World news July 30, 2009

World News

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Canada’s only government-sanctioned marijuana farm may soon close. The farm, deep in a mine shaft under the tundra of Flin Flon, Manitoba, was growing too large, said operator Prairie Plant system. The mine had been producing legal marijuana for nearly a decade since Canada legalized medical marijuana.

Gidget, the Taco Bell Chihuahua who became famous as company spokesperson in the late 1990s dies of a stroke.

Dow Jones industrial average jumps above 9,000 for the first time since January.

The state department recommends that the new $700 million American embassy in Iraq ne...