"Efforts to prevent the loss of biodiversity should start from agriculture, said UN Secretary- General Ban Ki-moon Thursday in a message on the International Day for Biological Diversity."This Day serves as a reminder of the importance of the Earth's biodiversity, and as a...
"Paris (ANTARA News) - French researchers said on Wednesday they had invented a hydrogen fuel cell as a backup power source for mobile phones, thus easing dependence on an electricity supply to charge the gadget.The miniature fuel cell uses a hydrogen-filled cartridge about...
"Jakarta (ANTARA News) - Indonesia raised the alert level on the tallest volcano on Java island Thursday after it spewed heat clouds down its slopes, the volcanology office saidThe alert level of Mount Semeru was...
"Astronomers are puzzled by the discovery of a pulsar with an unusual orbit never before seen in similar fast-spinning neutron stars that beam regular pulses of radio waves.Pulsars usually have a circular orbit around white dwarf stars, but the newly found object travels in...
"The International Labor Organization is currently conducting its first full-scale analytical research on the impact of climate change on labor markets, its head said in a recent interview in Tokyo with Kyodo...
"The United States has warned Beijing over reported use of Chinese weapons by insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as the Asian giant's continued sale of arms to Iran, Deputy Secretary of State John Negroponte said Thursday.He said he conveyed the concerns personally to...
"Washington (ANTARA News/afp) - A radar map of the Martian north pole reveals a four-layer ice structure laid down over a period of five million years, on top of sedimentary rocks hundreds of kilometers thick, scientists said Thursday in a report.The data provided by NASA's...
"The United States has poured nearly 40 billion dollars in aid to South Asia since the September 11 attacks but the terror threat from the region remains a top problem, a congressional hearing was told Wednesday."South Asia is arguably the place from which America faces the...
"Bex, Switzerland (ANTARA News/afp) - Icarus crashed and burned when he flew too close to the sun but a modern-day Swiss adventurer had a happier landing Wednesday when testing his new jet-powered "wing".Yves Rossy, the self-styled "Fusionman", leapt into the skies 2,500...
"A US judge has ordered a pair of accused spammers to pay MySpace about 230 million dollars in what was being billed Wednesday as a record-setting punishment for such Internet abuses.Federal district court judge Audrey Collins issued a judgment against Sanford Wallace and...
"High tech met high art late Tuesday when a robot conducted the Detroit Symphony Orchestra.It was the first time an orchestra was handed over to a robot and the diminutive, spaceman-like machine got rave reviews.Both the audience and performers burst into applause after...
"New York (ANTARA News - Dow Jones Indexes, a leading global index provider, yesterday launched the Dow Jones Islamic Market (DJIM) China Offshore Hong Kong Index.The index represents the performance of companies that have been screened for compliance with Islamic principles...
"A corn-like plant that can grow as high as an elephant`s eye on some of Earth`s driest farmland shows promise as a "smart" biofuel that won`t cut into world food supplies, an agriculture expert said on Monday.Sweet sorghum, used in the United States mostly as animal feed,...
"Seven near-simultaneous bomb blasts tore through crowded markets in the Indian tourist city of Jaipur Tuesday, killing at least 80 people and wounding 150 in what police said was a terror attack."We have information that 80 people have died," Rajasthan state home minister...
"Tokyo (ANTARA News) - The world's smallest one-man helicopter will soon take flight in the birthplace of Leonardo da Vinci, who is credited with having first thought of a vertical-flight machine, its developer said.The 75-kilogram (165-pound) helicopter will make a...
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