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·      WORLD

The world health organization has concluded that exposure to diesel enginge exhaust “ is associated with an increased risk for lung cancer” and possibly also for bladder cancer.

·      ANTARTICAR

Fossilized pollen and spores recovered from seabed sediment reveal that the Antarctica once supported palms and near-tropical forests. During the so-called “ Eocene green-house period”. Winters were mild and “essentially frost-free” and temperatures at the poles were not vastly different from those at the equator.

·      EL SALVADOR

In mid-april 2012, government officials heralded El Salvador’s  first murder-free day in almost three years. Plagued by drug related violence, in 2011 the country had a homicide rate of 60 per 100,000

_one of the worst in the world