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Japan Develop Laser Weapons Amid North Korea Threat
Tokyo (AFP) May 13, 2007Japan plans to develop high-power laser weapons next year to strengthen its anti-missile defence system, in response to the growing military threat from North Korea, a report said Sunday. The Defence Ministry will ask for funds for research and development of ground-based laser weapons in the annual budget request for fiscal 2008, the Mainichi Shimbun daily reported, without clarifying sources.< ... more Estonia To Discuss Cyber-Attacks With NATO And EU 
Tallinn (AFP) May 11, 2007Estonia is to raise the issue of how to handle cyber-attacks against state computer systems in meetings with partner member states of the NATO military alliance and European Union, officials said Friday. "If the ports of a NATO member country are under attack, it is considered an attack against the whole of NATO, and the military alliance comes to help," Defence Minister Jaak Aaviksoo said. ... more US And Poland To Begin Formal Talks On Missile Shield 
Warsaw (AFP) May 11, 2007The United States and Poland will next week open formal talks on a controversial missile defence shield that Washington wants to extend into central Europe, a US embassy official said Friday. "We will start the first round of official talks on Monday," embassy spokesman Andrew Shilling told AFP. Washington wants to site 10 interceptor missiles in Poland and a targeting radar in the Czech Republi ... more North Korea Unveiled New Ballistic Missile 
Tokyo (AFP) May 13, 2007North Korea has unveiled its latest intermediate-range ballistic missile at a military parade, amid an international standoff over its nuclear programme, a report said Sunday. The new missile, using former Soviet Union's technologies of the 1960s, is estimated to have a range of about 5,000 kilometres (3,100 miles), the Asahi Shimbun daily reported, citing unnamed government sources from Japan a ... more Beyond Paris 
London UK (SPX) May 14, 2007In the June issue of the Journal of Consumer Research, a important study by Tuba Ustuner (City University, London) and Douglas B. Holt (University of Oxford) explores how consumer culture is enacted in ramshackle neighborhoods on the peripheries of global cities. More than one billion people-about 1/6 of the world's total population- live in these often illegal squatter neighborhoods on the outs ... more |
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Norwich UK (SPX) May 14, 2007Scientists have discovered how ocean circulation is working in the current that flows around Antarctica by tracing the path of helium from underwater volcanoes. The team, which included researchers from the University of East Anglia, has discovered a 'short-circuit' in the circulation of the world's oceans that could aid predictions about future climate change. This process in the Souther ... more Analysts Question Concerns Over China-Africa Relations 
Johannesburg (AFP) May 13, 2007China is not the only investor motivated by self-interest in its pursuit of closer ties with Africa, a continent in dire need of generous new friends, South African observers believe. Human rights concerns raised as China and Africa bond economically and politically, while not to be dismissed, come mostly from economic rivals whose own democratic records leave much to be desired, they say. ... more New Petroleum-Degrading Bacteria Found At Rancho La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles 
Los Angeles CA (SPX) May 14, 2007Environmental scientists at UC Riverside have discovered that the Rancho La Brea tar pits in Los Angeles, Calif., house hundreds of new species of bacteria with unusual properties, allowing the bacteria to survive and grow in heavy oil and natural asphalt. Trapped in soil that was mixed with heavy oil nearly 28,000 years ago, the bacteria are uniquely adapted to the pits' oil and natural asphalt ... more India Wakes Up To E-Waste As Economy Booms 
New Delhi (AFP) May 13, 2007Environmentalists, alarmed by surging demand for consumer gadgets in India, are pushing manufacturers to tackle mounting piles of hazardous . India's 300-million strong middle class is grabbing gadgets as global competition pushes down costs of electronics which a decade ago were beyond the reach of many households. "We're raising the red flag," said Vinuta Gopal, spokeswoman of the Indian ... more Russia Sparks Up Tianwan First Unit 
Moscow (RIA Novosti) May 14, 2007Russia's nuclear equipment export monopoly said Thursday it has started a 100-hour test of the first power unit of the Tianwan nuclear power plant in China at nominal capacity. Atomstroyexport is building the Tianwan NPP in eastern China's port city of Lianyungang. The plant, which is being built under a 1992 bilateral agreement, features improved VVER-1000 reactors and K-100-6/3000 turbo-genera ... more |
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Paris, France (ESA) May 11, 2007Travellers have relied on accurate timekeeping for navigation since the development of the marine chronometer in the eighteenth century. Galileo, Europe's twenty-first century navigation system, also relies on clocks - but they are millions of times more accurate than those earlier timepieces. The operational Galileo satellites will carry two types of clocks - passive hydrogen masers and ... more Cassini Spacecraft Reveals Evidence Of Tholin Formation At High Altitudes In Titan's Atmosphere 
San Antonio TX (SPX) May 11, 2007Scientists have long known that the lower atmosphere of Saturn's moon Titan contains organic aerosols, or tholins, formed from simple organic molecules, such as methane and nitrogen. Researchers had assumed these tholins formed at altitudes of several hundred kilometers, but new information gathered by three particle spectrometers aboard the Cassini spacecraft shows tholin formation happens in ... more Space Systems/Loral Awarded Contract To Build High-Power Satellite For SES New Skies 
Palo Alto CA (SPX) May 11, 2007Space Systems/Loral has announced that it has been awarded a contract to manufacture a new spacecraft for SES New Skies, a subsidiary of SES Global. NSS-12 will be used to enable communications services for telecommunications providers, broadcasters, corporations and governments in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, India and other parts of Asia. NSS-12 is the first satellite contract ... more India To Launch Three More Foreign Satellites 
New Delhi, India (AFP) May 10, 2007India, which placed an Italian satellite into orbit last month, plans to launch three more foreign satellites, a government minister said Thursday. "The Indian Space Research Organisation has already signed agreements for putting into space three more foreign satellites," Prithviraj Chavan, a minister in the prime minister's office, told parliament. Chavan did not elaborate on the a ... more Kazakh Cosmonauts To Complete Training By Year End As Another Progress Rolls Out 
Astana, Kazakhstan (RIA Novosti) May 11, 2007Two Kazakh cosmonauts will complete a training course before the year end, but a date for their flight to the International Space Station has not been fixed, the head of Russia's space agency said Thursday. Anatoly Perminov, the general director of the Federal Space Agency who is accompanying President Vladimir Putin on a visit to the Central Asian state dominated by crucial energy projects ... more
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