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• Earthquake kills at least 72 in Kyrgyzstan
BISHKEK, Kyrgyzstan - A powerful earthquake struck the mountains of Central Asia, destroying a village in Kyrgyzstan and killing at least 72 people, emergency officials said Monday. The 6.6-magnitude quake near the border between Kyrgyzstan and ...
• Half of mammals are in decline, study finds
The situation is particularly serious for land mammals in Asia, through the combined effects of overharvesting and habitat loss," the experts wrote in their study, "and for marine species, victims of our increasingly intensive use of the oceans ...
• Dow dips below 10,000, a first since Oct. 2004
That's caused stocks to plunge in the U.S., Europe and Asia, and drove investors to sink money into the relative safety of U.S. government debt. Fears about a global recession also caused oil to drop below $90 a barrel; and the benchmark index that ...
• Former Goldman exec to run financial rescue
In Asia, the Nikkei 225 closed 4.25 percent lower. Europe’s stock markets also declined, with the FTSE-100 down 2.72 percent, Germany’s DAX down 5.04 percent, and France’s CAC-40 down 5.501 percent. The anxiety was again obvious in the credit ...
• Europe struggles with unified crisis response
Markets responded to the disarray by sinking rapidly, following selloffs in Asia. Russia shut down both its stock markets after they fell more than 15 percent. Germany’s DAX was down 428.04, or 7.4 percent, at 5,368.99, while France’s CAC-40 was ...