Saudi Arabia King is donating $1 billion to help Gaza

Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz Al Saudthe, the king of Saudi Arabia, has offered $1 billion in financial support for the rebuilding efforts in Gaza Strip. The King has also warned Israel that the peace option will not...

EU says Gaza reconstruction won't happen under Hamas rule

" A senior European Union official said Monday that she expected humanitarian aid to Gaza to flow quickly, but signaled that reconstruction of buildings and infrastructure would only begin when the EU has an...

UK police to map all citizen's car journeys and save data for five years

Th UK is already the world's most spied on by state and private CCTV cameras. Now the UK police are using the technology to map all citizens' car journeys and keep the data on record for five years. This is...

UN chief appreciates Indonesia`s hard work to reconstruct Aceh

"The UN chief made the positive assessment when he met with Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on the sidelines of the international conference of parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on...

ADB to channel US$30 million for Nias reconstruction

""All kinds of ADB projects in Nias ranging from the development of the education and health sectors to housing, are hopefully be completed late this year," Peter Smith, an official of the ADB office in Nias said on Monday. To build houses in Nias and Nanggroe Aceh...

Shakira Gives $40 million to Latin American Foundation

 "Washington, Sept 29 : Pop star Shakira is contributing 40 million dollars to help reconstruct areas in South America hit by recent natural disasters. The pop star will contribute the amount from the...

Heatwave on the top of the world

Yesterday, I wrote about a new study showing the effects of climate change on the Tibetan Plateau. Today, in my inbox through Google Alerts, came an article about a study by Chinese glaciologists in 2001 and 2002...

Cyclones devastate African coastline

Cyclones Gamede and Favio both have both devastated the African coastline; Favio hit the shores of Southern Mozambique, which was already suffering the effects of massive flooding. Gamede, meanwhile, caused 140mph...

Experts Reconstruct Leonardo da Vinci's Fingerprint

"Anthropologists said they have pieced together Leonardo da Vinci's left index fingerprint -- a discovery that could help provide information on such matters as the food the artist ate and whether his mother was of Arabic origin. The reconstruction of the fingerprint was the...

Scientists Reverse Evolution, Reconstruct Ancient Gene

" It's not Jurassic Park, but scientists have reconstructed a 530-million-year-old gene by piecing together key portions of two modern genes descended from it. "We've shown some of the elements involved in the...

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