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• Quake shakes Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico
ST. JOHN, U.S. Virgin Islands - A strong earthquake jolted people awake Saturday in the U.S. and British Virgin Islands and nearby Puerto Rico. There were no immediate reports of damages. The magnitude 6.1 quake was the strongest to hit Puerto Rico ...
• Grand Turk cruise ship terminal back in business
GRAND TURK, Turks and Caicos Islands - Tourism is returning to Grand Turk as the island recovers from Hurricane Ike. The cruise ship Carnival Destiny made a port call Wednesday and brought some 2,800 passengers to the capital of the Turks and Caicos ...
• Maldivians flood polls in first free election
The vote was seen as a referendum on the 30-year-rule of President Mamoun Abdul Gayoom, who used a burgeoning tourist trade to turn the islands into an economic success story, but has been accused of cracking down on dissent and allowing cronies to ...
• Huge exoplanet puzzles astronomers
... helium that powers real stars. Planets do none of that. "It has puzzled us; we're not sure where to draw the boundary between planets and brown dwarfs," said Hans Deeg, an astronomer at the Instituto de Astrofisica de Canarias in the Canary Islands ...
• Dubai aims to top its own world's tallest tower
The area is located between two of the city's artificial palm-shaped islands, which Nakheel also built. The project will include a manmade inland harbor and 40 additional towers up to 90 floors high. About 150 elevators will carry residents and ...