwan and the Philippines, is accusing Microsoft of plagiarizing the design and programming code of its Web site.
At least nine communist rebels and one army soldier were killed in clashes Tuesday as troops closed in on a guerrilla encampment in a southern Philippine province, a regional military spokesman said.
The $15,000 that former Army Pvt. Margaret Ortiz had in the bank when she left Iraq is long gone, spent on alcohol and cocaine.
LONG BEACH, Calif. - The $15,000 that former Army Pvt. Margaret Ortiz had in the bank when she left Iraq is long gone, spent on alcohol and cocaine.
Dec. 15 (Bloomberg) -- Wheat climbed for a fourth day on speculation that snow storms in the U.S. and reduced planting in Europe may limit northern hemisphere supplies.
Authorities moved thousands of villagers from harm's way near the Philippines' most active volcano Tuesday after it oozed lava and shot plumes of ash, and said they probably will spend a bleak Christmas in an evacuation center.
Dec. 15 (Bloomberg) -- Asia should keep interest rates low even as China, South Korea and other emerging economies in the region may grow at the fastest pace in three years in 2010, the Asian Development Bank said.
