Dallas Abbott

The Fenambosy chevron, one of four near the tip of Madagascar, is 600 feet high and three miles from the ocean.

At the southern end of Madagascar lie four enormous wedge-shaped sediment deposits, called chevrons, that are composed of material from the ocean floor. Each covers twice the area of Manhattan with sediment as deep as the Chrysler Building is high.
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Posted: 8:41:09 PM  

Human rights groups on Tuesday were filing a lawsuit in Germany calling for former US Secretary of Defence Donald Rumsfeld and other American officials to be investigated for war crimes.
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Posted: 8:30:34 PM  

The Food and Drug Administration in the U.S. (FDA) is recommending that patients who take Tamiflu be closely monitored for signs of abnormal behaviour.

The announcement is the latest update on the drug which is currently the first line of defence should a bird flu pandemic erupt, and comes as a result of 12 deaths and psychiatric symptoms among users in Japan.

Of the 103 reported new cases of delirium, suicidal behaviour and other mental problems between August 2005 and July 2006, three cases were fatal.

Ninety five of the cases were apparently Japanese children treated with the drug.
The agency's review found that of the 12 deaths there was one suicide, four cases of sudden death and four cases of cardiac arrest.
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Posted: 8:27:51 PM  

The nights and early morning hours of November 17-19 mark the return of the Leonid meteor shower to the skies of Earth. Will it be worth your while to get outside and take a look?
Well, that depends on which expert you listen to and where you live.

For the most part, this year's Leonid's display should be a pretty typical meteor shower. Just days away from New Moon, the sky will be free of moonlight so viewers should be able to see as many as 20 faint, fast-moving meteors per hour during its peak (the evening of November 17, early morning of November 18).

However, unlike a typical meteor shower, astronomers are predicting an unusual "outburst" of meteor activity late November 18 - early November 19.
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