links for 2011-01-09
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At 26.4 miles long, the Qingdao Haiwan Bridge would easily cross the English Channel and is almost three miles longer than the previous record-holder, the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway in the American state of Louisiana.
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The decapitated bodies of 14 young men were left outside a shopping centre in the beach resort of Acapulco, Mexico, during a weekend of slayings blamed on rival drug gangs.