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Without these, the world faces a financial crash several times worse than the 2008 crisis, they said. The investors include some of the world’s biggest pension funds, insurers and asset managers and marks the largest such intervention to date ... A key demand of the Global Investor Statement is to phase out coal-fired power stations across the world....

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China Focus: Qinghai-Tibet Plateau adopts diverse measures to address climate change

Xinhua 10 Dec 2018

XINING, Dec ... Also hailed as the "roof of the world" and the "water tower of Asia," the Plateau contains the headwaters of three major rivers ... In 1994, China's first Global Atmosphere Watch (GAW) baseline station was launched at the top of Mt ... It is one of the world's highest GAW observatories at an altitude of over 3,800 meters above sea level ... ....

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617 cycle-sharing points identified in Chandigarh

Indian Express 10 Dec 2018

Of these 110 are bus stops ... Advertising ... Also, on July 17, a cycle tour for tourists was launched at the Capitol Complex by the UT Administration on the occasion of second Anniversary of UNESCO World Heritage nomination of architectural works of Le Corbusier. Around 100 cycles have been stationed there for the use of tourists up to Sukhna Lake ... news ... ....

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Nebraska tourism guide mistakenly features Missouri picture

Belleville News-Democrat 09 Dec 2018

The Omaha World-Herald reports that a production error allowed the picture of the Kansas City station to be used ......

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Actor stabs friend over 'booze, lover'

Sowetan Live 09 Dec 2018

... against the thespian at the Douglasdale police station. TO READ MORE ON THIS STORY GET A COPY OF TODAY'S SUNDAY WORLD ....

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Niamh Horan: 'Libraries and galleries would empty if #MeToo had its way'

Irish Independent 09 Dec 2018

Last Tuesday I appeared on Pat Kenny's Newstalk Show to discuss the ban of the song Baby, It's Cold Outside by some radio stations in a post #MeToo world ... Last Tuesday I appeared on Pat Kenny's Newstalk Show to discuss the ban of the song Baby, It's Cold Outside by some radio stations in a post #MeToo world....

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Must reads before Monday

ABC7 09 Dec 2018

One parent's decision to shame his daughter on social media drew mixed responses, Florida is struggling with major toxic algae blooms, the only operating spaceport in the world is crumbling, and eight children affected by Trump's "zero-tolerance" border policy are still waiting to be reunited with their families....

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Santa crazy! SantaCon hysteria sweeps Manhattan as hundreds dress up for the annual bar crawl and share their wild pictures - some naughty, some nice...

This is Money 09 Dec 2018

Ho Ho Ho! There was a good turn out on the streets in New York for SantaCon 2018 ... The New York crawl, one of dozens scheduled in cities around the world, wound its way to Manhattan’s Lower East Side ... Three of them are seen above buying tickets at New York's Penn Station, one of the busiest commuter terminals in the world ... ....

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Missy Elliott on hits for Aaliyah, Beyonc� and herself

Detroit news 09 Dec 2018

It was a different way to attack records because people were really singing then; that world of rap-singing didn’t really exist,” Elliott explained ... “And something happened, I can’t tell you what happened, but whatever happened, it ended up back at the stations and it ended up in the Guinness Book of World Records .”....

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Tune in Tonight for Dec. 9

Waco Tribune-Herald 09 Dec 2018

As things stand, the border between the two worlds has been shut, and many from the “wrong” side are trapped ... Add “Counterpart” to the growing list of peak TV series, including “The Americans,” “Deutschland 83” and “The Little Drummer Girl,” filled with nostalgia for a pre-digital era and set in the twilight world of Cold War espionage....

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FICTION: FLIGHT TO FREEDOM

Dawn 09 Dec 2018

Thereafter opens a new world but, though it beckons enticingly, it requires complete allegiance to a teacher who is gentle, yet also a demanding master brooking no truancy ... She is now the victor in a world of woe, revelling in inner peace, content with her station in life....

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Simmons returns for second season of 'Counterpart'

Union Leader 09 Dec 2018

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Claudio Caniggia: ‘F*ucking Sutton’ ruined my World Cup dream

Scotsman 09 Dec 2018

A visibly agitated legend of the world game is heading out the theatre door for a smoke. But this is not the world stage, the sort he has graced in the past ... Perhaps this should be expected of someone once stationed at the Bombonera, home to Boca Juniors and somewhere reckoned to be among the most raucous grounds in world football....