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7 workers trapped after bridge collapses in AndorraThousands rally in Bermeo to claim \'Alakrana\' crew members releaseBasque Country on alert due to heavy swellOne person killed after shooting in OrlandoRussian military plane crashes, crew feared deadUS grieves those killed in Texas shooting3 seamen from \'Alakrana\' released, back onboard, govmt saysOrlando office building gunman on the looseBasque chefs show their best \'pintxos\' in DenmarkSwine flu most \'popular\' strain worldwideGunman wounds 3 near Tokyo in gang violenceTaliban hold dead soldiers\' bodiesScientist have discovered how smells can conjure strong memoriesTroubling portrait emerges of Fort Hood suspectBasque retail trade sector sales fell 4.5% in 3rd quarter of 2009Basque Pelota, official sport in the next Pan-American Games 2011Spain says release of two captured pirates \'not negotiable\'British Airways reports loss of 208 million pounds12 people dead in military base shooting in TexasBasque band We Are Standard gets MTV award
Climate Change
G20 ministers hold meeting in Scotland
Gordon Brown told G20 ministers it was time to consider a form of global financial levy such as an insurance fee on transactions or contingent capital arrangements.
Britain called on Saturday for consideration of a tax on financial transactions to insure against another crisis and urged world finance officials meeting in Scotland to agree on bearing the cost of fighting climate change.
British Prime Minister Gordon Brown told finance ministers from the Group of...
Two presumed dead
7 workers trapped after bridge collapses in Andorra
Four other men were hospitalized in serious condition after a steel and concrete viaduct collapsed on them (Read more)
Alakrana
Thousands rally in Bermeo to claim 'Alakrana' crew members release
Thousands of anonymous citizens and representatives from several political parties met on Saturday morning in the Basque coastal town of Bermeo to claim 'Alakrana' crew members release. (Read more)
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Basque Country on alert due to heavy swell
Basque Interior Department has lifted orange alert warning for Sunday due to heavy swell. (Read more)
One person arrested
One person killed after shooting in Orlando
Jason Rodriguez, 40, who surrendered to police about three hours after the shooting, told reporters he had been 'left to rot'. (Read more)
Russian military plane crashes, crew feared dead
Russian news agencies have reported a military plane has crashed in Russia's far east and all nine crew members aboard were feared dead.
ITAR Tass quoted an emergency ministry official as saying that the Tu-142-M3 anti-submarine turboprop crashed in the Tatarsky Strait about 20 kilometers (12... (Read more)US grieves those killed in Texas shooting
America was trying to understand on Saturday just what lay behind Thursday's shooting at a sprawling army base in Texas.
US President Barack Obama said on Friday the entire nation is grieving for those killed at Fort Hood, and he urged people not to jump to conclusions while law enforcement officers... (Read more)3 seamen from 'Alakrana' released, back onboard, govmt says
"Despite the complexity, the Somali PM has confirmed the move to me and to the Spanish ambassador in Nairobi."
This was the statement of Spanish minister of Foreign Affairs Miguel Angel Moratinos, who on Friday afternoon said the three captive crew members taken from the trawler had returned to Alakr... (Read more)Orlando office building gunman on the loose
Officials said at least eight people were hurt in a shooting at a downtown office building Friday and a gunman was on the loose.
People streamed out of the high-rise building around lunchtime and some told local television stations they had barricaded themselves inside their offices.
Orlando Fire... (Read more)Basque chefs show their best 'pintxos' in Denmark
Several Basque chefs present their best 'pintxos', in a journey coordinated by the Gastronomy Association of Hondarribia and sponsored by La Bacaladera.
Basque chefs Jose Ramon Elizondo and Conchita Bereciartua from Aloña Berri bar in Donostia-San Sebastian surprised the audience in Taste The Art w... (Read more)Swine flu most 'popular' strain worldwide
It will be a while until the persistent swine flu virus finally will be conquered, while the epidemic keeps on spreading worldwide. In some countries, up to 70% percent of the flu viruses being sampled contain the virus.
Although most people recover from the illness without needing medical... (Read more)Gunman wounds 3 near Tokyo in gang violence
A gunman wounded three men near Tokyo on Friday before hiding in a building and apparently killing himself - a rare shooting spree that police said was gang-related.
Police attempted to negotiate with the gunman but then burst into the building in Yokohama, a city just south of Tokyo, after they... (Read more)Taliban hold dead soldiers' bodies
Two members of the NATO-led force in Afghanistan were reported missing on Friday and the Taliban said they were holding the bodies of two drowned foreign soldiers.
The Islamist militants' spokesman Qare Yousuf told Reuters by telephone from an undisclosed location that they had recovered the bodies... (Read more)Scientist have discovered how smells can conjure strong memories
Yaara Yeshurun of the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel found that bad smells make the biggest first impression, which is likely an evolutionary defense mechanism, but early pleasant scents also make an imprint on the brain.
"We found that the first association between an object and a smell... (Read more)Troubling portrait emerges of Fort Hood suspect
Nidal Malik Hasan: his name appears on radical Internet postings. A fellow officer says he fought his deployment to Iraq and argued with soldiers who supported U.S. wars. He required counseling as a medical student because of problems with patients.
For six years before reporting for duty at Fort... (Read more)Basque retail trade sector sales fell 4.5% in 3rd quarter of 2009
The retail trade sector of Basque Country posted a 4.5% decrease in nominal sales in the third quarter of 2009 with respect to the same period of the previous year, in standardised terms of the working calendar, according to Eustat data.
Compared with the previous quarter, domestic retail trade... (Read more)Basque Pelota, official sport in the next Pan-American Games 2011
The ODEPA (Pan-American Sports Organization)' s General Assembly, which is taking place in Guadalajara (Mexico), has admitted Pelota Vasca in the next Pan-American Games which will be played in 2011 in Guadalajara (Mexico).
These games are for America the equivalent to the Olympic Games in the... (Read more)Spain says release of two captured pirates 'not negotiable'
Spain said Friday it would not free two captured pirates as demanded by their fellow hijackers who are holding a Basque trawler and 33 crew members off the coast of Somalia.
The trawler's captain told Basque media group EITB Thursday that the pirates on board had threatened to start killing the... (Read more)British Airways reports loss of 208 million pounds
British Airways PLC has reported a net loss of 208 million pounds (US$346 million) for the six months ending in September, its first-ever loss in the period, as revenue fell by 13.7 percent.
The company's pre-tax loss of 292 million pounds was worse than the consensus of analysts' expectations... (Read more)12 people dead in military base shooting in Texas
An Army psychiatrist set to be shipped overseas opened fire at the Fort Hood, Texas, Army post on Thursday, in a rampage that killed 12 people and left around 30 wounded in the worst mass shooting at a military base in the United States.
The gunman, first said to have been killed, was wounded but... (Read more)
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