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RALEIGH, N.C., Dec. 3 (UPI) -- Carolina Hurricanes general manager Jim Rutherford announced Wednesday coach Peter Laviolette has been replaced by former coach Paul Maurice. Rutherford said at an RBC Center news conference that Maurice, who was fired during the 2003-04 season, will return to lead the NHL team, a news release from the team said. Rutherfor...

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CHICAGO, Dec. 1 (UPI) -- Car accidents and flight delays were the rule as a winter snowstorm pounded the nation's midsection at the conclusion of the Thanksgiving holiday weekend. After dumping snow as far south as Georgia, the storm headed toward the East Coast Monday, Accuweather.com reported Monday. Snow flurries were sighted as far south as Marietta,...

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by Jean-Louis Santini CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AFP) -- Bad weather Sunday complicated the return of the space shuttle Endeavour to Earth as NASA officials were forced to cancel its first attempt to land in Florida.A second window for landing was...

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by Jean-Louis Santini CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AFP) -- Bad weather Sunday complicated the return of the space shuttle Endeavour to Earth as NASA officials were forced to cancel its first attempt to land in Florida.A second window for landing was ...

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AFP) -- Bad weather on Sunday forced NASA to abandon a first attempt to land the space shuttle Endeavour back on Earth, the US space agency said.A second attempt to land in Florida was now being considered at 1954 GMT if...

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AFP) -- Bad weather on Sunday forced NASA to abandon a first attempt to land the space shuttle Endeavour back on Earth, the US space agency said.A second attempt to land in Florida was now being considered at 1954 GMT i...

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AFP) -- Bad weather on Sunday forced NASA to abandon a first attempt to land the space shuttle Endeavour back on Earth, the US space agency said.A second attempt to land in Florida was now being considered at 1954 GMT if the weather...

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AFP) -- Bad weather on Sunday forced NASA to abandon a first attempt to land the space shuttle Endeavour back on Earth, the US space agency said.A second attempt to land in Florida was now being considered at 1954 GMT if the weather ...

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida, (AFP) -- The space shuttle Endeavour has been cleared for reentry to Earth Sunday, but uncertain weather conditions in Florida may force it to land in California, NASA officials said."Endeavour looks to me and to the e...

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AFP) -- The space shuttle Endeavour has been cleared for reentry to Earth Sunday, but uncertain weather conditions in Florida may force it to land in California, NASA officials said."Endeavour looks to me and to the exp...

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CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (AFP) -- The space shuttle Endeavour has been cleared for reentry to Earth Sunday, but uncertain weather conditions in Florida may force it to land in California, NASA officials said."Endeavour looks to me and to the experts in fact ...

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ROME, Nov. 28 (UPI) -- Poor weather throughout portions of Italy Friday likely led to a vehicle crash near Genoa that claimed the life of a woman, authorities say. Traffic authorities have been issuing travel warnings and instructions for parts of northern Italy that have been hit hard by heavy rain, snow and winds, the Italian news agency ANSA reported.

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PENSACOLA, Fla., Nov. 28 (UPI) -- The scuba-diving industry in Florida says the wreck of the aircraft carrier USS Oriskany was pushed into deeper water by Hurricane Gustav. The flight deck of the carrier is now 10 feet deeper than it was before the storm, but experts say that at 145 feet below the surface, it is pushing safety limits. That extra 10 f...

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MUMBAI (AFP) -- At least 17 commandos Friday abseiled from a helicopter onto the roof of a Jewish centre in Mumbai taken by Islamic militants and entered the building as gunfire erupted, an AFP witness said.The centre was one of several targets in the city ...

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MUMBAI, (AFP) -- At least 17 commandos on Friday abseiled from a helicopter into the Jewish centre in Mumbai taken by Islamic militants, and explosions were heard, an AFP witness said.The centre was one of several targets in the city attacked b...

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MUMBAI, (AFP) -- At least seven commandos on Friday abseiled from a helicopter into the Jewish centre in Mumbai taken by Islamic militants, and explosions were heard, an AFP witness said.The centre was one of several targets in the city attacked by Islamist...

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MIAMI (AFP) -- The record-breaking 2008 hurricane season, which officially ends on Sunday, has been one of the most active since comprehensive reports began 64 years ago, a US government agency said Wednesday.For the first time on record, six consecutive tr...

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COLLEGE STATION, Texas, Nov. 26 (UPI) -- Storm watchers say this year's U.S. hurricane season was typical with one exception: Hurricane Ike, which showed how misleading labeling hurricanes can be. A Category 2 storm, Hurricane Ike bombarded the Texas Gulf Coast in September, causing $11.4 billion in damage, which Texas A&M atmospheric sciences Professor John N...

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NEW YORK, Nov. 26 (UPI) -- The weather is expected to cooperate Wednesday for travelers taking to the U.S. highways and skyways on one of the busiest travel days of the year. Two areas of the country were expected to have nasty weather Wednesday that could affect Thanksgiving holiday travel and Black Friday shopping excursions, AccuWeather.com reported.

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BANGKOK (AFP) -- Bangkok's main international airport halted all flight operations on Tuesday after anti-government protesters stormed the departures area, Thai authorities said.Officials said Suvarnabhumi airport, a key transport hub for millio...

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BANGKOK (AFP) -- Bangkok's Suvarnabhumi international airport was closed Tuesday after anti-government protesters stormed the terminal, airport authorities said.Copyright © 2008 AFP All Rights Reserved

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STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Nov. 24 (UPI) -- Swedish residents dug out from the a snowstorm Monday after enduring hurricane-force gusts of up to 90 mph, meteorologists said. Motorists encountered heavy snow and slippery roads and flights were diverted because of ice at Stockholm's airport, authorities said. Sweden's meteorological agency SMHI said sustained win...

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HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, Nov. 22 (UPI) -- An early winter storm hit the Canadian Maritime provinces early Saturday, closing roads and bringing down power lines. The snow was so heavy in Prince Edward Island that plows were pulled off the road in the western part of the island, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. reported. The Confederation Bridge, which connects the ...

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by Julian Guyer LONDON (AFP) -- World champions South Africa rounded off their 2008 campaign in style with a record-breaking 42-6 thrashing of England at Twickenham here Saturday.This defeat represented England's worst losing margin at Twickenh...

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ATLANTA, Nov. 20 (UPI) -- The Weather Channel says it has been forced to lay off some employees because of the stormy state of the U.S. economy. WSBTV, Atlanta said officials at the cable network, based in Georgia, declined to say how many people were affected by Wednesday's firings. Also unknown is whether any on-air personalities are now unemployed.

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HOUSTON, Nov. 16 (UPI) -- More than two months after Hurricane Ike hit Texas's coastal communities, thousands of residents have yet to see any federal aid, local officials say. The Dallas Morning News reported Sunday that hundreds of people are still living in tents, while others are camping in disabled cars and condemned homes. People's lives are li...

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by Rob Woollard LOS ANGELES (AFP) -- Hundreds of homes were destroyed and thousands of residents were forced to flee as a series of ferocious wind-driven wildfires raged across Southern California.More than 500 mobile homes were gutted and 10,000 people were...

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KENLY, N.C., Nov. 15 (UPI) -- Authorities blamed tornadoes for the deaths of two people Saturday in North Carolina. State police said the body of a woman was found in the debris of her home in Kenly, while her son was missing and her father was hospitalized with injuries, WECT-TV in Wilmington reported. A 7-year-old boy died in Wilson. The victim...

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LONDON, Nov. 15 (UPI) -- Britain got a blast of warm air over the last day brought on by depressions off the Atlantic. The Times of London reported Saturday that in much of Scotland, temperatures dropped to only about 54 degrees Friday night. The newspaper said the weather has been shifting as depressions off the Atlantic push against high pressure from ...

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WASHINGTON (AFP) -- Weather conditions have improved for Friday's launch of the space shuttle Endeavour and its seven astronauts on a mission to the International Space Station, NASA meteorologists said Thursday.Forecasters at the US space agency give a 70 ...

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WASHINGTON, Nov. 13 (UPI) -- Two civil rights groups and five New Orleans homeowners filed a discrimination suit against Louisiana's hurricane rebuilding program. The class-action suit filed in federal court in Washington, alleged the Louisiana Road Home program awards smaller rebuilding grants to black homeowners than to white homeowners in the aftermath of hu...

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by Talek Harris SHANGHAI (AFP) -- Russia's Nikolay Davydenko thrashed young Argentine Juan Martin del Potro in straight sets to storm into the Masters Cup semi-finals on Thursday.The world number five, who is playing his fourth consecutive season finale and a...

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PASADENA, Calif., Nov. 11 (UPI) -- The U.S. space agency says its Mars rover Spirit has been struck by a dust storm, reducing the amount of sunlight reaching its solar panels. National Aeronautics and Space Administration scientists said Spirit's solar array produced only 89 watt hours of energy during the rover's 1,725th Martian day, which ended Sunday. That ...

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HAVANA, Nov. 9 (UPI) -- Hurricane Paloma was downgraded to a tropical storm Sunday as it passed over Cuba, leaving a trail of destruction. Heavy rains and strong winds from Hurricane Paloma -- which at one point reached Category Four status, the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said -- battered the southern coast of Cuba, damaging homes and uprooting tr...

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HAVANA, Nov. 8 (UPI) -- Hurricane Paloma came ashore in Cuba late Saturday, hitting an area already battered by other storms this season. Ham radio operators in Camaguey and Santa Cruz del Sur reported most communications out as the storm approached, the National Hurricane Center in Miami said. Two hurricanes hit Cuba in late August and early September. ...

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Hurricane Paloma, the fifth major Atlantic hurricane this year, has been upgraded to a Category 4 storm after it's strength intensified and is now considered "extremely dangerous" with maximum sustained winds of 140 miles per hour with even higher gusts. Paloma was located about 110 miles north-northeast of Grand Cayman Island and about 165 miles southwes...

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HAVANA, Nov. 8 (UPI) -- Hurricane Paloma, heading toward Cuba, is packing sustained winds of 135 mph and has been upgraded to Category 4 status, meteorologists said Saturday. Accuweater.com forecasters said Paloma was expected to make landfall late Saturday night or early Sunday morning along the south-central coast of Cuba. Rain and strong winds were already ...

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MIAMI, Nov. 7 (UPI) -- A hurricane warning was posted Friday for the Cayman Islands as Hurricane Paloma strengthened and moved northward in the Caribbean. The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said Paloma was a Category 1 storm with sustained winds of 80 mph at 4 a.m. Forecasters warned strengthening was expected to reach Category 3 status with minimum w...

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HAVANA (AFP) -- Tropical Storm Paloma, which formed in the Caribbean sea early Thursday, is set to become a hurricane in the next 24 hours and is on course to strike Cuba, the Miami-based National Hurricane Center (NHC) said.The tempest, which w...

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MIAMI (AFP) -- Tropical Storm Paloma strengthened into a hurricane Thursday as it barreled northward across the Caribbean towards Cuba, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) said.The Miami-based monitor reported that the storm, which formed early Thursday east...

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MIAMI, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- Tropical Storm Paloma formed off the northern coast of Nicaragua early Thursday, triggering storm warnings there and north into Honduras. Forecasters at the U.S. Hurricane Center in Miami said at 4 a.m., Paloma was 65 miles east of the Nicaragua/Honduras border. The storm was moving toward the north-northwest near 7 mph, which was expecte...

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VANDENBERG AIR FORE BASE, Calif., Nov. 5 (UPI) -- The latest polar-orbiting environmental weather satellite developed by the U.S. space agency has arrived in California for its scheduled Feb. 4 launch. The satellite, called NOAA-N Prime, was produced by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. T...

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WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 (UPI) -- Voters waited for hours and in some cases endured lousy weather to cast their ballots Tuesday in a historic election for U.S. president. Hoaxes such as texts sent to voters to alert them that voting was postponed to another day also were reported, CNN said. When Americans pick up their newspapers or turn on the television or r...

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RICHMOND, Va., Nov. 4 (UPI) -- Rainy weather in Virginia caused problems with wet ballots gumming up optical scanning machines, voting officials reported. Nancy Rodrigues, secretary of the board of elections, said 25 percent of the polling places in Virginia use optical scanning machines, the Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch reported. Voters with wet hands held t...

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AUSTIN, Texas, Nov. 4 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists who conducted a rapid response research mission after Hurricane Ike have concluded the hurricane significantly reshaped the seafloor. The University of Texas at Austin researchers surveyed the inlet between Galveston Bay and the Gulf of Mexico, discovering the hurricane likely carried an enormous amount of sand an...

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WASHINGTON, Nov. 4 (UPI) -- Forecasters predicted light rain throughout Tuesday in the Mid-Atlantic states as voters splashed to the polls to select a new president. But skies over most of the nation's mid-section, including most key battleground states, were clear with a chance of drizzle in Pennsylvania and gusty winds in Nevada. The temperature was ex...

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MOON TOWNSHIP, Pa., Nov. 3 (UPI) -- Republican U.S. presidential candidate John McCain ripped Democratic foe Barack Obama Monday, saying he would raise both taxes and spending. You know, when you got -- when you got a Democrat Congress and a Democrat president, as they think they may have, you get some really great spending and tax ideas, McCain said du...

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GONAIVES, Haiti, Nov. 2 (UPI) -- Slightly more than a third of the hoped-for $106 million in disaster recovery funds for Haiti have arrived in the hurricane-ravaged country, officials said. The United Nations sought to have all of the money lined up by now, but donations are short and the effort is plagued by a lack of leadership, infighting by political and ...

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by Katherine Haddon RIYADH (AFP) -- British Prime Minister Gordon Brown arrived in Saudi Arabia Saturday seeking financial support to calm the world economic storm, as Germany and the United States faced up to more bad news.Brown's visit was the first in a fo...

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STATE COLLEGE, Pa., Oct. 30 (UPI) -- Weather should be nice for most of the United States on Election Day next Tuesday, meteorologists say. AccuWeather.com reported Thursday that there will be a few regions where the weather won't be favorable. There will be a few places where the weather will be somewhat shabby, but rest assured there won't be any b...

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OTTAWA, Oct. 30 (UPI) -- Almost 60,000 customers were without power Thursday two days after an early winter snowstorm in eastern Ontario and western Quebec. The storm that moved north from the U.S. eastern seaboard Tuesday initially knocked out electricity to more than 90,000 customers in the two provinces, CTV News reported. As much as 7 inches of snow ...

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by Greg Heakes PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (AFP) -- Geoff Jenkins provided the spark with a leadoff double and Brad Lidge ended it with another perfect outing as Philadelphia beat Tampa Bay 4-3 Wednesday to clinch their first World Series title in 28 yea...

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by Robin Millard LONDON (AFP) -- The BBC suspended two top presenters over foul-mouthed comments aired about a veteran actor and his granddaughter, in the latest row to rock the British broadcaster.Within hours of the BBC action Wednesday one of the two broa...

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WASHINGTON, Oct. 28 (UPI) -- A five-year U.S. space agency study shows NASA satellite data can improve dust storm forecasts in the U.S. Southwest to benefit public health managers. Led by investigators Stanley Morain of the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, and William Sprigg of the University of Arizona in Tucson, scientists evaluated the influence of s...

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by Hamoud Mounasser SANAA (AFP) -- Aid operations swung into higher gear in Yemen on Saturday after floods killed at least 58 people and six more died from lightning strikes during two days of fierce storms.The interior ministry, updating an earlier toll, sa...

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by Hamoud Mounasser SANAA (AFP) -- Rescue operations swung into higher gear in Yemen on Saturday after floods killed at least 41 people and six more died after being struck by lightning in two days of fierce storms, officials said.The latest tol...

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by Hamoud Mounasser SANAA (AFP) -- Rescue operations swung into higher gear in Yemen on Saturday after floods killed at least 41 people and six more died after being struck by lightning in two days of fierce storms, officials said.The latest toll from emerge...

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SANAA, (AFP) -- At least 41 people were killed in floods and six more died after being struck by lightning in Yemen, officials said on Saturday.Preliminary information received by AFP from emergency services and local authorities said 41 people...

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SANAA (AFP) -- Airborne rescue operations swung into action on Saturday in Yemen after floods killed 41 people and six more died after being struck by lightning in fierce storms that swept the country, officials said.The latest toll from emergency services ...

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One of the busiest ports in Brazil, Belem is also a big city (the 10th largest in Brazil) housing millions of inhabitants. Belem, Brazil, has undergone many developments over the years, and with many big and modern buildings and skyscrapers around, it has become a tourist attraction. There are many things you can see in the port of Belem — art galleries, food ki...

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SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 23 (UPI) -- Two scratch marks that equaled $653 in damage to a car have resulted in a legal battle that has reached the California Supreme Court, a defendant says. Howard Herships, one of the two defendants in the legal battle, said Silicon Valley mogul Steve Kirsch allegedly used his influence to intensify legal proceedings regarding th...

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It is almost a month now after Hurricane Ike devastated the island city of Galveston, Texas where billions of dollars worth of property was damage. At times like this, when survivors are in the dire need, the task of filing a claim for life insurance can be a very difficult and frustrating one, especially where life insurance policies have been destroyed in the storm and death c...

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MIAMI, Oct. 17 (UPI) -- Tropical Storm Omar, once a Category 3 hurricane, weakened and headed for open Central Atlantic waters Friday, U.S . forecasters said. The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami reported at 5 a.m. that Omar was about 670 miles southeast of Bermuda, moving northeast at 25 mph. That motion was forecast to continue for as long as two days,...

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MIAMI, Oct. 16 (UPI) -- A weakening Hurricane Omar lost much of its punch as it moved into the Atlantic Ocean Thursday, U.S. forecasters said. At 5 p.m., the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said Omar was headed north-northeast at 26 mph from about 350 miles northeast of the Leeward Islands. The storm, now a minimal hurricane dumping as much as 6 ...

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MIAMI, Oct. 16 (UPI) -- Powerful Hurricane Omar had nearly cleared islands in the Eastern Caribbean early Thursday on a northward trek but was still dangerous, U.S. forecasters said. A hurricane warning remained in effect for St. Martin, Sabam, St. Eustatius, St. Barthelemy and Anguilla and a hurricane watch remained in effect for the islands of St. Kitts and N...

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LIMON, Honduras, Oct. 16 (UPI) -- A tropical depression that brought stiff winds and downpours to Honduras and surrounding region dissipated Wednesday night and early Thursday, forecasters said. The National Hurricane Center in Miami said Tropical Depression 16 was producing sustained winds of only 25 miles per hour with gusts up to 35 mph in the pre-dawn hour...

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MIAMI, Oct. 15 (UPI) -- Hurricane Omar strengthened in the Caribbean Wednesday as it headed for the Leeward Islands, U.S. forecasters said. Hurricane warnings were posted for the U.S. Virgin Islands and the islands of Vieques and Culebra, as well as for St. Martin, Saba, St. Eustatius, St. Barthelemy, the British Virgin Islands, Anguilla, and St. Kitts and Nevi...

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MIAMI, Oct. 15 (UPI) -- Tropical storm warnings have been dropped for northern Belize and Honduras as Tropical Depression 16 headed west Wednesday, U.S. forecasters said. Both countries issued warnings for their coastlines earlier in the day. A tropical storm warning remained in effect for southern Belize to the Guatemala-Honduras border, the U.S. National Hurr...

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Hurricane Omar, the fifteenth named tropical storm and seventh hurricane in the 2008 Atlantic hurricane season is battering Aruba with heavy rains and high winds. A hurricane warning has been issued for the U.S. Virgin Islands, the islands of Vieques and Culebra, St. Martin/Marteen, Saba, St. Eustatius, St. Barthelemy, the British Virgin Islands, ...

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MIAMI, Oct. 15 (UPI) -- Belize joined Honduras in posting tropical storm warnings Wednesday as Tropical Depression 16 moved west with torrents of rain. Both countries issued warnings for the entirety of their coasts and a tropical storm watch was in effect for the east coast of Guatemala, the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami reported. At 11 a.m. t...

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MIAMI, Oct. 15 (UPI) -- Hurricane warnings were posted Wednesday for several islands in the Eastern Caribbean Sea as Hurricane Omar strengthened, U.S. forecasters said. A hurricane warning was in effect for St. Martin, Saba, St. Eustatius, St. Barthelemy, the U.S. and British Virgin Islands, Anguilla, St. Kitts and Nevis and the islands of Vieques and Culebra.

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PASADENA, Calif., Oct. 15 (UPI) -- U.S. space agency scientists say the Phoenix Mars Lander survived a weekend dust storm that temporarily lowered its solar power. The National Aeronautics and Space Administration said the dust storm decreased the power reaching the Phoenix's solar arrays. So on Martian days 135-136 of the mission (Oct. 11-12), Phoenix scienti...

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MIAMI, Oct. 15 (UPI) -- The Honduran government posted a tropical storm warning Wednesday as Tropical Depression 16 remained just offshore, U.S. forecasters said. The warning covered the entire coast from borders with Nicaragua and Guatemala, the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said. At 5 a.m. the center of the depression had winds of 30 mph and ...

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MIAMI, Oct. 15 (UPI) -- Hurricane warnings were posted Wednesday for several islands in the Eastern Caribbean Sea as Hurricane Omar gathered strength, U.S. forecasters said. A hurricane warning was in effect for St. Martin, Saba, St. Eustatius, St. Barthelemy, the U.S. and British Virgin Islands, Anguilla, St. Kitts and Nevis and the islands of Vieques and Cule...

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MIAMI, Oct. 14 (UPI) -- Omar strengthened into a Category 1 hurricane late Tuesday as it chugged across the Caribbean toward Puerto Rico. At 11 p.m. EDT, the storm's maximum sustained winds were about 75 mph, up from 40 mph at 11 a.m., the National Hurricane Center in Miami reported. Omar was expected to gain strength further Wednesday. Hurricane warnin...

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MIAMI, Oct. 14 (UPI) -- Tropical Storm Omar grew stronger as it chugged across the Caribbean toward Puerto Rico Tuesday, approaching hurricane status. At 8 p.m. EDT, maximum sustained winds were almost 70 mph, up from 40 mph at 11 a.m., the National Hurricane Center in Miami reported. Forecasters predicted Omar would become a hurricane late Tuesday or early Wed...

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STOCKHOLM, Sweden, Oct. 14 (UPI) -- A spokesman for Swedish discount airline Ryanair described a feminist politician's call for a boycott over alleged sexist advertising a storm in a D cup. Ryanair spokesman Stephen McNamara said the company will not be swayed by Liberal Party politician Birgitta Ohlsson's call to boycott the carrier after it refused to...

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MIAMI, Oct. 14 (UPI) -- Tropical storm watches were posted in the Eastern Caribbean Tuesday as Tropical Storm Omar formed and threatened Curacao and Puerto Rico. The watches were announced for Puerto Rico, the U.S. and British Virgin Islands and the extreme eastern portion of the Dominican Republic, forecasters at the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami sai...

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MIAMI, Oct. 14 (UPI) -- Tropical storm warnings were posted in Puerto Rico and the U.S. and British Virgin Islands Tuesday as Tropical Depression 15 soaked the islands. The U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami reported at 5 a.m. that the center of the storm was about 350 miles southwest of San Juan, Puerto Rico, and about 140 miles north of Curacao. It was s...

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MIAMI, Oct. 13 (UPI) -- Florida immigrant advocates want victims of recent devastating Haitian storms to be allowed into the United States under temporary protected status. Haitian President Rene Preval also has asked U.S. officials for the designation, aimed at relieving the suffering of 850,000 people displaced by four tropical storms and hurricanes in...

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MIAMI, Oct. 13 (UPI) -- Nana lost tropical storm status Monday, just a day after forming in the eastern Atlantic Ocean, as a new system formed in the Caribbean. Nana was downgraded to a tropical depression by the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami at 11 a.m. The system was 1,050 miles west of the Cape Verde Islands with sustained winds of 35 mph. It was mo...

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BOULDER, Colo., Oct. 13 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they are attempting to determine the likely changes in hurricanes that might occur into the middle of the century. The researchers, led by the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo., said they are most interested in potential changes in the frequency, intensity and tracks of the powerful ...

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MIAMI, Oct. 13 (UPI) -- Tropical Storm Nana was expected to lose storm status Monday, just a day after forming in the eastern Atlantic Ocean, U.S. forecasters in Miami said. The system was 1,105 miles west of the Cape Verde Islands at 5 a.m., the U.S. National Hurricane Center reported. It had sustained winds of 40 mph extending outwards 115 miles from t...

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MIAMI, Oct. 12 (UPI) -- Tropical Storm Nana, the latest named storm of the 2008 hurricane season, has formed over the eastern Atlantic Ocean, the National Hurricane Center said Sunday. At 5 p.m. EDT, the center of the storm was located about 925 miles west of Cape Verde Islands. Nana was moving toward the west-northwest at 7 mph, and the motion was expected to ...

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CABO SAN LAZARO, Mexico, Oct. 11 (UPI) -- Hurricane Norbert, with sustained top winds of near 100 mph, Saturday battered Baja California before heading to Mexico's west coast. After crossing the baja, Norbert's eye was out over the Gulf of California, heading for mainland Mexico, the National Hurricane Center in Miami said. A hurricane warning was in ef...

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CABO SAN LAZARO, Mexico, Oct. 11 (UPI) -- Hurricane Norbert, with sustained winds of near 105 mph, Saturday was crossing into Baja California and Mexico's west coast, forecasters said. At 11 a.m. Pacific Time, Norbert, classified as a Category 2 hurricane, was bearing down on the resorts and small towns of Baja California with the mainland area around Ciudad ...

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MIAMI, Oct. 10 (UPI) -- The Mexican government posted a tropical storm watch Friday as Pacific Tropical Storm Odile became better organized, U.S. forecasters in Miami reported. The watch extended from Punta Maldonado westward to Zihuatanejo. At 2 a.m. PDT, the center of the 16th named Pacific storm of the season was located about 105 miles south of Puert...

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MIAMI, Oct. 10 (UPI) -- A hurricane warning was posted early Friday in Mexico's Baja California peninsula as Hurricane Norbert bore down with 85 mph winds, U.S. forecasters said. The warning covered the area between Punta Andresito to Agua Blanca, while a hurricane watch was in effect from south of Agua Blanca southward to Cabo San Lucas and northward around th...

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MADISON, Wis., Oct. 9 (UPI) -- A researcher in Wisconsin warns that climate change may put Great Lakes' water quality at risk. Johnathan Patz of the University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health says an increase in extreme monsoon-like rains, as occurred in some regions last spring, is likely to aggravate the risk of outbreaks of waterborne dise...

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NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 9 (UPI) -- U.S. Coast Guard hearings into a Mississippi River oil spill resumed Thursday following Hurricanes Ike and Gustav, an official said. Coast Guard spokeswoman Cheri Ben-Iesau said Thursday's hearing, the first since the Coast Guard meetings were postponed in August in order to deal with the dangerous hurricanes, would include new witn...

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MIAMI, Oct. 9 (UPI) -- Pacific Tropical Storm Odile formed Thursday east of Central America with a northward track toward Mexico, U.S. forecasters in Miami reported. The U.S. National Hurricane Center said at 2 a.m. PDT, the center of Odile was located about 315 miles southeast of Puerto Angel, Mexico, moving west-northwest around 12 mph. Sustained winds...

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MIAMI, Oct. 9 (UPI) -- Pacific Hurricane Norbert was 410 miles southwest of Mexico's Baja Peninsula early Thursday, moving slowly toward the Baja, U.S. forecasters said. At 2 a.m. PDT, Norbert had Category 3 winds of 125 mph with higher gusts, down from 12 hours earlier, when it had Category 4 135 mph winds, the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami said....

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GREENBELT, Md., Oct. 8 (UPI) -- The U.S. space agency says the rising frequency and intensity of Arctic storms during the last half century is accelerating the rate of Arctic sea ice drift. National Aeronautics and Space Administration researcher Sirpa Hakkinen of the Goddard Space Flight Center and colleagues from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and ...

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Hurricane Norbert has gained strength and is now a category 3 storm that's on path to impact the shores of Mexico's Baja California peninsula by the weekend. At 8 AM PDT today, Hurricane Norbert was located about 460 miles south of the southern tip of Baja, California. The storm is moving in a west-northwest direction at about 9 ...

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New Versions of BlackBerry Java Development Environment and BlackBerry Smartphone Simulators Support Innovative Mobile Application Development Waterloo, ON - Research In Motion (RIM) (Nasdaq: RIMM; TSX: RIM) today announced the availability of new developer tools for creating and testing innovative, mobi...

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BASKING RIDGE, NJ, NEWBURY, England, and WATERLOO, Ontario - Verizon Wireless, Vodafone Group (NYSE and LSE: VOD) and Research In Motion (RIM) (NASDAQ: RIMM; TSX: RIM) today announced that the BlackBerry® Storm will be available later this fall, exclusively to Verizon Wireless customers in the U.S. and Vodafone customers in Europe, India, Australia and New Zealand.

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MIAMI, Oct. 8 (UPI) -- Pacific Hurricane Norbert grew to a Category 3 system Wednesday and was headed toward the Baja Peninsula, U.S. forecasters in Miami said. At 5 a.m., Norbert was 470 miles south of the tip of the peninsula, moving west-northwest near 10 mph, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said. A gradual turn to the north Thursday would set the ...

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