Tuesday 19 August 2008
Fires plague iPod in Japan
Japanese authorities have issued a fire risk warning for Apple's iPod Nano, after several cases of overheating and minor flames were reported.
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- JAPAN - APPLE
- Fires plague iPod in Japan
- Tuesday 19 August 2008
- Japanese authorities have issued a fire risk warning for Apple's iPod Nano, after several cases of overheating and minor flames were reported.
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- WEB NEWS
- Bloggers react to Musharraf resignation
- Tuesday 19 August 2008
- The Pakistani blogosphere reacted strongly and passionately after President Pervez Musharraf announced his resignation in a televised address. John McCain's and Barack Obama's courtship of Christian voters also resonated on the web.
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- ENVIRONMENT - WATER
- Stockholm hosts World Water Week
- Monday 18 August 2008
- A week-long conference on world water resources kicked off in the Swedish capital on Monday Some 2,500 experts are to attend the event, which calls for radical changes in water-consumption habits.
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- WEB NEWS
- Web users get ready for Phelpsmania
- Monday 18 August 2008
- As US swimmer Michael Phelps's record performance in Beijing inspires web surfers, China continues to tighten its grip on the Internet, as well-known blogger Zhou “Zuola” is placed under house arrest.
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- WEATHER
- Tropical storm Fay unlikely to hit US oil and gas production
- Tuesday 19 August 2008
- Tropical storm Fay, expected to strike Florida this week, is unlikely to affect US oil and gas production areas in the Gulf of Mexico. The storm has killed more than 50 people in the Caribbean.
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- ENVIRONMENT
- Ocean 'dead zones' expanding
- Friday 15 August 2008
- Increasing pollution over the past 50 years has created more and more oceanic "dead zones", in which marine life is impossible. According to researchers, there are about 245,000 square kilometres of dead zones worldwide.
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- SPACE
- Another successful launch for Ariane 5
- Friday 15 August 2008
- Rocket Ariane 5 has launched two Japanese mobile telecommunication satellites from the space base in Kourou, French Guinea.
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- HEALTH
- Researchers find genetic link to colon cancer
- Thursday 14 August 2008
- American researchers have found a gene that would increase the risk of getting colon cancer by 50 percent compared to the general population. Colorectal cancer afflicts about a million people worldwide each year.
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