Saturday, August 7, 2010

Weekend World Watch: Floating away

* Greenland: A massive ice sheet measuring around 100 square miles has broken off Greenland’s Petermann Glacier according to researchers.

* U.S.: A spokesman for the WikiLeaks website said that they will publish more classified U.S. military documents on top of files leaked last month.

* Pakistan: More rain is expected to hit flood-ravaged areas that have left roughly 1500 people dead and millions of victims affected.

* China: At least 61 miners have died in accidents so far this month including 16 in the latest incident on Friday.

Image – BBC News
Online Sources- Bloomberg, New York Daily News, MSNBC, UPI

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