THE TORRENT
PART ONE
I
“Your friends are waiting for you at the Club.
They saw you for a moment only, this morning; they’ll
be wanting to hear all your stories about life in
Madrid.&...
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A private dive team has discovered the wreckage of an American ship that sank off the south-central Alaska coast 139 years ago. The Torrent sank in Cook Inlet in 1868 after tidal currents rammed it...
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A mix of mud, acidic water and rocks tore down the slope of a volcano in New Zealand on Sunday, bursting through a 23-foot wall of volcanic ash and sand built up in an eruption 12 years ago.The mud...
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A Sri Lankan court convicted two men and sentenced them to death for killing a woman who survived the first waves of the 2004 tsunami but then was pushed back into the sea by the pair after they sn...
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China raised interest rates Friday for the fifth time this year amid signs that repeated attempts to cool the sizzling economy so far have had little effect.The interest rate on a one-year loan wil...
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Russia dispatched an 11-ship aircraft carrier group to the Mediterranean Sea, the defense minister said Wednesday — part of what he said was an effort to resume regular Russian naval patrols ...
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Before the torrent of media and flashing lights arrives, the five brothers of B5 anxiously wait in the intimately decorated lounge of Sean "P. Diddy" Combs' Daddy's House Recording Studio, flipping...
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STOCKHOLM, Jan 27 (Reuters) - Sweden plans this week to
charge the people running Pirate Bay, one of the world's most
visited Web sites, with being accessories in breaking copyright
law. Pirate B...
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Deep underground, an unseen crisis is threatening New Orleans' already troubled recovery.The city's 3,200-mile system of water and sewer lines _ old, leaky and in need of improvements long before H...
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BEIJING, Oct 22 (Reuters) - Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao,
re-elected to the Communist Party's Politburo Standing Committee
on Monday, fought off purges and toiled for years in the
backwoods before r...
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Johannesburg (dpa) - With just two days to go to the most divisive
leadership race in the history of South Africa's ruling African
National Congress (ANC), appeals for Presi...
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The Torrent
Shipwreck found off Alaskan coast
