Between a Northern Rock and a Hard Place
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The city's soccer messiah has returned to bring renewed optimism to the club's faithful followers. But will it coincide with an upturn in fortunes for the beleaguered bank too?
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The border region between Chad and Sudan must be one of the harshest and most remote environments on earth. There is no ideal place to have a refugee crisis, of course, but as locations go this is surely among the worst.
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Putting the recent collapse in perspective.
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By Jim Carney, The Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio  Jan. 31--Nick Garbinsky wants to study rocks and earthquakes when he grows up but maybe he should consider water currents instead.
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Nunatak, an unknown rock band from  Antarctica, is about to become famous.
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Life with the 2nd Battalion, 87th Infantry Regiment in southern Afghanistan is a battle not only against a stealthy and stubborn enemy but against some of the earth&#039;s harshest natural elements.
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"Field research" projects often require scientists to endure discomfort and danger to get where they need to be, but not many can trump this summer's expedition to what may be the world's most inaccessible human fossil site, a cave in the foothills of Romania's Carpathian Mountains.
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Â· More bad weather on way for Wales and MidlandsÂ· Worst of rain stays away from battered north
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The steelmaker isn't having a blast, but it is buttressed against adversity.
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The buyout for the ice manufacturer is on the rocks.
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This old mining town in the northeast of England used to be a grimy industrial wasteland. Now it's becoming a gleaming cultural center and -- who would have thought it? -- tourist destination
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Barren and uninhabited, Hans Island is very hard to find on a map. Yet these days the Frisbee-shaped rock in the Arctic is much in demand -- so much so that Canada and Denmark have both staked their claim to it ... via Ann Arbor News
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The bigger they are, the harder they could fall.
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LONGYEARBYEN, Svalbard  - In a cavern under a remote Arctic mountain, Norway will soon begin squirreling away the world's crop seeds in case of disaster.
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Northern Rockâs need for emergency funding represents a broadening of the effects of the global financial crisis.
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Management is optimistic, but this is a tough environment in which to gain a good foothold.
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Comment is free: Polly Toynbee: There is a north-south divide in the reaction to floods; only when the rich are hit will prevention be pushed up the agenda.