Tourism-related projects in Dubai would touch 450 billion dirhams ($122 billion) by 2018, or more than 50 percent of the 858 billion dirhams ($231 billion) being projected for the whole of United Arab Emirate (UAE), WAM news agency reported...
Melbourne, May 4 : Keanu Reeves starrer 'The Matrix' has topped a poll to be named the best science fiction movie or TV show of the past 25...
Jalandhar (Punjab), May 4 : Jalandhar's Apeejay School has done the country proud by winning the National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA) annual space settlement...
Dubai Duty Free is spending more than $27.2m in building up its total retail area at Dubai International Airport, reported Gulf News. DDF currently has 80,000 sqft of retail space but by November the.
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BANGKOK : Science had a rare victory over politics at this week's UN climate change conference, after a united call for action emerged despite fierce debate over how to best tackle global warming.
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Washington, Coral reef fish hatchlings dispersed by ocean currents are able to make their way back to their home reefs again to spawn, a new study conducted by an international team of Australian,...
IAN JOHNSTON MARTIN Durkin, producer of the controversial Channel 4 television programme The Great Global Warming Swindle, claims any rise in temperatures will be "mild, beneficial", is not caused...
BANGKOK, Thailand (AP) - From nuclear power to reforestation to better toasters, the world now has a game plan from climate experts for fighting global warming, a report their chief scientist says...
Washington, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover has found evidence of an ancient volcanic explosion at the rover's landing site in Gusev Crater on the Red...
THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WINDSOR LOCKS, Conn. -- Coming up with a glove to be worn in the void of space is not a typical design challenge, but an engineer from Maine has impressed NASA with a design..
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By Debra Sherman CHICAGO (Reuters) - Boston Scientific Corp. insists its new chief financial officer will not embark on a new course at the medical device company, but many on Wall Street are .
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New York Sun Works Center for Sustainable Engineering's Science Barge, a floating urban farm powered by sustainable energy that raises vegetables through water-saving hydroponic technology, moored at.
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Environment minister John Baird.
(CP/Tom Hanson) OTTAWA (CP) - Opposition parties say a new United Nations climate change report debunks the Harper government's contention that Canada can't meet its...
Fossilized bones from the two titanosaurs were found in 2005 and 2006 by ranchers near the town of Eromanga, 600 miles west of the Queensland state capital, Brisbane. They were put on display for the..
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Washington, The ESA/NASA Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) has finally managed to catch a glimpse of the long sought oscillations, g-modes, on the Sun's..
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The breakthrough, researchers said, could see the price of an installed solar system for an average house fall from around 20,000 to 15,000 dollars. Up to 45 percent of the cost of solar cell.
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By MICHELLE LOCKEASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER OAKLAND, Calif.
-- Engineers are analyzing bent steel and broken concrete from this week's fiery highway collapse in hopes of learning someday how to build...
Comcast will occupy all of the second floor and part of the first floor, said Duffy. Comcast, which is scheduled to move in this fall, could not be reached for comment. Duffy said office rents for.
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TORONTO, May 4 /CNW/ - The Ontario Science Centre is making connections between the world of art, science and technology with Fusion '07.
This annual event is a combination of art displays,...
By Rob Taylor Canberra - Australian fashion's show week wound up on Friday amid a bitter row over stick-thin models, lacklustre reviews and claims leading local designers largely ignored the...
By David Douglas New York - Findings from a study support a connection between Escherichia coli infection and inflammatory bowel disease, or IBD, which includes ulcerative colitis (inflammation of...
WASHINGTON - May 4 - A scientific report released in Bangkok this morning paints a gloomy picture of ballooning global warming emissions over the next three decades if action isn't taken soon. The..
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NEW YORK " (PRESS RELEASE) -- Scientific Games Corporation (Nasdaq: SGMS) today reported first quarter 2007 revenues of $242.3 million, up 16 percent from $208.
1 million in the first quarter of...
Washington, Mercury has a fluid core and researchers came to know of it by using a simple test chefs often use to differentiate between a raw and a hard boiled...
Washington, Amphibians are losing the race to keep pace with the current rate of global change, according to the findings of a new study by Oregon State University (OSU)...
Paintings of Buddha dating back at least to the 12th century have been discovered in a cave in a remote area of Nepal's north-central region. Researchers made the find after being tipped off by a..
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London - Crowds of shoppers besieged Boots stores on Friday morning in search of the Holy Grail of cosmetics - an anti-ageing cream that actually seems to work. In the latest of a series of High.
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A freight train carrying segments of the space shuttle's solid rocket boosters through Alabama derailed Wednesday after a recently repaired bridge collapsed over boggy ground, authorities said.
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London - Right-to-life campaigners warned of a surge in abortions following the release this week of a new DNA testing kit which determines the sex of a baby six weeks into pregnancy, a report said...
B ANGKOK, Thailand - Delegates at an international conference on climate change brokered a blueprint Friday for combatting global warming, resisting pressure from China to tone down language on...
BUSINESSMEN and women will learn the gruesome realities of 19th-century medicine in a new corporate hospitality package. Edinburgh's Royal College of Physicians is set to launch An Evening with Dr..
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Chicago - A molten core may make Mercury spin in its orbit like a raw egg, according to a study published online on Thursday in Science magazine. Scientists have long though that Mercury had a.
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By Binaj Gurubacharya Katmandu - Paintings of Buddha dating back at least to the 12th century have been discovered in a cave in Nepal's remote north-central region by a team of international.
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Bangkok - Bangkok's administrators called on households and businesses in the Thai capital to switch off lights next Wednesday to raise awareness about global warming, an official said.
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PARIS (AP) - The jailed Venezuelan terrorist known as Carlos the Jackal is to face trial for his alleged role in deadly terror bombings in 1982 and 1983 in France, judicial officials said Friday. ..
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THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MEQUON, Wis. -- Bald eagle fans have something to celebrate: the first recorded successful nesting of the species in southeastern Wisconsin in more than a century.
Owen...
: "This kind of teaching to the test actually undermines the government's ambitions in making these changes to personalise pupils' learning." The Department for Education and Skills (DfES) says it..
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HOUSTON (Reuters) - U.S.
space pioneer Wally Schirra, who helped lead America into the space age as one of the original Mercury 7 astronauts, has died at the age of 84, NASA said on...
IBM has developed a way to make microchips run up to one-third faster or require 15 per cent less power by using an exotic material that "self-assembles" in a similar way to a seashell or snowflake. ..
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By Anne Harding New York - Post-menopausal women who like barbecued and smoked meat would be wise to eat plenty of fruit and vegetables too, a new study suggests. Dr Susan E Steck of the.
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Beijing - Chinese authorities have begun implanting digital identification chips in the capital's dogs, state media reported on Thursday, months after the government launched a campaign against.
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Madrid - Huge flocks of starving vultures have started attacking live animals in northern Spain, officials in the city of Burgos said on Thursday.
In one incident, about 100 vultures killed a cow...
By FRANK ELTMANASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER NEW HYDE PARK, N.Y. -- Doctors probed deep into the center of a 3-year-old girl's brain to save her from her own laughter.
Anastasia Lagalla's...
The gene (Drd4) carries the building instructions for a receptor in the brain, which forms the docking station for the neurotransmitter dopamine. Birds with a specific variant of this dopamine..
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In an Associated Press interview in April, astronaut Walter Schirra reflected on what it meant to him to see Earth from space. He made the comments for a story on astronauts' views of Earth Day.
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Till now, these pressures have only been available experimentally next to underground nuclear explosions. "This lets us explore a new regime of chemistry and reproduce the conditions of more extreme..
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Paris - A French space probe designed to look for worlds orbiting other stars has made its first find, a "hot Jupiter" that zips closely around a sun about 1 500 light years away, the National Centre..
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Washington, Astronomers at the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics (CfA) claim to have discovered the most massive known transiting extrasolar..
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As a part of their study, researchers of the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at UCL (University College London), studied 24 healthy subjects as they played a gambling game to win money. The.
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Catherine Pearce, FoE Nevertheless, observers suggested the outstanding issues could be resolved by the time the final text is due to be published, at 1300 Bangkok time Friday (0700GMT).
"It is a...
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