A 10-foot high wave of water crashes into the crowded neighbourhood
submerging hundreds of houses

    * Associated Press
    * guardian.co.uk, Friday 27 March 2009 04.24 GMT

A rescuer searches for flood victims

A rescuer searches for flood victims on the outskirts of Jakarta where a
dam burst killing 34 people and flooding hundreds of houses.
REUTERS/Dadang Tri

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US Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner shocked global markets by revealing that Washington is "quite open" to Chinese proposals for the gradual development of a global reserve currency run by the International Monetary Fund.

By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard Last Updated: 8:14AM GMT 27 Mar 2009

The dollar plunged instantly against the euro, yen, and sterling as the comments flashed across trading screens. David Bloom, currency chief at HSBC, said the apparent policy shift amounts to an earthquake in geo-finance.

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By ISHTIAQ MAHSUD
The Associated Press
Thursday, March 26, 2009; 1:57 AM

DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan -- A suicide bomber struck a restaurant in
volatile northwest Pakistan on Thursday, killing at least 11 people
including militants opposed to the country's top Taliban commander,
intelligence officials said.

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March 26, 2009 - 9:54AM

Stunned astronomers watched a car-sized asteroid explode into a brilliant meteor shower as it crashed into Earth's atmosphere, and then wandered into a Sudan desert to pick up the pieces, a study released Wednesday reported.

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