'Significant' new oil spill from stranded ship: Maritime NZ

A container ship stranded on a reef off New Zealand had leaked a "significant" amount of oil and sustained damage in heavy seas overnight, the country's maritime authority said Tuesday.

Maritime New Zealand said 130-350 tonnes of oil leaked from the stricken ship Rena, significantly more than the initial spill of 20 tonnes when the vessel hit a reef last Wednesday.

Floods drown Asia's rice bowl

A Cambodian boy rows a container through floodwaters in a village in Kandal province on October 3, 2011. More than 100 Cambodians, nearly half of them children, have died in the country's worst flooding in a decade, a disaster official said

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