• They have speeded the construction of a vast concrete wall along Israel's 240-km (150-mile) border with Egypt and deployed another brigade to patrol it.

    ECONOMIST: Israel and the Islamists

  • It will make its closest approach to the Sun - at a distance of not much more than a million km from the Sun's surface - on 28 November.

    BBC: Comet Ison caught on film by Deep Impact craft

  • Bangkok's new Skytrain, a mere 23-km system, is already credited with improving traffic by about 4%.

    CNN: The Best Transport

  • The epicenter of Thursday's first quake was about 95 miles (152 km) south-southwest of the capital, Santiago, and about 90 miles (145 km) away from Valparaiso, where Pinera was to be inaugurated.

    CNN: Three strong earthquakes strike Chile in quick succession

  • Moenjodaro, located on the right bank of the Indus River, 510 km north-east of Karachi, in Pakistan's Sindh Province, flourished for about 1000 years during the third and second millennium BC.

    UNESCO: Safeguarding Moenjodaro

  • Ukraine's government says an area larger than Switzerland was affected, and a 30-km (19-mile) radius around the plant remains all but uninhabited.

    CNN: Chernobyl's 25-year shadow

  • Moreover, Beijing has undertaken to build a 3, 000-km pipeline that will play a key role in fueling China's industrial growth into the next century.

    CNN: THE BIG OIL SHOCK

  • Police are combing an area near Big Bear Lake, 80 miles (128 km) east of Los Angeles, after finding the suspect's burned-out truck near a ski area.

    BBC: Christopher Dorner: LAPD may reopen sacking probe

  • Police are combing an area near Big Bear Lake, 80 miles (130 km) east of Los Angeles, after finding the suspect's burned-out truck near a ski area.

    BBC: Christopher Dorner hunt: $1m reward for ex-LAPD officer

  • This final flight is the vessel's 25th overall, having already clocked a cumulative distance in space of 166 million km - an expanse just greater than that which divides the Earth and the Sun.

    BBC: Shuttle Endeavour launches one last time

  • The state-owned Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation is set to open its much-delayed showpiece project: the 4.7 km (2.9 mile) Bandra-Worli Sealink, India's longest ocean bridge.

    FORBES: Bombay's Bridge Over Troubled Traffic

  • The British government trumped him by creating the world's biggest single marine reserve round the Chagos islands in the Indian Ocean - all 545, 000 sq km of it.

    BBC: Shortages: Fish on the slide

  • The crew of a TAM Linhas Aereas flight travelling over the area in the other direction shortly after the Airbus' last signal had reported seeing "bright spots" in the ocean about 1, 300 km (800 miles) from the Fernando de Noronha archipelago off Brazil's north-eastern coast.

    BBC: Atlantic searched for lost plane

  • The verdicts came on the second day of deliberations for a seven-woman, five-man jury in Kingston, about 280 km (175 miles) west of the family's home in Montreal.

    CNN: Family convicted in Canada 'honor murders'

  • The data, from NASA's TIMED mission, show that Earth's thermosphere (the layer above 62 miles or 100 km above the Earth's surface) "responds quite dramatically to the effects of the 11-year solar cycle, " Stan Solomon of the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colo.

    MSN: Earth's upper atmosphere cooling dramatically

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