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Walker's World: Is Europe doing better?
Washington (UPI) Dec 19, 2007 The euro is riding high and the dollar is weak. European car sales boom while Detroit suffers. European growth rates are recovering and the United States is slipping toward recession. The Fed seems unable to do much about the U.S. financial crisis, while the European Central Bank has just swamped the market by pumping $500 billion in low-interest funding into liquidity and forced lendi ... more Kashmir lake tourist jewel has become 'cesspool': report 
Srinagar, India (AFP) Dec 20, 2007Dal Lake, Indian Kashmir's top tourist attraction, has become a "cesspool" and huge efforts are needed to save it, a court-appointed committee said, according to a report on Thursday. The lake, ringed by mountains and celebrated by admirers as Kashmir's shimmering centrepiece, is being flooded by raw sewage and silt, said the committee, formed by the state's high court in 2002 to oversee cle ... more Green group slams Eiffel Tower 'snow trek' 
Paris (AFP) Dec 20, 2007French environmentalists on Thursday slammed a decision to coat part of the Eiffel Tower with artificial snow for the festive season, saying it was a costly waste of water. The first of the iron tower's three floors, 57 metres (125 feet) above ground, has been clad in 20 to 30 centimetres (eight to 12 inches) of snow, with free rackets on hand for tourists to trek across the Paris monument. ... more Greenpeace urges Australian PM to lobby Japan on whaling 
Sydney (AFP) Dec 20, 2007Greenpeace on Thursday called on new Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to contact his Japanese counterpart Yasuo Fukuda and demand a halt to whaling in waters off Antarctica. Greenpeace's Australia Pacific chief Steve Shallhorn said Rudd, who made campaign pledges to keep Australia strongly opposed to whaling before his centre-left Labor Party won power last month, needed to become person ... more Aftershocks rock New Zealand city after major quake 
Wellington (AFP) Dec 21, 2007Aftershocks continued to rattle the eastern New Zealand city of Gisborne Friday after a powerful 6.8 earthquake smashed buildings and left a gaping hole in a street. No major injuries were reported after Thursday night's quake, which was felt throughout much of New Zealand, although many people had been Christmas shopping in the city area when it struck. The centre of Gisborne was cordon ... more |
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Kampala (AFP) Dec 20, 2007Ugandan and French scientists have for months been observing the behaviour of a group of chimpanzees whose uncanny aptitude for self-medication could help their human cousins discover new drugs. The great apes' ability to treat ailments by adjusting their diet has long been observed by scientists, including world-renowned primatologist Jane Goodall, but a project in Uganda's Kibale forest of ... more Analysis: Militants threaten oil industry 
Miami (UPI) Dec 19, 2007 Nigeria's leading militant group has called for its allies to band together to cripple the country's oil industry through attacks on oil installations. The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta issued a statement to local reporters earlier this week saying all "genuine" militant groups in the West African country's oil-rich Niger Delta should wage full-blown attacks on oil i ... more France backs India nuclear accord 
New Delhi (AFP) Dec 20, 2007France's foreign minister said Thursday he was hoping to see India secure a nuclear safeguards agreement with the UN atomic watchdog that would pave the way for energy business in the country. India needs to reach an agreement on UN inspections as part of a deal with the United States that would give New Delhi access to the global nuclear fuel market even though it has not signed the Non-Pro ... more The Quest For A New Class Of Superconductors 
Los Alamos NM (SPX) Dec 21, 2007Fifty years after the Nobel-prize winning explanation of how superconductors work, a research team from Los Alamos National Laboratory, the University of Edinburgh and Cambridge University are suggesting another mechanism for the still-mysterious phenomenon. In a review published in Nature, researchers David Pines, Philippe Monthoux and Gilbert Lonzarich posit that superconductivity in cer ... more Iran's nuclear reactor not ready until end 2008: contractor 
Moscow (AFP) Dec 20, 2007Russia dampened Thursday Iranian hopes of an imminent launch of the Bushehr nuclear power station Moscow is building in the Islamic republic, saying it would not be launched earlier than the end of 2008. A spokeswoman for the Russian contractor on the flagship project, Atomstroiexport, confirmed that it would take at least a year to start the power station. "We can predict that the Bushe ... more |
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Moscow (AFP) Dec 20, 2007Russian railways want tiny robots to replace humans in difficult maintenance work, and they want Russian-made androids that can dance and talk. Prototypes of tested Russian robots "surpass foreign-produced robots with their technical characteristics," according to a statement from Russian railways on Thursday. They have bought eight Russian robots for testing. Seven are 35-centimetres (1 ... more Two Years In Space For Galileo Satellite 
Paris, France (SPX) Dec 20, 2007On 28 December, it will be two years since GIOVE-A - the first Galileo satellite - was launched by a Soyuz rocket from Baikonur, in Kazakhstan. This satellite demonstrates the progress Europe has made in setting up its own navigation system. Since January 2006, Galileo signals have been broadcast by GIOVE-A, and received all around the globe. At ESA's research and technology centre in the ... more Lockheed Martin Awarded Contract For GOES-R Geostationary Lightning Mapper 
Palo Alto CA (SPX) Dec 20, 2007Lockheed Martin Space Systems has been awarded a $96.7 million contract by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center to provide the Geostationary Lightning Mapper (GLM) instrument that will fly on the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) GOES-R Series environmental satellites. GLM's ability to monitor lightning on a global scale will provide new insight into the formation, distribution, ... more US accelerates nuclear stockpile cuts: White House 
Washington (AFP) Dec 18, 2007The United States has accelerated the scrapping of its nuclear weapons, approving a "significant reduction" in the stockpile by the end of the year, the White House said Tuesday. "The president has approved a significant reduction in the US nuclear weapons stockpile to take effect by the end of 2007," following a major reduction plan first announced in 2004, a White House statement said. ... more Evidence of China's rise everywhere in 2007 
Beijing (AFP) Dec 19, 2007From the depths of Earth's oil fields to the rarefied atmosphere of space, evidence of China's modernisation seemed to be everywhere in 2007 -- a rise set to be enshrined with next year's Olympics. China will soon overtake Germany as having the world's third biggest economy after a fifth straight year of double-digit growth, and the Asian giant's expanding wealth had huge impacts at home and ... more
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