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Friday, 4 February, 2011
PARIS — Palestinian prime minister Salam Fayyad was in Paris yesterday to meet French leaders and international peacebrokers on an official visit aimed at boosting flagging efforts for Palestinian statehood.
Fayyad met with French Prime Minister Francois Fillon early in the afternoon. During commen
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Friday, 4 February, 2011
LONDON — The UN’s maritime agency launched a new drive against piracy yesterday amid concerns that the seizing of ships by Somali pirates was outstripping international efforts to stop them.
“Piracy seems to be outpacing the efforts of the international community to stem it,” UN Secretary General B
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Friday, 4 February, 2011
MIAMI — The global warehouse for Internet addresses ran empty yesterday.
The non-profit Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) doled out its last five batches of “IP” numbers that identify destinations for digital traffic.
“A pool of more than four billion Internet addresses h
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Friday, 4 February, 2011
LONDON — A novel way of splitting materials into sheets just one atom thick could lead to new electronic and energy storage technologies, scientists said yesterday.
A team of researchers said they had invented a versatile way to make one atom thick “nanosheets” from a range of layered materials, si
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Friday, 4 February, 2011
MILAN/MANILA — World food prices hit a record in January, the UN said, while its hunger arm warned bad weather meant a looming era of food volatility.
Up for the seventh month in a row, the closely watched UN Food and Agriculture Organisation Food Price Index yesterday touched its highest since rec
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Friday, 4 February, 2011
WASHINGTON — A pair of unusually severe droughts have parched the Amazon in recent years, raising concern about the rainforest’s future as an absorber of carbon emissions.
A rare drought in 2005 was billed as a once-in-a-hundred-years event, but then it was followed by another drought in 2010 that
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Friday, 4 February, 2011
PARIS — Astronomers said yesterday they had found six planets orbiting a distant
star in the most exciting but also most challenging find since exploration of other solar systems began 15 years ago.
None of the so-called exoplanets, orbiting the star Kepler-11 2,000 light years away, is remotely c
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Friday, 4 February, 2011
WASHINGTON — Mysterious dark sand dunes around Mars’ northern polar cap are shifting with the seasons, as carbon dioxide gas changes form and sparks landscape-altering avalanches, said a study published yesterday.
Images from Nasa’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, which has been collecting data from t
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Friday, 4 February, 2011
HAVANA — She has trouble seeing and needs help to stand up, but at 126 years young Juana Bautista de la Candelaria Rodriguez says she still has a lot of good years left.
“They say I am the oldest person in Cuba, I would never have thought it, and I really hope to get to 130,” the woman known affect
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Thursday, 3 February, 2011
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MUSCAT — A mutual understanding and bilateral collaboration between the Sultanate of Oman and India in the sustainable management of water resources can benefit both nations, according to eminent scientist and former chairman of Central Water Commission of India, Dr Madhavrao Chi
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