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Caribbean islanders flee ahead of roaring hurricane
Port-Au-Prince (AFP) Aug 19, 2007Hurricane Dean bore down on Jamaica early Sunday amid concerns it could become "a potentially catastrophic" category five storm capable of causing death and widespread destruction. Tourists fled resorts in the path of the storm and island residents battened down as the massive swell skirted the Dominican Republic and plowed towards Jamaica, the Caymans and the Mexican coast. ... more SAsia flood death toll tops 2,700 
New Delhi (AFP) Aug 19, 2007The death toll from floods triggered by heavy rains and snow melt in South Asia topped 2,700 Sunday as some rivers in India continued to overflow and delay aid efforts, officials said. In the eastern Indian state of Bihar -- one of the worst hit -- the Ganges and other rivers surged above the danger mark, a government statement said, adding that efforts to bring food and drinking water aid ... more At least 12 dead in China storms 
Beijing (AFP) Aug 19, 2007At least 12 people were killed as a tornado ripped through the coast of eastern China while Typhoon Sepat battered the country further south, state media reported on Sunday. The tornado cut a corridor of destruction 800 metres wide in Zhejiang province, destroying 156 houses Saturday around Wenzhou City. Nine people were killed and eight left in a serious condition, Xinhua news agency said. ... more Scuffles with police as hopes fade for Chinese miners 
Xintai, China (AFP) Aug 19, 2007Scuffles broke out between relatives and security forces at a coal mine in eastern China Sunday as hopes faded for the rescue of 172 miners trapped underground by flash floods. Floodwaters engulfed the mine in the city of Xintai in Shandong Province on Friday in the latest tragedy to strike China's mining industry, which has one of the poorest safety records in the world. ... more Boeing Completes CubeSat Mission To Advance Nano-Satellite Technology 
St. Louis MO (SPX) Aug 17, 2007Boeing has completed the first phase of its nano-satellite research and experimentation with the successful conclusion of the CubeSat TestBed 1 (CSTB1) mission. The spacecraft, launched April 17 from the Baikonur Cosmosdrome in Kazakhstan, accomplished 100 percent of its primary mission objectives. Through experiments such as CSTB1, Boeing is evaluating a variety of technologies, design el ... more |
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Washington (AFP) Aug 14, 2007Long-range Russian bombers are flying more often and closer to US territory, a top US commander said Tuesday, as Moscow made its latest show of military might with exercises over the North Pole. General Gene Renuart, Commander of North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD) and US Northern Command, the agencies charged with protecting US and Canadian airspace, said that US forces would c ... more Outside View: Nuclear terror's false logic 
Washington (UPI) Aug 16, 2007 Even as the International Atomic Energy Agency is meeting with Iranian officials to discuss increasing the openness of Iran's nuclear program, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad remains defiant about Tehran's right to pursue such a program -- including uranium enrichment, which would give Iran de facto nuclear weapon capability. This raises the specter of one of the greatest fears i ... more Indonesia's 'mud volcano' victims to file complaint 
Jakarta (AFP) Aug 15, 2007The victims of a devastating "mud volcano" in Indonesia are to demand that the country's top court declare unjust a presidential decree on the terms of their compensation, they said Wednesday. Some 600 hectares (1,500 acres) of land in East Java has been inundated with sludge that began spewing when Lapindo Brantas, a company linked to Indonesia's welfare minister, was drilling for gas witho ... more Taiwan braced for powerful typhoon 
Taipei (AFP) Aug 16, 2007The powerful typhoon Sepat was heading for Taiwan Thursday after paralysing the Philippine capital Manila, Taiwanese meteorologists said. Sepat was packing winds of up to 191 kilometres (119 miles) per hour and could hit Taiwan some time between late Friday night and early Saturday morning given its current course, the Central Weather Bureau said. ... more US still mulling aid for NKorea 
Crawford, Texas (AFP) Aug 16, 2007The United States is still weighing a possible aid package for flood-stricken North Korea, White House national security spokesman Gordon Johndroe said Thursday. "We're in the process of assessing what is going on, on the ground now: What is the damage and what are their needs? And so that process is still ongoing. But we may have more for you on that later," Johndroe told reporters. ... more |
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Livermore CA (SPX) Aug 16, 2007Expansion of irrigation has masked greenhouse warming in California's Central Valley, but irrigation may not make much of a difference in the future, according to a new study in the Aug. 13 edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Irrigation's influence on climate is often overlooked when studying the human effect on regional climate change. Yet, irrigation has expanded r ... more Plain Soap As Effective As Antibacterial But Without The Risk 
Ann Arbor MI (SPX) Aug 16, 2007Antibacterial soaps show no health benefits over plain soaps and, in fact, may render some common antibiotics less effective, says a University of Michigan public health professor. In the first known comprehensive analysis of whether antibacterial soaps work better than plain soaps, Allison Aiello of the U-M School of Public Health and her team found that washing hands with an antibacterial soap ... more Moment magnitude: the way to measure really large quakes 
Washington (AFP) Aug 16, 2007The "moment magnitude" scale signified by the Mw sign, now a quarter-century old, was conceived to remedy shortcomings in the Richter scale, considered ineffective in measuring extremely large quakes. It was used by the US Geological Survey to measure Wednesday's devastating earthquake that rocked Peru, leaving at least 500 dead. The earthquake reached an 8.0 magnitude, an exceptionally ... more UN leads world help for quake-ravaged Peru 
New York (AFP) Aug 16, 2007The UN pledged one million dollars (750,000 euros) of relief for Peru on Thursday as governments and aid agencies around the world rushed to help the quake-ravaged South American nation. "The United Nations is in close contact with the government of Peru and stands ready to support relief efforts with measures including the release of emergency funds and the deployment of a team of disaster ... more The new public enemy number one: bottled water 
Washington (AFP) Aug 15, 2007It's a hugely beneficial liquid in a slim cylinder of plastic, but for US environmentalists, it is the new public enemy number one: bottled water. With US bottled water sales growing nearly 10 percent annually -- and the trash from tossed containers climbing just as quickly -- calls for Americans to go back to drinking tap water have surged since the beginning of summer. ... more
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