Drought-hit US town learns to live without water
In front of the local fire station, Pete Rodriguez stands next to his pick-up truck, filling about a dozen buckets from a vast tank.
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Australia PM rebuffs Booker Prize winner criticism
Prime Minister Tony Abbott on Thursday brushed off criticism about Australia’s environmental policies by newly crowned Booker Prize winner Richard Flanagan, saying the country had “a very, very strong” record.
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Rare comet fly-by of Mars on Sunday
A fast-moving comet is about to fly by Mars for a one-in-a-million-year encounter with the Red Planet, photographed and documented by a flurry of spacecraft, NASA said.
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World vows Ebola action as second US case stirs fears
World leaders declared the Ebola outbreak the worst global health emergency in years, as President Barack Obama vowed a “much more aggressive” response to the spreading virus, which has killed nearly 4,500 people.
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