The Royal Commission on the Environment believes that, even at current levels, car emissions are causing serious damage to health.

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Angkor Wat, a temple complex in Cambodia, and the Inca fortress of Machu Picchu in Peru (pictured above) are often cited as places of world-historical importance where a vast influx of tourists may be causing serious damage.

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On July 30th, for instance, a car-bomb planted in the underground car park of an eight-storey residential building in Jerusalem exploded only partially and apparently prematurely, causing no serious damage.

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These vaccines -- "really scary things, which were designed to prevent an even scarier disease, " Willoughby says -- were painful and dangerous, causing serious neurological damage in about 1 in every 1, 000 people who received them.

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They would continue to pay compensation rather than disclose sensitive information in public, causing serious "reputational damage".

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The malfunction, which released flammable electrolytes, causing heat damage and smoke, was the second of two recent serious incidents.

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The majority of offences are criminal damage, but they also include more serious crimes such as arson and assault causing actual bodily harm.

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