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Swiss Flock to Watch Giant Stinking Flower Bloom
By not in system - AOL NewsGENEVA -- Thousands of plant lovers have flocked to the northern Swiss city of Basel to see a giant, stinky flower bloom for the first time. Sebastine Bozon , AFP / Getty Images Visitors look at the "Arum Titan," the biggest flower in the world, as it blossoms at the Botanical Garden in Basel, Switzerland. The Basel Botanical Gardens expects 10,000 people to see its amorphophallus titanum, or corpse flower, in full glory before the bloom wilts late Saturday or Sunday. The plant is 17 years old and has never bloomed before. Visitors haven't been deterred by the strong stench of ...
Is Your Cell Phone's Radiation Level Safe? Don't Call the FCC
By Andrew Schneider - AOL NewsMore than 200 million people in the U.S. talk on cell phones a total of at least 12 hours a month -- some double or triple that amount. Almost everyone admits that cell phones emit radiation when they link to the closest tower. What almost no one can agree on is whether that radiation is harmful to those holding their phones to their ears. Amid this confusion comes a report from health and safety activists that the government's cell phone watchdog -- the Federal Communications Commission -- is putting industry desires before public well-being. Investigators for the Environmental Working ...
US, Europe Intensify Efforts to Isolate Gadhafi
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- The United States and European allies intensified efforts to isolate Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi on Monday, redoubling demands for him to step down, questioning his mental state and warning that those who stay loyal to him risk losing their wealth and being prosecuted for human rights abuses. Europe, which buys most of Libya's oil exports, outlined fresh sanctions to force the dictator to stop attacks on civilians and step down after 42 years of iron-fisted rule. The European Union issued travel bans and an asset freeze against senior Libyan officials, and ordered an arms ...
US, Allies Pressure Gadhafi to Halt Libya Violence
By not in system - AOL NewsWASHINGTON -- The Obama administration threw its weight Thursday behind a European effort to expel Libya from the U.N.'s top human rights body and said it was readying a larger sanctions package against Moammar Gadhafi's regime that it will take up with allies in the coming days. President Barack Obama consulted with the leaders of Britain, France and Italy, while officials said Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton would help coordinate the larger international strategy to stop the violence in Libya at a meeting of foreign policy chiefs next week in Switzerland. As an initial punishment ...
Switzerland Freezes Assets Tied to Mubarak
By not in system - AOL NewsGENEVA - The Swiss government on Friday froze any assets belonging to former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak or his family in Switzerland. Foreign Ministry spokesman Lars Knuchel said the order took effect immediately but gave no details on what bank accounts or other assets Mubarak or his family might have in Switzerland. Related Stories Mubarak Resigns; Egyptian Streets Erupt in Cheers Did Obama Help Oust Mubarak? Egypt's Mubarak: A Failed Model He spoke as pro-democracy demonstrators in Cairo were jubilantly celebrating the announcement that ...
Massive Police Search Launched for Missing Swiss Twins
By Theunis Bates - AOL NewsItalian, Swiss and French police are hunting for missing 6-year-old twin girls whose father committed suicide after abducting them. Canadian-born Matthias Schepp picked up Alessia and Livia on Jan. 28 from his ex-wife's home in the western Swiss lakeside village of St.-Sulpice. Police were alerted Jan. 31 when Schepp failed to take the girls to school, and on Thursday his body was found on train tracks near the town of Cerignola in the southern Italian province of Foggia, Agence France-Presse reported. Police have deployed 40 seachers with sniffer dogs around the twins' Swiss home, and a ...
Hunt Under Way for Missing Swiss Twins
By not in system - AOL NewsBERN, Switzerland - Police in Italy, Switzerland and France searched on Sunday for 6-year-old twin girls who disappeared after their father died in an apparent suicide. The body of Matthias Kaspar Schepp, 43, a Canadian-born resident of Switzerland, was found by a railway station near the southern Italian port city Bari shortly before 11 p.m. on Thursday, according to Swiss police in the canton (state) of Vaud. Forestry Police/AP Authorities in Italy, Switzerland and France searched on Sunday for 6-year-old twin girls Livia, left, and Alessia, right, after their father, a ...
Small Blast Rocks Hotel Near Site of Davos Economic Forum
By not in system - AOL NewsDAVOS, Switzerland -- A small blast shattered two windows but caused no injuries at a hotel near where top business and political leaders are attending the World Economic Forum, Swiss police said Thursday. The explosion happened in a storage room of the Posthotel Morosani shortly after 9 a.m. local time Thursday, regional police spokesman Thomas Hobi told the AP. He said federal prosecutors are investigating whether the blast has a criminal origin. The Forum said in a statement a firework in the back of the hotel was to blame. The hotel did not comment. The hotel is just over a mile from ...
Jean-Claude 'Baby Doc' Duvalier Detained: 5 Facts About Haiti's Ex-Dictator
By Mary Phillips-Sandy - AOL NewsFormer Haitian dictator Jean-Claude "Baby Doc" Duvalier was detained at a Port-au-Prince hotel by the Haitian National Police today, but it's not clear what charges he is facing. Duvalier has been living in exile in France since 1986, when he fled Haiti after a mass uprising. International human rights organizations, citing abuses that took place during his dictatorship, have called for his arrest. In a startling development, Duvalier returned to Haiti on Sunday. He offered no explanation for the sudden visit, but he held meetings with friends and associates, including relatives of Lt. Gen. ...
Secret Scientists Claim to Create Rain in Arab Desert
By Matthew Hall - AOL NewsA secret scientific program to control the weather has seen artificially created storms rain down on the Middle Eastern desert. Recent reports say Swiss scientists working for the ruler of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi last year successfully created 52 rainstorms in a usually arid region of the United Arab Emirates, using secret technology. Most of the storms were created in Al Ain, near Abu Dhabi, during July and August -- the height of summer when conditions are usually parched. Arnd Hemmersbach, Getty Images Two teams navigate through the Rub Al Kali Desert during the Abu Dhabi ...
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