World's longest beach hidden in Bangladesh
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Walking on the world's longest stretch of beach on a balmy Saturday morning, one would expect to find the shimmering sands filled with sunbathing tourists and the calm blue sea with swimmers.
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Bangladesh's Muhammad Yunus and the Grameen Bank receive the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize.
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The world's oldest fossilized webbed footprints of birds, believed to be 110 million years old, have been found on a South Korean island.
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By TOFAYEL AHMED  COX'S BAZAR, Bangladesh - Hundreds of endangered sea turtles have been found dead along Bangladesh's coast in the past two weeks, triggering concerns about pollution and local fishing practices, an official said Thursday.
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PENANG, Malaysia -- On any normal Sunday, the public beaches at Batu Ferringhi on this island state are filled with a mix of tourists and residents seeking refuge from the equatorial sun. But yesterday's Boxing Day holiday swelled the usual numbers with jet skiers, swimmers, boaters, and paragliders. No one had any idea, or warning, that a giant tidal wave, ...
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By Ryan Burr, The News Herald, Panama City, Fla.  Mar. 6--PANAMA CITY -- Beach water-quality advisories for high levels of bacteria have been posted at Carl Gray Park for 17 weeks since March 2006, making it the most frequently "noticed" beach in Bay County.
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BAN NAMKHEM, Thailand -- This fishing village north of Thailand's Khao Lak beach no longer exists. Maitri Sayput, 47, thinks she is one of its few survivors.
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Bangladesh goes all out to find a naval officer missing after a storm kills at least 64 people in the Bay of Bengal.
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KHAO LAK, Thailand  - Rescuers saved a rare  dolphin swept over a Thai beach by the tsunami which devastated  shores around the Indian Ocean, but failed to find her calf in  a filthy lake left behind by the giant wave.
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Indian conglomerate Tata Group has signed a delayed deal for a planned &#36;2 billion investment in Bangladesh -- the biggest single investment in the country.
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A Sumatran fisherman was discovered barely alive under his beached boat Sunday &#151; the first survivor found in three days &#151; but with tens of thousands still missing in crushed seaside settlements and in the flotsam washing the shores of the Indian Ocean rescuers turned full attention to getting food and water to the living.
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By DILIP GANGULY  CALCUTTA, India - Poachers seeking to bag a Royal Bengal tiger in the Sunderbans reserve are encountering a unique new security measure to keep them away: hundreds of crocodiles that have been released in the mangrove forest.
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A stork called Max has achieved a world record after spending more than seven years under satellite surveillance, the longest ever duration for an animal, scientists in Switzerland said.
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Pakistan Times Foreign Correspondent. TONGI (Bangladesh): A three-day mass gathering of Muslims, considered the largest annual Islamic event after the Hajj, began Friday in Bangladesh.
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Bangladesh end a four-year wait with a 226-run win over Zimbabwe in Chittagong.
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A new-look India restricted Bangladesh to 229-9 despite a maiden half-century from Aftab Ahmed in the second one-day international here.
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&quot;Seven more are still missing in the area,&quot; Penang Civil Defence Director Mohamad Johari Mohamad Taufik told Reuters. 3-metre high (9-ft) waves hit the coast from around 1:30 pm on Sunday.