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Nasa finds water on moon- A "significant amount" of frozen water has been found on the moon, Nasa, the US space agency, has said. The findings boosted hopes of manning a permanent lunar base on the moon which had previously been thought to be uninhabitable, for further exploration to Mars. "Yes indeed we found water and we did not find only a little bit but a significant amount," Anthony Colaprete, project scientist and principal investigator for the LCROSS mission,...
Heavy security in Egypt-Algeria World Cup match- CAIRO: Egypt and Algeria play for a place in theWorld Cup on Saturday, 20 years after a similar make-or-break match between the teams sparked riots. Emotions are already running high. Egypt fans greeted the Algeria team at the airport by throwing stones on Thursday. Policecontrolled the mob, but Algerian officials said two...
Britain's Abu Ghraib: Did Britain collude with US in abuse of Iraqis?- Claims that British soldiers recreated the tortureconditions of Abu Ghraib to commit the sexual and physical abuse of Iraqi civilians are being investigated by the Ministry of Defence. The fresh allegations raise important questions about collusion between Britain and Americaover the ill-treatment of Iraqi prisoners during the insurgency. In one case, British soldiers are accused of piling bodies of Iraqi prisoners on top of each other and subjecting them to electricshocks, an echo of the...
Tainted food proving deadly for adults, WHO says- A WHO official says millions of people die every year from preventable diseases and modernfood production helps spread diseases Millions of adults die every year from bugs and toxins in what they eat, according to new WHO data that shows food-borne diseases are far more deadly than the UN agency previously estimated. The research faults unsafe food for 1.2 million deaths per year in people over the age of five in Southeast Asia and Africa — three times more adult deaths than the Geneva-based...
Obama seeks better ties with Asia- Barack Obama, the US president, has pledged to pursue better US engagement in Asia, pragmatic cooperation with China and deeper trade ties with the region. In a speech in the Japanesecapital of Tokyo on Saturday, Obama reaffirmed Washington's alliance with Japanwhich was strained recently by a row over a USmilitary base. "I want every American to know that we have a stake in the future of this region, because what happens here has a direct affect on our lives at home,"...