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Hurricane Paloma made landfall near Santa Cruz del Sur late Saturday as an extremely dangerous Category 4 storm, but ... soon weakened to a tropical storm with winds of 70 mph according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami.

Russia_sub_accident

At least 20 people are dead following an accident aboard a Russian submarine in the Sea of Japan. ... Russian President Dmitri Medvedev has ordered a thorough investigation.

Culinary demonstration helps promote Austrian tourism

The atmosphere was upbeat when the cheerful Beata Pfeiffer appeared and put on her apron to show her cooking ... knowhow. Even before she began working with her pots and pans, she informally explained that Austrian cooking has a history of Hungarian and German influences. Krautfleckerl, a famous Austrian dish of pasta and cabbage with bacon, was what Beata Pfeiffer with her Hungarian background casually offered to demonstrate first to an international group gathered at the Cooking Studio at the Eslite Bookstore Xinyi last week. Pallas Chen coordinated the activity.

stevens_juror

The juror who left Sen. Ted Stevens trial actually left to attend a horse race in California. The juror ... had told the court she left the proceedings because her father had died.

fossett_bones

Authorities have confirmed that the bones discovered last week are those of late adventurer Steve Fossett. Fossett disappeared in ... September 2007. The wreckage of his plane was found last month.

day_of_dead

Family members and friends gathered at graveyards across Mexico on Saturday night, in remembrance of their departed loved ones, ... as part of the country's annual Day of the Dead ceremonies.

Obit_terkel

Studs Terkel, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author whose best-selling oral histories celebrated the common people has died in Chicago. He ... was 96.