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A series of bombings in
different parts of Pakistan
killed 103 persons on
Thursday, including 69
who died in a sectarian attack
on a billiard parlor in
the southwest city of
Quetta. Officials said the
blasts were the deadliest in
recent years in the country
and investigators said the
explosions were either the
work of the Taliban or
Baluch militants.
Think tank Heritage
Foundation said on Thursday
the Asia-Pacific region
was the home of the
world’s freest economies,
where governments are
least involved in trade and
labor markets and excessive
spending. Hong
Kong, Singapore, Australia,
and New Zealand
took the four top spots,
followed by Switzerland,
Canada, Chile, Mauritius,
and Denmark. The U.S.
was tenth.
In the grip of a cold
wave in recent days, the
Holy Land got its worst
snowstorm in 20 years on
Thursday as stormy
weather moved in and
dumped up to a foot of
snow across parts of the
Mideast, snarling traffic
from Egypt to Israel,
Lebanon, Jordan, and
Turkey. At least eight persons
died in the region, according
to the Red Cross.
The mayor of a small
village in Quebec said on
Thursday that 11 killer
whales, which were locked
in by ice in a Canadian bay,
swam to freedom on
Wednesday, when a
change in current opened
a path to open water.
Petah Inukpuk said villagers
believed the new
moon activated the current
and created a narrow
channel that stretched 25
miles out into ice-free
water of Hudson Bay.
According to Europe’s
Jet Airliner Crash Data
Evaluation Centre on
Thursday, the world’s
safest airline is not one
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from the United States.
Rather, it is Finnair, which
has not lost an aircraft or
experienced a fatality in
the past 30 years. The carrier
topped second place
Air New Zealand, third
place Cathay Pacific, and
fourth place Emirates.
Among the worst: Sky-
West, Turkish Airlines,
Korean Air, Air India, and
China Airlines.
According to the National
Research Council
and the U.S. Institute of
Medicine on Thursday,
Americans live shorter
lives than people in other
wealthy nations and suffer
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more violent deaths as
well. Of the world’s 17
wealthiest countries,
Americans had the least
chance of living to 50
years.
National Geographic
journalist Paul Salopek announced
on Thursday that
he would be undertaking
possibly the longest walk
ever: a planned 21,000mile
trek starting in Africa
and tracing man’s migration
route to Chile. Salopek
said he would
tromple through the Middle
East, across Asia, a hop
to Alaska, down the western
U.S., and then on to
Mexico, Central, and
South America, a walkabout
that would take
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And a study released on
Thursday by Charles University
in Prague recently
found that brown-eyed
persons were more trustworthy
than blue-eyed
people. However, lead
study author Karel Kleisner
said he believed it was
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trustworthiness but
face shape associated with
brown eyes (narrow with
big eyes and broader
mouths) rather than blue
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farther apart).