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Beijing smothered in smog during UN climate talksBeijing (AFP) Oct 7, 2010 China's capital Beijing on Thursday shared the title of most polluted city in the country, as delegates from around the world worked in nearby Tianjin towards a deal to combat global warming. The China Environmental Monitoring Centre rated both Beijing and the central city of Zhengzhou as having "slightly polluted" air - a rating of III2 on scale from I (excellent) to V (hazardous). The US embassy in Beijing, however, qualified the air as "hazardous" in its own measurements made available on th ... read more |
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Budapest (AFP) Oct 7, 2010The entire ecosystem of a small river in Hungary which is situated in the area affected by a deadly toxic mud spill, has been destroyed, a disaster relief chief said Thursday. "The entire ecosystem of the Marcal river has been destroyed, because the very high alkaline levels have killed everything," Tibor Dobson, head of the regional disaster relief services, told the Hungarian news agency M ... more  
Washington (AFP) Oct 6, 2010The US Supreme Court Wednesday weighed whether an anti-gay religious group that pickets military funerals with signs that read "Thank God for dead soldiers" is exercising its right to free speech or invading a grieving family's privacy. With large crowds gathered outside, the nine justices heard arguments from a lawyer for the Kansas-based Westboro Baptist Church, who said the case was about ... more  
Palo Alto, Calif. (UPI) Oct 7, 2010 The number of connections, or synapses, in a particular region of the brain varies between night and day and appears to be regulated by a gene, researchers say. Stanford University scientists have been studying what happens in the brain while you sleep and how the circadian clock and sleep affect neuron-to-neuron connections, a university release says. Why we need to sleep and ho ... more |
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Hungarian aluminium company offers compensation to victimsBudapest (AFP) Oct 7, 2010 MAL, the company at the centre of the massive toxic spill that has devastated parts of western Hungary and poisoned rivers, offered Thursday to pay compensation to families hit by the disaster. MAL Hungarian Aluminium Production and Trade Company - whose owners are among the richest individuals in the country - plans to pay "rapid aid" of 360 euros (504 dollars) to each family, or 110,000 euros in total, said Karoly Tili, the mayor of one of the hardest-hit villages. The exact cause of the acc ... read more |
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