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Nairobi (pronounced /narobi/) is the capital and largest city of Kenya. The city and its surrounding area also forms the Nairobi Province. The name "Nairobi" comes from the Maasai phrase Enkare Nyirobi, which translates to "the place of cool waters". However, it is popularly known as the "Green City in the Sun" and is surrounded by several expanding villa suburbs.[2
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 The Star 
Sun won't stop global warming if dims as in 1600s
| OSLO (Reuters) - A dimming of the sun to match conditions in the "Little Ice Age" of the 17th century would only slightly slow global warming, a study indicated on Wednesday. A chimney billows smoke... (photo: Creative Commons / Optigan13)
In this July 4, 2008 file photo, French President Nicolas Sarkozy's wife Carla Bruni-Sarkozy is seen with her husband waiting for Ingrid Betancourt's arrival at Villacoublay air base, outside Paris. The title of her new album _ her third _ is revealing: "Comme si de rien n'etait" (As If Nothing Had Happened). It comes out in numerous European countries July 11, sandwiched between the G-8 summit in Japan and a July 13 summit of world leaders in Paris.
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 The Guardian 
Rumours fly over Sarkozy and Bruni
| Paris gossips were trying to sort out fact from fiction as the blogosphere raised tantalising questions about the glamorous pop 'n' politics marriage of President Nicolas Sarkozy and Carla Bruni. | ... (photo: AP / Michel Euler, file)
Corn - Boiled Corn - Corn Husks - Vendor - Food - Biofuel Source  BBC News 
Harrabin's Notes: Battle over biofuel strategy
| Legislate in haste, repent at leisure: is that the syndrome afflicting the EU's biofuels policy? | Environmentalists fear it is - and their latest manoeuvre to stem the biofuel tide is a legal actio... (photo: WN / Trigedia)
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Children's health on agenda at European WHO conference
| Parma, Italy - A three-day conference of Europe's 53 members of the World Health Organisation (WHO) opened Wednesday in Italy, focussing on clean water, sanitation, air pollution and dangerous chemi... (photo: WN / Eteh)
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Do students need courses on how to use bins? The Guardian
Do students need courses on how to use bins?
| Following a recent post about in Headingley, Beeston Hill and Holbeck, guest blogger Mercia Southon looks at the wider problems with rubbish and students in the Leeds 6... (photo: WN / Denise Yong)
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Togo and Africa   Aninaux elephant     Les aninaux un lphant Zeenews
'Miracle' baby elephant cheats death in birth
Sydney: A baby elephant believed to have died during a nine-day labour was born alive at an Australian zoo on Wednesday, amazing its keepers and defying expert opinion th... (photo: WN / Eteh)
Baby   Death   Elephant   Photos   Zoo  
Stop giving climate-change deniers a forum Canada Dot Com
Stop giving climate-change deniers a forum
    | Now that global-warming scaremongering has been revealed as a "reckless propaganda designed to panic the politicians . . . to pay tens of trillions of dollars" t... (photo: WN / Denise Yong)
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Tasmanian Devil The Boston Globe
Tasmanian devil colony shows immunity to cancer
| ADELAIDE, Australia-Australian scientists said Wednesday that the discovery of a genetically distinct colony of Tasmanian devils may save the species from being wiped o... (photo: GFDL / Mike Lehmann)
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Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., is interviewed by the Associated Press in his office on Capitol Hill, Wednesday, July 19, 2006, in Washington. When Obama travels to Africa next month for a five-nation, 15-day tour, he will have one credential no other U.S. senator can claim: he is the son of an African. ``As the only African-American in the U.S. Senate, there is obviously some symbolic power to my visit,'' Obama said. DNA India
Obama pushes climate change in White House meeting
| WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama, weighing in on the Senate's efforts to pass a climate change bill, gathered republican and democratic lawmakers on Tuesday to tr... (photo: AP / Lawrence Jackson)
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President Barack Obama speaks as Archbishop Demetrios, Primate of the Greek Orthodox Church in America, listens during a ceremony honoring Greek Independence Day in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, March 9, 2010. Khaleej Times
Obama pushes climate change in meeting
WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama, weighing in on the Senate's efforts to pass a climate change bill, gathered Republican and Democratic lawmakers on Tuesday to try to ... (photo: AP / Gerald Herbert)
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