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Ding Shumiao said to have taken $322m to set up 57 rail projects for senior official jailed for corruption. Another case of corruption on a massive scale in China (17 Dec) - A Chinese businesswoman has been fined $400 million and given a 20-year prison sentence after she was found guilty of colluding with a former rail chief... 

This 2010 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) photo shows two Anopheles gambiae mosquitoes, the principal vector of malaria in Africa, as the female (top) is in the process of egg-laying atop a sheet of egg paper pictured with the male (bottom). MIN SAW, Myanmar (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Ka Lar Nar caught malaria... 

Fukushima - Radioactive contamination of the Pacific Ocean (December 17, 2014) - Nuclear radiation resulting from the March 2011 Fukushima disaster – which threatens life on planet earth– is not front page news in comparison to the most insignificant issues of public concern, including the local level crime scene or the...