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THE persistence and severity of the drought in the Murray-Darling Basin has been described as "unprecedented" after late summer inflows to the river system fell to a 117-year low. The "bleak'' outlook for next three months was adding to the grim news, the Murray-Darling Basin Authority said. Irrigation water for Australia's food bowl will be dependent almost entirely on rainfall as basin states hold back water for critical human needs. "The persistence and severity of this drought, particularly over the past three years, is unprecedented,'' authority chief executive Rob Freeman said as he delivered the basin's latest drought update.
The Murray-Darling Basin is in central Australia.
Once called the "Queen of the Danube," Budapest has long been the focal point of the nation and a lively cultural centre.
Budapest was once popularly known as the "Queen of the Danube."
The world's oldest known child has been discovered in East Africa in an area known appropriately as the Cradle of Humanity.  The 3.3-million-year-old fossilized toddler was uncovered in north Ethiopia's badlands along the Great Rift Valley (map of Ethiopia). The skeleton, belonging to the primitive human species Australopithecus afarensis, is remarkable for its age and completeness, even for a region spectacularly rich in fossils of our ancient ancestors, experts say.  The new find may even trump the superstar fossil of the same species: "Lucy," a 3.2-million-year-old adult female discovered nearby in 1974 that reshaped theories of human evolution. (Related: "Fossil Find Is Missing Link in Human Evolution, Scientists Say" [April 2006].) .
Lucy fossils have been discovered 3.3 million years ago.
The longest stay in space was 438 days by Valeri Polyakov.
The record for the longest stay in space, by a human, is 438 days.
An Iraqi official reported today, Saturday, that 68 Iraqi civilians were killed as a result of the American and British bombing on Iraq and that their funerals were held today in Baghdad.
The 68 civilians killed as a result of the Anglo-American bombing of Iraq, were buried today in Baghdad.
The longest mission which the Russian Salyuts supported was 63 days. The second generation Salyuts would fly missions much longer and would need to be resupplied from time to time.
Russians hold record for longest stay in space.
In November, the results of the 2008 United States Senate election in Minnesota showed Republican Norm Coleman with a 215 vote lead over the Democratic challenger Franken. The close margin ―less than 0.0075 percent ―triggered an automatic recount which resulted in Franken leading by 225 votes, the total ratified by the Minnesota Canvasing Board January 5. The Coleman campaign filed a motion January 6 in court to block the certification of Franken's victory and prevent Franken from taking a seat in the United States Senate. On March 31, a three-judge panel hearing the case ordered 400 additional ballots be counted.
Norm Coleman is a member of the Republican Party.
The World Health Organization moved Friday, to revise alarming predictions that a pandemic stemming from the bird flu virus ravaging parts of Asia, could kill as many as 150 million people.
The U.N. health agency has distanced itself from a top official's prediction that a global influenza pandemic could kill as many as 150 million people.
A prosecutor had urged a state judge to sentence Former Tyco International CEO, Dennis Kozlowski, to the maximum 15 to 30 years in prison for stealing hundreds of millions of dollars from the company.
Ex-Tyco CEO, Dennis Kozlowski, received 8-1/3 to 25 years in prison, Monday, for his part in stealing hundreds of millions of dollars from the manufacturing conglomerate.
Microsoft Corp. and Intel Corp., on Monday, threw their weight behind the next-generation, HD DVD format being promoted by Toshiba Corp., in a blow to Sony Corp.'s Blu-ray format.
Microsoft Corp. invented the next generation HD DVD format.
The FMLN has prudently taken time before adopting a definite position, meanwhile the government has increased its detentions and attacked the residences of leaders of the Social Christian People's Movement.
Social Christian People's Movement was attacked by FMLN.
The State of California Department of Occupational Health and Safety released its report on the September 5 fatal accident on Disneyland's Big Thunder Mountain Railroad attraction.
Disneyland has accident
Martin was taken to New Orleans Ochsner Foundation Hospital, where nurse Jinny Resor said he was treated for dehydration.
Martin works for the Ochsner Foundation Hospital.
The recent 14% hike in third class postage rates, accompanied by simultaneous double-digit paper price increases, has hit smaller catalogers especially hard.
The cost of paper is rising.
Today about 75% of people live in cities or towns. Art and culture are an important part of France.
75 people live in France.
In any case, the fact that this week Michael Melvill, a 63-year-old civilian pilot, guided a tiny rocket-ship more than 100 kilometres above the Earth and then glided it safely back to Earth, is a cause for celebration.
Michael Melvill guided more than 100 rocket-ships above the Earth.
Christopher Reeve, an actor and director who became an inspiration worldwide after being paralyzed in a horse riding accident, died Sunday of heart failure.
Christopher Reeve had an accident.
Further evidence emerged on Wednesday of the severe downturn in the aviation sector as Emirates pulled its giant Airbus A380s off the Dubai to New York route. The airline blamed the weakening global economy for the decision, an embarrassing U-turn only eight months after its A380 services were launched with the New York route. Emirates' failure to make New York work with the A380 has raised concerns about the large number of the double-decker aircraft ordered by the carrier. It is the A380's largest customer and has ordered 58 of the 500-seat aircraft. It operates two to New York, one to Heathrow and one to Sydney.
A380 has only 58 seats.
Rozsa ( Rose ) Hill , the third hill near the river, lies north of Castle Hill.
Rozsa Hill lies north of Castle Hill.
Deng Haihua, Ministry of Health spokesperson, expects the disease to reach its height between May and July. Yang Weizhong Deputy Director for the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention said researchers are increasing research efforts to find a vaccine for EV71. Families are being instructed to embark on week-long disinfections with free medical supplies from local health authorities.
Deng Haihua is an employee of the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention.
The papers presented show that all European countries are experiencing rapidly aging populations that will cause sharp increases in the cost of retirement income over the next several decades.
National pension systems currently adopted in Europe are in difficulties.
PM tried to buy the Belin biscuit company from RJR Nabisco two years ago.
American tobacco companies began to diversify production.
Bunker started XenuTV in 1999 and began to make videos that he provided for the Lisa McPherson Trust. Bunker has been a critic of the Church of Scientology since 1997. In 2006, he won a Regional Emmy Award after he and KUSI-TV news reporter Lena Lewis produced a documentary news video on the issues with the United States - Mexico border with San Diego, California.
Church of Scientology includes Lena Lewis among its members.
With a 38-35 victory over the New York Giants at Giants Stadium Saturday night, the New England Patriots became the second team in the modern era of the National Football League to go undefeated (16-0) in the regular season. The only other team to have achieved this feat was the Miami Dolphins in 1972, who were 14-0 due to a different regular season structure at the time.
New England Patriots is the name of a fast food chain.
QNX Software Systems Ltd., a leading provider of real-time software and services to the embedded computing market, is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr. Sachin Lawande to the position of vice president, engineering services.
Sachin Lawande Named VP of Engineering Services at QNX
He interviewed Shigeko Sasamori in December 2004. Ms. Sasamori was thirteen when the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima (August 6, 1945).
In 1945, an atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima.
There are actually good grounds to believe that legalization would reduce the costs of respiratory damage from marijuana smoking by encouraging the development of better smoke filtration technology, the substitution of more potent, less smoke-producing varieties of marijuana, and the substitution of oral preparations for smoked marijuana.
Drug legalization has benefits.
The humane organization, Caritas, quoting its branch in Iraq, announced today, in Germany, that several Iraqi hospitals, especially Saddam Hospital, which is considered the biggest hospital in Iraq, were hit in the American-British bombing of the Iraqi capital.
An official source for Caritas announced today in Germany, that several Iraqi hospitals, (excluding Saddam Hospital, which is the biggest hospital in Iraq,) were hit in the American-British shelling of Baghdad.
The probe looked into the October 2000 shooting-deaths of 13 Arabs, during violent demonstrations in northern Israel that erupted days after the start of a Palestinian uprising.
Israel will not prosecute the police who killed 13 Israeli Arabs during pro-Palestinian protests in 2000, because of a lack of evidence, an official inquiry said yesterday.
Officials claimed they were backed by influential members of the Santa Cruz business community of Croatian descent. The security vice-minister, Marcos Farfan, said that police have surveillance photographs of Mr Dwyer at various public events attended by Mr Morales, including a peasant rally near Santa Cruz and a visit to naval installations on Lake Titicaca. Mr Farfan said that Mr Dwyer was "following" Mr Morales and other officials as part of the preparations for the "assassination plot". He added that police experts are analysing contents reportedly found in computers taken from the rooms in which the men were killed.
Lake Titicaca has a naval installation.
Scott's execution led to outrage in Ontario, and was largely responsible for prompting the Wolseley Expedition which forced Louis Riel, now branded a murderer, to flee the settlement.
Louis Riel assassinated Scott.
The National Basketball Association (NBA) has released the rosters for the 2007 NBA All-Star Game. The starting rosters can be found on the newly launched 2007 All-Star Game website. The 56th All-Star Game is scheduled to take place on Sunday, February 18 at the Thomas & Mack Center in Las Vegas, Nevada. 2007 Eastern Conference All-Stars Starters Gilbert Arenas (Washington) Chris Bosh (Toronto) LeBron James (Cleveland) Shaquille O'Neal (Miami) Dwayne Wade (Miami) 2007 Western Conference All-Stars Starters Kobe Bryant (L.A. Lakers) Tim Duncan (San Antonio) Kevin Garnett (Minnesota) Tracy McGrady (Houston) Yao Ming (Houston) The All Star Website was also launched at about noon EST on January 26. The website features pictures of the players on the rosters and other information.
The Thomas & Mack Center was built by NBA.
A bus collision with a truck in Uganda has resulted in at least 30 fatalities and has left a further 21 injured.
30 die in a bus collision in Uganda.
The World Trade Organization, the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank have all been criticized for their role in catalyzing the harmful impacts of corporate globalization on people, the environment and sustainable development.
The World Bank is criticized for its activities.
President George W. Bush, who gave the keynote address and introduced his father, raved about the vessel: "She is unrelenting, she unshakeable, she is unyielding, she is unstoppable. In fact, she should have been named the Barbara Bush."
The name of George H.W. Bush's wife is Barbara.
The planet probably got this name due to its red color; Mars is sometimes referred to as 'the Red Planet'.
Mars is called 'the red planet'.
So far the British have preferred a policy of a voluntary approach to restricting advertising and high taxes on tobacco products.
Sales have declined due to restrictions on advertising.
Infertile women are vital for successful child-rearing despite being unable to produce children themselves.
Infertile women cannot produce children.
Greece objects to the neighbouring Skopje government using the name Macedonia, saying it implies claims on a Greek province of the same name.
Greece and Macedonia are in dispute over name.
Vanunu, 49, was abducted by Israeli agents and convicted of treason in 1986 after discussing his work as a mid-level Dimona technician with Britain's Sunday Times newspaper.
Vanunu's disclosures in 1968 led experts to conclude that Israel has a stockpile of nuclear warheads.
Ocean colour satellite remote sensing has developed rapidly within the last five years and satellite imagery is now processed automatically and made available via the WWW.
Ocean remote sensing is developed.
The so-called "grandmother hypothesis", based on studies of African hunter-gatherer groups, suggests that infertile women are vital for successful child-rearing despite being unable to produce children themselves.
The "grandmother hypothesis" suggests that infertile women are very important for raising children.
Nicholas Cage's wife, Alice Kim Cage, gave birth Monday, to a boy, Kal-el Coppola Cage, in New York City, said Cage's Los Angeles-based publicist, Annett Wolf. No other details were available.
Nicholas Cage is married to Alice Kim Cage.
Wal-Mart Stores has asked a US federal appeals court to review a judge's order approving class-action status for a sex-discrimination lawsuit.
A lawsuit was filed against Wal-Mart.
Protest votes as citizens of the 25 EU nations punished their governments.
The European Union is made up of 25 nations.
When the last member of the Hasmonean Dynasty died in 37 B.C., Rome made Herod king of Judah.  With Roman backing, Herod (37-34 B.C.) ruled on both sides of the Jordan River.  After his death the Jewish kingdom was divided among his heirs and gradually absorbed into the Roman Empire.
The Hasmonean Dynasty rules Jordan.
Mr David Herman, head of GM's local operations accused Mr Gerhardt Schroeder, prime Minister of Lower Saxony and a member of the VW supervisory board, of trying to use his political weight to influence the investigations by state prosecutors in Hesse into claims of industrial espionage against GM.
Gerhardt Schroeder was accused of helping VW.
The GDP report showed growth in business outlays advanced at a solid 8.9% pace.
The GDP was a disappointing report.
GUS on Friday disposed of its remaining home shopping business and last non-UK retail operation with the 390m (265m) sale of the Dutch home shopping company, Wehkamp, to Industri Kapital, a private equity firm.
Wehkamp was based in the UK.
Edward VIII shocked the world in 1936 when he gave up his throne to marry an American divorcee, Wallis Simpson.
King Edward VIII abdictated in 1936.
He tried to persuade a local banker to loan more money to the villagers, but the banker refused, insisting they didn't qualify for credit. So, Yunus started his own bank to help the poorest of the poor lift themselves up.
Yunus started his own bank to loan money to the villagers.
Animals are permitted to enter the UK 6 months later without quarantine as long as they have been treated for ticks, fleas and tapeworms between 24 and 48 hours before boarding the transport that will return the pets to the UK.
Quarantine is compulsory for animals to enter the UK.
Though Wilkins and his family settled quickly in Italy, it wasn't a successful era for Milan, and Wilkins was allowed to leave in 1987 to join French outfit Paris Saint-Germain.
Wilkins departed Milan in 1987.
Since '82 Federal Chancellor (elected by "constructive vote of no confidence" against former Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, Social Democratic Party (SPD); reelected 1983, 1987, 1991 and 1994). This makes Helmut Kohl the longest-serving chancellor of the Federal Republic, passing by Konrad Adenauer, the first chancellor, this October.
The name of Helmut Kohl's political party is the Christian Democratic Union.
Blue Mountain Lumber is a subsidiary of Malaysian forestry transnational corporation, Ernslaw One.
Blue Mountain Lumber owns Ernslaw One.
Congress leader Sonia Gandhi and BJP prime ministerial candidate LK Advani are among candidates whose seats are holding voting in the third phase. Results are due on 16 May and no party is expected to win a clear majority.  Voters in the states of Bihar, Gujarat, Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Sikkim, Uttar Pradesh and West Bengal are casting ballots on Thursday. Voting is also being held in the federally-administered territories of Dadra and Nagar Haveli, and Daman and Diu.
Sonia Gandhi is winning in the Uttar Pradesh state.
New Zealand's Qualifications Authority said Friday that it still strongly discourages students from using anything other than full English, but that credit will be given if the answer "clearly shows the required understanding," even if it contains text-speak.
Full English is recommended by New Zealand's Qualifications Authority.
SCORES of fast food outlets have launched a legal challenge over payment and employment conditions for its workers, it emerged yesterday. The case is being taken by the newly formed Quick Service Food Alliance (QSFA), which also warned that current legislation would lead to job losses and businesses closures due to labour costs. The QSFA represents 170 businesses in the fast food sector including Subway, Supermacs and McDonald's. It said it was to take a High Court challenge to the rights of the Catering Joint Labour Committee (JLC) to set minimum wages and employment conditions for workers in the catering industry.
The Quick Service Food Alliance also includes McDonald's.
As hurricane Katrina moves beyond the Floridian peninsula, death tolls have begun to surface. On Friday, the official count was seven dead, at least five missing. 4 people in Broward, 3 in Miami. The forecast for Hurricane  Katrina predicts that it will continue on its present northwesterly course and approach the panhandle of Florida and the Mississippi delta region in the next few days.
Hurricane Katrina hit Florida.
The Salt Lake City 2002 Winter Olympics will take place from February 8th to February 24th 2002. The Paralympics will take place in Salt Lake City from March 7th to March 16th 2002.
2002 Olympic Winter games take place in Salt Lake.
LISBON, Jan. 22 (Xinhuanet) -- Anibal Cavaco Silva, a former prime minister, won Portugal's presidential election on Sunday.
New Portuguese prime minister is elected.
Practically every architect of international stature has vied for the bonanza of public and private projects -- including Renzo Piano, Peter Eisenman, Philip Johnson, Rafael Moneo, Helmut Jahn and Richard Rogers.
Renzo Piano is an architect.
Whilst the Government has an absolute majority in the Australian Senate, it is not guaranteed that the necessary legislation will pass this house. Garnering the support of key Senator Joyce is critical to ensure that the bills will pass (as he will have the deciding vote) and he has already stated that, due to a damning report released earlier in the House of Representatives showing that fourteen percent of lines were faulty amongst other criticsm, that it has turned the "green [light] to amber" [1].
Mr Joyce is an Australian Senator.
The six-member delegation included lawyers from the Justice, State, and Homeland Security Departments, according to U.S. military sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity because only Justice was allowed to officially disclose the mission. They were to spend a minimum of one hour with each of the Uighur (WEE-gur) captives, who are part of China's Muslim minority and who risk religious persecution if returned to their homeland. Each was captured in Afghanistan in late 2001 and handed over to U.S. forces, who interrogated them to learn about al-Qaeda's paramilitary training camp structure.
Six Uighurs were captured to gain information about al-Qaeda.
Though owning no trees and no waters, Takeshima Island has become the subject of a bitter political dispute between Japan and South Korea.
There is a territorial waters dispute.
After graduating in 1977, Gallager chose to accept a full scholarship to play football for Temple University.
Gallager attended Temple University.
For women who are HIV negative or who do not know their HIV status, breastfeeding should be protected, promoted and supported for six months.
For HIV-positive mothers, the decision about whether or not to breastfeed a child can be difficult.
The recovery of the capsule, which carried astronaut Virgil "Gus" Grissom on a brief suborbital flight on July 21, 1961, took place on the 30th anniversary of mankind's first moon landing.
The moon was first touched by mankind in 1969.
The conference found that many Australians experience discrimination through the Governmental, penal, legal and health care systems because of their mental health, race, skin colour, sexuality, sexual formation or refugee status.
Mental health problems increase in the young.
Tourists pay millions of dollars a year to come and see Africa 's wildlife and smugglers pay millions more in strictly illegal purchases of ivory and rhino horn from poachers.
African countries encourage keeping animals alive to attract tourists.
Rehnquist served longer as chief justice than anyone in a century, and his 33-year career as a justice was among the half-dozen longest in the court's history.
Rehnquist served the second-longest tenure, as chief justice, in US history.
The Red Planet is thought to have no magnetic field. It has the greenhouse effect which raises the temperature about 5 degrees. It has a very thin atmosphere consisting of 95.3% carbon dioxide, 2.7% nitrogen, 1.6% argon, 0.15% oxygen, and 0.03% water.
Mars is called the red planet.
When Adolf Hitler heard of how Mussolini was executed and put on public display, he vowed he would not let this happen to him. Hitler shot his mistress and new wife, Eva Braunn, and then swallowing some poison, he shot himself in the mouth.
Mussolini's mistress was Eva Braunn.
Los Angeles Mayor James Hahn, along with top members of the Automobile Club of Southern California, along with will announce the kickoff of a $9 billion plan to fund Los Angeles County's Top Ten Traffic Busters.
James Hahn is a member of the Automobile Club of Southern California.
Getty also starred in several movies after the show including Mask where she played the mother of singer and song writer Cher and Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot where she also played the mother of actor Sylvester Stallone. She also starred in the television show spin off of The Golden Girls titled The Golden Palace and made a two episode appearance on another spin off called Empty Nest. Getty was born in New York City on July 25, 1923, passing away just three days before her 85th birthday.
Stallone played Getty's father.
Strong competition in industries such as shipping has resulted in waves of investment in labour saving technology such as steel and aluminium cutting tools, processing machine and welding robots.
The automotive industry has seen advances in robotic metal cutting.
Cuban Leader Fidel Castro sent a letter to United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan assuring him that Cuba will follow anti-terrorism treaties in the wake of last month's terrorist attacks against New York and Washington.
Castro visits the UN.
"We've never had a core (business) thing," founder Richard Branson told Reuters at the launch this month of Virgin Vodka, which, with Virgin cola and Virgin computers, are his latest bright ideas.
Richard Branson's cola is called Virgin Cola.
Actor Christopher Reeve, best known for his role as Superman, is paralyzed and cannot breathe without the help of a respirator after breaking his neck in a riding accident in Culpeper, Va., on Saturday.
Christopher Reeve had an accident.