BATTLE CREEK, Mich. – Federal officials believe an oil spill that has contaminated a major Michigan river was larger than first estimated, and the governor is warning of a "tragedy of historic proportions" should the oil reach Lake Michigan some 80 miles away, and the vacation communities that depend on it.

The Environmental Protection Agency, which has taken control of efforts to contain and clean up the Kalamazoo River spill, said late Wednesday that it believes more than 1 million gallons of oil leaked from a pipeline into Talmadge Creek, which feeds the river. Enbridge Inc., the Canadian company that oversees the pipeline, had estimated that 819,000 gallons spilled Monday before they could stop the leak.

Supermodel Kate Moss has recently come up with a strange notion- she thinks that her London home is haunted. In fact, this is one of the prime reasons why she has appointed shaman so as to get rid of the so called “evil energy”. We have come to know from a close source of Moss that Jamie"Kate moss" Hince, her has a staunch belief in the supernatural. In fact, it is he who persuaded her that a negative energy prevails in her house that needs to be removed by a shaman priest. She has finally come up with somebody who will be carrying out a ceremony for cleansing the place. Her house has been prone to several disasters in the last few months. In the month of May, the supermodel has lost one of her expensive painting and immediately after days later, sewage flooded into her kitchen. Her sauna has also leaked and it seems that she will be working on rewiring.

Waterford - After spending much of his life trying to improve the treatment of Australia's indigenous populations by mainstream society - at best incompetent and at worst barbaric - you'd think Bob Randall would be a broken man, embittered from years of struggle and disappointment.

The Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre has asked a major United Nations group to suspend deliberations about whether to give Tasmanian convict sites like Port Arthur World Heritage status.

The UN's heritage body, UNESCO, is due to consider Tasmania's application in Brazil this week.

A new study reveals that aboriginals in Canada have a higher infection and death rate when being treated for kidney disease and renal failure than the rest of the population, but scientists can't confirm why.

The study, by researchers from St. Boniface General Hospital and the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, studied 727 adults — 161 of whom were Aboriginal — with end stage renal disease on peritoneal dialysis, a process that uses a membrane in the abdomen called the peritoneum to filter wastes and excess water.

Read more: http://www.montrealgazette.com/health/Aboriginals+face+most+problems+when+treated+kidney+disease/3323936/story.html#ixzz0utDMLuW0