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Volcanic rock floats to New Zealand coast
In this Thursday, Aug. 9, 2012 photo released by New Zealand Defence Force, pumice rocks are shown at an unidentified location after the rocks were collected from an area of floating pumice southwest of Raoul island, off New Zealand's coast. Scientists said the rocks likely swept up in an eruption by an underwater volcano.
gredient in concrete, polishes and scrubbing cleaners, and it is also used to stone-wash jeans and exfoliate skin.
WELLINGTON, New Zealand A mass of small volcanic rocks nearly the size of Belgium has been discovered floating off the coast of New Zealand.
Associated Press
The stretch of golf ball-sized pumice rocks was first spotted this week by a Royal New Zealand Air Force plane about 1,000 kilometers (about 620 miles) northeast of Auckland. The rocks stretch for about 26,000 square kilometers, or about 10,000 square miles.
A Navy船 took scientists to the rocks Thursday night. Naval Lt. Tim Oscar said the rocks appeared a brilliant white under a spotlight, like a giant ice shelf.
Pumice is made from lava and water and is very lightweight, so it poses no danger to ships. Pumice has a variety of uses. It is an in-
He said it's the "weirdest thing" he's seen in 18 years at sea.
Scientists said the rocks likely spewed up in an eruption by an underwater volcano. They don't believe the eruption is connected to the onshore ash eruption this week of another volcano, Mount Tongariro.
The New Zealand Defence Force said the mass of rocks stretches 250 nautical miles by 30 nautical miles.
Mob locks Egyptian leaders in hospital
employee responsible for the village's main source of tap water.
Kandil said a medical team collected samples of the water the villagers say is polluted in order to determine whether it was the cause of the sickness.
Water and food poisoning are common in Egypt, mainly because of poor oversight, deteriorating public services, and mushrooming slums and residential buildings outside government control across the country.
AFRICA
CAIRO — Villagers briefly locked the Egyptian health minister and a provincial governor inside a hospital room Tuesday after allegedly contaminated water caused hundreds of residents to fall ill, officials said.
Egypt's state-run news agency
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A hospital in the Nile Delta province of Menoufa, 65 kilometers (40 miles) north of Cairo, admitted dozens of people with severe cases of diarrhea, vomiting and high fevers, Health Ministry official Amkandil said.
MENA said the number of sick people reached more than 400.
After an hour, the two were released with police intervention. Mustafa ordered closure of illegal and unlicensed sources of water. Helal suspended government em-
During a visit by Health Minister Mohammed Mustafa and Gov. Ashraf Helal to the hospital Tuesday, angry family members held up bottles of brackish-looking water and chanted, "drink it." Then they locked the two officials in a room.
Woman strangles neighbor with brassiere
MOSCOW (AP) — Russian investigators say a woman in eastern Siberia strangled an elderly neighbor to death with her bra.
The Investigative Committee in Buryatia said in a statement on Tuesday that the 26-year-old woman from the town of Zaka-
mensk, just miles north of the border with Mongolia, has been charged with murder.
Investigators say the woman was drunk on a July evening when she and her boyfriend called on their 65-year-old neighbor for money to buy drinks. Angry that he refused to lend them money,
the woman punched him in the face and tried to strangle him with her hands before taking off her bra and strangling him with it, they said.
The woman is now in custody awaiting the end of the inquiry, investigators said. Her name was not released.
ECUADOR
Ash and steam billow from the Tungurahua volcano, seen from Huambalo, Ecuador, as the sun rises early Tuesday, Aug. 21, 2012.
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Villages evacuate near volcanic activity
QUITO, Ecuador — Ecuadorian authorities say 110 families have been evacuated from the vicinity of the Tungurahua volcano, which has been spewing molten rock, ash and lava since the weekend.
Spokeswoman Mercedes Taipei of Ecuador's Geophysics Institute says a column of vapor and ash to 2.5 miles (4 kilometers) high has characterized the moderate-to-strong eruption.
She said Tuesday that a half-dozen villages are being showered in ash. She had no immediate estimate on economic damage to local farming.
The 16,480-foot (5,023-meter) volcano 84 miles (135 kilometers) southeast of Quito has been active since 1999.
In July and August of 2006, eruptions of Tungurahua killed at least four people, left two missing and forced the evacuation of thousands.