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1 October 2015
Rome (ANSA) - Purchases and transfers of cars in Italy will no longer need paper documentation from Monday and owners will just need a receipt with a code that allows them to access a website to verify the status of cars, the president of the Italian Automobile Club (ACI) said on Thursday.
Read more: Italian car registration system goes digital
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By TOM ODULA
26 September 2015
In this Sunday, April 13, 2014 file photo, an unidentified health official administers a polio vaccine to a child in Kawo Kano, Nigeria. Polio is no longer endemic in Nigeria, the World Health Organization said late Friday, Sept. 25, 2015, leaving only Pakistan and its war-battered neighbor Afghanistan in the list of countries where the disease is prevalent. (AP)
LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) -- Nigeria on Saturday celebrated the announcement by the U.N. health agency that polio is no longer endemic in the West African country.
Read more: Nigeria revels in removal from list of polio-endemic nations
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By Jennifer Earl
September 25, 2015
Ethan Flint, left, meets a K-9 officer and his dog. Jennifer Flint
Ethan Flint has spent every birthday he's had since he was 6 focusing on others. His 9th birthday was no different.
Read more: Minnesota boy skips birthday presents to buy K-9s bulletproof vests
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September 18, 2015
VASHON ISLAND, Wash. (AP) -- A Washington state animal shelter says a dog dutifully stood guard for a nearly a week on Vashon Island to protect another dog that had fallen in a cistern.
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By Bill Smith
17 September 2015
London (dpa) - The World Health Organization on Thursday reported a "dramatic downward trend" in global infections and mortality rates from malaria over the past 15 years.
Read more: WHO welcomes "dramatic" fall in global malaria cases
Chance photograph turns Tajik gardener into local celebrity
7 September 2015
In this photo taken Monday, Aug. 27, 2015, Munira Mirzoyeva, a 19-year old city gardens worker, walks near her home in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. (AP Photo/Peter Leonard)
DUSHANBE, Tajikistan (AP) -- A city gardens worker in the capital of Tajikistan has become a local celebrity through a chance picture taken by a visiting Romanian photographer.
Read more: Chance photograph turns Tajik gardener into local celebrity
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