Scientists attach barcodes to mouse embryos — human ones coming soon
BARCELONA, Spain. November 26, 2010 (TSR) - Researchers from the Department of Cell Biology, Physiology and Immunology at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona UAB, in collaboration with researchers from the Institute of...
Chinese Project Puts Cow Dung to Work
LIAONING, China. November 23, 2010 (TSR) - A rapidly growing industry in China—dairy farming—is also a major new source of greenhouse-gas emissions. But Huishan Dairy in northeast China is trying to...
World Rushing to Judge North Korea Without Proper Inquiry
South Korea has admitted it fired artillery shells that triggered an early morning clash with North Korea. However it says it was part of a military drill and denied...
NATO Summit Presidential Press Conference
President Obama speaks to the media after the Nato Summit in Lisbon, Portugal and reports on progress made on the way forward in Afghanistan, the new approach to European...
Scientist: North Korea built uranium enriching facility
SEOUL, South Korea. November 22, 2010 - In secret and with remarkable speed, North Korea has built a new, highly sophisticated facility to enrich uranium, according to an American...
India can’t get UN seat without China backing
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan. November 22, 2010 - Pakistan's permanent envoy to the UN, Abdullah Hussain Haroon said India will never be able to secure a permanent seat at the UN...
Iran’s Northern Fishing Industry Wanes
TEHRAN, Iran, November 19, 2010 (TSR) - Pollution is contributing to falling catches in Iran’s Caspian fishing industry, local fishermen say. They complain that restrictions preventing them from going out...
Bemba Casts Shadow on Upcoming DRC Elections
Kinshasa, DRC. November 19, 2010 (IWPC) - With the war crimes trial of Jean-Pierre Bemba due to start in the Hague next week, it seems unlikely that he will run in the 2011 elections in...
U.S., Kazakhstan Secure Weapons-Grade Plutonium From Soviet-era Reactor
WASHINGTON, DC, November 19, 2010 (ENS) - Enough plutonium and uranium to make 775 nuclear weapons has been removed from the BN-350 fast reactor in Kazakhstan, built to breed...
Asylum seekers sew lips
SYDNEY, Australia. November 19, 2010 (AFP) - UP TO 10 asylum-seekers in a remote Australian immigration detention centre have sewn their lips together, the government said on Friday, just...
Fidel Castro happy with Cuba direction and hints resignation
HAVANA, Cuba. November 19, 2010 (AFP): Cuban leader Fidel Castro has suggested he may resign as Communist Party chief, his last leadership post, as he praised his brother Raul's management of...
Aung San Suu Kyi Released From Detention
YANGON, Myanmar (Nov 13, 2010) – Myanmar's military government freed its archrival, democracy heroine Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi and tasted freedom today for the first time in 7 1/2 years,...
