Burma's pro-democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, is to be granted the Freedom of Dundee.

Ms Suu Kyi has been under house arrest in Rangoon since 2003, and has spent more than 12 of the last 18 years in detention.


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]]> Read how a 16 y old boy discover the way to increase the speed of plastic bags' biodegradation...astonishing!
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]]> Two teens accused of brutally killing a beloved family pet pleaded guilty in a Camrose courtroom yesterday.


Those in attendance heard the graphic retelling of the gruesome act committed by a group of teens on Dec. 29,
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]]> Shamrock, a 20-year-old paint, was found in a vacant lot, entangled in a lead rope that had wrapped around his hind legs and genetalia- the latter of which had swelled to an enormous size and was bleeding profusely,
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]]> Investigators are looking into what happened to 19 horses found dead on a farm in Hewitt, Minn.

Horses wandering on a road pointed Todd County sheriff's deputies to the problem.


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]]> African countries and anti-poverty campaigners looked to the outcome of a food crisis summit on Thursday for a signal the world will start to produce solutions to stop millions more people falling into hunger.

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]]> Butterfly Man discovered in the Derbyshire countryside of England.
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]]> Long thought gone forever, a Cape Cod lighthouse that once overlooked Wellfleet Harbor was recently rediscovered almost 3,000 miles away on a rocky Californian cliff.
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]]> Thats the way we like it GREEN STAR for the founder of Patagonia heis one of the most caring business people on this planet! Just check this footprintchronicles! If you want to buy green and learn how to do it in future visit this site!
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]]> JAKARTA (AFP) - Hidden cameras in the jungles of Indonesia's Java island have captured rare footage of the world's most threatened rhino, boosting efforts to save it from extinction, conservationists said Thursday.
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]]> The Center for Biological Diversity on Wednesday petitioned the National Marine Fisheries Service to list ringed seals and two other species — spotted and bearded seals — as threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species Act.
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]]> PAPUA New Guinea is losing its accessible forests so quickly to logging and farming that more than 80 per cent will be gone within 13 years.
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]]> A Juneau tour boat has come to the rescue of an orphaned mountain goat.

The crew of the "Adventure Bound" is tracking down the goat down in Tracy Arm.


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]]> A national animal rights group zeroed in on Monroe County today, urging it to pass legislation to ban certain tools it says is harmful to animals in anticipation of a circus scheduled for the weekend at the Monroe County Fair and Expo Center in Henrietta
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]]> A little something for you about breed bans by :
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]]> When a couple in Montana suddenly found a large mountain lion trying to attack their dogs, they were saved by the unlikliest of heroes… their mule. Luckily, they had a camera on hand to capture this amazing confrontation…
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]]> “The empowerment of women is irrevocably tied to the safety, security, and prosperity of the world. The enfranchisement of women can no longer be a simple aspiration”, said US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice in the inauguration of international women…
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]]> The World Health Organisation (WHO) has called on governments to ban all tobacco advertising to help prevent young people taking up the habit. It accused manufacturers of using increasingly sophisticated marketing techniques to ensnare young people…
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]]> Laboratory tests show that much of this meat is contaminated with dangerously-high levels of mercury, a poison that can cause permanent neurological damage and even death.
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]]> I am appalled to learn that the University of Liverpool kills healthy greyhounds for medical research and dissection. I urge the university to immediately formalize a policy forbidding researchers from accepting healthy dogs for dissection.
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]]> Vincent Bugliosi, the American attorney best known for prosecuting Charles Manson, has released a new book, entitled The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder, in which he argues that, well, the title kinda gives it away.
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]]> When monkeys in Carolina remotely operated a robotic arm 600 miles away at the leading Institute of Technology in Massachusetts in 2000, using only their brain signals, the internet experiment was hailed as "a historic moment
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]]> Woman Lived 60 Years In Iron Lung Dies
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]]> RIO DE JANEIRO - Amazon Indians from one of the world's last uncontacted tribes have been photographed from the air, with striking images released on Thursday showing them painted bright red and brandishing bows and arrows.
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]]> GasBuddy.com can help you find cheap gas prices in your city. It is a network of more than 181+ gas price information websites that help you find low gasoline prices. All web sites are operated by GasBuddy and has the most comprehensive listings of gas pr
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]]> SALT LAKE CITY -- It's been a tough few years for the shelled sentinels scratching out a living in Utah's southwestern desert.

The population of desert tortoises in the scrubby 62,000 acres of Red Cliffs Desert Reserve has been declining steadily since
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]]> After a long wait, 401 families from Kuala Muda in Penang who lost their homes to the Dec 24, 2004 tsunami are now proud owners of new bungalows. The houses built by Syarikat Perumahan Negara Bhd (SPNB) with funding from the Federal
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]]> THE DEPTH of the global food crisis is best expressed by what the poor are eating. In Burundi, it is farine noir, a mixture of black flour and moldy cassava. In Somalia, a thin gruel made from mashed thorn-tree branches called jerrin.
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]]> Matthis Chiroux is a sergeant in the U.S. Army who served in Afghanistan, Japan, Europe and the Philippines as a photojournalist and was honorably discharged in summer 2007. In February, he received orders to return to Iraq.
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]]> Nearly 900 endangered leatherback turtles were born at the Junquillal beach on Costa Rica's Pacific coastline in recent months thanks to community workers that scare off poachers and protect the eggs
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]]> AUSTRALIANS tucking into a juicy steak in front of the television are being asked to consider how their meal impacts on climate change. A spiritual group's advertising campaign launched today linking methane emissions from cows to global warming.

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]]> Randy DeCarlo of Lilburn, Ga., has been rescuing dogs since his father passed away in 2001. He reckons he's saved 250 from euthanasia since he started. DeCarlo will be hauled into court later this month to face 24 counts of violating
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]]> Nearly two months after a pit bull attacked a horse (with a 70-year old rider atop) then fled the scene, the community has not lost hope. Reward posters are going up on walls in pet stores and veterinarian offices from Reno to Stockton in a regional...
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]]> The largest democratic party in the world based in India, please have a look.....
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]]> An alarming new proposal by the Queensland Government will establish a dedicated shark fin fishery in the Great Barrier Reef World Heritage Area and other marine parks in Queensland.The Australian Marine Conservation Society (and anyone who cares for our
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]]> FAIRFIELD COUNTY, Ohio -- Humane Society officers in central Ohio are trying to track down the gunman who killed a puppy and soaked two others with kerosene.
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]]> I knew there was a dog in their car and I was certainly taken aback, so one can only imagine the reaction of 5-6 young men approaching a woman who are suddenly faced with a boxer/pit bull emerging from the roof!!
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