Without this system, we'd be drowned in a sensory overload.

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While there is safety in numbers, the herd will be thinned as thousands are eaten, crushed or drowned in the crossings.

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In the first case of its kind to be charged in Nevada, two Las Vegas teenagers police say drowned newborn kittens are about to face prosecution for felony cruelty.

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Yet calls for Italy's best interests to be heeded are likely to be drowned out by the noise of politicians manoeuvring for position when parliament returns in September.

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This year as many as 44 migrants bound for Greece have drowned in the Evros river, though the real figure is believed to be higher, the UNHCR said in mid-October.

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