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Pakistan test-fires missiles: militaryIslamabad (AFP) May 8, 2010 Pakistan said Saturday it had successfully tested two missiles capable of carrying nuclear and conventional warheads as Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani called for its recognition as a nuclear power. A statement from the military said the Ghaznavi, with a range of 290 kilometres (180 miles), and the Shaheen 1, which can hit targets up to 650 kilometres away, both "successfully hit the target areas." Gilani, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee General Tariq Majid and other senior mil ... read more |
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Lisbon (AFP) May 9, 2010Hundreds of flights at airports from Lisbon to Munich were cancelled Sunday and some European airspace was closed because of a volcanic ash cloud from Iceland that caused air travel chaos last month. All flights to the city of Porto in northern Portugal and the Azores were suspended, with normal operations expected to resume by 0600 GMT Monday, airport officials there said. In all more t ... more  
New Orleans, Louisiana (AFP) May 9, 2010Engineers mulled options Sunday after the first try to cap a ruptured pipe gushing oil into the Gulf of Mexico failed when ice crystals clogged a containment dome. Officials said they have not yet given up hope of capping the leaks some 5,000 feet below the surface which are hemorrhaging an estimated 210,000 barrels a day. But they cautioned it will likely be several days before a soluti ... more 
Bonn, Germany (SPX) May 10, 2010The hairs on the surface of water ferns could allow ships to have a 10 per cent decrease in fuel consumption. The plant has the rare ability to put on a gauzy skirt of air under water. Researchers at the University of Bonn, Rostock and Karlsruhe now show in the journal Advanced Materials how the fern does this. Their results can possibly be used for the construction of new kinds of hulls w ... more |
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Israel seeks U.S. aid for Iron DomeTel Aviv, Israel (UPI) May 4, 2010 As Hezbollah builds up its rocket arsenal, Israel has asked Washington to help pay for more Iron Dome anti-missile batteries to shield the Jewish state. The Jerusalem Post reports that the Israeli Defense Ministry wants to buy more than a dozen batteries of the system designed to counter short-range missiles fired by the Iranian-backed Lebanese guerrillas and Palestinian Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip. The ministry had allocated $250 million for the development of the system, the bott ... read more |
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