X Prize for oil spill solutions

X Prize for oil spill solutions

X Prize for oil spill solutions

Posted: 29 Jul 2010 12:38 PM PDT

The X Prize foundation, best known for launching the private spaceflight industry, launches a $1.4 million oil clean-up challenge.


Awards double for Valentine band

Posted: 29 Jul 2010 12:37 PM PDT

Welsh rock band Bullet For My Valentine scoop two prizes at this year's Kerrang! Awards, including best British group for the third year running.


Syria and Saudi say will work to stabilize Lebanon

Posted: 29 Jul 2010 12:26 PM PDT

DAMASCUS (Reuters) - Syria and Saudi Arabia pledged on Thursday to work on stabilizing Lebanon and Syria advised the United States against interfering with Saudi King Abdullah's visit to Damascus.

Cuban hunger striker returns home

Posted: 29 Jul 2010 12:20 PM PDT

Cuban dissident Guillermo Farinas, who was on hunger strike for more than 130 days, is released from hospital.


Cable TUC invitation 'withdrawn'

Posted: 29 Jul 2010 11:46 AM PDT

Business Secretary Vince Cable will not address the TUC's annual congress after his invitation to speak was withdrawn.


Rangel to Stand Trial on Ethics Violations

Posted: 29 Jul 2010 12:48 PM PDT

Members of the House ethics committee on Thursday detailed the charges against Representative Charles B. Rangel, who failed to reach a settlement to avoid the proceeding.

Rybkhoz Journal: From Fires to Fish, Heat Wave Batters Russia

Posted: 29 Jul 2010 12:49 PM PDT

A country that proudly swaggers about during the most brutal of winters is reeling from the hottest July on record.

In China, Journalist Prevails

Posted: 29 Jul 2010 12:06 PM PDT

For China's investigative journalists, who grapple with censors, the case of a Shanghai reporter appears to offer a positive turn.

Galapagos off Unesco danger list

Posted: 29 Jul 2010 10:11 AM PDT

A Unesco panel votes to remove the Galapagos Islands from a "red list" of endangered heritage sites, drawing protests from a leading conservation group.


Bollywood version of Austen's Emma

Posted: 29 Jul 2010 11:56 AM PDT

A modern Bollywood adaptation of Jane Austen's Emma is set to hit the big screen. Anna Holligan went to meet its stars.


How a boy's death brought a West Bank cinema back to life

Posted: 29 Jul 2010 05:57 AM PDT

A cinema in the West Bank city of Jenin will open for business next week for the first time in 23 years, following a remarkable chain of events that began with the death of a Palestinian boy.

Second U.S. sailor found dead in Afghanistan

Posted: 29 Jul 2010 05:01 AM PDT

The second U.S. sailor who went missing in Afghanistan last weekend is dead, a Pentagon official said Thursday.

Evidence Ties Manning to Afghan Leaks

Posted: 29 Jul 2010 10:53 AM PDT

Investigators have found concrete evidence linking Pfc. Bradley Manning with the leak of classified Afghanistan war reports, a defense official said.


Attacks Kill 23 Iraqi Security Forces

Posted: 29 Jul 2010 09:44 AM PDT

Militants killed 23 members of Iraq's security forces across the country in a combination of shootings and roadside bombs.


Journalists Kidnapped in Mexico

Posted: 28 Jul 2010 07:16 PM PDT

The kidnappings are the latest in a string of violent incidents aimed at silencing the press along Mexico's northern border, where drug cartels battle over routes and lucrative local markets.


Minister Questioned in L'Oréal Affair

Posted: 29 Jul 2010 07:12 AM PDT

Financial police are questioning Labor Minister Eric Woerth about his connection to the heiress of the L'Oréal cosmetics fortune in a scandal that has reached the highest levels of President Nicolas Sarkozy's government.


Chongqing Crackdown Intensifies

Posted: 29 Jul 2010 09:57 AM PDT

A sprawling crackdown on gangland corruption in one of China's biggest cities intensified with the arrest of a former deputy of Chongqing's legislative body.


Colosseum Seeks Sponsor

Posted: 29 Jul 2010 09:18 AM PDT

Italian officials are hoping to raise €25 million ($32 million) in private funding to pay for restoration work at Rome's 1,900-year-old Colosseum.


Sailor's Body Found in Afghanistan

Posted: 29 Jul 2010 10:24 AM PDT

The second of two U.S. Navy sailors abducted in Afghanistan last week has been found dead, just as his comrade whose body was discovered earlier, U.S. and Afghan officials said.


Official: Tanker Was in Collision

Posted: 29 Jul 2010 10:04 AM PDT

The chief official at the port where a Japanese tanker was docked a day after it was damaged at the mouth of the Persian Gulf said investigators now believe the ship was involved in a collision.


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