Swiss open world's longest land tunnel
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With a ceremony that went off like a classic Swiss timepiece, officials Friday inaugurated the world's longest overland tunnel, a 21-mile-long rail link under the Alps meant to ease highway traffic jams in the mountainous country.
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Jacques Chirac, the French president, opened the bridge which is in the Tarn Valley in the south west of the country. The four-lane bridge is taller than the Eiffel Tower at 343 metres high and 1.5 miles long.
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President Jacques Chirac inaugurated the world&#39;s highest bridge Tuesday, a creation taller than the Eiffel Tower, longer then the Champs Elysees
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A bridge officially designated the tallest in the world was inaugurated by President Jacques Chirac in southern France Tuesday.
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President Jacques Chirac inaugurated the world's highest bridge on Tuesday, a creation taller than the Eiffel Tower, longer than the Champs Elysees and designed to end a traffic bottleneck in southern France.
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President Jacques Chirac inaugurated the world&#39;s highest bridge on Tuesday, a creation taller than the Eiffel Tower, longer than the Champs Elysees
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It opens as the longest highway tunnel ever built, and traveling between Switzerland and Italy just got a lot easier. Sometimes, boring is good.
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CBC SPORTS ONLINE - It was a 1-2-3 sweep for Austrian skiers at the World Cup super-G in Val Gardena, Italy on Friday. Skiing on the relatively straight 2.4-kilometre Saslong course, Michael Walchhofer was
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NE China water diversion tunnel to set new world record    SHENYANG, Sept. 19 (Xinhua) -- A water diversion tunnel under construction in northeast China is set to become the world's longest manmade tunnel, and is currently less than four kilometers short of the record.
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BIRMENSDORF, Switzerland - Swiss scientists have discovered what they believe is Europe's biggest fungus, stretching wide under an Alpine forest.    The Honey Mushroom - also known by its Latin species name Armillaria ostoyae - was found lurking in the Engadine national park in the eastern Swiss Alps, said the Federal Institute for Forest, Snow and Landscape Research...
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Piercing the sky above the hills of southern France, a roadway bridge hailed as the tallest in the world was officially inaugurated yesterday.
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Scientists in Zurich have developed a computer programme that could help preserve Switzerland's alpine landscape while at the same time promoting tourism.
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Par of the century. Best par in history. Unbelievable. And that's just what the other team was saying about the magic act Laura Davies conjured up on the 16th hole at the Solheim Cup yesterday in Halmstad, Sweden.
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Tour de France leader Fabian Cancellara has a message for coach Bjarne Riis: Thank you, and wish you were here. The Swiss rider and his CSC teammates popped open champagne after his opportunistic victory in Tuesday's wind-swept third stage, the longest of the three-week race. Cancellara extended his overall lead as cycling's showcase event left Belgium and returned home to France.
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A Russian cosmonaut set a new record for the longest golf  drive in history today after hitting a lightweight ball while tethered to the outside of  the International Space Station (ISS).
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Engineers have begun construction of Switzerland's first underground railway system in Lausanne, aimed at better connecting the north and south of the city.
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As air force jets screamed overhead, French President Jacques Chirac inaugurated the world's tallest bridge, a stunning masterpiece of engineering that will carry drivers 270 metres above ground.