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US lawmakers welcome BP oil spill fundWashington (AFP) June 16, 2010 US lawmakers on Wednesday welcomed BP's agreement to create a 20-billion-dollar fund to pay claims from the Gulf of Mexico oil spill but vowed to keep holding the energy giant's feet to the fire. President Barack Obama's Democratic allies cheered the news as a solid step towards helping afflicted areas recover from the worst environmental catastrophe in US history but said that more action would be needed. Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi welcomed the news but warned: "If it takes more than ... read more |
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Quito, Ecuador (UPI) Jun 16, 2010 The Union of South American Nations seeks to make a deep impact in Latin America without ruffling feathers in two competing organizations, the regional bloc's secretary-general, Nestor Kirchner, said. The former Argentine president, husband of incumbent Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, named Mercosur trade bloc and the Andean Community as organizations he would be wary of bringing into c ... more  
Cambridge MA (SPX) Jun 10, 2010On the surface of things, how a bubble bursts may seem to be a simple, unremarkable event. In the June 10th issue of Nature, engineers at Harvard report just the opposite, having uncovered the beautifully complex physics behind rupturing bubbles. Instead of simply vanishing, a large bubble disperses into a ring of smaller bubbles. The finding could be appropriately called an advance in "po ... more  
Durham, UK (SPX) Jun 15, 2010New research by astronomers in the Physics Department at Durham University suggests that the conventional wisdom about the content of the Universe may be wrong. Graduate student Utane Sawangwit and Professor Tom Shanks looked at observations from the Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) satellite to study the remnant heat from the Big Bang. The two scientists find evidence that the ... more |
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Dozens dead, missing in China landslidesBeijing (AFP) June 15, 2010 Landslides triggered by heavy rain have left at least 24 people dead and another 23 people missing in southern China, state media reported Tuesday. In the southwest, 23 people were killed when part of a mountain cascaded down onto a construction site in Sichuan province's Kangding county, slamming into tents where the victims were sleeping, the China News Service said. Seven people were hurt, three of them seriously, it said. Only four workers managed to escape unscathed. In southeastern Chi ... read more |
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