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Tuesday, May 10, 2011

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  • Clinton condemns China on rights - 5 hours agoUS Secretary of State Hillary Clinton criticises China's crackdown on dissent as "a fool's errand", saying Beijing is trying to halt history, as officials hold talks in Washington.
  • Syria 'pulls out' of UN spot race - 1 hour agoSyria drops plans to run for a position on the UN Human Rights Council, diplomats say, following Damascus' crackdown on pro-democracy protests.
  • Microsoft buys phone firm Skype - 1 hour agoMicrosoft confirms that it has agreed to buy internet phone service Skype for $8.5bn (£5.2bn) making the deal Microsoft's largest acquisition.
  • Bin Laden sons' anger at killing - 17 minutes agoThe sons of Osama Bin Laden criticise his "arbitrary killing" in a statement to the New York Times, and ask why he did not have the chance to stand trial.
  • Ugandan opposition leaders sprayed pink - 5 hours agoUgandan police spray opposition leaders with a pink liquid to stop them holding a banned rally in the capital as the president announces new plans to curb riots.
  • Milly 'gone in blink of an eye' - 5 hours agoTeenager Milly Dowler vanished "in the blink of an eye" on her way home from school, the trial of her alleged murderer is told.
  • Call for police chief to resign - 3 hours agoThe MP for Skipton and Ripon calls for the immediate resignation of North Yorkshire Police's chief constable.
  • Libraries cut foreign newspapers - 7 hours agoOne of London's most culturally-diverse boroughs removes foreign language newspapers from its libraries.
  • Tube strikes suspended by union - 6 hours agoTube strikes which had been planned to begin next week have been suspended, the RMT union confirms.
  • Pilot 'killed wife over pre-nup' - 6 hours agoA pilot murdered his wealthy wife then buried her body after their divorce descended into acrimony over a pre-nuptial agreement, a court hears.
  • A Vanishing Landscape - 7 hours agoHere is a rare look at my native habitat , a micro-ecosystem that has mostly been extinguished in the heartless march of human progress.  Where was the Nature Conservancy when you needed them?
  • Inevitable Result of Price Controls, Health Care Edition - 7 hours agoWell, it turns out that the laws of supply and demand do indeed apply in the health care field.  Obamacare and before it Romneycare combine government subsidies of demand with cost controls mainly con...
  • Scenes From My Son Studying For His AP Exams - 8 hours agoScene 1, History AP:  My son asked me how WWII ended the Depression.  I said that the draft soaked up a lot of excess workers, which reduced unemployment, and British buying for the war helped our eco...
  • Advantage of My Company Operating in Many States - 8 hours agoOperating in multiple states is generally a pain in the ass.  But one advantage it offers is that from time to time a bank or telephone company asks for some really intrusive bits of information, clai...
  • To Which I Would Add One More Concern - 1 day agoDon Boudreaux had these two rejoinders to the notion that the GM bailout is a success simply because GM is making a profit. Economically literate opponents of the Detroit bailout never denied that p...
  • The Secret Life of Your Bodyclock - 1 day agoWhy are you more likely to have a heart attack at eight o’clock in the morning or crash your car on the motorway at two o’clock in the afternoon? Can taking your medication at the right time of day re...
  • The Genius of Design - 2 days agoDocumentary series exploring the history of design. The first episode of this new series tells the fascinating story of the birth of industrial design. Alongside the celebrated names, from Wedgwood to...
  • Back from the Dead - 3 days agoDr Kevin Fong investigates a pioneering technique of extreme cooling that is being used to bring people back from the dead. In the operating theatre, a patient’s heart is stopped and their brain shows...
  • The Secret: Evidence We Are Not Alone - 3 days agoThe Secret presents the story of how leaked government documents prove that the United States has been recovering crashed unidentified flying objects, often known as flying saucers, since 1941, and ha...
  • The Elephant: Life after Death - 4 days agoElephants can live for 70 years. But what happens when one of these magnificent beasts dies in the wild? This stunning film turns normal wildlife documentaries on their head to find out what happens a...
  • Drone Strikes in Yemen and Pakistan, Proliferation Elsewhere - 3 days agoA US drone strike in Yemen on Thursday (5th May), was an attempt to assassinate US-born cleric Anwar al-Awlaki , said to be head of al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.  Two Saudi brothers were killed i...
  • Drone Laws - 4 days agoAn article by two senior MoD scientists in an obscure US military journal suggests that while the UK military says it has no intention of developing a fully autonomous armed drone, background research...
  • Transfer Speculation - 1 week agoI wrote most of this post last night before the announcement that US special forces entered Pakistan and killed Osama Bin Laden and members of his family.  It is noteworthy that drones were not used t...
  • Drones everywhere - 2 weeks ago Obama: Sending Drones to Bomb Libya It’s been a busy week!  On Monday the Guardian highlighted the MoD’s  new document on the need for serious discussion on the ethics and legality of usin...
  • New MoD document recognises legal, ethical and moral issues raised by use of armed drones - 3 weeks agoThe UK Approach to Unmanned Aircraft Systems (click image to open PDF) The UK Ministry of Defence has published a new document, to “inform and prompt wider debate” on military unmanned aerial vehicl...
  • Job, jobs, jobs the values of the Labor budget - 55 minutes agoAnyone who’s been paying much attention to the Gillard Government’s values talk, more or less constant since the beginning of this year (and coinciding exactly with the unfreezing of the election resu...
  • And then there it was: pretty much budget as expected - 1 hour agoAnd so after a couple weeks of announcements that the budget would be tough (you know a Horror Budget © ), out came a budget that well… was pretty much as expected. It was a fairly typical Labor budge...
  • Budget 2011: What the hell was that all about? - 12 hours agoOvercooked crocodile. Brit action star Jason Statham. Wayne Swan. What do these three things have in common? Answer: They are all tough . As tough as nails. As tough as old boots. As tough as Angry An...
  • Random jottings from Budget Day - 12 hours agoThe Federal Budget is one of the set-piece parliamentary and media occasions. A linguistics lecturer even opined on The Drum today that the Budget speech is akin to the constitutionally mandated State...
  • Fiscal dark clouds shadow budget's good news - 13 hours agoIf you go far enough back in Budget Paper No 1 you can find the figures that inform you what the problem is. It is the large and rising figure for how much the Government has to borrow to finance the ...
  • Europe’s first EGNOS airport to guide down giant Beluga aircraft - 11 hours agoPau Pyrénées in southern France has become Europe’s first airport to use the new EGNOS Safety-of-Life Service, to guide aircraft in for landing using only this highly accurate space navigation signal.
  • Space Shuttle Endeavour launch set for 16 May - 23 hours agoNASA managers have set the liftoff of Space Shuttle Endeavour for 16 May at 14:56 CEST (12:56 GMT). The date was announced at a news briefing on Monday at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
  • Raging storms sweep away galactic gas - 1 day agoESA’s Herschel infrared space observatory has detected raging winds of molecular gas streaming away from galaxies. Suspected for years, these outflows may have the power to strip galaxies of gas and h...
  • ESA hands over keys to Soyuz launch site - 3 days agoThe official ceremony marking ESA’s handover of the Soyuz launch site to Arianespace took place today at Europe’s Spaceport in French Guiana, after the site was declared ready for the first flight and...
  • Mars Express sees deep fractures on Mars - 4 days agoNewly released images from ESA’s Mars Express show Nili Fossae, a system of deep fractures around the giant Isidis impact basin. Some of these incisions into the martian crust are up to 500 m deep and...

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TODAY - May 10, 2011

CN Tower to allow visitors to walk on ledge

Officials say the new feature — 365 metres above the ground — is both safe and secure. » How it can be possible
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