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PARIS (AFP) - A satellite designed to map Earth's gravitational field has been hit by a software glitch and is unable to send its science data back home, the European Space Agency (ESA) said on Monday.Published 16 days, 7 hours, 45 minutes ago |
FRANKFURT (AFP) - A German non-governmental organisation urged the European Union Monday to regulate speculation in grain futures to help poor people in developing countries.Published 16 days, 8 hours, 16 minutes ago |
MOSCOW (AFP) - Russia's agriculture industry faces losses of over one billion dollars after a record drought destroyed over a quarter of its crops, an official said Monday.Published 16 days, 8 hours, 46 minutes ago |
BEIJING (AFP) - Thousands of vehicles were bogged down Monday in a more than 100-kilometre (62-mile) traffic jam leading to Beijing that has lasted nine days and highlights China's growing road congestion woes.Published 16 days, 9 hours, 56 minutes ago |
MONTREAL (AFP) - A high-tech expedition sets out from Canada Sunday to create a detailed map of the wreckage of the Titanic, nearly a hundred years after the fabled ship sank in the Atlantic killing 1,500 people.Published 17 days, 1 hour, 41 minutes ago |
PARIS (AFP) - The Solar System could be nearly two million years older than thought, according to a study published on Sunday by the journal Nature Geoscience.Published 17 days, 2 hours, 57 minutes ago |
BEIJING (AFP) - China, facing the risk of embarrassment if it misses a looming environmental deadline, has ordered thousands of companies to close high-polluting plants as its leadership vies to retool economic growth.Published 17 days, 18 hours, 1 minute ago |
WELLINGTON (AFP) - Only nine of 63 whales which beached themselves in a northern New Zealand bay survived, rescuers said Sunday.Published 17 days, 18 hours, 38 minutes ago |
WASHINGTON (AFP) - BP said Saturday it began removing drill pipe and other equipment from a damaged wellhead under the Gulf of Mexico, as it prepares to replace its giant blowout preventer valve with a new one.Published 18 days57 minutes ago |
TUNIS (AFP) - Tunisia's cereal production has halved this year due to dry weather, the agriculture ministry said on Saturday.Published 18 days, 8 hours, 32 minutes ago |
