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Cool Movie: SDO Destroys A SundogHuntsville AL (SPX) Feb 22, 2010 Last week, on Feb. 11th, the Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) lifted off from Cape Canaveral on a five-year mission to study the sun. Researchers have called the advanced spacecraft the "crown jewel" of NASA's heliophysics fleet. SDO will beam back IMAX-quality images of solar explosions and peer beneath the stellar surface to see the sun's magnetic dynamo in action. SDO is designed to amaze - and it got off to a good start. "The observatory did something amazing before it even left the atmo ... read more |
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Moscow (AFP) Feb 19, 2010Russia will honour a contract to deliver advanced air defence missiles to Iran, Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Riabkov said Friday. "There is a contract on the delivery of these systems to Iran and we will honour it," the Interfax news agency quoted him as saying. He said the "delay" in the delivery was "linked to technical problems." Russian officials Wednesday announced a delay in ... more 
Miranshah, Pakistan (AFP) Feb 19, 2010A brother of Al-Qaeda-linked warlord Sirajuddin Haqqani, whose network is fighting in Afghanistan, has been killed in a US missile attack in Pakistan, officials said Friday. The death of Mohammed Haqqani, who was involved in the Afghan network, in an attack thought to have been targeting his brother will be a symbolic blow to the Haqqani leadership and a further boost for the controversial U ... more  
Port-Au-Prince (AFP) Feb 21, 2010The burnt-out church where he once preached to the poor in a Port-au-Prince slum is in ruins, but the graffiti on its stone walls is defiant: "Titid come back," it says, "quick, quick." Titid - known to the rest of the world as Jean-Bertrand Aristide - was forced out of Haiti six years ago, but the suffering wrought by last month's devastating earthquake has intensified calls for the retur ... more |
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Electric bikes on a roll in ChinaTianjin, China (AFP) Feb 21, 2010 Chinese commuters in their millions are turning to electric bicycles - hailed as the environmentally-friendly future of personal transport in the country's teeming cities. Up to 120 million e-bikes are estimated to be on the roads in China, making them already the top alternative to cars and public transport, according to recent figures published by local media. "This is the future - it's practical, it's clean and it's economical," said manufacturer Shi Zhongdong, whose company also exports el ... read more |
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