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N.Korea threatens to attack S.Korea ships as tempers flareSeoul (AFP) May 27, 2010 North Korea vowed Thursday to attack any South Korean ships which violate their disputed border and Seoul's navy staged its own show of strength amid continuing high tension over the sinking of a warship. Pyongyang's military general staff also scrapped a pact which guards against accidental naval clashes at the flashpoint border, and repeated threats to shut down a joint business project. Elsewhere in the Yellow Sea, South Korea's navy staged an anti-submarine exercise, its first since Seoul pu ... read more |
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United Nations (AFP) May 27, 2010A deadlocked UN nuclear conference was to consider Thursday a new draft document that could resolve a stalemate that has blocked moves on the Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) for a decade, diplomats said. A solution of the diplomatic battles that have set the world's nuclear haves against the have-nots may come in a text that lays out action plans for disarmament, verifies nuclear programs to ... more  
Bristol, UK (SPX) May 27, 2010Imagine you could work out the answer to a question, without knowing what the question was. For example, suppose someone thinks of two numbers and then asks another person to work out their sum, without letting them know what the two numbers are. However, they are given an encryption of the two numbers but not told how to decrypt them. Nigel Smart, Professor of Cryptology in the Department ... more  
Akron OH (SPX) May 27, 2010The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) awarded Lockheed Martin a $3.93 million contract to develop a rifle-scope attachment to enhance soldiers' marksmanship capabilities. The Dynamic Image Gunsight Optic or DInGO system will enable soldiers to accurately view targets at varying distances without changing scopes or suffering a decrease in optical resolution. The system will ... more |
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Beijing looks to revitalise bicycle cultureBeijing (AFP) May 27, 2010 Pedalling around Beijing is a daily struggle for retiree Dai Haiping, with more than four million cars clogging the streets of the Chinese capital, but she remains faithful to her two-wheeler. Dai is a member of Friends of Nature, a non-governmental organisation which advocates clean public transport, especially over short distances. For Dai, pedal power is the perfect solution for Beijing, but drivers do not agree. "There are not enough bike lanes. Cars are always in the way when you're trying ... read more |
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