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AFP/File - Thu Aug 4,10:35 PM ET
Indonesian activists protesting in Jakarta display pictures of people affected by polution they believe was caused by Newmont. The US mining giant goes on trial in a high-profile legal battle over charges its Indonesian unit dumped toxic waste and polluted a bay near its mine(AFP/File/Adek Berry) -
AFP/File - Fri Aug 5, 2:33 AM ET
Computer experts in US technology mecca Silicon Valley have used 21st century science to virtually revive a two-century-old Egyptian mummy. Picture shows an open coffin and a mummy at an excavation south of Cairo(AFP/File) -
AFP - Fri Aug 5, 4:54 AM ET
A woman braves strong winds in Keelung, Taiwan. Storm-weary China was bracing for Typhoon Matsa, expected to batter coastal areas near the country's largest city Shanghai just weeks after Typhoon Haitong left 17 people dead(AFP/Sam Yeh) -
AFP - Fri Aug 5, 7:25 AM ET
People's Liberation Army (PLA) soldiers help residents to evacuate the city of Wenling in China's Zhejiang province as Typhoon Matsa bears down on China's east coast, August 5, 2005. Nearly 600,000 people were evacuated as China braced for Typhoon Matsa, expected to batter coastal areas near its largest city Shanghai just weeks after Typhoon Haitong left 17 people dead.(AFP) -
AFP - Fri Aug 5, 7:41 AM ET
Villagers try to extinguish a wildfire in Fonte de Oleiro, close to Leiria, 140 Km north of Lisbon, August 4, 2005. More than 3,000 firefighters battled 18 major blazes which raged across Portugal, forcing the closure of the parched nation's busiest highway for the second consecutive day, emergency services said.(AFP/Francisco Leong) -
AFP/File - Fri Aug 5, 8:00 AM ET
Medicine to treat malaria, diarrhea and a host of parasitic diseases are unloaded from a French cargo plane at Niamey, Niger, July 30, 2005. The United Nations' food aid agency urged donors not to forget hard-hit countries in Africa's Sahel region, saying they face similar hunger crises to the one in neighbouring Niger.(AFP/File/Stephane De Sakutin) -
AFP - Fri Aug 5, 8:09 AM ET
Indian slumdwellers gather around a man as he distributes food supplies at a privately run distribution centre in the Kranti Nagar District of Mumbai, August 4, 2005, after floodwaters subsided and the threat of disease remains. Villages in western and southern India were evacuated with at least 222,000 people moved to higher ground as waters released from near-bursting dams flooded vast rural tracts, officials said.(AFP/Sebastian D'Souza) -
AFP/File - Fri Aug 5,10:12 AM ET
Three golden eagles and various other animals in the French Alps have been killed by poison recently, apparently victims of an illegal culling campaign by farmers against wolves (pictured), four environmental organisations said in a joint statement.(AFP/File/Pascal Guyot) -
AFP/File - Fri Aug 5,10:54 AM ET
A tiger yawns in Ranthambore National Park, India. A panel set up in March to seek ways to protect India's vanishing tigers unveiled its recommendations and advised that villagers in areas inhabited by the big cats must be prepared to step aside.(AFP/File/Aditya Singh) -
AFP - Fri Aug 5, 2:45 PM ET
A man carries buckets of water as he tries to fight a wildfire in Albergaria-dos Doze, 150 Km north of Lisbon. Portugal called in the army to help hundreds of stretched firefighters battle 22 major blazes which raged across the country.(AFP/Francisco Leong) -
AFP - Fri Aug 5, 4:12 PM ET
A view of a fire near Pradel, southeastern France, taken from the city of Toulon. Southern France and Corsica frequently suffer summer forest fires.(AFP/Eric Estrade) -
AFP - Sat Aug 6,12:53 PM ET
A 'Canadair' plane tries to extinguish the fire on the mountains next the little village of Ferradillo, some 400 km west from Madrid. Firefighters in Portugal, Spain and France battled forest and brush fires as scorching temperatures punished the region hit by its worst drought in six decades.(AFP/Miguel Riopa) -
AFP - Sat Aug 6,12:53 PM ET
A villager helps his grandmother (R) as they are forced to leave their home due to a wildfire in Memoria, 120 Km north of Lisbon, August 5, 2005. Firefighters in Portugal, Spain and France battled forest and brush fires as scorching temperatures punished the region hit by its worst drought in six decades.(AFP/Francisco Leong) -
AFP/File - Wed Aug 3,12:39 AM ET
A pig looks over his pen as his breakfast arrives at a farm on the outskirts of Chengdu, Sichuan province. Vietnam has ordered a crackdown on the smuggling of pork and live pigs from China to prevent the spread of a mystery disease that has killed 37 people(AFP/File/Peter Parks) -
AFP/File - Wed Aug 3, 2:39 AM ET
A woman appreciates a glass of wine in Sydney. Moderate drinkers make better thinkers than those who tipple too much or not at all, a new Australian study says(AFP/File/Rob Elliot) -
AFP/File - Wed Aug 3,10:22 AM ET
A milk cow is seen grazing in this file photo. Tests on a suspected madcow disease in the United States proved negative, the US Agriculture Department said.(AFP/File/Don Emmert) -
AFP/File - Wed Aug 3,11:46 AM ET
Chickens in a poultry house, June 28, 2005. An outbreak of salmonella in Spain has affected 921 people who ate infected pre-cooked roast chicken in recent days, the health ministry said.(AFP/File/Seyllou ) -
AFP/File - Wed Aug 3,11:52 AM ET
A worker delivers a butchered pig to a local market in Hong Kong, July 23, 2004. Hong Kong officials have given a clean bill of health to the territory's pig farms amid fears over an outbreak of a swine disease that has claimed 37 lives in central China, a statement said.(AFP/File/Thomas Cheng) -
AFP/FAO/File - Wed Aug 3, 2:40 PM ET
Chicken for sale are seen at a market. Up to three million courses of antiviral drugs will have to be stockpiled if Southeast Asia is to stand a chance of containing a human pandemic of bird flu, scientists warned.(AFP/FAO/File/Arif Ariadi) -
AFP/File - Wed Aug 3, 3:42 PM ET
A woman carries maize on her head. Up to 4.2 million Malawians are facing hunger after the drought sent maize production, the main staple food, plummetting by 24 percent.(AFP/File/Mauricio Lima) -
Soldiers help to evacuate residents of Wenling city in China's Zhejiang province as Typhoon Matsa lashes China's east coast on Friday. -- AFP -
AFP/File - Wed Aug 3, 3:45 PM ET
A Nigerois soldier stands guard near women and their malnurished children. The knock-on effects from the famine gripping Niger now threaten nearby Benin and Nigeria, where rising prices and a plague of crop-eating birds are menacing food supplies, locals said.(AFP/File/Stephane de Sakutin) -
AFP/File - Wed Aug 3, 7:04 PM ET
Cambodian skulls from Khmer Rouge killing fields. Two decades after fleeing to the United States to escape widespread violence at home, Cambodian refugees are suffering from 'shockingly high' depression, a study showed.(AFP/File/Sylvain Pichard) -
AFP/File - Wed Aug 3,10:44 PM ET
A nurse attends to a patient in the southern Philippine city of Zamboanga. About 6,000 doctors in the Philippines are studying to become nurses so they can find higher-paying jobs abroad, Health Secretary Francisco Duque says(AFP/File/Jay Directo) -
AFP/File - Thu Aug 4, 1:58 AM ET
No smoking signs at a Bangkok mall. Thailand's tobacco monopoly and three multi-national firms are threatening to sue Thailand's health ministry over attempts to ban cigarette displays at points of sale such as convenience stores, local media reports(AFP/File/Pornchai Kittiwongsakul)