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• Did asteroid cause ancient N.Y. tsunami?
More than 2,300 years ago, a tsunami may have hit what is now New York City. The source of the giant wave, say geologists studying the sediments in nearby bodies of water, may have been a 330-foot-wide asteroid. It was 2,300 years ago. The Palisades ...
• Gotti wants racketeering trial moved to N.Y.
TAMPA, Fla. - Making John A. "Junior" Gotti stand trial on racketeering charges in Tampa instead of New York would be like "cutting off the supplies he needs to fight the fight," his attorney told a federal judge Thursday. Charles Carnesi, attorney ...
• In Congo's remote hills, a struggle to survive
... vacuum between war and peace where little government authority exists, Katembo Mastaki is trying to protect his family the only way he knows how: tethering a ripped piece of plastic sheeting-turned-tent to the jagged barbed wire surrounding a U.N ...
• Dinner interrupted by gunfire
Mastaki, his wife and three children fled with thousands of others to the hilltop U.N. base, forming a massive ring around it made of temporary shelters made of bamboo, leaves and plastic sheeting. While a blue-turbaned Indian peacekeeper looked on ...
• U.N. climate chief hails Obama commitments
ALGIERS, Algeria - The recent commitments on global warming by U.S. President-elect Barack Obama mark a new beginning for world negotiations to replace the Kyoto Protocol, the head of the U.N.'s climate change body said Wednesday. Obama "indicated ...