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Holocaust survivor Esther Senot made it out of Auschwitz alive Holocaust survivor Esther Senot made it out of Auschwitz alive

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Survivors strive to ensure young do not forget Auschwitz

On a frosty Polish winter evening, 96-year-old Esther Senot told the 100 or so shivering students at Auschwitz-Birkenau how she was a teenager much...

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A pilot flies next to another aircraft from Thailand's Royal Rainmaking department spraying icy water in the air outside Bangkok in a bid to reduce pollution

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Ice in the sky: Thailand’s fight against air pollution

Flying through Bangkok’s cloudless blue skies, a small aircraft sprays a white mist over a thick haze of pea soup smog below. This is...

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Smoke belches from the Dora power station, one of several plants that residents blame for poor air quality in Baghdad

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Smog chokes Baghdad as oil-fired factories belch out smoke

Iraqi grocery store owner Abu Amjad al-Zubaidi is grappling with asthma, a condition his doctor blames on emissions from a nearby power plant that...

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Twitter faces critical earnings test

Twitter releases its first earnings report since a wildly successful stock offering on Wednesday, in what is being seen as a critical test for...

February 4, 2014

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Virgin Atlantic pulls out of Australia

British billionaire Richard Branson’s Virgin Atlantic said on Wednesday it was axing Sydney to Hong Kong services due to increasing costs, leaving British Airways...

February 4, 2014
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