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/ 16 October 2008
Hurricane Omar strengthened into a major category-three storm as it raced toward Puerto Rico, threatening to bring torrential rains.
The top Jamaican police officer investigating the homicide of Pakistan’s cricket coach said on Monday he has not confirmed that Bob Woolmer was incapacitated by a drug before being strangled. The BBC reported that a toxicology test on Woolmer’s body had shown the presence of a drug that would have incapacitated him.
As the yachts get bigger and more numerous, the Caribbean is running out of parking space. From the Bahamas in the north to St Lucia in the south, island governments and entrepreneurs in the Caribbean and western Atlantic are developing waterfront property and expanding marinas to handle yachts that range from 24m to longer than a football field.
After years of secrecy, the Pentagon has disclosed the names, ages and home countries of everyone held at the isolated Guantánamo Bay Naval Base in south-eastern Cuba as a suspect in the United States-led war on terror. The US says it has held 759 males, ranging from teenagers to older than 70, from more than 40 countries, according to the list released late on Monday.
Excited by the scent of blood, a dozen sharks dart about in a frenzy as a researcher dips a pole in the sea and squirts out a clear, yellowish substance. Within seconds, the sharks jerk their snouts away and vanish. Researchers say they finally have found a potent repellent to drive away sharks, after testing off Bimini island in the Bahamas.