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Desperately seeking missing loved ones in Haiti - onlineWashington (AFP) Jan 14, 2010 In the picture against a blue background, a young girl in a white dress snuggles up against her father and looks demurely into the camera. Next to her, her slightly older brother and mother are dressed to the nines for the family photo. And underneath the family picture, a heart wrenching plea from the children's aunt in the United States to help find the family, who are among the countless people unaccounted for since Tuesday's powerful quake struck Haiti. "My sister, her husband and their two young kids... ... read more |
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Vienna (AFP) Jan 14, 2010Animal rights groups on Thursday condemned as "bizarre" and "macabre" an experiment in Austria in which 29 live pigs were to be buried under masses of snow to study human survival chances in avalanches. Several organisations threatened legal action against the Innsbruck Medical University, western Austria, and the emergency medicine centre in Bolzano, northern Italy, which organised the expe ... more  
Berlin (AFP) Jan 14, 2010The world's largest agricultural fair, Berlin's "Green Week", kicked off Thursday with Greenpeace activists heckling the German agriculture minister, calling for a ban on genetically modified potatoes. The fair, now in its 75th year, is expected to attract some 400,000 visitors over the next 10 days, as well as 1,600 exhibitors from 56 countries, with Hungary this year's guest of honour. ... more  
Paris (AFP) Jan 14, 2010The European Space Agency is looking at proposals for using the International Space Station as a platform for climate science, ESA Director General Jean-Jacques Dordain said on Thursday. Seventeen proposals so far have been received "from the climate change community" for using the ISS as a basis for study, Dordain told a press conference. The "call for ideas" issued by the 18-nation age ... more |
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Seoul (AFP) Jan 14, 2010South Korea has agreed to build Jordan's first atomic research reactor, just two weeks after winning a landmark 20.4 billion dollar deal in the United Arab Emirates, officials said Thursday. The contract, estimated at 200 billion won (178 million dollars), is to build a five megawatt reactor in Jordan by 2014, the South Korean science ministry said. The consortium that won the deal is le ... more  
Washington (AFP) Jan 14, 2010Bonuses linked to investment risk taking paid to bank employees contributed to the global financial crisis, officials on Thursday told a special US commission examining the economic calamity. They called for a review on the role of employee compensation and its contribution to risk taken by financial institutions, some of which collapsed after incurring massive losses on particularly mortgag ... more 
Tehran (UPI) Jan 14, 2009 As Iran faces a growing Western threat of economic sanctions over its controversial nuclear program, Tehran has been quietly building up its defenses and looking eastward. On Jan. 6 it opened a natural gas pipeline linking Iran's northern Caspian region with Turkmenistan's vast fields in Central Asia that will help it defy the West. At first sight, the 115-mile pipeline is a mode ... more |
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