Friday 21 November 2008
Killing sprea in Uganda was caused by new strain of Ebola
Scientists have identified a new strain of the deadly Ebola virus responsible for the deaths of 37 people in November 2007. More than one in three patients infected by the virus were killed.
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- UGANDA - HEALTH
- Killing sprea in Uganda was caused by new strain of Ebola
- Friday 21 November 2008
- Scientists have identified a new strain of the deadly Ebola virus responsible for the deaths of 37 people in November 2007. More than one in three patients infected by the virus were killed.
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- UNITED STATES
- Pentagon under cyber virus threat
- Friday 21 November 2008
- A virus has infected the computer network of the Pentagon, the heart of the US military. Officials claimed they had taken the necessary steps to counter the virus, but declined to give any information on whether the network was harmed.
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- WEBNEWS
- Web users react to the promise of Guantanamo closing
- Friday 21 November 2008
- If Eric Holden is appointed at the head of the American justice, he will have to deal with candidate Barack Obama’s promise to close the Guantanamo prison. The web reacts.
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- GENETICS - HISTORY
- DNA solves mystery of Copernicus remains
- Thursday 20 November 2008
- Through the DNA analysis of two hairs and a tooth, scientists have confirmed that remains found in Poland in 2005 are those of famous 15th-century astronomer Nicolas Copernicus. The revelation marks the end of a 200-year hunt.
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- SPACE
- Over the moon as space station turns 10
- Thursday 20 November 2008
- Hundreds of kilometres above the Earth, the International Space Station - the most expensive and ambitious co-operative space program in history - has rocketed to its 10th birthday.
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- INTERNET
- Over five million Web sites blocked in Iran
- Wednesday 19 November 2008
- Seeking to control "social, political, economic and moral damage," Iran has blocked access to over five million Web sites, including social networking sites such as Facebook and the popular video-sharing portal, YouTube.
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- INTERNET - SPACE
- NASA launches space internet; ET can email home
- Wednesday 19 November 2008
- NASA tested for the first time a new deep space communications system with a standardised protocol, which will allow a kind of interplanetary Internet. Current methods to communicate between Mars crafts and Earth are laborious.
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- CANADA - POLAR BEAR
- World's oldest polar bear dies
- Wednesday 19 November 2008
- Forty-two year old Debby, the world's oldest polar bear, died Monday in a Canadian zoo in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The world's largest land predator, the polar bear is a threatened species.
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