Fernando Gomez, 35, a resident of east London and a drum maker by profession, who had been admitted in Homerton University Hospital after falling ill from inhaling anthrax spores while handling imported animal skins at his workshop, has died after more than a week in intensive care unit.
Taipei - Negotiators met Tuesday to prepare signing four pacts on expanding trade ties across the Taiwan Strait, in the first high-level talks with China held on Taiwan since 1949.
China's chief negotiator Chen Yunlin and his Taiwan counterpart Chiang Ping-kun, who met at the Grand Hotel in Taipei, are expected to sign the agreements Tuesday afternoon.
They cover direct sea links, the expansion of weekend charter flights between the China and Taiwan to daily charter flights, direct postal services and food safety.
Fort Lauderdale, Florida - Celebrating Christmas in Florida is tricky. Americans' love of kitsch calls for elaborate decorations, red-and-green garlands and blinking Santa Clauses with reindeer teams on front lawns.
Special radio stations play blizzards of carols starting around Advent: Gospel choirs, Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, etc., croon tunes like "Let It Snow!"
Dortmund, Germany - The town of Nordhorn in north-western Germany is set amidst a landscape of charming farmhouses and old oak trees. But occasionally, modern technology is visible in the form of crude oil pumps scattered across the land.
Motorists holidaying in the region will experience the old and the new travelling around Nordhorn and anyone with a little more time on their hands can drive across the border to the Netherlands to experience van Gogh country.
Oil pumps are one of the region's main features. Visitors can find out more about them with the help of the new electronic Dynamic Audio Geo Information System for Tourists (DAGIT) which consists of a small computer attached to a car's radio.
A $4.4 billion upgrade program has been approved by the San Francisco officials to safeguard the Hetch Hetchy, the Bay Area's largest drinking water system from drought or a catastrophic earthquake.
Both San Francisco's planning and public utilities commissions, despite opposition from some environmental groups have approved the upgrade though they have put off plans to divert more water from the Tuolumne River for another decade.
Santa Cruz de La Palma, Spain - Volcanic landscapes, jungle-like laurel forests, lava deserts and thick pinewood: La Palma is not only the greenest island of the Canaries, it's also the most diverse.
A network of trails totalling 1,000 kilometres on La Palma, nicknamed Isla Bonita makes it a hiker's paradise.
Fernando Gomez, 35, a resident of east London and a drum maker by profession, who had been admitted in Homerton University Hospital after falling ill from inhaling anthrax spores while handling imported animal skins at his workshop, has died after more than a week in intensive care unit. 
Taipei - Negotiators met Tuesday to prepare signing four pacts on expanding trade ties across the Taiwan Strait, in the first high-level talks with China held on Taiwan since 1949.
Fort Lauderdale, Florida - Celebrating Christmas in Florida is tricky. Americans' love of kitsch calls for elaborate decorations, red-and-green garlands and blinking Santa Clauses with reindeer teams on front lawns.
A $4.4 billion upgrade program has been approved by the San Francisco officials to safeguard the Hetch Hetchy, the Bay Area's largest drinking water system from drought or a catastrophic earthquake. 
Santa Cruz de La Palma, Spain - Volcanic landscapes, jungle-like laurel forests, lava deserts and thick pinewood: La Palma is not only the greenest island of the Canaries, it's also the most diverse.
