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2008-09-30 00:00:00

CAMBRIDGE, Massachusetts (AFP) - Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) scientists said Monday they have moved closer to creating "artificial noses," after finding a way to mass-produce smell receptors in a laboratory. Artificial noses could one day

2008-09-29 22:26:00

ABIDJAN (AFP) - The trial opened in Ivory Coast on Monday of 12 people charged with involvement in a 2006 toxic waste scandal which killed 17 Ivorians and poisoned thousands. Nine of the 12 were in court to face a raft of charges including poisoning, comp

2008-09-29 21:44:00

WASHINGTON (AFP) - NASA on Monday delayed the upcoming launch of the Atlantis space shuttle to allow time to repair a "significant anomaly" that occurred at the weekend on the Hubble space telescope. "The malfunctioning system is Hubble's Control Unit/Sci

2008-09-29 20:15:00

MADRID (AFP) - Spain's nuclear safety agency issued an alert Monday after a case of equipment containing low-level radioactive material was stolen from a road works site, the second such incident this year. The case was part of a kit for geologists to mea

2008-09-29 19:04:00

TOULOUSE, France (AFP) - Europe's space freighter was destroyed over the South Pacific on Monday, ending a glitteringly successful maiden mission to the International Space Station (ISS), officials said. The European Space Agency (ESA) said the robot truc

2008-09-29 18:09:00

PARIS (AFP) - Climate change will amplify the risk of flooding in northwestern Europe, water scarcity and forest fires on the northern Mediterranean rim and bring milder winters to Scandinavia, the European Environment Agency (EAA) said on Monday. Higher

2008-09-29 17:03:00

LOS ANGELES (AFP) - A US space company founded by an Internet multi-millionaire has become the first private venture to successfully blast a rocket into Earth's orbit. Falcon 1, a liquid fuel rocket built by Space Exploration Technologies, or SpaceX, took

2008-09-29 15:11:00

Three Chinese astronauts were given a rapturous welcome when they returned to Beijing after carrying out the country's first spacewalk. The men, sometimes called "taikonauts" after the Chinese word for space, were greeted by family members and high rankin

2008-09-29 09:39:00

ABOARD THE OCEAN TRAIN, Canada (AFP) - As leaves turn to red and orange in Canada's fall election, Green Party leader Elizabeth May is making a vividly distinctive pitch to elect Canada's first Green members of Parliament. Under her new leadership, a part

2008-09-29 08:19:00

SYDNEY (AFP) - Australia's leading climate change scientists Monday pleaded with Prime Minister Kevin Rudd to override his top adviser on the issue and drastically slash carbon gas emissions. Professor Ross Garnaut, commissioned by the government to revie