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  • India cracks down on polluters in choked capital Authorities in the Indian capital are launching a new crackdown on polluting traffic in a further bid to clean up one of the dirtiest cities in the world.
  • Tourist divers help clean up Thai resort Around 300 volunteer divers, including foreign tourists, scoured the sea floor to clear debris around Phuket on Saturday as the Thai resort began to rebuild in the hope of reviving a tourism industry ravaged by the tsunami.
  • Kidnappers release Catholic archbishop in Iraq: church A kidnapped Catholic archbishop in Iraq was released less than 24 hours after his abduction in the northern city of Mosul, Baghdad's Archbishop Matti Matoka told AFP.
  • Largest commercial aircraft A380 unveiled THE A380, the largest commercial aircraft ever to be built, was unveiled here on Tuesday at the Airbus headquarters, at a glittering function attended by the four European Heads of State and chief executives of 14 leading airlines, representing A380's first customers.
  • Welcome to Titan Forty-eight years after mankind's first forays into space, the toxic orange haze covering Titan, Saturn's largest moon, has finally been penetrated. Ending a seven-year, 3.5 billion-kilometer voyage, the Huygens probe touched down on Titan last week, giving earthbound gawkers their first glimpse of its icy surface.
  • Congo's Rare Rhinos to be Flown to Safety Five of the few northern white rhinos left in the wild will be flown from Democratic Republic of Congo to prevent poachers wiping them out, conservationists said on Saturday.
  • African rat sniffs out landmines A giant African rat has become man's second best friend as it joins forces with the dog to sniff out landmines in Mozambique.
  • Tsunami Detection To Expand The Bush administration will spend $37.5 million over the next three years to expand the nation's tsunami detection and warning system, U.S. officials said yesterday, so the nation will be able to monitor underwater activity threatening any of its coasts by mid-2007.
  • Signs of recovery on Indian Ocean shores battered by tsunami There are signs that towns and villages on the battered shores of the Indian Ocean are starting to recover from last month's tsunami, which all but swept many away.
  • Early Mammal Snacked on Dinos Two remarkable finds in a fossil treasure trove in northeastern China may smash perceptions about early mammals, according to a study published on Thursday in the journal Nature.

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