Metallica Takes Fans Inside New Album

Will Metallica opt for a pay-what-you want, free, or fixed price level of fan engagement? Note the last line of this highlighted story. It sounds like it's anyone's guess."As the September release of its first...

Study ranks Canadians second-last on environment

Canada has been ranked second to last, only beating the US in a new study of consumer habits and how they affect the environment.Out of 14 countries, Canada scored a very low rating from the National Geographic...

Spacecraft Observes Powerful Electrical Storm on Saturn

"The mission of Cassini spacecraft continues as it monitors the powerful electrical storm on Saturn, where the lightning is 10,000 times more powerful than the lightning on Earth."

UN peacekeeping chief calls for law, order in Kosovo

"The UN peacekeeping chief Jean- Marie Guehenno on Sunday called on Kosovo Serb leaders to respect law and order as violence is not a way to solve problems.Guehenno, the UN undersecretary-general for peacekeeping operations, made the appeal after meeting the presidents of...

Coalition Treats Afghans in Medical Outreach Effort

" BAGRAM AIR BASE, Afghanistan, April 28, 2008 – Several hundred citizens from a village near Tag Ab Valley in Afghanistan’s Kapisa province swarmed a makeshift hospital April 19 during a village medical outreach hosted by Task Force Gladiator servicemembers....

India ready for Mission on moon:ISRO scientist upbeat

India Government has   given a green signal for the manned mission to moon called Chandrayan mission.India plans to send an unmanned spacecraft to the moon by 2008 and has begun to study technologies...

New Orleans Panel Questions Law as Solution to Homeless Colony

Please keep in mind that many of these 'homeless' actually work, though at relatively low-paying, and sometimes sporadic, jobs. Many also make use of daytime facilities available that includes showers, laundry, meals, and phones. They are not 'filthy vagrants'."A month after...

British Columbia: Serial Rapist & Killer escapes

OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorMany British Columbians are asking themselves, what the hell was a repeat rapist and murderer allowed in Minimum Security Prison given his long record of offences? ...

Soyuz Lands in Kazakhstan

Russia's Soyuz TMA-11 has landed in Kazakhstan, intact but off-course. ON board was a small international crew, including South Korea's first astronaut, Yi So-yeon."The crew are safe, but were subjected to severe...

Making Pledges and Smashing Toys: Global Day for Darfur

Five years on, and the conflict in Sudan's Darfur region continues. Around the world today, human rights campaigners are holding events to return this tragedy to the public eye; the region seems to be a vidtim...

Mars lander aims for touchdown in 'Green Valley'

Life on Mars..."Mars lander aims for touchdown in 'Green Valley' 22:37 11 April 2008 NewScientist.com news service David Shiga   Enlarge image ...

First Korean astronaut blasts off

"South Korea's first astronaut Yi So-Yeon blasted off into space on Tuesday, prompting her mother, apparently overwhelmed by the occasion, to scream and fall to the ground.In another historic first, one of her fellow cosmonauts, Sergei Volkov, followed in the footsteps of his...

Spectacular wind turbine project in Bahrain

I'm not sure if it's actually cost effective energy wise to build giant buildings like that and it looks more like an prestige project than an attempt to become more "green" The region is known to...

Indonesia sends personnel to join UN peace mission exercise in Bangladesh

"Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Indonesia on Sunday sent 40 military personnel to join a UN peacekeeping force exercise in Bangladesh.The exercise code-named "Shanti Doot-2" was opened by Bangladeshi Air Force Chief of Staff Vice Marshal Zia Rahman at the Bangladesh Institute of...

How Many Cables do you Have Under Your Desk?

Neat idea via CNET, a company called Green Plug is having a 'what's under your desk' contest. The goal is simple, take pics of the mess under your desk, and send it in!My house has several 'choke' points of...

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