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Propaganda authorities take over Beijing papersBeijing (AFP) Sept 4, 2011 China's propaganda authorities have placed two of Beijing's most popular and colourful newspapers under new management, state press said, in a move decried by critics as an effort to censor the news. Beijing's Communist Party-run media authorities have taken over at the helm of the popular "Beijing News" and the "Beijing Times," the government-run Qianlong website reported late Saturday. Both papers routinely run stories critical of local governments around China, as well as articles that defy e ... read more |
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  A Fish that Leaps to Land One of the world's strangest animals - a unique fish that lives on land and can leap large distances despite having no legs - has a rich and complex social life, a new study has found. The odd ... more | .. |
  TerraSAR-X monitors gas storage centre all the way from space When a series of images acquired with the German radar satellite TerraSAR-X - operated by the German Aerospace Center - are combined into a sequence, the result is truly amazing; even gas storage ta ... more | .. |
  Warming streams could be the end for salmon Warming streams could spell the end of spring-run Chinook salmon in California by the end of the century, according to a study by scientists at UC Davis, the Stockholm Environment Institute and the ... more | .. |
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  Grim search after 25 die in Japan typhoon Rescue teams on Monday resumed a grim search for the missing after a deadly typhoon pummelled western Japan leaving at least 25 people dead and more than 50 unaccounted for. ... more | .. |
  Two Brain Halves Just One Perception Our brain is divided into two hemispheres, which are linked through only a few connections. However, we do not seem to have a problem to create a coherent image of our environment - our perception i ... more | .. |
  How bacteria capture carbon in the twilight zone of the oceans Understanding the flow and processing of carbon in the world's oceans, which cover 70 percent of Earth's surface, is central to understanding global climate cycles, with many questions remaining una ... more | .. |
 Climate in the past million years determined greatly by dust in the Southern Ocean A group of scientists led by researchers from the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB) and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) has quantified dust and iron fluxes deposited in ... more |
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 Typhoon kills 20 in Japan, over 50 missing A typhoon that pummelled western Japan left at least 20 people dead and more than 50 missing, reports said Sunday, after swollen rivers swept away buildings and landslides crushed houses. ... more | .. |
  'Stemcell zoo' could save endangered species: study Scientists said Sunday they had produced the first stemcells from endangered species, a breakthrough that could potentially save dozens of animals teetering on the brink of extinction. ... more | .. |
 Storm Lee brings flash floods to Louisiana Tropical Storm Lee on Sunday brought torrential rains and flash flooding to the US Gulf Coast after making landfall near New Orleans, the latest bad weather to batter the country. ... more | .. |
  Haiti political knot complicates governance: outgoing PM Haiti's caretaker prime minister warned that day-to-day government in the quake-ravaged country has been snarled by a political impasse between the new president and an opposition-controlled parliament. ... more |
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 Obama tours flooded, storm-hit New Jersey President Barack Obama on Sunday toured the flood-battered state of New Jersey to survey damage from Hurricane Irene, which last week left entire towns underwater and claimed dozens of lives along the US east coast. ... more | .. |
 Happy Feet the penguin begins long swim home Happy Feet, the lost penguin who became a worldwide celebrity after he washed up on a New Zealand beach was released back into the Southern Ocean on Sunday to begin a long swim home to Antarctica. ... more | .. |
  Chirac, on graft trial, France's most popular politician Jacques Chirac's corruption trial - opening Monday - deals a body blow to the two-time French president, an ugly intrusion into the veteran leader's golden retirement from the political front line. ... more | .. |
  UN, EU leaders to hear Pacific climate concerns Pacific leaders will highlight the threat that rising seas pose to low-lying nations at a regional forum in Auckland this week attended by the heads of the United Nations and the European Commission. ... more |
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Iran's nuclear programme, Netanyahu's age-old obsession
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Storm drenches Louisiana, threatens US flooding Tropical Storm Lee lurched toward the US Gulf Coast on Saturday, dumping heavy rain on Louisiana and threatening extensive flooding that will put the New Orleans levee system to the test. ... more | .. |
  60% of deforested Amazon used for cattle: study More than 60 percent of deforested areas of the Brazilian Amazon forest are used for grazing cattle, while only five percent is used for agriculture, a new government study said. ... more | .. |
  ATS statement regarding White House decision to delay new ozone standard The White House has issued a press release stating they would not move to issue a final standard on ozone pollution. The American Thoracic Society strongly condemns this decision. "This is not ... more | .. |
  Nigerian soldiers kill two in reprisal attack on town Nigerian soldiers killed at least two people and wounded several others in a reprisal attack on a northeastern town where a woman was killed last month, emergency and residents said Saturday. ... more |
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 Famine likely to spread in southern Somalia: UN Famine-hit areas of southern Somalia will likely spread in coming days, with the situation continuing to worsen despite massive international aid efforts, the United Nations has warned. ... more | .. |
 Last-ditch efforts to save dying Iran lake turn political Efforts to stem the rapid drying up of Iran's largest lake took a political turn this week after arrests were made in a local protest against the governments inaction on the ecological disaster. ... more | .. |
 US readies flood aid to N. Korea The $900,000 in US aid for flood-hit North Korea that Washington announced last month will be delivered in the coming days, the US State Department said Friday. ... more | .. |
 China censors Ai Weiwei's Newsweek essay Chinese censors have removed an essay by Ai Weiwei in which the dissident artist strongly criticises the country's government and justice system from the latest issue of Newsweek magazine. ... more |
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EU clears European satellite giant SES bid for US rival Intelsat
Aethero Secures $8.4M to Build the Next Generation of Space-Based Computing and Autonomous Spacecraft
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 UN dismisses fears of Tripoli water crisis Water shortages in Tripoli are "serious" but not "critical", the United Nations' humanitarian coordinator in Libya said Friday, dismissing fears of a looming disaster. ... more | .. |
 Reconstruction from quake top priority: Japan PM Noda Japan's new Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda on Friday said that reconstruction from the March 11 earthquake and tsunami and the resolution of the nuclear crisis were top priorities for his government. ... more | .. |
 Sri Lankan survey finds 'healthy' elephant numbers Sri Lanka's elephant population remains healthy despite decades of fighting between government and rebel forces, the first survey since the end of the nation's bloody civil war showed Friday. ... more | .. |
  China tycoon makes Iceland environment pledge A Chinese property tycoon who is trying to buy a huge swathe of Iceland for a luxury resort said Friday he had been attracted by the country's wilderness and pledged to respect the local environment. ... more |
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 Malaysia seizes 1,000 elephant tusks: reports Malaysia has seized more than 1,000 African elephant tusks in two separate shipments in the past two months, reports said Saturday. ... more | .. |
 Natural Cycle Driving Cold Winter Extremes But Not Warm Winter Extremes During the last two winters, some regions of the northern hemisphere experienced extreme cold not seen in recent decades. But at the same time, the winters of 2009-10 and 2010-11 were also marked by ... more | .. |
 Obama dismays backers with air pollution U-turn US President Barack Obama on Friday shelved new anti-smog standards, dismaying supporters with his latest concession to the Republican agenda enforced by the jobs crisis and sickly economy. ... more | .. |
 New Japanese PM unveils youthful cabinet Japan's new prime minister Yoshihiko Noda on Friday named a youthful cabinet lacking the usual political heavyweights, as he attempts to unite a divided party and safeguard a fragile post-quake recovery. ... more |
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