AP - Some 125 pilot
whales died in New
Zealand after stranding
on the beach over the
weekend — but
vacationers and
conservation workers
Sunday managed to coax 43
others back out to sea.
Reuters - A South Korean
group won a landmark deal
to build and operate four
nuclear reactors for the
United Arab Emirates,
beating more favored U.S.
and French rivals to one
of the Middle East's
biggest ever energy
contracts.
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AFP - The United Arab
Emirates has awarded a
20.4-billion-dollar
contract to build four
nuclear power plants to a
South Korean-led
consortium, the Emirates
Nuclear Energy
Corporation said Sunday.
AP - A low pressure
system that has brought a
great deal of snow to the
northern Plains and Great
Lakes was expected to
continue to wind down on
Sunday, though light snow
was forecast continue to
accumulate in the frigid
air filtering in behind
the s...
Reuters - The United Arab
Emirates is likely to
announce the results of
one of the world's
biggest nuclear power
contracts later Sunday,
South Korean media
reported.
AP - Buddhist monks in
orange robes chanted on a
Thai beach, an Indonesian
mother mourned her
children at a mass grave,
and a man scattered
flowers in now-placid
waters Saturday to
commemorate the 230,000
killed five years ago
when a tsunami ripped
a...