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Alcohol causes a quarter of Europe road deaths Alcohol abuse is responsible for around a quarter of the 30,000 people who die in road accidents across the European Union every year.

16 December 2012

Environmental hangover from Indonesia's palm oil thirst The roar of chainsaws has replaced birdsong, the once-lush, green jungle scorched to a barren grey. The equivalent of six football pitches of forest is lost every minute in Indonesia.

16 December 2012

Australia plans drill of ancient Antarctic ice core Australia Saturday announced plans to drill a 2,000 year-old ice core in the heart of Antarctica in a bid to retrieve a frozen record of how the planet has evolved and what might be in store.

16 December 2012

Mandela still being treated in hospital a week on Nelson Mandela remained in hospital Saturday, a week after he was admitted for treatment for a lung infection, a government official said.

15 December 2012

Many Americans see hint of Apocalypse in extreme weather A third of Americans believe the intensity of recent natural disasters is linked to the Apocalypse described in the New Testament, according to a poll released Thursday.

15 December 2012

Chavez suffered 'complications' but recovering: aides Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez experienced "complications," including bleeding, during his cancer surgery, but is showing positive signs of recovery.

15 December 2012

All kinds of heart surgeries are available in Kazakhstan: Yuriy Pya Chairman of the National Scientific Cardiac-Surgery Center Yuriy Pya assured President Nazarbayev that Kazakhstan people no longer had to go abroad for heart surgeries.

14 December 2012

Death threats for royal prank call presenters: police Death threats have been made against the Australian radio hosts at the centre of the royal prank call tragedy, police said Friday, with station management reportedly hiring bodyguards and moving staff to safehouses.

14 December 2012

Nazarbayeva calls parents to be more sly than children in Internet use Majilis deputy Dariga Nazarbayeva believes that parents have to control access of their children to harmful information on the Internet.

14 December 2012

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Plane deicing cost 30-folded in heavy snowfall in Almaty Treatment of one Air Astana plane with deicing fluid cost $90 thousand during heavy snowfall on December 1.

13 December 2012

Journal cautions on cannabis-based MS drug There is no strong evidence for the efficacy of a cannabis-based drug used in Britain to treat muscle spasms in multiple sclerosis (MS) patients.

13 December 2012

Power cuts, evacuations as Cyclone Evan lashes Samoa Flash floods and power cuts hit the Samoan capital Apia Thursday as Tropical Cyclone Evan lashed the Pacific island nation with high winds and heavy rain.

13 December 2012

Police chief sends gangsters Christmas cards Gangsters in one of Canada's most crime-ridden cities can expect a special greeting card this Christmas -- from a local police chief dressed as jolly Santa Claus and packing heat.

13 December 2012

Jerusalem sites sprayed with anti-Christian graffiti Vandals sprayed anti-Christian graffiti on a monastery and a Christian cemetery in Jerusalem overnight, in two apparent "price-tag" attacks.

13 December 2012

Indian sitar legend Ravi Shankar dies, aged 92 Legendary Indian sitar player Ravi Shankar, a major influence on Western musicians ranging from The Beatles to Yehudi Menuhin, has died at the age of 92.

13 December 2012

Apocalypse... but not as we know it The End Of The World As We Know It -- TEOTWAWKI -- is littered with predictions that didn't quite pan out.

13 December 2012

New Yorkers live longer than other Americans: mayor New Yorkers are living longers than Americans overall, and the margin is increasing, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Tuesday as he praised his administration's health policies.

12 December 2012

December 21: End of Mayan calendar, or end of the world? Gonzalo Alvarez, who had just arrived in Cancun for two weeks of revelry linked to a major milestone in the Mayan calendar, seemed reasonably cheerful for a man about to swallowed up by the Apocalypse.

12 December 2012

Kazakhstan to launch the first Islamic educational website The e-ISLAM portal is being developed as instructed by Head of State following the 38th sitting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) foreign ministers August 15, 2011.

12 December 2012