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A handout photo taken and released on October 8, 2011 by The Last Stand shows protesters as they hang a banners from the Sydney Opera House. Three people scaled Sydney's iconic Opera House unfurling a bright yellow banner on its tiled white sails to protest against the destruction of forests.
The Sydney Morning Herald reports:
Four activists have been arrested after a rooftop protest against retail giant Harvey Norman at the Sydney Opera House this morning.
Police responded just before 10am to a call from Opera House security staff who reported a number of people attempting to access the Opera House sails.
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U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Robin Corcoran via AP
This Jan. 24, 2011 photo provided by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service shows a female eagle who died after being electrocuted in Kodiak, Alaska.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A Kodiak Island bald eagle survived 25 years of Alaska hazards but met an unfortunate fate last month on the crossbar of a utility pole: electrocution.
A band attached to its leg showed the bird to be the second-oldest bald eagle documented in Alaska and one of the oldest in the country.
"It would be, based on the bird-banding record that I've seen, one of the top 10 oldest birds ever recorded," said Robin Corcoran, a wildlife biologist from the Kodiak Island National Wildlife Refuge.
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