Friday, 7 December 2012
Russia may halt U.S. beef, pork imports: trade group
Russia may halt U.S. beef, pork imports: trade group: CHICAGO (Reuters) - U.S. pork and beef exports to Russia could halt on Saturday following Moscow's requirement that the meat be tested and certified free of the feed additive ractopamine, a move analysts said smacked of political retaliation.
Firma Bolivia adhesión a Mercosur
Firma Bolivia adhesión a Mercosur: Bolivia firmó el protocolo de adhesión a Mercosur para convertirse en el secto miembro del grupo, en la cumbre que se realiza en Brasilia.
Gypsies arrived in Europe 1,500 years ago, genetic study says
In parts of Europe they are still shunned as disruptive outsiders or patronised as little more than an exotic source of music and dance, but scientists have now proved the continent's Gypsies have ancient roots stretching back more than a millennium.
A genetic analysis of 13 Gypsy groups around Europe, published in the Current Biology journal, has revealed that the arrival on the continent of Gypsy forebears from northern India happened far earlier than was thought, around 1,500 years ago.
The earliest population reached the Balkans, while the spread outwards from there came around nine centuries ago, according to researchers at Spain's Institute of Evolutionary Biology and elsewhere.
"There were already some linguistic studies that gave clues pointing to India and genetic studies too, though without being precise about the where or when," explained David Comas, who led the research group.
"Now we can see that they arrived in one single wave from the north-west of India around 1,500 years ago," he added.
Gypsies were originally thought to have come from Egypt and some of the earliest references to them in English, dating back to the 16th century, call them "Egyptians".
Early European references describe wandering, nomadic communities who were known for their music and skill with horses.
They arrived in Spain in the 15th century or earlier – with records of groups of up to a hundred gypsies travelling together, often led by someone who termed himself a "count" or "duke" – and held on despite attempts to expel them or imprison those who refused to give up their language and culture. They were accompanied by a legend that they had been expelled from Egypt for trying to hide Jesus Christ.
The new study now sets their arrival in Europe in the sixth century – a time when Britain was still in its early post-Roman era.
Gypsies, often referred to as Roma, are found across all of Europe and make up the continent's largest ethnic minority. There are about 11 million of them in Europe.
Centuries of discrimination, including systematic extermination by some 20th-century fascist regimes, have helped keep many of them marginalised.
"There is still widespread discrimination and this is the most marginalised minority in Europe," said Robert Kushen of the European Roma Rights Centre in Hungary.
Both Nicolas Sarkozy's France and Silvio Berlusconi's Italy targeted Gypsy communities with populist eviction policies, while long-running discrimination continues in much of eastern Europe.
A genetic analysis of 13 Gypsy groups around Europe, published in the Current Biology journal, has revealed that the arrival on the continent of Gypsy forebears from northern India happened far earlier than was thought, around 1,500 years ago.
The earliest population reached the Balkans, while the spread outwards from there came around nine centuries ago, according to researchers at Spain's Institute of Evolutionary Biology and elsewhere.
"There were already some linguistic studies that gave clues pointing to India and genetic studies too, though without being precise about the where or when," explained David Comas, who led the research group.
"Now we can see that they arrived in one single wave from the north-west of India around 1,500 years ago," he added.
Gypsies were originally thought to have come from Egypt and some of the earliest references to them in English, dating back to the 16th century, call them "Egyptians".
Early European references describe wandering, nomadic communities who were known for their music and skill with horses.
They arrived in Spain in the 15th century or earlier – with records of groups of up to a hundred gypsies travelling together, often led by someone who termed himself a "count" or "duke" – and held on despite attempts to expel them or imprison those who refused to give up their language and culture. They were accompanied by a legend that they had been expelled from Egypt for trying to hide Jesus Christ.
The new study now sets their arrival in Europe in the sixth century – a time when Britain was still in its early post-Roman era.
Gypsies, often referred to as Roma, are found across all of Europe and make up the continent's largest ethnic minority. There are about 11 million of them in Europe.
Centuries of discrimination, including systematic extermination by some 20th-century fascist regimes, have helped keep many of them marginalised.
"There is still widespread discrimination and this is the most marginalised minority in Europe," said Robert Kushen of the European Roma Rights Centre in Hungary.
Both Nicolas Sarkozy's France and Silvio Berlusconi's Italy targeted Gypsy communities with populist eviction policies, while long-running discrimination continues in much of eastern Europe.
SECRET SERVICE UNDER GUN IN DATA BREACH - AND RADIO WEAPON ABUSES
Fox News and The New York Post report that the U.S. Secret Service is under the investigative gun for a massive data breach resulting from the loss two backup computer tapes being transported by an employee of a private contractor on a Washington, D.C. subway.
US military under fire for targeting 'hostile children' in Afghanistan
Outrage grows after top military figure suggested US troops were on the lookout for 'children with potential hostile intent'
The US military is facing fresh questions over its targeting policy in Afghanistan after a senior army officer suggested that troops were on the lookout for "children with potential hostile intent".
In comments which legal experts and campaigners described as "deeply troubling", army Lt Col Marion Carrington told the Marine Corp Times that children, as well as "military-age males", had been identified as a potential threat because some were being used by the Taliban to assist in attacks against Afghan and coalition forces.
"It kind of opens our aperture," said Carrington, whose unit, 1st Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, was assisting the Afghan police. "In addition to looking for military-age males, it's looking for children with potential hostile intent."
In the article, headlined "Some Afghan kids aren't bystanders", Carrington referred to a case this year in which the Afghan national police in Kandahar province said they found children helping insurgents by carrying soda bottles full of potassium chlorate.
The piece also quoted an unnamed marine corps official who questioned the "innocence" of Afghan children, particularly three who were killed in a US rocket strike in October. Last month, the New York Times quoted local officials who said Borjan, 12, Sardar Wali, 10, and Khan Bibi, eight, from Helmand's Nawa district had been killed while gathering dung for fuel.
However, the US official claimed that, before they called for the strike on suspected insurgents planting improvised explosive devices, marines had seen the children digging a hole in a dirt road and that "the Taliban may have recruited the children to carry out the mission".
Last year, Human Rights Watch reported a sharp increase in the Taliban's deployment of children in suicide bombings, some as young as seven.
But the apparent widening of the US military's already controversial targeting policy has alarmed human rights lawyers and campaigners.
Amos Guiora, a law professor at the University of Utah specialising in counter-terrorism, said Carrington's remarks reflected the shifting definitions of legitimate military targets within the Obama administration.
Guiora, who spent years in the Israel Defence Forces, including time as a legal adviser in the Gaza Strip, said: "I have great respect for people who put themselves in harm's way. Carrington is probably a great guy, but he is articulating a deeply troubling policy adopted by the Obama administration.
"The decision about who you consider a legitimate target is less defined by your conduct than the conduct of the people or category of people which you are assigned to belong to … That is beyond troubling. It is also illegal and immoral."
Guiora added: "If you are looking to create a paradigm where you increase the 'aperture' – that scares me. It doesn't work, operationally, morally or practically."
Guiora cited comments made by John Brennan, the White House counter-terrorism chief, in April, in which he "talked about flexible definitions of imminent threat."
Pardiss Kebriaei, senior attorney of the Center for Constitutional Rights and a specialist in targeted killings, said she was concerned over what seemed to be an attempt to justify the killing of children.
Kebriaei said: "This is one official quoted. I don't know if that standard is what they are using but the standard itself is troubling."
The US is already facing criticism for using the term term "military-aged male" to justify targeted killings where the identities of individuals are not known. Under the US definition, all fighting-age males killed in drone strikes are regarded as combatants and not civilians, unless there is explicit evidence to the contrary. This has the effect of significantly reducing the official tally of civilian deaths.
Kebriael said the definition was reportedly being used in Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen. "Under the rules of law you can only target civilians if they are directly participating in hostilities. So, here, this standard of presuming any military aged males in the vicinity of a war zone are militants, already goes beyond what the law allows.
"When you get to the suggestion that children with potentially hostile intent may be perceived to be legitimate targets is deeply troubling and unlawful."
Children in conflict zones have additional protections under the law.
Kebriael, who is counsel for CCR in a lawsuit which seeks accountability for the killing of three American citizens – including a 16 year old boy – in US drone strikes in Yemen last year, said that the piece also raised questions over how those killed in that incident were counted. "Were they counted as military-aged males or were they counted as children with potentially hostile intent or were they counted as the innocent bystanders they were?"
In a speech in April setting out the context for the US programme of targeted killings, White House counter-terrorism chief John Brennan spoke about a threshold of "significant threat', which was widely seen as introducing a lower criteria than "imminent threat".
Brennan said: "Even if it is lawful to pursue a specific member of al-Qaida, we ask ourselves whether that individual's activities rise to a certain threshold for action, and whether taking action will, in fact, enhance our security. For example, when considering lethal force we ask ourselves whether the individual poses a significant threat to US interests. This is absolutely critical, and it goes to the very essence of why we take this kind of exceptional action."
An Isaf spokesman, Lt Col Jimmie Cummings, told the Marine Corp Times that insurgents continue to use children as suicide bombers and IED emplacers, even though Taliban leader Mullah Omar has ordered them to stop harming civilians.
There have been more than 200 children killed in Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen by the CIA and Joint Special Operating Command, according to the Bureau of Investigative Journalism.
The US military is facing fresh questions over its targeting policy in Afghanistan after a senior army officer suggested that troops were on the lookout for "children with potential hostile intent".
In comments which legal experts and campaigners described as "deeply troubling", army Lt Col Marion Carrington told the Marine Corp Times that children, as well as "military-age males", had been identified as a potential threat because some were being used by the Taliban to assist in attacks against Afghan and coalition forces.
"It kind of opens our aperture," said Carrington, whose unit, 1st Battalion, 508th Parachute Infantry Regiment, was assisting the Afghan police. "In addition to looking for military-age males, it's looking for children with potential hostile intent."
In the article, headlined "Some Afghan kids aren't bystanders", Carrington referred to a case this year in which the Afghan national police in Kandahar province said they found children helping insurgents by carrying soda bottles full of potassium chlorate.
The piece also quoted an unnamed marine corps official who questioned the "innocence" of Afghan children, particularly three who were killed in a US rocket strike in October. Last month, the New York Times quoted local officials who said Borjan, 12, Sardar Wali, 10, and Khan Bibi, eight, from Helmand's Nawa district had been killed while gathering dung for fuel.
However, the US official claimed that, before they called for the strike on suspected insurgents planting improvised explosive devices, marines had seen the children digging a hole in a dirt road and that "the Taliban may have recruited the children to carry out the mission".
Last year, Human Rights Watch reported a sharp increase in the Taliban's deployment of children in suicide bombings, some as young as seven.
But the apparent widening of the US military's already controversial targeting policy has alarmed human rights lawyers and campaigners.
Amos Guiora, a law professor at the University of Utah specialising in counter-terrorism, said Carrington's remarks reflected the shifting definitions of legitimate military targets within the Obama administration.
Guiora, who spent years in the Israel Defence Forces, including time as a legal adviser in the Gaza Strip, said: "I have great respect for people who put themselves in harm's way. Carrington is probably a great guy, but he is articulating a deeply troubling policy adopted by the Obama administration.
"The decision about who you consider a legitimate target is less defined by your conduct than the conduct of the people or category of people which you are assigned to belong to … That is beyond troubling. It is also illegal and immoral."
Guiora added: "If you are looking to create a paradigm where you increase the 'aperture' – that scares me. It doesn't work, operationally, morally or practically."
Guiora cited comments made by John Brennan, the White House counter-terrorism chief, in April, in which he "talked about flexible definitions of imminent threat."
Pardiss Kebriaei, senior attorney of the Center for Constitutional Rights and a specialist in targeted killings, said she was concerned over what seemed to be an attempt to justify the killing of children.
Kebriaei said: "This is one official quoted. I don't know if that standard is what they are using but the standard itself is troubling."
The US is already facing criticism for using the term term "military-aged male" to justify targeted killings where the identities of individuals are not known. Under the US definition, all fighting-age males killed in drone strikes are regarded as combatants and not civilians, unless there is explicit evidence to the contrary. This has the effect of significantly reducing the official tally of civilian deaths.
Kebriael said the definition was reportedly being used in Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen. "Under the rules of law you can only target civilians if they are directly participating in hostilities. So, here, this standard of presuming any military aged males in the vicinity of a war zone are militants, already goes beyond what the law allows.
"When you get to the suggestion that children with potentially hostile intent may be perceived to be legitimate targets is deeply troubling and unlawful."
Children in conflict zones have additional protections under the law.
Kebriael, who is counsel for CCR in a lawsuit which seeks accountability for the killing of three American citizens – including a 16 year old boy – in US drone strikes in Yemen last year, said that the piece also raised questions over how those killed in that incident were counted. "Were they counted as military-aged males or were they counted as children with potentially hostile intent or were they counted as the innocent bystanders they were?"
In a speech in April setting out the context for the US programme of targeted killings, White House counter-terrorism chief John Brennan spoke about a threshold of "significant threat', which was widely seen as introducing a lower criteria than "imminent threat".
Brennan said: "Even if it is lawful to pursue a specific member of al-Qaida, we ask ourselves whether that individual's activities rise to a certain threshold for action, and whether taking action will, in fact, enhance our security. For example, when considering lethal force we ask ourselves whether the individual poses a significant threat to US interests. This is absolutely critical, and it goes to the very essence of why we take this kind of exceptional action."
An Isaf spokesman, Lt Col Jimmie Cummings, told the Marine Corp Times that insurgents continue to use children as suicide bombers and IED emplacers, even though Taliban leader Mullah Omar has ordered them to stop harming civilians.
There have been more than 200 children killed in Pakistan, Somalia and Yemen by the CIA and Joint Special Operating Command, according to the Bureau of Investigative Journalism.
Big rigs switching to natural gas
Big rigs switching to natural gas: At the Flying J truck stop in rural Virginia, truck drivers can taste the coffee, smell the diesel and see the future.
Smoke from Arctic wildfires may have caused Greenland's record thaw
Satellite images suggest soot particles settled over ice sheet making it absorb more heat during last year's extreme melting
The freak melt of the Greenland ice sheet last summer may have been forced by smoke from Arctic wildfires, new research suggests.
Satellite observations, due to be presented at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union on Friday, for the first time tracks smoke and soot particles from tundra wildfires over to Greenland.
Scientists have long known that soot blackens snow and ice, reducing its powers of reflectivity and making it more likely to melt under the sun.
But the satellite records, due to be presented by the Ohio State University geographer Jason Box, go a step further, picking up images of smoke over Greenland at the time of last summer's extreme melt.
Greenland experienced its most dramatic melting since satellite records began last July, with virtually the entire ice sheet showing signs of a thaw over the course of four days.
The thaw was due to the warming atmosphere caused by climate change, as well as local weather conditions over Greenland including clear bright skies and a lack of fresh snow cover. But Box said scientists are now beginning to identify another important cause for melting: smoke and soot particles, darkening the surface of the Greenland ice sheet.
Earlier research found a 7% decline in Greenland's reflectivity over the past decade. Under warming, ice crystals lose their jagged edges, becoming more rounded with reduced areas of reflectivity.
But the true extent of the loss could be much greater once the smoke from forest fires is factored in. "Soot is a very powerful absorber. Very small increases in soot content have big increases in solar absorption," Box said.
In its annual Arctic report, released this week this week, the premier scientific agency the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, warned greener and warmer conditions due to climate change were making the tundra more fire-prone.
When soot from those fires settles over the ice, it captures the sun's heat. "That's why increasing tundra wildfires have the potential to accelerate the melting in Greenland," Box said.
Box and his team used Nasa satellites to spot large fires which burned for several days in Labrador last summer, and computer models to anticipate smoke trajectories. They then used satellite imaging to detect sooty aerosols, or smoke clouds, directly over Greenland.
"We are tracking the fires from source to sink, the place where the smoke is depositing on the ice sheet. The scan can verify that the smoke is making it to its destination," Box said.
He said he planned to return to Greenland in the early summer of 2013 to take samples from the ice sheet in a crowd-sourced expedition, the Dark Snow project.
"We saw complete surface melting of the ice sheet for the first time in observation. Would that have happened without the wildfire soot of 2012?" Box said. "We don't know. We have got to get up there and make those measurements."
The freak melt of the Greenland ice sheet last summer may have been forced by smoke from Arctic wildfires, new research suggests.
Satellite observations, due to be presented at the annual meeting of the American Geophysical Union on Friday, for the first time tracks smoke and soot particles from tundra wildfires over to Greenland.
Scientists have long known that soot blackens snow and ice, reducing its powers of reflectivity and making it more likely to melt under the sun.
But the satellite records, due to be presented by the Ohio State University geographer Jason Box, go a step further, picking up images of smoke over Greenland at the time of last summer's extreme melt.
Greenland experienced its most dramatic melting since satellite records began last July, with virtually the entire ice sheet showing signs of a thaw over the course of four days.
The thaw was due to the warming atmosphere caused by climate change, as well as local weather conditions over Greenland including clear bright skies and a lack of fresh snow cover. But Box said scientists are now beginning to identify another important cause for melting: smoke and soot particles, darkening the surface of the Greenland ice sheet.
Earlier research found a 7% decline in Greenland's reflectivity over the past decade. Under warming, ice crystals lose their jagged edges, becoming more rounded with reduced areas of reflectivity.
But the true extent of the loss could be much greater once the smoke from forest fires is factored in. "Soot is a very powerful absorber. Very small increases in soot content have big increases in solar absorption," Box said.
In its annual Arctic report, released this week this week, the premier scientific agency the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, warned greener and warmer conditions due to climate change were making the tundra more fire-prone.
When soot from those fires settles over the ice, it captures the sun's heat. "That's why increasing tundra wildfires have the potential to accelerate the melting in Greenland," Box said.
Box and his team used Nasa satellites to spot large fires which burned for several days in Labrador last summer, and computer models to anticipate smoke trajectories. They then used satellite imaging to detect sooty aerosols, or smoke clouds, directly over Greenland.
"We are tracking the fires from source to sink, the place where the smoke is depositing on the ice sheet. The scan can verify that the smoke is making it to its destination," Box said.
He said he planned to return to Greenland in the early summer of 2013 to take samples from the ice sheet in a crowd-sourced expedition, the Dark Snow project.
"We saw complete surface melting of the ice sheet for the first time in observation. Would that have happened without the wildfire soot of 2012?" Box said. "We don't know. We have got to get up there and make those measurements."
Consumer confidence plunges in early December
Consumer confidence plunges in early December: NEW YORK (Reuters) - Americans' outlook on the economy and their finances took a turn for the worse in early December due likely to anxiety about the potential for higher taxes resulting from contentious discussions in Washington over fiscal issues, a survey released on Friday showed.
ALLEMAGNE • Guerre et armement : la doctrine Merkel
ALLEMAGNE • Guerre et armement : la doctrine Merkel: Près de la moitié des exportations d'armes allemandes partent dans des Etats qui ne sont membres ni de l'UE ni de l'OTAN. Plutôt que d'aller se battre, mieux vaut livrer des armes à ses alliés, même si ce sont des dictatures. Telle est la politique de la chancelière.
UNION EUROPÉENNE • Les Britanniques rêvent de quitter l'Europe
UNION EUROPÉENNE • Les Britanniques rêvent de quitter l'Europe: "Au revoir, Europe," titre en une The Economist, avec une représentation de Britannia, le symbole de la Grande-Bretagne, sur un siège ejectable, s’étant échappé d’un avion sur le point de s'écraser décoré des étoiles du drapeau européen.
Bundesbank slashes German growth forecast
Bundesbank slashes German growth forecast: The German central bank has sharply reduced its 2013 growth outlook, even forecasting German output to shrink this winter. But it presumes the slowdown to be only a brief pause on the way back to stronger growth in 2014.
Illness leads Serb ambassador to NATO to suicide
Illness leads Serb ambassador to NATO to suicide: BELGRADE (Reuters) - Serbia's ambassador to NATO who killed himself earlier this week had recently been diagnosed with a life-threatening illness, a government official said on Friday.
Rebels Declare Damascus Airport a ‘Fair Target,’ Reports Say
Rebels Declare Damascus Airport a ‘Fair Target,’ Reports Say: The rebels on Friday warned travelers against using the airport, reports said, as diplomacy between the United States and Russia appeared to have made little progress.
Russian residents buy up tinned goods and matches ahead of apocalypse
Russian residents buy up tinned goods and matches ahead of apocalypse: Russian residents have been buying up cereals, tinned meat and boxes of matches in anticipation of the apocalypse.
MEXIQUE • Les millionaires s'amusent à la pêche au gros
MEXIQUE • Les millionaires s'amusent à la pêche au gros: Ernest Hemingway l'avait célébré dans son roman Le Vieil Homme et la mer. Le marlin donne lieu aujourd'hui à l'un des concours de pêche les mieux dotés au monde. On vient du monde entier à Los Cabos pour y participer.
Nobel prize winner likens censorship to airport security
Nobel prize winner likens censorship to airport security: Nobel Prize winner Mo Yan defends China’s suppression of free speech, saying that censorship should not prevent the truth, but that rumors and defamation “should be censored.”
Enfermeira envolvida em trote sobre Kate Middleton é encontrada morta
Enfermeira envolvida em trote sobre Kate Middleton é encontrada morta:
LONDRES - Uma enfermeira do Hospital King Edward VII que caiu num trote de uma rádio e passou informações sobre o estado de Kate Middleton foi encontrada morta. O hospital informou que ela se chamava Jacintha Saldanha e era uma enfermeira de primeira classe.
A polícia foi chamada às 9h35m após uma mulher ser encontrada inconsciente no centro de Londres. Jacintha estava perto do hospital, onde a duquesa passou três noites internada com fortes enjoos devido à gravidez. Os paramédicos tentaram reanimá-la, mas ela morreu no local.
De acordo com a polícia, a causa da morte não está clara, mas os agentes não acreditam em homicídio. Num comunicado, o hospital informou: “É com grande tristeza que confirmamos a trágica morte de um membro da nossa equipe de enfermagem, Jacintha Saldanha. Jacintha trabalhou no King Edward VII Hospital por mais de quatro anos, era uma enfermeira excelente, respeitada e popular entre seus colegas. Confirmamos que recentemente ela foi vítima de um trote ao hospital. O King Edward VII estava apoiando-a nesse momento difícil.”
Dois dias antes, uma rádio australiana ligou para o hospital, com dois apresentadores se passando pela rainha Elizabeth II e o príncipe Charles. Uma enfermeira caiu no trote da 2Day FM e informou que a duquesa de Cambridge estava melhor, já não vomitava, mas encontrava problemas para dormir. Jacintha só atendeu o telefone porque àquela hora, 5h30m, não havia recepcionista. No mesmo dia, o hospital descreveu o incidente como deplorável.
De acordo com o “Daily Mail”, as circunstâncias nas quais a enfermeira foi encontrada indicam que ela teria cometido o suicídio. O duque e a duquesa de Cambridge emitiram um comunicado dizendo estar “profundamente consternado”.
Michael Christian, o apresentador que se identificou como o príncipe de Gales, pediu desculpas dias atrás, mas hoje mesmo tuitou: “Mais sobre o trote real às 19h30m.”
LONDRES - Uma enfermeira do Hospital King Edward VII que caiu num trote de uma rádio e passou informações sobre o estado de Kate Middleton foi encontrada morta. O hospital informou que ela se chamava Jacintha Saldanha e era uma enfermeira de primeira classe.
A polícia foi chamada às 9h35m após uma mulher ser encontrada inconsciente no centro de Londres. Jacintha estava perto do hospital, onde a duquesa passou três noites internada com fortes enjoos devido à gravidez. Os paramédicos tentaram reanimá-la, mas ela morreu no local.
De acordo com a polícia, a causa da morte não está clara, mas os agentes não acreditam em homicídio. Num comunicado, o hospital informou: “É com grande tristeza que confirmamos a trágica morte de um membro da nossa equipe de enfermagem, Jacintha Saldanha. Jacintha trabalhou no King Edward VII Hospital por mais de quatro anos, era uma enfermeira excelente, respeitada e popular entre seus colegas. Confirmamos que recentemente ela foi vítima de um trote ao hospital. O King Edward VII estava apoiando-a nesse momento difícil.”
Dois dias antes, uma rádio australiana ligou para o hospital, com dois apresentadores se passando pela rainha Elizabeth II e o príncipe Charles. Uma enfermeira caiu no trote da 2Day FM e informou que a duquesa de Cambridge estava melhor, já não vomitava, mas encontrava problemas para dormir. Jacintha só atendeu o telefone porque àquela hora, 5h30m, não havia recepcionista. No mesmo dia, o hospital descreveu o incidente como deplorável.
De acordo com o “Daily Mail”, as circunstâncias nas quais a enfermeira foi encontrada indicam que ela teria cometido o suicídio. O duque e a duquesa de Cambridge emitiram um comunicado dizendo estar “profundamente consternado”.
Michael Christian, o apresentador que se identificou como o príncipe de Gales, pediu desculpas dias atrás, mas hoje mesmo tuitou: “Mais sobre o trote real às 19h30m.”
Thursday, 6 December 2012
Evasão fiscal é um dos problemas estruturais da Grécia
Evasão fiscal é um dos problemas estruturais da Grécia: O primeiro-ministro da Grécia, Antonis Samaras, reconheceu que a evasão fiscal é um dos "grande problemas estruturais" com que o país se depara, numa entrevista publicada na edição de hoje do jornal..
Exército está a carregar bombas com gás sarin
Exército está a carregar bombas com gás sarin: A televisão norte-americana NBC noticiou que estariam a ser carregadas bombas com gás sarin para lançar na Síria por via aérea depois de, na quarta-feira, o exército sírio ter bombardeado a periferia de...
Vida política custou a Romney 1350 milhões de euros
Vida política custou a Romney 1350 milhões de euros: A decisão de ingressar na vida política custou ao republicano Mitt Romney mais que a derrota. No total, a atividade pública fez o republicano gastar cerca de 1350 milhões de euros.
Pets Help Us Achieve Goals and Reduce Stress
Pets Help Us Achieve Goals and Reduce Stress:
The companionship of our furry friends may seem best suited for leisure time, but new research found that having one's dog or cat around--or even just in mind--helps people generate more goals, feel more confident about achieving those objectives and handle stress better.
In two related experiments published in the July Journal of Research in Personality , participants were assigned to one of three conditions. [More]
The companionship of our furry friends may seem best suited for leisure time, but new research found that having one's dog or cat around--or even just in mind--helps people generate more goals, feel more confident about achieving those objectives and handle stress better.
In two related experiments published in the July Journal of Research in Personality , participants were assigned to one of three conditions. [More]
Magnetic Fields from Antarctic research stations a potential problem
Magnetic Fields from Antarctic research stations a potential problem: Antarctic research stations could be adversely affecting the local environment by emitting magnetic pollution, a new study has found.
A new aerial survey is the first to research and assess the possible impact of a research station in Antarctica on magnetic fields.
Estimations indicated that the station generated a magnetic field that extends up to 650 metres from the station with a peak strength of 2800 nanotesla (nT) within 100 metres from the station on the ground.
This may have implications for organisms in Antarctica that are negatively affected by magnetic fields but the report's authors say further research is needed to investigate this.
A new aerial survey is the first to research and assess the possible impact of a research station in Antarctica on magnetic fields.
Estimations indicated that the station generated a magnetic field that extends up to 650 metres from the station with a peak strength of 2800 nanotesla (nT) within 100 metres from the station on the ground.
This may have implications for organisms in Antarctica that are negatively affected by magnetic fields but the report's authors say further research is needed to investigate this.
South Sudan's elephants face extinction: experts
South Sudan's elephants face extinction: experts: Juba, South Sudan (AFP) Dec 04, 2012
Elephant, giraffe and zebra in the world's newest nation South Sudan could soon be extinct due to rampant poaching and trafficking, conservation experts warned Tuesday.
Ironically, animals in South Sudan's vast wildernesses had been largely protected by almost five decades of civil war, despite poaching by rebels.
Elephant, giraffe and zebra in the world's newest nation South Sudan could soon be extinct due to rampant poaching and trafficking, conservation experts warned Tuesday.
Ironically, animals in South Sudan's vast wildernesses had been largely protected by almost five decades of civil war, despite poaching by rebels.
South Sudan's elephants face extinction: experts
South Sudan's elephants face extinction: experts: Juba, South Sudan (AFP) Dec 04, 2012
Elephant, giraffe and zebra in the world's newest nation South Sudan could soon be extinct due to rampant poaching and trafficking, conservation experts warned Tuesday.
Ironically, animals in South Sudan's vast wildernesses had been largely protected by almost five decades of civil war, despite poaching by rebels.
Elephant, giraffe and zebra in the world's newest nation South Sudan could soon be extinct due to rampant poaching and trafficking, conservation experts warned Tuesday.
Ironically, animals in South Sudan's vast wildernesses had been largely protected by almost five decades of civil war, despite poaching by rebels.
Probiotics help fish grow up faster and healthier
Probiotics help fish grow up faster and healthier: Baltimore MD (SPX) Dec 05, 2012
Probiotics like those found in yogurt are not only good for people--they are also good for fish. A new study by scientists at the Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology found that feeding probiotics to baby zebrafish accelerated their development and increased their chances of survival into adulthood.
This research could help increase the success of raising rare ornamental fish
Probiotics like those found in yogurt are not only good for people--they are also good for fish. A new study by scientists at the Institute of Marine and Environmental Technology found that feeding probiotics to baby zebrafish accelerated their development and increased their chances of survival into adulthood.
This research could help increase the success of raising rare ornamental fish
China pledges $56 billion to cut air pollution
China pledges $56 billion to cut air pollution: BEIJING (Reuters) - China will spend 350 billion yuan ($56 billion) by 2015 to curb air pollution in major cities, the environmental watchdog said on Wednesday.
Planning for Climate Change
Planning for Climate Change: The Metcalf Institute at the University of Rhode Island recently held the second in series of seminars on climate change. Here are a few noteworthy points that were offered Nov. 30 by 15 scientists, engineers, planners and other experts:
Snowpack in the Northeast has decreased its annual volume by 11 percent since 1900.
Sea level is projected to rise between 2.5 and 6 feet by 2100. "If you want to see what 5 feet of sea level rise will look like, you look at Hurricane Sandy," said Bryan Oakley, a URI researcher and professor of earth sciences at Eastern Connecticut State University.
Snowpack in the Northeast has decreased its annual volume by 11 percent since 1900.
Sea level is projected to rise between 2.5 and 6 feet by 2100. "If you want to see what 5 feet of sea level rise will look like, you look at Hurricane Sandy," said Bryan Oakley, a URI researcher and professor of earth sciences at Eastern Connecticut State University.
Victory for vulnerable whale sharks at Pacific meeting
Victory for vulnerable whale sharks at Pacific meeting: Manila (AFP) Dec 5, 2012
Asia and Pacific nations agreed at a meeting in the Philippines on Wednesday to take steps to protect whale sharks in a victory for the world's largest fish, officials said.
Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission nations agreed that tuna fishers must stop setting their nets around the vulnerable giants in order to catch smaller fish that gather underneath them, said Palau fishing o
Asia and Pacific nations agreed at a meeting in the Philippines on Wednesday to take steps to protect whale sharks in a victory for the world's largest fish, officials said.
Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission nations agreed that tuna fishers must stop setting their nets around the vulnerable giants in order to catch smaller fish that gather underneath them, said Palau fishing o
Norway to pay Brazil $180 million for slowing deforestation
Norway to pay Brazil $180 million for slowing deforestation: OSLO (Reuters) - Norway has agreed to give $180 million to Brazil as part of a broader $1 billion deal for slowing deforestation in the Amazon rainforest, Oslo's environment minister said on Thursday.
Date Palm Leaves Could Improve Water Treatment Across the Middle East
Date Palm Leaves Could Improve Water Treatment Across the Middle East: Date palm leaves — currently a waste product of date farming — could be used to remove pharmaceutical chemicals and dyes from hospital wastewater, say researchers from Sultan Qaboos University (SQU) in Oman. The first hospital wastewater treatment pilot project is due to start in Oman early next year, and scientists are working to use this technology in both drinking water filters and for industrial wastewater treatment.
H&M wants the (old) clothes off your back
H&M wants the (old) clothes off your back: Swedish global fashion firm Hennes & Mauritz plans to start collecting old clothes from next year to hand over for recycling, it said on Thursday.
If pot 'falls from the sky' you can have it
If pot 'falls from the sky' you can have it: A legal haze is descending on Washington state. It is now legal to possess up to an ounce of marijuana, but growing it and selling it is still a crime.
Australia PM jokes: 'End of the world is coming'
Australia PM jokes: 'End of the world is coming': Australia's Prime Minister Julia Gillard has warned that predictions of the end of the world by ancient Mayans were correct and that the final days are coming -- in a deadpan ad for a lighthearted breakfast radio show.
Frenchmen's sperm plunges by a third in quality and quantity since '89
Une sabotage méchant droite dans les sphères de mariage
The future of the French nation is in serious doubt if boffins don't get to the bottom of a serious decline in transmanche sperm production.…
The future of the French nation is in serious doubt if boffins don't get to the bottom of a serious decline in transmanche sperm production.…
Evictions in Spain prompt spate of suicides
Evictions in Spain prompt spate of suicides: In Spain, several recent suicides have prompted authorities to declare a two-year moratorium on some home repossessions, for humanitarian reasons. But others still face losing their homes, and public anger is growing.
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