SCIENCE News, Studies, Research, Technology, Jun 25, 2011

Radiology's Beauty on Display at American Museum of Natural History Diagnostic Imaging The images in Picturing Science were taken as part of current research at the Museum, includingstudies of evolving supernovas, long-buried ancient villages, microscopic hairs on wasp antennae, biological fluorescence, and more. ... See all stories on this topic »

CU appoints groups to examine new communication college Boulder Weekly 5 - This group will discuss journalism science, the environment and related issues (Tom Yulsman of journalism, Alan Townsend of environmental studies, Len Ackland of journalism and Sandra Fish of journalism). Group No. 6 – This group will discuss arts, ... See all stories on this topic »

Raising the Temperature on Cold-Blooded Dinosaurs New York Times Robert Eagle, an evolutionary biologist at the California Institute of Technology, and colleagues analyzed 11 dinosaur teeth from sauropods. The researchers report their findings in the current issue of the journal Science. ... See all stories on this topic »

Singapore scientists discover how to control fate of stem cells PhysOrg.com Scientists from the Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS), an institute of the Agency for Science,Technology and Research (A*STAR), in collaboration with the Cancer Science Institute of Singapore (CSI), have discovered how the body uses a single ... See all stories on this topic »

Science News Corner introduces nanotechnology 7thSpace Interactive (press release) The exhibition, with content provided by the research teams of the Hong Kong University of Scienceand Technology (HKUST), introduces the insights gained from research on nanotechnology. Nanotechnology, which studies how to manipulate matter at the ... See all stories on this topic »

'Media needs to focus more on science' Gulf Today “There are no proper research or studies in science in this part of the world. Science is being studied only to become a science teacher and not for any research purposes,” Khatib pointed out. “For example, our people did not differentiate between a ... See all stories on this topic »

Ankeny school district updates science curriculum DesMoinesRegister.com The final round of reviews - social studies and music - will be during the upcoming school year. Health and physical education programs were reviewed during the 2010-11 year along with science. The board is expected to approve the updates at its July ... See all stories on this topic »

High energy approach to renewable power Irish Times DUBLIN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: THE DUBLIN Energy Lab (DEL) at the Dublin Institute of Technology is a unique energy research centre in terms of the breadth of its work, which takes in everything from energy generation to systems to marketing and... See all stories on this topic » Irish Times

BHS Seniors Garner Awards, Honors Housatonic Times English Department—Public Speaking: Mary Mitchell; Science Fiction: Mark Koh; Visual Literature: Stefan Roeder; Gender Studies: Kayla Norkowski; English IV- Honors: Peter George Baumgartel; Literature: advanced placement: Matthew Goodrich. ... See all stories on this topic »

Jolley: Five minutes with the AMI's Dr. Betsy Booren and E. coli CattleNetwork.com This annual biggest gathering of meat science professionals takes a serious look at the issues that affect meat science and event organizers devoted hours of time to reviewing the latest findings about E. coli and discussing what new studies need to be ... See all stories on this topic »

China aims to draw more EU scientists China Daily "Europe understands the huge potential for scientific research and is keen on working closely with nations that are important in the area of science and technology. In this regard there has been an increase in the level of research in China, ... See all stories on this topic » China Daily

'Now You See It' Inside Higher Ed Q: Your doctorate is in English, while your faculty positions are in English and "interdisciplinary studies." How did you end up writing a book on "the brain science of attention"? A: I was a math geek as a kid, and diverted from my first love of AI ... See all stories on this topic » Inside Higher Ed

Getting Serious About Male Grooming Bernama Lastly, metabolomics studies how changes in genes and proteins impact biochemical processes within the cell. John Oblong, a PhD scientist working to identify breakthrough skin-caretechnologies for Procter & Gamble, which aspires to be the world's ... See all stories on this topic »

RNAi-based Genetic Screening: Past, Present & Future The New York Academy of Sciences The successful application of these technologies in various areas of biology and translationalscience such as vesicular transport, cancer, and infectious diseases was a focus of this meeting. Norbert Perrimon, from Harvard Medical School and Howard ... See all stories on this topic »

CIO Finance Summit Welcomes Novarica Head of Banking Research as Master of... PR.com (press release) Madhavi Mantha is the Head of Banking Research at Novarica. Since joining the firm, she has worked closely with the CIO members of the rapidly growing Novarica Banking Technology Research Council, exploring a wide range of issues ranging from channel ... See all stories on this topic »

Brookhaven Lab's Joanna Fowler receives Distinguished Women in Chemistry Award PhysOrg.com (press release) The honorees were chosen based on their exceptional accomplishments in basic or appliedresearch, teaching or education, or demonstrated leadership/managerial excellence in an organization within the chemical sciences. Brookhaven Women in Science ... See all stories on this topic »

South African PhD Student to Bring Hope Home Newswise (press release) Then she heard about the American-based Fulbright scholarships available to outstanding international students to pursue graduate studies in the US. She applied and received a Fulbright to attend Michigan Tech. Through the Fulbright network, ... See all stories on this topic »

The Future in Nano Miniatures? InTechWeb Blog “The primary goal of NMNT is to publish research manuscripts that include cutting-edge studies on nanoscale science and technology, bringing together the science and applications of nanoscale and nanostructured materials” underlines Dr. Prete. ... See all stories on this topic »

Dinosaurs were hot-blooded creatures, claim scientists who measured their body ... Daily Mail The research, reported in the journal Science, involved analysing 11 teeth from Brachiosaurus and Camarasaurus, two giant sauropods that lived more than 150million years ago. Mineral formation in tooth enamel is influenced by temperature. ... See all stories on this topic » Daily Mail

Static electricity shocks researchers ABC Science Online Hair raising research Research that will make your hair stand on end shows many of the assumptions about static electricity are incorrect. In a paper, published online in today's Science Express, Professor Bartosz Grzybowski and colleagues from ... See all stories on this topic » ABC Science Online

Up Front: Introducing The Mechanic Muse New York Times Today, the field of writers, technology and science is newly charged, and newly vexed. The e-book has upended the business of publishing and the act of reading; vast databases confront literary scholars with novel answers and novel questions; ... See all stories on this topic »

NASA's Next-Generation Spacecraft to Land at Tallahassee Challenger Learning ... Space Ref (press release) The non-profit Challenger Center for Space Science Education is the nation's premier provider ofscience education and career inspiration and plays an essential leadership role in STEM (science,technology, engineering, and mathematics) education. ... See all stories on this topic »

Timothy Faust: Junk science Summit Daily News I am certainly no advocate of long-term dependency on nuclear power, but I am less of a fan of junkscience, which his letter clearly was. First, has to do with the lethality of plutonium. Most studieshave put the LD50 dose (the amount of a substance ... See all stories on this topic »

Being human Financial Times Such institutions should support citizens in making autonomous choices, they argue, in which case they are optimistic that new developments in science and technologycan “empower the creative individual”. Which is a view shared by Brian Christian in ... See all stories on this topic » Financial Times

Agriculture is still risky sector of economics The Voice of Russia Interview with Rajeshwari Reina, economist and researcher with the National Institute ofScience, Technology and Development Studies and the Center for Policy Studies in New Deli, India. I think that there are two major trends partly since 1980s when ... See all stories on this topic » The Voice of Russia

Waldman-Brown, fulbright scholarship winner, to spend next year in Ghana MIT News Anna Waldman-Brown demonstrates hands-on science using a bicycle gyroscope at Takorardi Technical Institute. What do the science of chocolate, the construction of small-scale wind turbines, negotiating with the CEO of a petroleum company, ... See all stories on this topic » MIT News

Blaine High School graduates, class of 2011 All Point Bulletin At the Blaine high school recognition night she was selected as the outstanding senior for social studies. She was also on the Blaine high school tennis team. For three of her four years in high school Hanna was active in the Imagine Tomorrow science ... See all stories on this topic » All Point Bulletin

Which Brand of Flosser Will Save Your Life? We'll Tell You! Village Voice (blog) 24 2011 at 9:43 AM ​Each week, Death by Science kicks down science andtechnology's door and demands to see where they're hiding the primo goods. Often terrifying, sometimes humbling, our discoveries will make you run to the nearest 7-11 and stock up ... See all stories on this topic » Village Voice (blog)

The UD wind turbine in Lewes has generated research funding and also energy ... University of Delaware Students are also taking advantage of the educational and research opportunities afforded by the turbine. The turbine is probably the most coastally placed wind turbine in the mid-Atlantic, making it ideal for studies that can inform the wind industry, ... See all stories on this topic » University of Delaware

Texas A&M Selected To Partner In National Study Of STEM Master's Degree Programs Texas A&M University WASHINGTON, DC, June 24, 2011 — Texas A&M University has been selected by the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS) as one of five institutions to partner in a national study on completion and attrition in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) ... See all stories on this topic » Texas A&M University

Biotech billionaire The Daily Deal His legal studies weren't his only interest. Kirk says he learned language assembly programming on a single-board computer that allowed him to write and play his own music -- this was the late 1970s, when personal computers were still in their infancy. ... See all stories on this topic »

Study finds single photons cannot exceed the speed of light PhysOrg.com The physicists, led by Professor Shengwang Du from The Hong Kong University of Science andTechnology in Hong Kong, China, have published their study on the ultimate speed of a single photon in a recent issue of Physical Review Letters. ... See all stories on this topic »

NIH awards $64 million grant to Mayo Clinic Post-Bulletin According to Mayo, during the past five years, the CTSA has aided 30 discoveries that improved medical practice, cut average study approval time in half and increased Clinical Research Unitstudies 20 percent. Rizza said the center's job is to speed up ... See all stories on this topic »

National Geographic honors four at inaugural 'Evening of Exploration' celebration PhysOrg.com (press release) Broad is a professor at the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science and director of the University of Miami's Leonard and Jayne Abess Center for EcosystemScience and Policy. He also co-directs the Center for Research on Environmental ... See all stories on this topic » PhysOrg.com (press release)

Fox Panel Teams Up To Promote A Bushel Of Misinformation On Health Care Reform Media Matters for America Floyd Fowler, "a Senior ResearchFellow at the Center for Survey Research at University of Massachusetts, Boston, and author of the book Survey Research Methods," said of the McKinsey survey: "There is no doubt that the answers one would get after ... See all stories on this topic »

Researchers Use Gold Nanoparticles to Diagnose Early-Stage Liver Tumor AZoNano.com By Cameron Chai A Brown University-led research team has made use of gold nanoparticles coated with a charged polymer ring and an X-ray scatter imagingtechnology to detect tumor-like masses as small as 5 mm. The American Chemical Society's Nano ... See all stories on this topic » AZoNano.com

Diamond-Graphite Sandwiches for Electronic Devices Russia-InfoCenter This technology is a result of long-term studies of microphysics of diamond graphitization – first order phase transition in solid state of matter. Diamond and graphite are in fact very simple substances, made of carbon”, one of the authors of the ... See all stories on this topic »

New Research selected by LSE Library: Social Science sites of the week By Heather Dawson Social Science sites of the week. Archives portal Europe. A project of the participants of the APEnet project supported by the European Commission. Currently in Beta testing. Providing information on archives from 17 European countries. ... a free open map of facilities and providing news services. For local citizens and community actiivists. The blog provides descriptions of the implementation of the project which discusses the uses and promotion of mapping technology. ... New Research selected by LSE Library

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TECHNOLOGY News, Jun 25, 2011

Has Renren suffered enough from China stocks phobia? Fri,24 Jun 2011 05:21 PM PDT Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters) - Renren Inc was hyped as the "Facebook" ofChina, a company that had access to the world's largest Internet market, and a good way to ride the buzz surrounding social media IPOs -- but investors who believed the story are nursing big wounds. Full Story1

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Hackers target Brazilian statistics agency Fri,24 Jun 2011 03:54 PM PDT Reuters - RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) - Hackers broke into the website of Brazil's statistics agency on Friday, the latest in a series of attacks on the South American nation's government sites. Full Story1

Foursquare raises $50 million in new round Fri,24 Jun 2011 03:06 PM PDT Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters) - Mobile location based start-up Foursquare raised $50 million in a round of financing lead by venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz, the company said on Friday. Full Story1

Kleiner Perkins weighing fund targeting the cloud Fri,24 Jun 2011 12:43 PM PDT Reuters - SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Top venture-capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers is considering creating a specialized fund that focuses on cloud-based technologies.Full Story1

Hackers attack Electronic Arts website Fri,24 Jun 2011 11:38 AM PDT Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters) - Cyber hackers have breached an Electronic Arts Incwebsite and may have taken user information such as birth dates, phone numbers and mailing addresses, the company said on its website on Friday. Full Story1

Proxy advisor urges RIM CEO/chairman roles be split Fri,24 Jun 2011 11:28 AM PDT Reuters - TORONTO (Reuters) - Shareholders in Research In Motion should vote to split the roles of chief executive and chairman of the board at the BlackBerry maker's annual meeting next month, proxy advisory firm Glass Lewis said on Friday. Full Story1

Factbox: Key legal battles in wireless industry Fri,24 Jun 2011 10:37 AM PDT Reuters - (Reuters) - The mobile telecoms industry has seen a wave of legal battles in recent years as long-established incumbents try to protect their position against newcomers like Google, the front-runner with a $900 million offer in an auction for Nortel's massive patent portfolio. Full Story1

KKR, Silver Lake in talks for GoDaddy.com: sources Fri,24 Jun 2011 08:02 AM PDT Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters) - Private equity firms KKR and Silver Lake are in talks to buy Internet domain site GoDaddy.com and a deal could be more than $2 billion, two sources familiar with the matter said on Friday. Full Story1

Slow Finnish phone sales may explain Nokia's woes Fri,24 Jun 2011 07:23 AM PDT Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters) - Should Finland, Nokia's home base, take some of the blame for the one-time market leader's recent struggles to compete in smartphones? Full Story1

Exclusive: Forget Spy Kids, try kiddie hacker conference Thu,23 Jun 2011 06:26 PM PDT Reuters - BOSTON (Reuters) - Children as young as eight years old are invited to Las Vegas this summer to learn that it's cool to be a hacker -- provided they don't cheat, steal or commit other crimes. Full Story1

Instant view: Oracle shares drop after earnings report Thu,23 Jun 2011 03:08 PM PDT Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters) - Oracle Corp reported better-than-expected quarterly earnings on Thursday, but that failed to calm investor fears that spending on technology software and hardware could be in jeopardy. Full Story1

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Viacom sues Cablevision over iPad streaming Thu,23 Jun 2011 12:46 PM PDT Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters) - Viacom Inc sued Cablevision Systems Corp to halt what it called the unauthorized streaming of its programing on devices such as Apple Inc's iPad.Full Story1

Hacker pleads guilty over AT&T-iPad breach Thu,23 Jun 2011 12:31 PM PDT Reuters - NEW YORK (Reuters) - A computer hacker pleaded guilty to helping write malicious code that let him breach AT&T Inc servers and steal personal data belonging to 120,000 Apple Inc iPad subscribers, U.S. prosecutors said. Full Story1

GPS worry prompts call for more LightSquared tests Thu,23 Jun 2011 12:14 PM PDT Reuters - WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. government officials called for more testing of hedge fund manager Philip Falcone's satellite broadband start-up to address interference issues with global positioning systems, but showed interest in finding a solution rather than shutting the venture down. Full Story1

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WORLD News, Jun 25, 2011

Vietnam to switch to lethal injection for death penalty Fri,24 Jun 2011 07:49 PM PDT Reuters - HANOI (Reuters) - Vietnam will carry out the death penalty using lethal injection from July instead of a firing squad, police said, to reduce suffering. Full Story1

Egyptians injured in clashes over Mubarak's fate Fri,24 Jun 2011 04:53 PM PDT Reuters - CAIRO, June 25 (Reuters) - Dozens of people were injured in clashes between two groups of protesters, for and against putting former president Hosni Mubarak on trial, Egypt's official news agency MENA reported Saturday. Full Story1

Ex-media mogul Conrad Black sent back to prison Fri,24 Jun 2011 04:34 PM PDT Reuters - CHICAGO (Reuters) - A U.S. judge on Friday ordered former media baron Conrad Black back to prison for 13 more months, cutting his original 6 1/2-year sentence nearly in half for remaining fraud and obstruction of justice convictions. Full Story1

Venezuela's Chavez reappears on Twitter from Cuba Fri,24 Jun 2011 04:12 PM PDT Reuters - CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, not seen in public for two weeks, ended his unusual silence with several Twitter messages on Friday, but said nothing about his health after an operation in Cuba. Full Story1

Yemenis pray for end to deadlock as blast rocks Aden Fri,24 Jun 2011 04:07 PM PDT Reuters - SANAA/ADEN, June 24 (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of Yemenis protested in Sanaa on a "Friday of the Revolutionary Will" to press for the overthrow of their wounded president. Full Story1

Sarkozy defends Libya mission as House keeps funding Fri,24 Jun 2011 03:42 PM PDT Reuters - BRUSSELS/TRIPOLI (Reuters) - France rejected on Friday U.S. criticism of Europe's performance in the NATO operation against Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi while the U.S. administration survived Congressional anger in a funding vote. Full Story1

Syrian forces kill 15 protesters, activists say Fri,24 Jun 2011 03:20 PM PDT Reuters - AMMAN (Reuters) - Syrian security forces shot dead at least 15 people on Friday after tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets demanding the overthrow of President Bashar al-Assad, witnesses and activists said. Full Story1

Yemen blacklists 43 opponents for pipeline blasts Fri,24 Jun 2011 03:18 PM PDT Reuters - SANAA, June 24 (Reuters) - Yemen's Interior Ministry published the names of 43 members of the opposition it accuses of blowing up oil pipelines and attacks on power pylons, its news agency said on Friday. Full Story1

Tunisia joins international war crimes court Fri,24 Jun 2011 03:08 PM PDT Reuters - UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Tunisia, whose demonstrations inspired the so-called 'Arab Spring' uprisings across the region, on Friday became the first North African state to join the International Criminal Court (ICC). Full Story1

Factbox - Latest pro-democracy protests in Syria Fri,24 Jun 2011 02:54 PM PDT Reuters - (Reuters) - Tens of thousands of Syrians took to the streets on Friday to protest against President Bashar al-Assad's rule in defiance of a military crackdown, witnesses and activists said. Full Story1

Hezbollah says finds three spies within group Fri,24 Jun 2011 01:28 PM PDT Reuters - BEIRUT (Reuters) - Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said Friday the group had captured three spies among its members, two of whom were recruited by the Central Intelligence Agency. Full Story1

Peru protests turn deadly as govt halts mine project Fri,24 Jun 2011 12:58 PM PDT Reuters - LIMA (Reuters) - Protests against mining and energy projects in southeastern Peru turned deadly on Friday, killing at least two people, hours after the government said a Canadian firm's mining license would be revoked in a bid to calm unrest. Full Story1

Argentine heirs hope DNA test ends identity fight Fri,24 Jun 2011 12:21 PM PDT Reuters - BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - The adopted children of one of Argentina's wealthiest women came forward to give blood samples on Friday, hoping to quell suspicions they were stolen as babies from murdered political prisoners during military rule. Full Story1

Hezbollah says finds three spies within group Fri,24 Jun 2011 11:21 AM PDT Reuters - BEIRUT (Reuters) - Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah said Friday the group had captured three spies among its members, two of whom were recruited by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency . Full Story1

Egypt's Brotherhood to fire members joining other parties Fri,24 Jun 2011 10:00 AM PDT Reuters - CAIRO (Reuters) - A Muslim Brotherhood leader vowed on Friday that members who join other political parties would be expelled from the group, in the latest sign of internal rifts. Full Story1

EU leaders give conditional go-ahead to Croatia entry Fri,24 Jun 2011 09:51 AM PDT Reuters - BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union leaders gave the go-ahead on Friday for Croatia to join the EU, after six years of preparations marred by slow democratic reforms in Zagreb and the EU's reluctance to expand. Full Story1

Argentine leader to announce running mate Saturday Fri,24 Jun 2011 09:46 AM PDT Reuters - BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentine President Cristina Fernandez will announce her running mate for an October 23 election on Saturday after a close ally tipped as a leading contender said he was not in the running. Full Story1

WikiLeaks' Assange builds new, less-confrontational legal team Fri,24 Jun 2011 09:43 AM PDT Reuters - LONDON (Reuters) - WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is hiring a new legal team to take a less confrontational approach in his next British court appeal against a Swedish request he be extradited for questioning in a sexual misconduct case. Full Story1

Pakistan army rejects report on bin Laden's cellphone Fri,24 Jun 2011 09:42 AM PDT Reuters - ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - The Pakistan army condemned Friday a report in the New York Times that a cellphone found in the raid that killed Osama bin Laden contained contacts to a militant group with ties to Pakistan's intelligence agency. Full Story1

Analysis: Mexican ex-presidents lead debate on legalizing drugs Fri,24 Jun 2011 09:27 AM PDT Reuters - MEXICO CITY (Reuters) - Once praised lavishly by the United States for waging a war on drugs, Mexico's last two presidents now say legalizing them may be the best way to end the rising violence the U.S.-backed campaign has unleashed. Full Story1

Ex-Ukraine PM accuses Yanukovich of "mock" trial Fri,24 Jun 2011 08:53 AM PDT Reuters - KIEV (Reuters) - Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko used a pre-trial hearing Friday to allege President Viktor Yanukovich was behind a crooked court action that was certain to convict her of abuse of power. Full Story1

Tripoli opposition waits for its moment Fri,24 Jun 2011 08:10 AM PDT Reuters - TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Muammar Gaddafi's fearsome security apparatus appears to be weakening in Tripoli, but it is still too powerful to risk an uprising -- that is the view of Libyans who say they are part of a burgeoning underground opposition network in the capital. Full Story1

After tasting freedom, many Libyans can't keep quiet Fri,24 Jun 2011 08:09 AM PDT Reuters - TRIPOLI (Reuters) - Standing opposite the wreckage of what used to be the Hotel Wenzrik in central Tripoli, the Libyan man spoke his mind to reporters for a good few minutes, even as their government minders began to zero in on him. Full Story1

Tripoli activists plot revolt without Facebook Fri,24 Jun 2011 08:08 AM PDT Reuters - TRIPOLI (Reuters) - In the brief, heady period at the start of the uprising in the Libyan capital against Muammar Gaddafi, activists relied on Facebook and text messages to network, organize and express themselves. Full Story1

Libyan swap of detainees may signal broader talks Fri,24 Jun 2011 08:01 AM PDT Reuters - BENGHAZI, Libya (Reuters) - Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi has released dozens of rebel supporters and allowed them to sail back to Benghazi on Friday in a move that could mark the beginning of broader talks between the adversaries. Full Story1

Israel PM's son accused of anti-Islamic comments Fri,24 Jun 2011 07:24 AM PDT Reuters - JERUSALEM (Reuters) - An Israeli newspaper reported on Friday that one of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's sons had posted anti-Islamic remarks on his Facebook page. Full Story1

Afghanistan says 4 children killed in Pakistani border shelling Fri,24 Jun 2011 07:20 AM PDT Reuters - KABUL (Reuters) - Afghanistan on Friday complained to Pakistan for a second time in a week about its shelling of Afghan villages in which four children were killed, fighting that threatens to raise regional tensions as the United States begins a gradual troop withdrawal. Full Story1

Palestinians use bulldozer to ram Israeli fence Fri,24 Jun 2011 07:16 AM PDT Reuters - BILIN, West Bank (Reuters) - Palestinian protesters rammed a bulldozer Friday into a contested barrier near the village of Bilin, days after the Israeli army said it would finally comply with a court order and reposition the fence. Full Story1

U.N. says sending human rights team to Yemen Fri,24 Jun 2011 07:13 AM PDT Reuters - GENEVA (Reuters) - A team of United Nations human rights investigators will travel to Yemen next week to assess the situation after months of unrest, a U.N. spokeswoman said on Friday. Full Story1

After decades of war, Sudan's Abyei defies quick fixes Fri,24 Jun 2011 07:07 AM PDT Reuters - KHARTOUM/JUBA (Reuters) - When Abdeljalil Abdelrahim talks about Abyei, a war-scarred region in central Sudan prized by northern nomads for its grazing land, he has no doubt it belongs to the north. Full Story1

Pakistan, India to explore new nuclear confidence building Fri,24 Jun 2011 07:02 AM PDT Reuters - ISLAMABAD (Reuters) - Pakistan and India agreed on Friday to work on new nuclear confidence-building measures and expanded trade and travel across the ceasefire line dividing disputed Kashmir. Full Story1

Sarkozy says Europeans "doing the work" in Libya Fri,24 Jun 2011 06:55 AM PDT Reuters - BRUSSELS (Reuters) - French President Nicolas Sarkozy rejected on Friday criticism of Europe's role in the Libyan war effort by outgoing U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates and insisted Washington's allies were "doing the work." Full Story1

Candidacy of Senegal's Wade now critics' target Fri,24 Jun 2011 06:52 AM PDT Reuters - The capital Dakar was calm on Friday after violent street protests on Thursday had forced Wade to abandon proposed changes to the election law that appeared designed to smooth his path to re-election in February 2012. Full Story1

Special report: Japan's "throwaway" nuclear workers Fri,24 Jun 2011 06:19 AM PDT Reuters - FUKUSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) - A decade and a half before it blew apart in a hydrogen blast that punctuated the worst nuclear accident since Chernobyl, the No. 3 reactor at the Fukushima nuclear power plant was the scene of an earlier safety crisis. Full Story1

Explosions rock Myanmar's capital, two other towns Fri,24 Jun 2011 06:09 AM PDT Reuters - YANGON (Reuters) - Four explosions rocked Myanmar's capital, Naypyitaw, and two other towns on Friday, residents said, adding several people were wounded but no one had been killed. Full Story1

Thai PM's speech boosts ruling party's election chances Fri,24 Jun 2011 06:07 AM PDT Reuters - BANGKOK (Reuters) - A tirade by Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva against ousted former premier Thaksin Shinawatra could garner more support for his ruling Democrat Party in a July 3 election, but a win looks unlikely as the main opposition races ahead in opinion polls. Full Story1

Some 170 women raped in attack on Congo villages: U.N. Fri,24 Jun 2011 05:32 AM PDT Reuters - KINSHASA (Reuters) - The number of reported victims of a recent mass rape by gunmen in Democratic Republic of Congo has risen by about 70 to as many as 170, the United Nations refugee agency said on Friday. Full Story1

Rebels say Gaddafi could stay in Libya: report Fri,24 Jun 2011 04:56 AM PDT Reuters - PARIS (Reuters) - Libyan rebels rule out any role for Muammar Gaddafi in a future government but could let him remain "in a remote part of Libya" as part of a settlement, France's Le Figaro reported on Friday. Full Story1

Rights investigations needed in Sudan border areas: U.N. Fri,24 Jun 2011 04:45 AM PDT Reuters - KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Huts were still burning and looters roamed the main town of Sudan's disputed Abyei region this week, a senior U.N. official said, more than a month after Khartoum seized it and shut down a joint north-south administration. Full Story1

EU leaders give conditional go-ahead to Croatia entry Fri,24 Jun 2011 04:20 AM PDT Reuters - BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union leaders gave the go-ahead on Friday for Croatia to join the EU, after six years of preparations marred by slow democratic reforms in Zagreb and the EU's reluctance to expand. Full Story1

 

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