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European freeze hits transport as Britain limits gasLondon (AFP) Jan 8, 2010 Europe was faced with grounded planes and axed trains Friday amid bitter winter weather and hard-hit Britain was forced to curb industrial gas usage to save dwindling supplies. Significant snowfalls in France caused major delays to train services and electricity cuts, while Germans were urged to stock up on food and medicines as they braced for up to 20 centimetres (eight inches) of snowfall ... read more |
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Washington (AFP) Dec 30, 2009The US Post Office could play a key role in distributing medical aid in the event of a biological attack, according to an executive order released by the White House on Wednesday. The order signed by President Barack Obama directs government agencies, local law enforcement and the US Post Office to work on a model for distribution of medical countermeasures in the wake of a biological attack ... more  
Dili (AFP) Dec 31, 2009The tiny nation of East Timor could face a deadly AIDS epidemic, with promiscuity among youths, low condom use and general ignorance leading to a sharp increase in reported cases, doctors said. "Most likely it will be a disaster in the near future," said Dr. Daniel Murphy, founder of Bairo Pite Clinic, one of four voluntary AIDS testing centres in Dili. East Timor is considered a low pre ... more  
Johannesburg (AFP) Dec 27, 2009Smoking dried vulture brains to have a vision of winning lotto numbers -- that's why customers come to Scelo, a vendor of traditional medicines, but it's a trend being blamed for killing off South Africa's vultures. "Vultures are scarce. I only have one every three or four months," said Scelo, a young healer in downtown Johannesburg's market for "muti", or traditional medicine. "Everybod ... more |
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Kandahar (AFP) Dec 18, 2009A NATO air strike against suspected militants in troubled southern Afghanistan killed three civilians and wounded one other, local government and hospital officials said Friday. The civilians were in a minibus travelling just before midnight on the main southern highway when they were attacked by helicopter gunships in Shah Wali Kot district of Kandahar province, the provincial governor's of ... more  
New Delhi (AFP) Dec 15, 2009Scientists who helped secure a ban on a cattle medicine blamed for plummeting vulture populations in India are scratching their heads after a replacement drug also proved lethal to the birds. Vultures, which have almost mythical status across much of the world, have become an endangered species in India due to their vulnerability to drugs found in the carrion they eat. Their near total ... more  
Toronto (UPI) Dec 15, 2009 Canadian physicists say they have discovered new behaviors of light occurring within photonic crystals. University of Toronto quantum optics researchers Professor Sajeev John and doctoral student Xun Ma said their findings could lead to faster optical information processing and compact computers that don't overheat. "We discovered that by sculpting a unique artificial vacuum ... more |
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