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A rapidly growing population and booming construction have led to a severe water shortage in...

HEADLINE: Sewage tribute for George W. Bush?

CAPTION: Voters in San Francisco will decide in November whether to rename a wastewater treatment plant after President George W. Bush. As AP Correspondent Haven Daley reports,...

AP Television

Thai Elephant Conservation Centre, Lampang, Thailand - April 21-22,
2011
1. Various of autistic children riding an elephant at the Thai Elephant...

AP Television

Hawaii Volcanoes National Park, Big Island, Hawaii - September 4th,
2008
1. Wide shot of Hilo facing Mauna Kea in the b
ackground.
2. Pan down in a...

English/Nat

Humanitarian organisations say health conditions in Iraq have declined dramatically since the international trade sanctions were imposed seven years
ago.
The...

Nats of birds on Lake Hermitage

THIS LOUISIANA FISHING VILLAGE – ONCE SURROUNDED BY MILES OF LUSH MARSH AND CENTURIES-OLD LIVE OAKS – TODAY JUST A SHELL OF THE...

1. Pan of flood water blocking roads leading to Thatta

2. More of flood
water
3. Wide of Turkish medical camp ne
ar Thatta
4. Close of banner reading (English): "Turkey medical camp for fl
ood...

The Philippines are "bothered" by Chinese ships and their movements in disputed seas, President Benigno Aquino III said in Manila on Thursday.

Aquino made the announcement after seeing surveillance photos of ships...

SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Baiyunde (no last name), farmer:

"Every day the smell is very strong. I feel dizzy, I throw
up."
SOUNDBITE (Mandarin) Baiyunde (no last name
), farmer:
"Will they...

Wildlife wardens in India-administered Kashmir are beginning the exhaustive task of counting the migratory birds which call their wetlands home.

The annual census is part of a global monitoring...

Dutch King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima attended a seminar of Innovative Solutions for Creative Economy in Seoul on Tuesday, and said the two countries, South Korea and the Netherlands, could help each other...

An international whaling conference voted on Thursday against Japan's highly criticised plans to resume whaling in the Antarctic next year, but Japan vowed to go ahead anyway.

A resolution adopted at the...

STORY: In response to increasingly violent confrontations, President

Fujimori of Peru recently issued a decree suspending logging r
ights
in the forest of San Ignacio. During the past two years th
e...

Baghdad's Karradah neighbourhood, Iraq

1. Wide pan to destroyed buildings (blown up last Thursday att
ack)
2. Mid pan of destroye
d building
3. Close up of extensive destruction zoom out...

U.S. officials on Thursday destroyed more than 6 tons of confiscated ivory tusks, carvings and jewelry _ the bulk of the U.S. "blood ivory" stockpile _ and urged other nations to follow suit to fight...

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Wildlife experts from across the world announced new measures Wednesday to protect various kinds of endangered species at the conclusion of a key international conference in Geneva.

Mumbai, Sept 25 2008

1. Welcome banner of the Green Building Congress
2008
2. Left to right pan from the audience t
o the dais
3. Niranjan Hiranandani, Managing...

Kariega Game Reserve, Southern Cape - March 2, 2012

1. Female rhino lying in pool of blood and Will Fowlds enters
frame
2. Male rhino survivor...

HEADLINE: Obama to use 'every resource' to help oil spill

CAPTION: President Barack Obama dispatched Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and Environmental...

Experimental water ATMs are bringing relief to India's capital as it faces water shortages and a pollution...

AP Television

Hatzeva, Arava Desert, Southern Israel - January 19,
2011
1. Wide of Ara
va Desert
2. Mid of Arava
Desert and tree
3....

FOR CLEAN VERSION SEE STORY NUMBER: 4040579Orange County Sheriff Jerry Demings says some 50 people are now "working on recovering the body" of a 2-year-old boy snatched by an alligator at Walt Disney World.He says the boy's family "will...

Standing beneath the forest-green peaks of the Sierra Nevada, President Barack Obama drew a connection Wednesday between conservation efforts and stopping global warming, describing the two environmental challenges as inseparably...