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Coast Guard begins clean-up of a nine mile oil slick off the California coastline. Rough Cut (no reporter narration).
Scientists unveil a partial skeleton of a newly discovered whale found in Peru that lived nearly 40 million years ago. A total of 13 gigantic vertebrae -- one of which weighed nearly 200 kilograms (440 pounds) -- were found at a site in a coastal desert of southern Peru, as well as four ribs and a hip bone. IMAGES
Images released by the Armed Forces show a long slick of crude oil covering the sand and reaching the sea at a tourist beach in Esmeraldas province, northwestern Ecuador. According to state-owned company Petroecuador, the oil spilled onto Las Palmas beach in the city of Esmeralda, where an oil terminal and a refinery operate. IMAGES
UN Development Programme Administrator Achim Steiner says the United nations has bought a ship to remove oil and avoid a potentially catastrophic spill from a tanker decaying for years off the coast of war-ravaged Yemen. SOUNDBITE
The Swedish coast guard releases images of a massive spill it has detected of an unknown substance in the Baltic Sea off the coast of Sweden. Covering a surface area of 77 square kilometres (30 square miles) in both Swedish and Finnish waters, the spill was first detected on Wednesday in the Bothnian Sea. IMAGES
A courtroom drawing shows defendants Mahmoud Kadri, Aymen Dib, Karim Ibrahim and others during the first day of the trial at a Paris Court for the 2018 murder of Vanesa Campos, a trans sex worker of Peruvian origin killed in Paris's Bois de Boulogne. IMAGES