emeltauchira

emeltauchira — 2009-01-31T02:19:10+09:00

Abnormalities on Triceratops fossils suggest that the beasts fought each other with their horns.

Total deposits with authorised institutions rose 2.6% in December, with Hong Kong dollar deposits up 2.5% as the increases in demand and savings deposits exceeded the fall in time deposits, the Monetary Authority says. Foreign-currency deposits also grew 2.8%. Renminbi deposits, which account for about 2.1% of foreign-currency deposits, fell 9.5% to RMB56.1 billion. A $40.3 billion surplus was recorded in the Government's financial results for December, bringing a net surplus of $30.9 billion up to the end of the month. Spending for the first nine months of the financial year amounted to $205.4 billion, with revenue of $236.3 billion.

For an ongoing jaguar census, "spy camera" traps in the Amazon rain forest caught 75 jaguar pictures—and one very rare short-eared dog.

Polling stations were open across Iraq today amid tight security for a landmark provincial election, the nation's first ballot since 2005.

The Archdiocese of Chicago announced Friday it would shutter two more Catholic schools. St. Priscilla on Chicago's Northwest Side and St. Beatrice in Schiller Park (both of them preschool through eighth grade) will close in June. The buildings might reopen next fall as sites for "learning and evangelization," archdiocesan schools Supt. Mary Paul McCaughey said.