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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.
  • UGANDA - HEALTH
    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.
  • UNITED STATES
    Pentagon under cyber virus threat
    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.
  • WEBNEWS
    Web users react to the promise of Guantanamo closing
    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.
  • GENETICS - HISTORY
    DNA solves mystery of Copernicus remains
    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.
  • SPACE
    Over the moon as space station turns 10
    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.
  • INTERNET
    Over five million Web sites blocked in Iran
    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.
  • INTERNET - SPACE
    NASA launches space internet; ET can email home
    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.
  • CANADA - POLAR BEAR
    World's oldest polar bear dies
    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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