The Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Thursday approved a construction and operating license for new nuclear power reactors for the first time since 1978, giving Southern Co. the green light to build two new units at its existing Vogtle site in Georgia. Read full article > >

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NRC approves construction of new nuclear power reactors in Georgia

Gingrich may shift focus to Southern states in March.

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97 Percent Chance Mitt Wins in FL

At the La Brea Tar Pits, fossils preserved in tar provide a time capsule of the creatures that roamed Southern California 10,000 to 40,000 years ago.

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Remarkable Creatures: At La Brea Tar Pits, Relics From Long Before Freeways

A helicopter from NATO's peacekeeping mission in Afghanistan crashed late Thursday in the southern province of Helmand, killing six members of the force, allied military spokesmen reported.

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6 Marines, 4 French killed in Afghanistan

Change has come to barbecue. The once-sleepy Southern comfort food is now an American culinary juggernaut. Scads of new restaurants have opened, the competition circuit continues to grow and sales of backyard grills show no sign of slowing down. Read full article > >

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Smoke Signals: The future of grilled meats

Howard McKeon and Elton Gallegly, both Republicans from Southern California, were on a list of House members who received special loans through a Countrywide Financial program.

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Scientists find prodigious numbers of a new crab species on the Southern Ocean floor that they have nicknamed “The Hoff” crab because its hairy chest.

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‘The Hoff’ crab is new ocean find

China reports its first human case of the deadly H5N1 bird flu virus for 18 months, in the southern city of Shenzhen.

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A mass burial is being organised in the Philippines for scores killed by flash floods, which left at least 650 dead on the southern island of Mindanao.

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Mass burial for Philippines dead

Rescuers are continuing to search for survivors after floods killed more than 400 people and left many others missing in the southern Philippines.

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Philippines steps up flood rescue

MANILA, Philippines — The death toll from storm-triggered flash floods in the southern Philippines has risen to more than 120, with more than 100 people missing, officials said Saturday. Mayor Lawrence Cruz of Iligan city said 79 bodies were recovered Saturday after more than 12 hours of continuous rain from Tropical Storm Washi swelled a river and sent muddy floodwaters cascading down to his city from nearby mountains. Read full article > >

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Storm-triggered flash floods kill more than 120 people in southern Philippines, dozens missing

SANAA, Yemen — Several al-Qaida militants escaped early Monday from a prison in the southern Yemeni port city of Aden, officials said, tunneling their way out in the second such spectacular jailbreak this year. A prison officer said at least 10 convicts escaped through an up to 130 feet (40 meter) long tunnel, which took the inmates from under the western side of the Aden prison to near a petrol station outside the prison walls. Read full article > >

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The government should do more to monitor the finances of England’s care home companies if another crisis like Southern Cross is to be avoided, MPs say.

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MEXICALI, Mexico — Arrests of illegal migrants trying to cross the southern U.S. border have plummeted to levels not seen since the early 1970s, according to tallies released by the Department of Homeland Security last week, a historic shift that could reshape the debate over immigration reform. The Border Patrol apprehended 327,577 illegal crossers along the U.S.-Mexico border in fiscal year 2011, which ended Sept. 30, numbers not seen since Richard Nixon was president, and a precipitous drop from the peak in 2000 when 1.6 million unauthorized migrants were caught. More than 90 percent of the migrants apprehended on the southwest border are Mexican. Read full article > >

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Colombia’s left-wing Farc rebels kill four hostages after troops approach the camp in the southern Caqueta region – but a fifth escapes alive.

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