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Iraqi Kurd demo fatalities rises to 10Sulaimaniyah, Iraq (AFP) April 23, 2011 A 28-year-old Kurdish protester died of gunshot wounds on Saturday, becoming the tenth person killed in more than two months of rallies in Iraq's northern autonomous region, a doctor said. "Hardi Farukh, who was wounded by a bullet to the head during demonstrations on April 18 in Sulaimaniyah, died this morning," said Hawar Naqshabandi, the director of the emergency hospital in Iraqi Kurdistan's second-biggest city of Sulaimaniyah. Farukh, who was engaged to be married and worked in a publishing ... read more |
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  Jobs hopes to return 'as soon as he can': Cook Apple's ailing chief executive Steve Jobs remains involved in major strategic decisions at the company and hopes to return to work full-time as soon as he can, a top Apple executive said on Wednesday. ... more | .. |
  Sandia And UNM Lead Effort To Destroy Cancers Melding nanotechnology and medical research, Sandia National Laboratories, the University of New Mexico, and the UNM Cancer Research and Treatment Center have produced an effective strategy that use ... more | .. |
  Second day of violent protests over India atomic plant Mobs attacked a hospital and blocked a highway in western India on Tuesday in a second day of violent protests against a planned nuclear power plant, after a protester was shot dead a day earlier. ... more | .. |
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 31 hurt in Iraq clashes with protesters Thirty-one people were injured, seven of them by live bullets, as demonstrators clashed with security forces in the northern Iraqi city of Sulaimaniyah on Sunday, a medical official said. ... more | .. |
  Trauma and controversy: Chernobyl's health legacy Every year, Volodymyr Palkin spends at least two months in a Kiev hospital. He was one of hundreds of thousands of rescue workers sent to fight the disaster at the Chernobyl nuclear plant and says his health has been permanently ruined by his work. ... more | .. |
  Four dead in Taliban suicide bomb at Afghan army base A suicide bombing at the Afghan army headquarters in the country's east killed four people and wounded eight on Saturday, officials told AFP, in an attack claimed by the Taliban. ... more | .. |
 Store blood cells from Fukushima workers - Lancet letter A group of Japanese doctors on Friday urged workers at the Fukushima nuclear plant to have their blood stemcells stored as a safeguard should they be exposed to life-threatening levels of radiation. ... more |
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Boeing X37B Spaceplane Prepares for Eighth Orbital Test Mission
Israel military intercepts Huthi missile fired from Yemen; Gaza civil defence says Israel strikes kill 30
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  Giant Fire-Bellied Toad's Brain Brims With Powerful Germ-Fighters Frog and toad skins already are renowned as cornucopias of hundreds of germ-fighting substances. Now a new report in ACS's Journal of Proteome Research reveals that the toad brains also may contain ... more | .. |
 Bacteria In Wasp Antennae Produce Antibiotic Cocktails Bacteria that grow in the antennae of wasps help ward off fungal threats by secreting a 'cocktail' of antibiotics explains a scientist at the Society for General Microbiology's Spring Conference in ... more | .. |
  Newswriting style as readership factor? An ongoing decline in newspaper readership among women isn't caused by common news writing styles used in news stories, U.S. researchers say. ... more | .. |
  Digging Deep Into The Fracking Controversy The turmoil in oil-producing nations is triggering turmoil at home, as rising oil prices force Americans to pay more at the pump. Meanwhile, there's a growing industry that's promising jobs and acce ... more |
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 Nine dead, including four police, in Iraq attacks Nine people were killed, including four policemen, from violence in and around Baghdad on Tuesday, security and hospital sources said. ... more | .. |
 Killers target Iraq's ravaged elite again The recent murder of an Iraqi surgeon and a university researcher indicates that insurgents are again assassinating scientists, doctors and academics, even as those who survived an earlier wave of attacks are starting to return from exile to help rebuild their country. ... more | .. |
  China milk activist 'force-fed on hunger strike' A Chinese father who was jailed after campaigning for victims of a tainted milk scandal said he was force-fed China-made milk powder while on hunger strike, a report said Thursday. ... more | .. |
 Super bug found in Indian water, seepage Researchers say they discovered antibiotic-resistant super bugs in New Delhi's water. ... more |
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Cosmic dust particles reveal snapshot of Earth's ancient air
Spire to Provide ESA with Satellite Weather Data for European Research
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  Former Cosmonaut Offers First-Hand Account Of The Death Of Yury Gagarin Russian pilot and cosmonaut Vladimir Aksyonov has offered the most plausible account to date of the crash of the fighter jet that killed Yury Gagarin, the first man in space, and Vladimir Seryogin, ... more | .. |
  TEXUS 49 Lifts Off With Four German Experiments On Board The TEXUS 49 sounding rocket lifted off from the Esrange Space Center near Kiruna in northern Sweden on 29 March 2011 at 06.01 CET. The German Aerospace Center (DLR) rocket, carrying four German exp ... more | .. |
  NASA Announces 2011 Carl Sagan Fellows NASA has selected five potential discoverers as the recipients of the 2011 Carl Sagan Postdoctoral Fellowships, named after the late astronomer. The Carl Sagan Fellowship takes a theme-based approac ... more | .. |
  Twinkle, Twinkle, Quantum Dot - New Particles Can Change Colors And Tag Molecules Engineers at Ohio State University have invented a new kind of nano-particle that shines in different colors to tag molecules in biomedical tests. These tiny plastic nano-particles are stuffed ... more |
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TEPCO president hospitalised, shares tumble Shares in Tokyo Electric Power tumbled again on Wednesday as the company at the centre of the worst nuclear crisis since Chernobyl in 1986 said its under-fire president had been hospitalised. ... more | .. |
  Seven injured in Greek landfill protest clashes: officials Seven people were injured Tuesday in clashes near Athens as riot police and bulldozers cleared a rural highway blocked for months by residents opposed to a landfill project, officials said. ... more | .. |
  Pollution In Our Melting Snow With birds chirping and temperatures warming , spring is finally in the air. But for University of Toronto Scarborough (UTSC) environmental chemist Torsten Meyer, springtime has a dark side. " ... more | .. |
  Space Program Can Help Realise Sustainable Development: PM India's space program has a vital role in realising sustainable development, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said Saturday, asking the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) to give priority to tel ... more |
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Designing compact drones to safely navigate air ducts
Map Africa project to deliver continentwide geospatial data for 54 nations
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  Rare elephant found dead in Indonesia: official A rare Sumatran elephant has died in Indonesia after blocking a village street for a week, an official said Sunday. ... more | .. |
 Study Finds More Efficient Means Of Creating, Arranging Carbon Nanofibers Carbon nanofibers hold promise for technologies ranging from medical imaging devices to precise scientific measurement tools, but the time and expense associated with uniformly creating nanofibers o ... more | .. |
  Researchers Close In On Technology For Making Renewable Petroleum University of Minnesota researchers are a key step closer to making renewable petroleum fuels using bacteria, sunlight and dioxide, a goal funded by a $2.2 million United States Department of Energy ... more | .. | |
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