Tree nuptials offer solace to troubled Indian town
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Hundreds of people are flocking to a remote Indian town to offer prayers to two trees that were "married" off in a bid to keep evil spirits at bay, officials said on Wednesday.
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India&#39;s dwindling aboriginal population in the remote Andaman and Nicobar islands is safe as most lived in jungles, far away from the coast hit by a devastating
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THE OLD Christmas carolâs âlittle townâ is now a city larger than Charleston, and itâsa depressing place. Four years ago, more than 91,000 tourists visited in a year to see Bethlehemâs religious
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By Courtney Flynn, Chicago Tribune  Jun. 8--In the eyes of a Northbrook developer, one centuries-old white oak tree on a wooded knoll may be all that stands in the way of a subdivision on land that has been fallow for years.
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"Is it this old woman who's  getting married?" asked Kastury Ghosh, a bridal shop manager in  the west Indian city of Jodhpur, as she peered over her glasses  at a picture of Elizabeth Hurley.
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The city of Jodhpur in western India prepares for the wedding of British actress Elizabeth Hurley and Arun Nayar.
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Mallika Sherawat has purchased a piece of land in this small town of Haryana, raising speculation that the Bollywood glamour girl may live here when she gives up her film career.
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In  these  times of turmoil, terror and tumult, the Taj Mahal stands as a   testimony  to love.
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By Dania Akkad, The Monterey County Herald, Calif.  Jun. 9--Neighbors of one of the last pieces of undeveloped land in the city of Monterey are concerned that the stretch of dense pine forest along Highway 1 may be replaced with a high-density development.
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VARANASI, India -- With her eyes closed, Ramedi cupped the murky water of the Ganges River in her hands, lifted them toward the sun, and prayed for her husband, her 15 grandchildren, and her bad hip. She, like India's other 800 million Hindus, has absolute faith that the river she calls Ganga Ma can heal.
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JODHPUR, India  - Dozens of police guarded the airport where actress Elizabeth Hurley was due to leave the desert city of Jodhpur on Saturday after a brief battle between reporters and security guards overshadowed her Hindu wedding.
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By Deborah S. Morris, Newsday, Melville, N.Y.  Feb. 8--In the end, the community came together to preserve its past with an eye toward the future.
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By Matt Christensen, The Times-News, Twin Falls, Idaho  Mar. 7--JEROME -- It takes a village to raise a child, they say.   In Magic Valley, it'll take a community -- and a native plant -- to save a dwindling species.
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TIKRIT, Iraq, Dec. 25  -- The roaring bonfire licked the dark sky as Jennifer and Jeremiah Pray leaned closer to the pulsing warmth. Their faces glowing, their eyes bright, they relished their first Christmas Eve together in more than three years of marriage, not to mention the brief respite from the war going on around them.
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A generation ago, a battle was successfully waged on this rugged island to preserve what was left of its primeval forests, home to giant trees millennia old. Now tourism spawned by this natural heritage is threatening its survival.
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An uprooted tree lies on the beach as damaged buildings of Indian Air Force officers, where more than 100 people reportedly were killed by tidal waves, is seen in background, in Nicobar, in India&#39;s southeastern Andaman and Nicobar Islands, Wednesday, Dec.
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A playground is to be shipped from County Durham to Africa in a project to improve life in a cluster of villages.   Tree Appeal is a company based at High Etherley, near Bishop Auckland, which helps firms plant trees as part of their environmental policies.