<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:thr="http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0" xmlns:activity="http://activitystrea.ms/spec/1.0/" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Newsvine - southern-hemisphere</title><link>http://www.newsvine.com/southern-hemisphere</link><description>Newsvine - southern-hemisphere</description><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2013</copyright><lastBuildDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 18:00:43 +0000</lastBuildDate><pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2013 16:55:17 +0000</pubDate><generator>http://www.newsvine.com</generator><docs>http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss</docs><item><title>First tyrannosaur fossil from Southern Hemisphere</title>
<description><![CDATA[A foot-long piece of bone unearthed in Australia is the first evidence that ancestors of the mighty T. rex once lived in the Southern Hemisphere.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Randolph E. Schmid]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Randolph E. Schmid]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2010/03/25/4068844-first-tyrannosaur-fossil-from-southern-hemisphere</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2010/03/25/4068844-first-tyrannosaur-fossil-from-southern-hemisphere</guid><category>us</category><category>science</category><category>sci</category><category>t-rex</category><category>ancestor</category><category>southern-hemisphere</category><pubDate>Thu, 25 Mar 2010 18:00:16 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>US eyes China's rapid advancements in space</title>
<description><![CDATA[Wary of China's rapid advancements in space programs over the last decade, military commanders said Tuesday that the U.S. needs to improve its satellite presence in the Southern Hemisphere to better track launches from Asia, even as officials work to improve relations with Beijing.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lolita C. Baldor]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Lolita C. Baldor]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/11/03/3456976-us-eyes-chinas-rapid-advancements-in-space</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/11/03/3456976-us-eyes-chinas-rapid-advancements-in-space</guid><category>us</category><category>china</category><category>space</category><category>politics</category><category>southern-hemisphere</category><pubDate>Tue, 3 Nov 2009 20:21:18 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>WHO: swine flu deaths reach 2,837</title>
<description><![CDATA[The World Health Organization says at least 625 people have been reported dead from swine flu in the last week.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Associated Press]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/08/28/3202305-who-swine-flu-deaths-reach-2837</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/08/28/3202305-who-swine-flu-deaths-reach-2837</guid><category>un</category><category>flu</category><category>world-health-organization</category><category>world-news</category><category>world-heath-organization</category><category>southern-hemisphere</category><category>swine-flu</category><pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 17:10:32 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>Mexico wins praise for swine flu response</title>
<description><![CDATA[As swine flu runs rampant in the Southern Hemisphere winter, world health experts are concerned that some hard-hit countries have been reluctant to take forceful measures to protect public health.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Olga R. Rodriguez]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Olga R. Rodriguez]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/07/03/2995569-mexico-wins-praise-for-swine-flu-response</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/07/03/2995569-mexico-wins-praise-for-swine-flu-response</guid><category>flu</category><category>world-news</category><category>lt</category><category>southern-hemisphere</category><category>swine-flu</category><pubDate>Fri, 3 Jul 2009 22:09:18 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/b6b999bb-ce26-4e34-9383-d3ab236d6259.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="341" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/b6b999bb-ce26-4e34-9383-d3ab236d6259.jpg" width="120" height="180" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Pan American Health Organization Director Mirta Roses Periag speaks during the &quot;Lessons Learned and Preparedness of Swine Flu&quot; summit in Cancun, Mexico, Friday, July 3, 2009. (AP Photo/Miguel Tovar)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/5bbb056c-56e0-4357-aa28-9d7fe62ea90f.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="341" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/5bbb056c-56e0-4357-aa28-9d7fe62ea90f.jpg" width="120" height="180" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Mexico's Health Minister Jose Angel Cordova Villalobos attends during the &quot;Lessons Learned and Preparedness of Swine Flu&quot; summit in Cancun, Mexico, Friday, July 3, 2009. Swine flu is running wild in the Southern Hemisphere and is spreading rapidly through Europe, with Britain projected to reach 100,000 daily cases by the end of August. The virus is even showing signs of rebounding in Mexico. (AP Photo/Miguel Tovar)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/9da45d65-8821-462b-b4fb-3c9a3570076e.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="258" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/9da45d65-8821-462b-b4fb-3c9a3570076e.jpg" width="120" height="78" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Pan American Health Organization Director Mirta Roses Periag gestures during the &quot;Lessons Learned and Preparedness of Swine Flu&quot; summit in Cancun, Mexico, Friday, July 3, 2009. Swine flu is running wild in the Southern Hemisphere and is spreading rapidly through Europe, with Britain projected to reach 100,000 daily cases by the end of August. The virus is even showing signs of rebounding in Mexico. (AP Photo/Miguel Tovar)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/a444b7e5-6083-424c-b790-d60ef115a3cc.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/a444b7e5-6083-424c-b790-d60ef115a3cc.jpg" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;U.S. World Health Organization Assistant Director Keiji Fukuda attends a conference on swine flu in Cancun, Mexico, Friday, July 3, 2009. (AP Photo/Miguel Tovar)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/3cf90827-0153-4479-a0f5-05e6e0562b5c.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="351" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/3cf90827-0153-4479-a0f5-05e6e0562b5c.jpg" width="120" height="175" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;U.S. World Health Organization Assistant Director Keiji Fukuda attends a conference on swine flu in Cancun, Mexico, Friday, July 3, 2009. (AP Photo/Miguel Tovar)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/75d61087-8ded-46c9-8452-9423a66d7500.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="373" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/75d61087-8ded-46c9-8452-9423a66d7500.jpg" width="120" height="165" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;China's Health Minister Chen Zhu speaks during a swine flu summit in Cancun, Mexico, Friday, July 3, 2009. (AP Photo/Miguel Tovar)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>World health officials tackle swine flu challenges</title>
<description><![CDATA[Swine flu is running wild in the Southern Hemisphere and is spreading rapidly through Europe, with Britain projected to reach 100,000 daily cases by the end of August. The virus is even showing signs of rebounding in Mexico.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Olga R. Rodriguez]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Olga R. Rodriguez]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/07/02/2991553-world-health-officials-tackle-swine-flu-challenges</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/07/02/2991553-world-health-officials-tackle-swine-flu-challenges</guid><category>mexico</category><category>flu</category><category>world-news</category><category>lt</category><category>southern-hemisphere</category><category>swine-flu</category><pubDate>Thu, 2 Jul 2009 17:50:48 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>CDC: Swine flu to spread in Southern Hemisphere</title>
<description><![CDATA[Mexico has seen the worst of swine flu, but the virus will likely continue to spread worldwide as flu season ramps up in the Southern Hemisphere.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Michael E. Miller]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Michael E. Miller]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/05/28/2874926-cdc-swine-flu-to-spread-in-southern-hemisphere</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/05/28/2874926-cdc-swine-flu-to-spread-in-southern-hemisphere</guid><category>mexico</category><category>flu</category><category>world-news</category><category>lt</category><category>southern-hemisphere</category><category>swine-flu</category><pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 23:24:36 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item><item><title>In swine flu, key moments and decisions lie ahead</title>
<description><![CDATA[The most pivotal moments in the swine flu saga are yet to come. Will it sweep through impoverished Southern Hemisphere countries in the next few months? Will it roar back in the rest of the world in the fall? And who will be vaccinated if it does?]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Lauran Neergaard]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Lauran Neergaard]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/05/08/2795956-in-swine-flu-key-moments-and-decisions-lie-ahead</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/05/08/2795956-in-swine-flu-key-moments-and-decisions-lie-ahead</guid><category>flu</category><category>health</category><category>med</category><category>southern-hemisphere</category><category>swine-flu</category><category>pivotal-moments</category><pubDate>Sat, 9 May 2009 00:47:23 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/114fbbc0-eed2-4065-895c-5ca4b1b0ff3c.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="512" width="386" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/114fbbc0-eed2-4065-895c-5ca4b1b0ff3c.jpg" width="120" height="159" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Hotel guests celebrate after being released from quarantine at the Metropark Hotel where they were held for a week in Hong Kong Friday, May 8, 2009. Hong Kong on Friday lifted its weeklong quarantine on a downtown hotel where a Mexican swine flu patient stayed, releasing some 280 guests and employees who were isolated in the building. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/4d3542d5-be41-49cb-bf45-d928e2e6a8d3.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/4d3542d5-be41-49cb-bf45-d928e2e6a8d3.jpg" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - In this Friday, May 1, 2009, file photo French Marie-Paule Kieny, Director of the Initiative for Vaccine Research of the World Health Organisation (WHO), tells media about the H1N1 Flu during a new global press conference at the World Health Organisation (WHO) headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. The WHO is calling vaccine makers together in late May to push for fair access to vaccines for the H1N1 Flu, but the shots will come too late for the Southern Hemisphere, where influenza season is about to start. (AP Photo/Keystone, Salvatore Di Nolfi, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/676d1e9f-7093-4f49-91eb-0b5d663b8acc.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="240" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/676d1e9f-7093-4f49-91eb-0b5d663b8acc.jpg" width="120" height="72" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - In this April 29, 2009, file photo Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius talks to media about the new strain of swine at the agency's headquarters in Washington.  With a handful of known illnesses at first, the U.S. raced antiflu drugs from a government stockpile, enough for 11 million people, out to every state. From left, Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response Rear Adm. W. Craig Vanderwagen, Director of National Vaccine Program Office Dr. Bruce Gellin and Acting Commissioner of the FDA Josh Sharfstein. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/a7981800-ffe2-462f-bff2-68d3541f7e65.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="273" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/a7981800-ffe2-462f-bff2-68d3541f7e65.jpg" width="120" height="82" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - In this April 27, 2009, file photo Samantha Cosentino, 14, of the Queens borough of New York, a freshman at St. Francis Preparatory School in the Queens borough of New York, talks about being tested for swine flu.  After Cosentino and least eight other students who had gone to Mexico, were confirmed to have swine flu, U.S. schools started closing. Ultimately about 468,000 students around the country were affected by the closures before the CDC decided that schools should reopen because the virus was mild. (AP Photo/Craig Ruttle, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/4e93f1a0-4e70-4e0c-a9c4-1a005bc3e601.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="261" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/4e93f1a0-4e70-4e0c-a9c4-1a005bc3e601.jpg" width="120" height="79" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - This May 1, 2009, file photo provided by the World Health Organization on May 3, 2009, shows the WHO Strategic Health Operations Centre (SHOC) during a morning meeting at the WHO headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. The WHO was poised a step away from declaring a global flu pandemic on Sunday, following a ten day frenzy that began with the emergence of a dangerous new strain of flu virus in Mexico. (AP Photo/KEYSTONE, Christopher Black, File) &lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/902ba992-e60d-46a8-af1e-b597a70051e5.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="379" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/902ba992-e60d-46a8-af1e-b597a70051e5.jpg" width="120" height="114" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - In this May 5, 2009 file photo Centers for Disease Control (CDC) acting director Richard Besser, left, shows U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius logistical assessments relating to swine flu outbreaks posted in the CDC emergency operations center in Atlanta. &quot;You may only have one chance to get out ahead of it (flu),&quot; Besser told The Associated Press. &quot;It's important for people to understand that all of these decisions will need to be made with incomplete science,&quot; told The Associated Press. (AP Photo/John Amis, Pool, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/b4218d4f-751d-4995-8683-a96e7be2a6d0.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="255" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/b4218d4f-751d-4995-8683-a96e7be2a6d0.jpg" width="120" height="77" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - In this April 27, 2009 file photo, a crew disinfects a classroom at Byron P. Steele High School in Cibolo, outside San Antonio, Texas, for the second time since the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) confirmed the emergence of a new strain of swine flu, and on April 23, the agency confirmed five more illnesses in California and Texas and put all the states on alert. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/46d76892-7847-4fa7-9b81-493ebd6a08b4.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="484" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/46d76892-7847-4fa7-9b81-493ebd6a08b4.jpg" width="120" height="145" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - In this April, 26, 2009, file photo samples sit in ice in a lab where testing was being done for the influenza virus at the San Diego County Public Health lab in San Diego. CDC studies of new methods spotted two unrelated children in San Diego with an unknown strain that turned out to be a never-before-seen type of swine flu. On April 23, the agency confirmed five more illnesses in California and Texas, and put all the states on alert. On the same day CDC and a Canadian lab that Mexico had consulted delivered the bad news: The new flu was in Mexico, too.  (AP Photo/Denis Poroy, File) &lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/24f175c0-ff36-4bcd-b407-eee33e832301.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="290" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/24f175c0-ff36-4bcd-b407-eee33e832301.jpg" width="120" height="87" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - In this April, 26, 2009, file photo San Diego County micro-biologist Ayesha Khan does research on samples at the San Diego County Public Health lab in San Diego. Already by mid-April tests showing an unrecognized strain of the flu virus had been sent to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to be further tested for the swine flu. The agency worked with CDC and the California Department of Public Health to determine how four people in San Diego county became infected with the swine flu.   (AP Photo/Denis Poroy, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/dd3ba129-4d76-4598-a00a-be08d9408a0b.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/dd3ba129-4d76-4598-a00a-be08d9408a0b.jpg" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - In this April 24, 2009, file photo Mexican Army soldiers hand out surgical masks to people in cars at an intersection in Mexico City. With a diagnosis of a never-before-seen type of swine flu, Mexico's government ordered all schools, museums, libraries and theaters in Mexico City closed. The following days brought increasingly drastic actions, as schools nationwide and other businesses shuttered, streets mostly emptied, and soldiers handed out millions of face masks.  (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/4a2e7911-7403-4c3f-8f17-25dc48fecbc1.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/4a2e7911-7403-4c3f-8f17-25dc48fecbc1.jpg" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;FILE - In this  April 24, 2009, file photo a police officer, wearing a surgical mask as a precaution against infection, directs traffic in downtown Mexico City. With a diagnosis of a never-before-seen type of swine flu, Mexico's government immediately ordered all schools, museums, libraries and theaters in Mexico City closed. The following days brought increasingly drastic actions, as schools nationwide and other businesses shuttered, and streets mostly emptied. (AP Photo/Alexandre Meneghini, File)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Swine flu leaves Southern Hemisphere out in cold</title>
<description><![CDATA[The Southern Hemisphere has been mostly spared in the swine flu epidemic. That could change when winter starts in coming weeks with no vaccine in place, leaving half the planet out in the cold.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Alan Clendenning]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Alan Clendenning]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/05/04/2773824-swine-flu-leaves-southern-hemisphere-out-in-cold</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/05/04/2773824-swine-flu-leaves-southern-hemisphere-out-in-cold</guid><category>flu</category><category>health</category><category>world-news</category><category>hemisphere</category><category>southern-hemisphere</category><category>swine-flu</category><pubDate>Mon, 4 May 2009 16:11:03 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/5b558c56-9a9f-49f7-9435-3ceb1f027048.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/5b558c56-9a9f-49f7-9435-3ceb1f027048.jpg" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Dr Lech Beltowski takes a swab from Tammie Wolff after she showed signs of flu symptoms upon her arrival in Auckland, New Zealand, Wednesday, April 29 2009.  Health officials screened passengers from flights that arrived from overseas on Wednesday morning following confirmed cases of  swine-flu  in the USA .  Wolff and another passenger who had arrived from the US, en route for  Australia,  were quarantined for 24hrs at Auckland's Middlemore Hospital as a precaution.  (AP Photo / Greg Bowker, New Zealand Herald)  &lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/1214fba2-9507-4362-bd02-86aabd39380a.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="256" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/1214fba2-9507-4362-bd02-86aabd39380a.jpg" width="120" height="77" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;A man and a woman wearing masks as a precaution against swine flu wait for relatives arriving from the US at the Sao Paulo international airport, Monday, May, 4, 2009. The swine flu epidemic has largely spared the Southern Hemisphere. (AP Photo/Andre Penner)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Argentine president declares farm emergency</title>
<description><![CDATA[Argentina's president declared an agricultural emergency Monday in the nation's breadbasket provinces, responding to a key demand by powerful farm organizations amid the worst drought in decades.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Debora Rey]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Debora Rey]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/01/23/2347126-argentine-president-declares-farm-emergency</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2009/01/23/2347126-argentine-president-declares-farm-emergency</guid><category>business</category><category>argentina</category><category>drought</category><category>world-news</category><category>lt</category><category>southern-hemisphere</category><pubDate>Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:47:08 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/3dec36e9-067b-4061-9e0e-26b3fc9a4bf6.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="236" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/3dec36e9-067b-4061-9e0e-26b3fc9a4bf6.jpg" width="120" height="71" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;A calf lies dead in Stroeder, Argentina, Monday, Jan. 19, 2009.  Farmers nationwide are demanding the government's help after a year long drought that has killed nearly one million animals and destroyed crops.  (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko)&lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/81aacab5-492b-4d7f-aca2-5132ff69e879.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="267" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/81aacab5-492b-4d7f-aca2-5132ff69e879.jpg" width="120" height="80" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;A cow's skeleton lies on the ground during a drought in Stroeder, Argentina, Monday, Jan. 19, 2009.  Farmers nationwide are demanding the government's help after a year long drought that has killed nearly one million animals and destroyed crops.  (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko) &lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/7fa21561-3b85-4933-a33f-73273f85ac9d.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="259" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/7fa21561-3b85-4933-a33f-73273f85ac9d.jpg" width="120" height="78" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Cows walk on a dry field during a drought in Stroeder, Argentina, Monday, Jan. 19, 2009.  Farmers nationwide are demanding the government's help after a year long drought that has killed nearly one million animals and destroyed crops.  (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko) &lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/ed030133-eead-4dcb-a75c-810f5f98ba86.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="273" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/ed030133-eead-4dcb-a75c-810f5f98ba86.jpg" width="120" height="82" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Cows lie dead on Hilda Schneider's farm in Stroeder, Argentina, Tuesday, Jan. 20, 2009. Schneider lost around 500 cows in 2008 due to the drought.  Farmers nationwide are demanding the government's help after a year long drought that has killed nearly one million animals and destroyed crops.  (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko) &lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/23e3c6a8-e967-4ab7-aea4-d8e10e34f11c.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="256" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/23e3c6a8-e967-4ab7-aea4-d8e10e34f11c.jpg" width="120" height="77" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;A whirlpool of sand moves over a field in Stroeder, Argentina, Monday, Jan. 19, 2009.  Farmers nationwide are demanding the government's help after a year long drought that has killed nearly one million animals and destroyed crops.  (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko) &lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/64a57756-12f6-4e66-9c1c-ce69db43bd3b.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="251" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/64a57756-12f6-4e66-9c1c-ce69db43bd3b.jpg" width="120" height="76" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;Farmer Edgardo Vazquez walks by dead cows in Stroeder, Argentina, Monday, Jan. 19, 2009.  Farmers nationwide are demanding the government's help after a year long drought that has killed nearly one million animals and destroyed crops.  (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko) &lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content><media:content url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/400/ec3f1e6c-be91-462a-aa5a-310db99fed67.jpg" type="image/jpeg" medium="image" height="261" width="400" ><media:thumbnail url="http://www.cdn.newsvine.com/_vine/images/ap/120/ec3f1e6c-be91-462a-aa5a-310db99fed67.jpg" width="120" height="79" /><media:description type="plain">&lt;p&gt;A cow lies dead in Stroeder, Argentina, Monday, Jan. 19, 2009.  Farmers nationwide are demanding the government's help after a year long drought that has killed nearly one million animals and destroyed crops.  (AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko) &lt;/p&gt;</media:description><media:credit role="owner" scheme="urn:yvs"></media:credit></media:content></item><item><title>Gold Hits New Record Above $880 an Ounce</title>
<description><![CDATA[Gold futures soared to an all-time record above $880 an ounce Tuesday as rebounding oil prices added to the metal's allure as a safe haven against inflation.]]></description>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Stevenson Jacobs]]></dc:creator><source><![CDATA[Stevenson Jacobs]]></source><link>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/07/1209723-gold-hits-new-record-above-880-an-ounce</link><guid>http://www.newsvine.com/_news/2008/01/07/1209723-gold-hits-new-record-above-880-an-ounce</guid><category>business</category><category>commodities</category><category>review</category><category>southern-hemisphere</category><pubDate>Mon, 7 Jan 2008 18:56:01 +0000</pubDate><activity:verb>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/post</activity:verb><activity:object-type>http://activitystrea.ms/schema/1.0/generic_post</activity:object-type></item></channel></rss>