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India unveils new 280-mln-dollar Bhopal disaster responseNew Delhi (AFP) June 24, 2010 India unveiled a new 280-million-dollar package to tackle the legacy of the Bhopal gas disaster Thursday and will renew efforts to prosecute the American ex-boss of the group blamed for the accident. The government said it would fund a clean up of the still-polluted site of the catastrophe, increase compensation for victims, improve medical facilities and try to extract more compensation from the culprit, Union Carbide. The new response more than 25 years after the world's worst industrial accid ... read more |
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Paris (AFP) June 4, 2010The World Health Organisation's handling of the swine flu pandemic was deeply marred by secrecy and conflict of interest with drug companies, a top medical journal said Friday. The British Medical Journal (BMJ) found that WHO guidelines on the use of antiviral drugs were prepared by experts who had received consulting fees from the top two manufacturers of these drugs, Roche and GlaxoSmithKl ... more  
Valletta (AFP) June 5, 2010A Greenpeace activist was recovering in hospital in Malta on Saturday after surgery for an injury caused by a grappling hook slung by tuna fishermen in a clash at sea, he told AFP. Frank Hewetson, 45, was trying to free endangered bluefin tuna from a commercial fishing net in the Mediterranean on Friday when the fishermen threw the hook at the Greenpeace dinghy he was in and it pierced his l ... more  
Moscow, Russia (ESA) Jun 04, 2010Hatch closed: 18-month Mars500 mission has begun. Mars500, the first full-length simulated mission to Mars, started today in Moscow at 13:49 local time (11:49 CET), when the six-man crew entered their 'spacecraft' and the hatch was closed. The experiment will run until November next year. The mood was serious and very determined in the Mars500 facility at the Institute of Biomedical Proble ... more |
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The Cosmic Burp Of Dying StarsLeicester, UK (SPX) May 28, 2010 The mysteries of the Universe and how we came to be are set to be unlocked by a technique for modelling fluids, similar to one which is becoming increasingly popular within the film industry to improve the realism of special effects. Theoretical Astrophysics student, Fergus Wilson from the University of Leicester, is currently utilising a fluid modelling technique within his doctoral research to enable investigation of the mass transfer from one star to another in a binary star system. Smoot ... read more |
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