Arnold Schwarzenegger, best known for his role in The Terminator and being the Governor of California (which earned him the nickname The Governator), has been invited by the Prime Minister's Office to visit Canada. Schwarzenegger is reported to have higher expectations for reducing greenhouse gas emissions than Prime Minister Stephen Harper.

Stephen Harper is the Prime Minister of Canada.


The Canadian PM and "The Governator" first met when they went to Mexico for the inauguration of Felipe Calderón, the president of Mexico.

The Canadian PM attended the inauguration of the president of Mexico.


China has shot down one of their old weather satellites with a ballistic missile and the United States is concerned about the test.


The American computer company Apple has reached 78 percent increase in its profits during the last quarter, which ended December 30, 2006.

Apple's profits rose by 78 percent during the last quarter of 2006.


A woman who disappeared in the jungles of Cambodia at the age of 8, has been found after having lived as a feral child for 19 years. She is identified as Rochom P'ngieng, who disappeared in 1988, when tending buffalos in a remote part of the jungles of north-eastern Cambodia.

Rochom P'ngieng disappeared in the jungles of Cambodia.


Philippine human rights commission (CHR) together with various local government officials branded "overkill" the police assault on the Iloilo provincial capitol on Wednesday. In an attempt to arrest Governor Niel Tupas, Sr. and seize control of the capitol, hundreds of policemen armed with M-16 rifles stormed the capitol, smashed glass doors and destroyed padlocked iron gates. The rifles were pointed at civilians.

Philippine civilians were killed by police.


Niel Tupas was arrested during a police assault.


Baena Soares was evacuated from the Sheraton Hotel to the headquarters of the armed forces staff where he met with the "highest Salvadoran authorities," according to diplomatic and military sources”.

Baena Soares was arrested by the armed forces.


The FMLN launched this aggression with all of its forces, chiefly using a concentration of weapons and fighters in the San Salvador metropolitan zone.

The FMLN carried out an attack in San Salvador.


There are no reports so far as to whether any relatives have claimed the bodies of the four military men who were reportedly killed when the plane crashed.

Four military men died in a plane crash.


In his first play of Winter Universiade 2007 Hockey team of Canada defeated USA 5-0, while in another game the home team of Italy lost to Kazakhstan 3-1.


In the United States, a stabbing at the Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School in Sudbury, Massachusetts has left a 15-year old student dead. The stabbing happened around 7:20 am EST, before classes had started. A fight broke out in a boys' bathroom between the 15-year old victim, James Alenson and 16-year-old suspect John Odgren, the fight spilled out in the hallway, where the stabbing occurred.

John Odgren is suspected of stabbing James Alenson.


John Odgren died at the Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School.


Berlin has a new landmark. Among the cranes which still dominate the skyline of Europe's newest capital now stands a chancellery, where the head of government Gerhard Schroeder will live and the German cabinet will hold its regular meetings.

New buildings have been erected in Berlin.


The Reichstag building in Berlin was constructed to house the Reichstag, the original parliament of the German Empire. It was opened in 1894 and housed the Reichstag until 1933.


Only a few of the embassies, mainly those of states accredited in the German Democratic Republic (GDR), were able to make use of existing buildings in Berlin. The majority of the embassies had to have new buildings erected or buildings that were already in place adapted for this new use.


The theory proved to be extremely precise and became the prototype for the electroweak theory, which draws the electromagnetic and weak nuclear forces into a single model, and won the 1979 Nobel for Sheldon L. Glashow, Abdus Salam and Steven Weinberg.

The electroweak theory was recently confirmed.


A discovery of the acceleration of the universe has changed the way we are thinking about the problem of the vacuum energy. Instead of trying to explain why it is zero, we are trying to understand why it is anomalously small. Recent cosmological observations have shown that the universe is flat, or almost exactly flat, and confirmed many other predictions of inflationary theory.


It didn't happen because the cream of England's thugs was smoking pot which is easily and legally available in the Netherlands.


The Netherlands' vaunted drug policies - legalizing the public sale of cannabis products in the now-famous coffee shops and adopting a generally lenient attitude toward drug use - have turned the country into the narcotics capital of western Europe.


Heavy rains across central and eastern Europe have created flooding conditions not seen for centuries, killing more than 100 people, forcing the evacuation of hundreds of thousands of others, and devastating historic city centres in Germany and the Czech Republic. Flooding also has hit communities in Austria, Slovakia, Russia and Romania.


Rescue workers completed an airlift evacuation of a half-submerged riverside district of the Swiss capital Thursday as large parts of central and southern Europe were hit by flooding that killed at least 42 people.


Huge celebrations have been held in Romania and Bulgaria to mark their accession to the European Union, 17 years after the fall of Communism.


The EU enlargement to 25 countries took place on 1 May 2004 when 10 of the 12 candidates joined.  Bulgaria and Romania followed on 1 January 2007.


The European Union is an economic heavyweight, but it is not a monolith. It works for the good of its own members but it also takes into account the global good.


As late as 1850, however, when it was possible for conscientious objectors to secure exemption from service by hiring a substitute, most of the Dutch church leaders were opposed to voluntary service in the army.

French conscientious objectors are given special tasks.


Almost a century of French history has come to an end as the country's last conscripts completed their military service.


Such high profile athletes as baseball's Darryl Strawberry and Dwight Gooden, cycling's Gilberto Simoni, and soccer's Diego Maradona have all indelibly linked cocaine and sports in the minds of countless sports fans.

Drug use is prevalent among soccer players.


Pierre Bérégovoy died on 1 May 1993, in Paris after being transported by helicopter from Nevers (Nièvre), where he had been found an hour earlier, in a coma with two bullets in the head. The second bullet was attributed to a nervous reflex. Police investigators ruled his death as a suicide, confirming his bodyguard's deposition, who claimed the former prime minister was with him when he grabbed the guard's gun, which is more plausible than the first version of events which appeared in the press relating that Bérégovoy had returned alone to the car and had taken the gun from the glove box.


Pierre Beregovoy, until a month ago Prime Minister of France, apparently left no message when he shot himself on Saturday with a borrowed gun.


First, we harvest greenhouse gas (biogas methane) not just from livestock manure and used water, but also crop residues and certain food wastes, which constitute feedstock for the anaerobic digester.


The Cold War led to increased international broadcasting, as Communist and non-Communist states attempted to influence each other's domestic population. In addition to the U.S.-Soviet cold war, the Chinese-Russian border dispute led to an increase of the numbers of transmitters aimed at the two nations, and the development of new techniques such as playing tapes backwards for reel-to-reel recorders.


Following the success of radio during war, the Army produced a Field Manual entitled "Psychological Warfare Operations (FM 33-5)" in 1955 that discussed the importance of radio broadcasts to support U.S. military operations.


The text duly became the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa in 1996 and came into effect in February 1997. It has been amended twelve times since its adoption.

A new Constitution was adopted in South Africa.


We are extremely proud, that the new constitution asserts equality among South Africa's languages; and that, for the first time, the languages particularly of the Khoi, Nama and San communities will receive the attention they deserve.


If the proposed amendments are accepted by the meeting, the new Constitution or By-Laws, with amendments, must be ratified at the next AGM of the Society.


53 members of the Solar Temple were found dead at two locations in Switzerland near Geneva.


The Order of the Solar Temple lost 69 members in mass suicides in Switzerland, Canada and France between 1994 and 1995, according to the prosecutor's office.


The Order of the Solar Temple was a doomsday cult heavily involved in money laundering and arms trafficking.


This overview discusses the main methods of contraception (birth control) used in the United States and their advantages and disadvantages.


At the UN Conference on Population in Cairo 1994, a number of Muslim countries joined hands with the Vatican in opposing contraceptives and abortion. On the occasion of this UN conference, the Rabita called a meeting chaired by the Saudi king, where a resolution was passed "against the legalization of abortion against a policy of conceding sexual rights to adolescents and unmarried persons against raising the marriageable age."


As international travel booms, the United States is fast losing market share in large part, industry executives say, because for many non-Americans, it has become simply too much of a hassle to get into the country since Sept. 11, 2001.


You can contact us several ways: write us, phone us, email us, or fill out the form below and submit it. We'll be happy to provide any information and assistance we can. Cedar Falls Tourism and Visitors Bureau.


The U.S. plan to require people traveling between the United States and Canada to have passports or similar identification is already hurting cross-border tourism, and it's not even in effect yet, tourism officials say.


This position requires other modes of transport to become more efficient and capable of meeting customer service requirements.

European Industry becomes more competitive.


Girard will add to his list of honors and achievements this month, when he is inducted into the august French Academy, a body of 40 members founded by Cardinal de Richelieu in 1635.

The French Academy was founded by Richelieu.


Richelieu was also a great patron of the arts. He rebuilt the Sorbonne in Paris, supported promising writers and founded the French Academy.


In late November Sydney was covered in smoke after raging fires in the Blue Mountains. One of the major fires was lit by a lightning strike near Burra Korain Head inside the Blue Mountains National Park on 13 November.


Officials said Monday that arsonists were likely responsible for lighting some of the more than 50 wildfires that raged over the weekend around Sydney, destroying seven homes and bringing an early, menacing start to Australia's fire season.


Starts are never the same on Sydney Harbour. There are literally thousands of spectator craft, fickle winds, local eddies and choppy water.


Over the past two decades, the number of fires and fire casualties and the economic losses have decreased steadily. Nevertheless, on an average day in 2001, fire departments responded to more than 4,750 fires, 10 people died, and 56 citizens were injured.


While the Gulf War allies were victorious on the battlefield, researchers thus far are being defeated in efforts to find out what has made so many of the veterans sick. But two new studies indicate the veterans are not much more likely to die or be hospitalized than soldiers who did not fight in the region.


An independent inquiry has backed Gulf War veterans claims that some did suffer ill-health as a result of their service in the 1991 conflict.


This study will compare pre and post-deployment health status of military personnel deployed to the Middle East.


The European Commission today adopted a Communication setting out a new strategic framework for the European Union's relations with Asia in the coming decade.


Initially, the EU consisted of six countries: Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. Denmark, Ireland, and the United Kingdom joined in 1973, Greece in 1981, Spain and Portugal in 1986, Austria, Finland, and Sweden in 1995. The largest expansion occurred in 2004 with 10 new countries joining.


However, Norway's key offshore petroleum sector is expanding strongly in 1993, and should remain a principal economic activity for the next several decades, thanks to continuing field developments and exploration activity.


All regions have recorded a steadily decreasing accident rate over the past seven years, except for Africa.


Overall the accident rate worldwide for commercial aviation has been falling fairly dramatically especially during the period between 1950 and 1970, largely due to the introduction of new technology during this period.


Most studies show no significant increased risk associated with the use of oestrogens for less than 1 year. The greatest risk appears associated with prolonged use with increased risks of 15- to 24-fold for 5 to 10 years or more.

Postmenopausal pregnancy is subject to risks.


At present, establishing pregnancy in postmenopausal women is more an ethical than a medical issue, partly because the information reported on pregnancy in postmenopausal women is insufficient to determine a reliable risk profile. In these women cardiovascular ageing accelerates. Therefore, until proven otherwise, postmenopausal women should be considered particularly at increased risk for vascular complications during pregnancy.


The WTO administers the agreements, handles trade disputes, monitors national trade policies, provides technical assistance and training for developing countries, and cooperates with other international organizations.

World Trade Organization mediates trade disputes.


Disputes in the WTO are essentially about broken promises. WTO members have agreed that if they believe fellow-members are violating trade rules, they will use the multilateral system of settling disputes instead of taking action unilaterally.


The World Trade Organization is in many ways similar to the splitting of the atom. Both have great potential for productivity and destruction.


After 1992, the "Clean Hands" investigation of political corruption brought about the most serious political crisis in the history of the Italian Republic, quickly extending to the uppermost levels of the political and economic system. In a matter of months, the magistracy uncovered a scene of corruption and political illegality without precedent in the history of the western democracies, involving the entire political class of the country and broad sectors of its business community.

High-level political corruption is present in Italy.


In Italy's weak party system, the political influence of powerful individual legislators trumped the political imperatives of the ruling parties.


This course is designed to give the student a fundamental training in logic so that he can equip himself with the basic knowledge of logic, and accustom himself to logical thinking. This course includes: the uses of language, deduction and induction.

Deduction and induction are used to teach English.


Many of the Vikings who travelled to Scotland, and other parts of Europe were traders or peaceful settlers looking for land to farm.


Evidence suggests that the Vikings invaded certain areas of Scotland, including the Outer Hebrides, Shetland, and some of Caithness and Sutherland, and settled there.


Just to keep their big bodies warm, they have to eat up to one tenth of their body weight every day.

Information about what manatees eat is available.


Manatees are vegetarians. They eat sea grass and other vegetation such as algae that they find in the shallow waters that they live in.


They consume huge quantities of food each day-a large adult can eat several hundred pounds of vegetation daily-mostly from shallow waters and near shore. Manatees also occasionally eat fish and snails, which are an important source of calcium, phosphorus, and protein.


Hubble celebrates 15th anniversary with spectacular new images.

Hubble Telescope celebrates its anniversary.


To celebrate the Hubble Space Telescope's 16 years of success, the two space agencies involved in the project, NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA), are releasing this image Messier 82.


Located 12 million light-years away, M82 appears high in the northern spring sky in the direction of the constellation Ursa Major, the Great Bear. It is also called the 'Cigar Galaxy' because of the elongated elliptical shape produced by the tilt of its starry disk relative to our line of sight.


Last Wednesday Brazil's Energy Research Corporation (EPE) released the National Energy Plan 2030, the government's blueprint for energy development for the next 24 years.


Manitoba Hydro has announced plans for two new hydroelectric generating stations (GS) in Northern Manitoba: Wuskwatim GS on the Burntwood River and Gull (Keeyask) GS on the Nelson River.


In September 2001 the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority released the Great Barrier Reef Catchment Water Quality Current Issues report 2001.

Marine vegetation improves water quality.


CSIRO researchers have established that culturing marine plants, oysters or other filtering organisms in farm discharge water can significantly improve the water quality.


A consortium of companies is planning to build East Africa's first international undersea fiber optic communications line, which will complete a much needed fiber loop around the continent. Once in place, the cable will provide that part of Africa the broadband connection necessary for delivering the same affordable telecommunications advances now enjoyed by most countries in other parts of the world.

Undersea fiber optic cable improves communications.


Its main component is approximately 39,000 km of undersea fiber optic cable that will link the countries of Africa to each other and to the rest of the world.


In November, the unit organised an exhibition of forgeries at the V&A to highlight the increasing prevalence and sophistication of art crime.


In confronting the rising phenomenon of computer crime, strategies that focus solely on increasing the effectiveness of prosecution will inevitably fail.


Since the 1970s, crime has been increasing at churches around the country as religious art became more popular among collectors.


My bud, the Codger Logger, has told me of a black bear attack in Laclede several decades ago. In that incident, the bear grabbed the toddler and was making off with the baby.


Black bears are dangerous. They can and do kill people.


Passengers at European airports faced heightened security checks Wednesday as officials sought measures to prevent terrorists from repeating devastating attacks that halted air traffic in the United States and over the Atlantic.


Newer technologies such as low-dose x-ray have the ability to see through clothes, giving screeners the ability to easily detect any concealed weapons.


Aboard the expedition cruise ship, you visit the South Shetland island group, comprised of some 20 islands, including King George, Half Moon and Livingston islands, close to the Antarctic Peninsula before moving to the mainland area itself.

Antarctica exploration is international.


The terms of the MSA do not apply overseas, however, where U.S. tobacco companies have been much more brazen about luring youth into tobacco addiction and where the companies are often free to engage in the most shameless marketing tactics, such as cigarette giveaways featuring scantily clad women who seductively light cigarettes in the mouths of teenage boys.


Since 1990, the company's cigarette sales have risen by only 4.7% in the United States, but by 80% overseas, while profits from international sales have risen by 71% since 1993.


States and districts need to set high standards for high schools that are clearly aligned with both elementary and postsecondary educational requirements.


Setting national goals and developing national standards to meet them are recent strategies in the our education reform policy. Support for national education standards by state governments originated in 1989, when the National Governors Association endorsed national education goals. President George Bush immediately added his support by forming the National Education Goals Panel.


All major wildlife species are now threatened with extinction. No one has seen a Bengal Tiger, a Puma, a Jaguar or Indonesian Rhinoceros in the natural wildlife habitat for years.

All major wildlife species are endangered.


“Threatened species” is a related term, referring to a species likely to become endangered within the foreseeable future.


Computer software (ELFIN) designed to provide health information and to monitor patterns of use and unmet need has been developed for the waiting area of health centres.

Computer terminals are used to provide health information.


A few steps away a teen looks up health information on a computer terminal for an upcoming school assignment, while at another terminal a woman looks for information on diabetes.


All appointments are arranged through the computer terminals, which can display the appointments record of each patient.


A Russian court has dismissed a criminal case against a village school teacher accused of using pirated Microsoft software.

Russian court throws out Microsoft piracy case.


A Russian court threw out a case on Thursday against a headmaster accused of using pirated Microsoft software in his school after President Vladimir Putin and ex-Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev criticised the trial.


A Russian court on Thursday dismissed piracy charges against a local school, calling the case "trivial." Russian authorities had found 12 computers at the school with phony versions of Windows and Microsoft Office.


Psychiatric drugs do not in any way cure the patient or even make him or her feel better.


So psychiatric drugs do stop disliked behavior and may mentally disable a person enough he can no longer feel angry or unhappy or "depressed".


The United States is engaged in extensive international efforts on climate, both through multilateral and bilateral activities.

United states is engaged in illegal technology transfer.


The new legislation explicitly recognises home schooling as a legitimate education option for the first time and places it on par with school education.


The existing education legislation does not recognise home schooling.


The authors argue, overall, that home educators are asserting their historical option of cultural agency and schooling.


Do you think there are people on both sides of this struggle in Northern Ireland that would just as soon see this not succeed?

Peace talks succeed in Northern Ireland.


Irish Republican Army, having submitted long-awaited message to peace negotiators, has raised slim, last-minute hope that former Sen. George J Mitchell's rescue mission might still succeed in moving forward stalemated Northern Ireland peace agreement.


It took another 22 years on the long road to the talks table until the first Ceasefire Declaration on August 31st, 1994 was announced by the IRA. This marked the beginning of the Peace Process in Northern Ireland, which in April 1998 resulted in an "Agreement covering civil rights issues and relationships".


"There will be only one Hurricane Andrew," he said, referring to the Category 5 tropical storm that slammed into south Florida in 1992, causing $26.5 billion in damage and killing 26 people in the United States and Bahamas.


However, also minor tropical storms passing at relatively great distance can cause severe damage.


Bilis was designated a severe tropical storm by the JMA on July 11, but the storm did not strengthen much further over the next few days due to a marginal upper-air environment and dry air entrainment.


A cyclone is the most dangerous weather phenomenon occurring in the bay.


It galvanized US President Harry S. Truman's executive order later that year to protect more than 2 million acres (8,000km²) as Everglades National Park.

The US Government protected Everglades from further environmental damage.


A settlement agreement between the federal government and the State of Florida, and approved by Judge William Hoeveler, imposed a plan to reduce damaging phosphorus levels in the Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge and Everglades National Park by December 31, 2006.


Furthermore, under the constitution future candidates for the President of the Commission will be put forward by the European Council and approved by the European Parliament, who will have the final say. This differs from the present procedure in that Parliament will acquire the power to reject the President-designate specifically, rather than simply rejecting the entire Commission.

EC presidency candidates were nominated.


In particle physics, quarks are one of the two basic constituents of matter (the other Standard Model fermions are the leptons). Antiparticles of quarks are called antiquarks. Quarks are the only fundamental particles that interact through all four of the fundamental forces.


In 1965, Moo-Young Han with Yoichiro Nambu and Oscar W. Greenberg independently resolved the problem by proposing that quarks possess an additional SU(3) gauge degree of freedom, later called color charge. Han and Nambu noted that quarks would interact via an octet of vector gauge bosons: the gluons.


The U.S. does allow dual citizenship and consequently races run by Lagat after May 7th could have been ratified as American records since USATF rules only state that an athlete has to be a U.S. citizen competing in a sanctioned competition to be eligible to set a national record.

1995 Athletics World Records have been ratified.


While the men's hammer throw has been in the Olympic Games since 1900, the IAAF did not start ratifying women's marks until 1995. Women's hammer throw was first included in the Olympics at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, after having been included in the World Championships a year earlier.


Lillehammer Ishockeylubb has played a few games there, but the two most important hockey tournaments played in the arena is the 1994 Olympics (famed for Peter Forsberg's goal in the deciding penalty shootout of the final game) and the 1999 World Ice Hockey Championships.

Lillehammer hosts Ice Hockey Olympic Finals.


The 1994 Winter Olympics, officially known as the XVII Olympic Winter Games, were celebrated in 1994 in Lillehammer, Norway. Other candidate cities were Anchorage, Alaska, USA; Östersund/Åre, Sweden; and Sofia, Bulgaria.


It is worth pointing out that language skills are unevenly distributed both over the geographical area of Europe and over socio-demographic groups.

English and French are official EU Languages.


The precedent is immediately set with "Foreword," an intro to the album which finishes with a crashing sound (thought by many to be glass breaking, but it is in fact an external CD burner on a wooden table being smashed with an aluminum baseball bat).


The current range of Macintoshes varies from Apple's entry level Mac mini desktop, to a mid-range server, the Xserve. Macintosh systems are mainly targeted towards the home, education, and creative professional markets.


The assassination of Yitzhak Rabin took place on November 4, 1995 at 21:30, at the end of a rally in support of the Oslo agreements at the Kings of Israel Square in Tel Aviv.

The assassination of Rabin took place in 1995.


On November 4, 1995, Rabin was assassinated by Yigal Amir, a right-wing Jewish radical who had strenuously opposed Rabin's signing of the Oslo Accords, after attending a rally promoting the Oslo process at Tel Aviv's Kings of Israel Square (which was renamed Yitzhak Rabin Square after his death).


Many versions saw extensive action in Spain, China, Mongolia, Finland and in the beginning of the War against Germany in the year 1941. It was also used in various duties in civil variants, as trainers and in many secondary roles.


Once a pariah denied diplomatic recognition by most countries, the Soviet Union had 'official relations' with the majority of the nations of the world by the late 1980s.


"During my trial, a French General, who was quoted in the indictment, appeared as a witness and defended me before the military court.

French General creates Balkan Security Zone.


Today's historic opportunity is to create a zone of security and stability in a region that has known little of either. Otherwise, the Balkans will become a permanent black hole in the heart of Europe.


The 52nd Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film and television for 1994, were held on January 21, 1995 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California.

Golden Globes for 1994 were awarded in Los Angeles.


Both Millennium Approaches and Perestroika were awarded the Tony Awards for Best Play back to back in 1993 and 1994 respectively. Both parts also won back to back Drama Desk Awards for Outstanding Play.


Opponents of prohibition argue that it is ineffective, expensive, and more socially damaging than the use of the drugs it prohibits. They argue that prohibition creates crime and criminalizes innocent people that are not a threat; that there would be no violence associated with acquiring drugs if their source and use were well regulated. Opponents argue that prohibition is unconstitutional and that it violates natural law.


The basic concept is that tobacco and alcohol are extremely popular even though they are relatively more dangerous than many illegal drugs and are subjectively less pleasurable. This, critics say, is attributable to the profit motive and large marketing campaigns of tobacco and alcohol companies.


For example, one study listed on the website of the CDC (Center for Disease Control) states that New York's statewide law to eliminate smoking in enclosed workplaces and public places substantially reduced RSP (respirable suspended particles) levels in western New York hospitality venues.

Smoking restrictions apply in restaurants.


In Queensland smoking is prohibited in all pubs, clubs, restaurants and workplaces, as well as in commercial outdoor eating and drinking areas and in outdoor public places (e.g., patrolled beaches, children's playground equipment, major sport stadiums, and within 4 meters of non-residential building entrances).


European officials have commented on the slowdown in Turkish reforms which, combined with the Cyprus problem, has led the EU's enlargement commissioner to warn of an impeding ‘train crash' in negotiations with Turkey. Despite these setbacks, Turkey has closed its first chapter in negotiations in June 2006.


Turkey's current administration has identified EU membership as its top priority, and has taken many - and sometimes controversial - reform packages through the parliament aimed at gradually harmonizing Turkey with EU standards. Since October 2005, Turkey has formally started accession negotiations with the EU and these will be based on the acquis communautaire.


The gluten-free diet must be strictly followed by sufferers of coeliac disease and dermatitis herpetiformis.


Gluten is most commonly found in wheat, rye, and barley and may sometimes contaminate oats grown nearby or processed on the same equipment as gluten-containing cereals, and casein is found in dairy products; wheat and dairy frequently make up a large proportion of the Western diet.


It owns the Austin, Nichols company (maker of Wild Turkey whiskies) and the alcoholic beverage division of the former Seagram corporation, among many other holdings. In 2005, the company acquired British-based international competitor Allied Domecq plc.

Scotch production is linked to its consumption.


The Jiyeh power station oil spill is an ongoing environmental disaster, caused by the release of heavy fuel oil into the eastern Mediterranean after storage tanks at the thermal power station in Jiyeh, Lebanon, 30 km (19 mi) south of Beirut, were bombed by the Israeli Airforce on July 14 and July 15, 2006 during the 2006 Israel-Lebanon conflict.


While fringe elements of Irish Republicanism may have instigated the riots that occurred in Dublin last Saturday, I don't think the main body of the rioters were politically motivated in themselves, aside from a casual identification with Republicanism. They were lashing out at a state that has let them down badly - the Irish state.


Charlotte "Lottie" Dod (24 September 1871 – 27 June 1960) was an English athlete best known as a tennis player. She won the Wimbledon Championships five times, the first when she was only fifteen, in the summer of 1887.

Wimbledon lady winners are very popular.


There are a number of smartphone user interface platforms based on Symbian OS, including open platforms UIQ, Nokia's Series 60, Series 80 and Series 90 and closed platforms such as that developed for NTT DoCoMo's FOMA handsets. This adaptability allows Symbian OS to be used on smartphones with a variety of form factors (e.g. clam-shell or "monoblock"/"candybar", keypad- or pen-driven).

Mobile phones must not be used whilst driving.


Mobile phones must not be used where they may interfere with equipment in hospitals and aircraft, or areas within the University environment that are sensitive to mobile telephones.


Freedom of speech is the concept of being able to speak freely without censorship. It is often regarded as an integral concept in modern liberal democracies.


The Children's Internet Protection Act, also known as CIPA, is one of a number of bills that the United States Congress has proposed in an attempt to limit children's exposure to pornography and other controversial material online.


Blending sport with culture and education, Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy of effort, the educational value of good example and respect for universal fundamental ethical principles.


The participants underlined the need to call upon all sports leaders to promote the culture of peace and the observance of the Olympic Truce with conviction and determination and to highlight the importance of sport as a component of national unity and rapprochement of people.


The children's rights movement is a historical and modern movement committed to the acknowledgement, expansion, and/or regression of the rights of children around the world.

Children's Rights is a historical movement.


Human rights refers to the concept of human beings as having universal rights, or status, regardless of legal jurisdiction or other localizing factors, such as ethnicity, nationality, and sex.


The Pharos of Alexandria, one of the seven Wonders of Ancient World ceased operating and was largely destroyed as a result of an earthquake in 1375; some of its remains were found on the floor of Alexandria's Eastern Harbour by divers in 1994. More of the remains have subsequently been revealed by satellite imaging.

There are still remains of some of the seven Wonders of Ancient World.


AI USA strongly opposes the use of the death penalty in the United States. Amnesty calls for its worldwide abolition, particularly in; the USA, China, Iran and Vietnam, four countries that make up the overwhelming majority of executions.


Ozone (O3) is a triatomic molecule, consisting of three oxygen atoms. It is an allotrope of oxygen that is much less stable than the diatomic species O2. It is present in low concentrations throughout the Earth's atmosphere. It has many industrial and consumer applications as well as being used in ozone therapy.

Damages in the ozone layer are under control.


Since the ozone layer prevents most harmful UVB wavelengths (270–315 nm) of ultraviolet light from passing through the Earth's atmosphere, observed and projected decreases in ozone have generated worldwide concern leading to adoption of the Montreal Protocol banning the production of CFCs and halons as well as related ozone depleting chemicals such as carbon tetrachloride and trichloroethane (also known as methyl chloroform).


Around 120 miles of Cornish coast and 80 kilometres of France was contaminated and around 15,000 sea birds killed along with huge numbers of marine organisms before the 270 square mile slick dispersed.


Oil kills birds in many ways. Its first effect is to break down the birds' waterproofing. Water runs off a seabird's back because the bird is protected by a layer of feathers, overlapping like the tiles on a roof.


Traditional ramen and sushi restaurants still dominate fast food culture in Japan, although American outlets like Pizza Hut, McDonald's and Kentucky Fried Chicken are also popular, along with Western-style Japanese chains like Mos Burger.


In Hawaii hamburgers are often topped with teriyaki sauce, derived from the Japanese-American culture, and locally grown pineapple.


Curry was introduced to Japan during the Meiji era (1869 - 1913), at a time when India was under the administration of the British East India Company. Because of that, curry in Japan is categorized as a Western dish instead of an Asian dish.


The colonial history of Sierra Leone was not placid. The indigenous peoples mounted several unsuccessful revolts against British rule and Krio domination. However, most of the 20th century history of the colony was peaceful, and independence was achieved without violence.

The Sierra Leone rebellion affects diamond trade.


Taylor reportedly helped broker a deal with the government in Burkina Faso on behalf of the RUF for the supply of Burkinabe mercenaries, with payment to be made in Sierra Leone diamonds.


Women's Hub is a Philippines-based non-government organisation that supports "women struggling for self-determination" in using ICTs, or information and communication technologies.

A conference about women is held in Beijing.


Women's Net collaborated with FEMNET to create an online platform for joining regional processes in the lead-up to the Beijing conference dedicated to women.


Before reconstruction began, the Reichstag was wrapped by the Bulgarian artist Christo and his wife Jeanne-Claude in 1995, attracting millions of visitors.


Christo and Jeanne-Claude are an artistic couple practicing environmental, installation art. Their works include the wrapping of the Reichstag in Berlin, and the Pont Neuf bridge in Paris, the 24-mile-long Running Fence in Marin and Sonoma, counties in California, and The Gates, in New York City's Central Park.


On June 9, 1995 Arabella Cosima-Asereba Kiesbauer was the target of a letter bomb at the Pro7 studios and her assistant got injured.


Kiesbauer was target of a letter bomb in June 1995. Her secretary got injured.


Mobile Commerce (also known as M-Commerce, mCommerce or U-Commerce, owing to the ubiquitous nature of its services) is the ability to conduct commerce, using a mobile device e.g. a mobile phone (or cell phone), a PDA, a smartphone while on the move.


With the advance of miniaturization, currently the vast majority of mobile phones are handheld. In addition to the standard voice function of a telephone, a mobile phone can support many additional services such as SMS for text messaging, email, packet switching for access to the Internet, and MMS for sending and receiving photos and video.


EU's fishing ministers have agreed drastic new cuts in fishing quotas after more than 26 hours of negotiation in Brussels.


The Scottish fishing industry is in turmoil after it emerged fishermen may not be able to catch as many haddock as they thought under new EU quotas.


In the French language the word for student (étudiant) is usually reserved for university-level persons. In collège and lycée therefore students are referred to as élèves, or in an English translation pupils.


For languages whose orthography does not tell much about sounds, e.g. English, or whose many letters are silent, e.g. French, phonetic transcription is crucial not only for learners but also for linguists.


Many feminists regard beauty contests for women as degrading both to the viewer and to the contestant. A common comparison made by feminists is that beauty contests are like a "cattle market" for women that enforces society's objectification of women.

International Beauty Contests go online.


Lady of Universe is an annual online international beauty contest, and the title for the winner of the contest.


The construction of the Tower of Pisa was performed in three stages over a period of about 200 years. Construction of the first floor of the white marble campanile began on August 9, 1173, a period of military success and prosperity. This first floor is surrounded by pillars with classical capitals, leaning against blind arches. Today, it is still unscarred from centuries of weather and age.


At the request of the Food and Drug Administration, Fort Dodge Animal Health voluntarily ceased production of ProHeart 6, and recalled all ProHeart 6 that had been distributed to veterinarians until the FDA's concerns about the drug's safety are resolved.


Chrysler said it would recall 145,099 of its 2006 Dodge Ram 1500 pickup trucks to fix the passenger air bag and seat belt.


The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission recently unveiled an initiative aimed at reducing defective products and their recalls.


Heart disease and stroke are cardiovascular (heart and blood vessel) diseases caused by smoking. Heart disease and stroke are also the first and third leading causes of death in the United States.


Smoking causes diseases in nearly every organ of the body, according to a comprehensive report on smoking and health from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).


Smokers have more upper and lower respiratory tract infections than nonsmokers. This happens because smoking damages your body's defenses against infections.


Later reports concluded that smoking causes cancers of the bladder, esophagus, mouth and throat; cardiovascular diseases and reproductive effects.


There are considerable gaps in our knowledge of modern forms, but we do know that during the Carboniferous period hundreds of different amphibian forms roamed the swamps. Apart from caecilians modern amphibians lost their fish-like scales and developed a soft skin.


With so many species of toads and frogs, it is not surprising that they inhabit a wide variety of habitats. Some live in arid desert regions, some live in mountainous regions, and others live in swamps.


The U.S. enjoyed miraculously long immunity from the dreaded plague that used to sweep Europe.


The black plague lasted four years and killed about one-third of the population of Europe, or approximately 20 million people.


Humanity originated from Africa. So too have many pandemics, including the bubonic plague.


Therefore, no Turkish influences are found in Moroccan culture and art that stretch to a long unbroken tradition going back to Islamic Spain.


Norris continues this important work with originality and clarity as she explores the relation between modern art and mass warfare.


Poetry and politics have been bedfellows since before "The Iliad" catered to the leading class of Greeks by identifying contemporary leaders with the heroes of the Trojan War.

Poetry and politics affect one the other.


It's definitely a trickle-down theory. A relatively small number of educated people read poetry, and written poetry affects songwriting, and songwriting affects masses of people. Poetry becomes an expression that filters into the world slowly.


Murder has shown itself to be the preferred method of censorship in at least five cases in Russia this year.


Information nights are arranged regularly. This allows deaf people to access information about certain things through the help of a sign language interpreter.

Deaf people encounter problems in the social community.


Triceratops fossils are far and away the most common dinosaur remains found in the latest Cretaceous rocks in the western United States (up to 70% of the fauna in some areas).


The Dutch soldiers have been described as "cowards" for their part in failing to protect the Bosniak refugees, with some soldiers reportedly sharing "cups of coffee" with Serb troops. Commander Thomas Karremans, who was in charge of Dutch troops in Srebrenica at the time, was filmed drinking a toast with war-crimes suspect and Serb general Ratko Mladic.

Dutch photos of Srebrenica have disappeared.


There was guerrilla fighting in the Pacific and East Asian theatres of World War II.

Guerrillas increase activity in East Timor.


In 2003, the global dairy products market saw value sales in U.S. dollar terms increase by 10.4 percent, largely due to the increasing strength of the euro against the U.S. dollar.


The NATO Secretary General, Willy Claes, said today that he was considering resigning, after a Belgian parliamentary commission decided this morning to recommend that the country's highest court indict him in a widening arms corruption scandal.

NATO Secretary General Willy Claes resigned.


In November 1994, News of Norway reviewed a Norwegian novel just released in the United States, "Sophie's World" by the high school philosophy teacher and author Jostein Gaarder.


Latin America's billionaires now have a combined fortune of more than $115 billion.


The Eskimos, seal-hunting peoples scattered around the Arctic, plan to seek a ruling from the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights that the United States, by contributing substantially to global warming, is threatening their existence.


In last year's USA today best seller list Nora Roberts was the second most read author after J.K. Rowling.


Thus he traveled into the city of which he was the bishop, and even to a few places outside Rome, beginning the tradition of papal journeys which would culminate with Pope John Paul II, who has become by far the most widely traveled pope in all of history.

Papal travel is affected by political concerns.


Anti-nuclear activists on Saturday delayed a waste train from northern France to northern Germany by several hours, said the French reprocessing company, Areva.

Nuclear waste transport was stopped in Germany.


The greenhouse effect can be visualized as follows: Imagine that Earth has been encircled by a giant glass sphere. The heat of the sun penetrates through the glass. Some of the heat is absorbed by the Earth, and some of it is radiated back towards space. The radiated heat reaches the glass sphere and is prevented from dispersing any further.

Greenhouse effect changes global climate.


Meanwhile, the EU continued to refuse to sponsor a resolution on China at the U.N. Commission on Human Rights.


The story of Nick Leeson, who caused the collapse of Britain's Barings Bank in February 1995, is perhaps the quintessential tale of financial risk management gone wrong.

Nick Leeson was arrested for collapse of Barings Bank.


It is an honoured obligation of the citizens of the People's Republic of China to perform military service and to join the militia forces."

People are willing to risk imprisonment rather than perform military service.


It marked the first official visit of Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to Saudi Arabia as he spoke with its leader, King Abdullah. Both leaders have expressed concern over sectarian tensions in Iraq, fearing they could spread through the Middle East.

The President of Iran is Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.


President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran met with King Abdullah here in the Saudi capital on Saturday to address the Middle East's growing sectarian and political crises.


King Abdullah and Ahmadinejad were believed to be focused on finding ways to end the political standoff in Lebanon between Hezbollah, backed by Iran, and the government of Fouad Siniora, supported by the United States.


Calgary, Alberta and the southern Alberta city of Lethbridge became the eighth and ninth cities in Canada to ban smoking in bars and restaurants.


Long known as the gateway to the Canadian Rockies, home to the world's largest mall, and Canada's Festival City, Edmonton, Alberta now occupies a new position among Canadian destinations as the 2007 Cultural Capital - and with good reason.


"I believe what Prime Minister Harper is doing is opening up consultation in terms of how to bring about Senate reform and we're going to work with him," said Stelmach in Edmonton, the capital of Alberta.


Californian Democrat Nancy Pelosi, 66-years-old, has been named the 60th United States Speaker of the House with the votes 233-202. She is the first female House speaker in United States history.

Nancy Pelosi is the Speaker of the US House.


Nancy Pelosi was chosen by Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives to take the title and role of House Speaker on Thursday. Unanimously chosen, Pelosi will be the first woman Speaker in US history.

Nancy Pelosi is the Speaker of the US House of Representatives.


Waxman also stated his understanding that either the Speaker of the House or his staff called the White House to inform President Bush of the situation before signing the bill. Another letter was written March 22 by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi and Congressman Waxman asking the White House to respond.


Sir John Mills, Academy Award winner, BAFTA Fellow, and Disney Legend, has died, aged 97, at his home in Denham, Buckinghamshire after a short illness.

Jamie Foxx was awarded the Best Actor prize at the 2005 BAFTA Awards.


The big-budget Hollywood movie "The Aviator" and the low-budget Brit flick "Vera Drake" have scooped the main prizes at the 2005 Orange BAFTA Film Awards. Four gongs went to "The Aviator" with the top ones being Best Film and Cate Blanchett for Best Supporting Actress. "Vera Drake" got three gongs with Best Director, Best Actress and Costume Design. Jamie Foxx got Best Actor with Ray and Clive Owen got Best Supporting Actor with Closer.


The Cassini Spacecraft has taken images from July 22, 2006 that show rivers and lakes present on Saturn's moon Titan.


NASA launched Cassini-Huygens, the largest interplanetary space craft ever built, on October 15, 1997. The craft arrived at Saturn orbit in July of 2004. It is the fourth craft to visit Saturn and the first to orbit the planet.


Images from the Huygens probe show that liquid methane flows through and into Titan's rivers, channels, lakes, springs, and other as-yet-undiscovered bodies of liquid. Titan is Saturn's largest moon, and the moon the Cassini-Huygens probe is inspecting.


Brooks issued a statement to President Bush, and NNSA (National Nuclear Security Administration) employees, saying that he would resign "shortly".

NNSA is the National Nuclear Security Administration.


The United States Transportation Security Administration has announced plans to reduce the number of security screeners in US airports. The cutbacks come despite an increased TSA budget for 2006 and an overall increase in airport traffic.


This statement was made by Egypt's Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal Affairs Abdel Aziz Seif el-Nasr.

Abdel Aziz Seif el-Nasr is the Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal Affairs of Egypt.


Abdel Aziz Seif el-Nasr stated that soon Egypt will take necessary steps to present the idea on the international arena.


Klassen will also be racing in the 2010 winter Olympic games in Vancouver, British Columbia and in nearby Whistler, British Columbia, a popular snow skiing destination.

The 2010 Winter Olympics will be held in Vancouver.


BC Place Stadium was opened in June 1983 and is scheduled as a key venue for the 2010 Winter Olympics.


Canadian PM Stephen Harper will shuffle his cabinet today at 11:00 a.m. ET.

Stephen Harper is the Prime Minister of Canada.


About 25,000 people including Prime Minister Stephen Harper, his wife and their two children were there. The party got started at about 12:00, noon ET. The ceremony was in English and in French.


Prime Minister Stephen Harper reportedly failed to explain why this country is fighting in Afghanistan, while the Harper government won parliamentary approval for a two-year extension of Canada's mission.


The largest telecom company in Brazil, Brasil Telecom, has blocked its users from accessing YouTube following a court order to shut down the popular video sharing website.


Since the late 1960s, the former Archbishop spied on members of the Church for about 20 years. After the Gazeta Polska newspaper published allegations of his actions on December 20, Wielgus denied them.

The Archbishop of Warsaw is Stanislaw Wielgus.


Nominations for the Genie Awards, Canada's leading motion picture honours, were announced on Tuesday by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television.


The Rocket: The Maurice Richard Story was Canada's most-honoured film from 2006 at Tuesday's 27th Genie Awards in Toronto.


The name Ganga-Dham comes from the Indian words Ganga, for the Ganges, and Dham, meaning "place" or "abode".


India's yearly pilgrimage to the Ganges river, worshiped by Hindus as the goddess Ganga, is the world's largest gathering of people, with around 70 million participants, dwarfing other religious pilgrimages.


Movie studio company, New Line Cinema has announced that movie director Peter Jackson will never be allowed to work on another New Line film. This announcement will also mean that Mr Jackson will not be allowed to film the prequel titled "The Hobbit" to "The Lord of the Rings" films he directed.

"The Lord of the Rings" was directed by Peter Jackson.


In an interview with the Sci Fi Wire, Robert Shaye, co-chairman of New Line and executive producer of "The Lord of the Rings," said that New Line does not want to do any films, including "The Hobbit," with Mr Jackson in the future.


Cypriot cargo ship "Server" went down in Norwegian territory of the North Sea near the Norwegian city Bergen around 6pm local time on January 12.

A shipwreck took place in the North Sea.


2channel, the largest Internet forum in the world and an ISP in Japan, has been shuttered by a Japanese court ruling in a civil slander case.


2channel is hosted in California but the domain name is registered in Japan.


A spokeswoman for Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger says he will veto the bill "out of respect for the will of the people" in the approval of Proposition 22, which opposed recognizing out-of-state same-sex marriages.

Schwarzenegger is the Governor of California.


California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has denied clemency for gang founder Stanley "Tookie" Williams, a death row inmate in California convicted of four murders in the 1979.


In denying clemency Californian Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said "Without apology and atonement for these senseless and brutal killings, there can be no redemption."


The head of the Israel Defense Forces, Lt. Gen. Dan Halutz resigned on Tuesday January 16, 2007 after an internal review criticized his military's leadership during the war in Lebanon last summer.

Dan Halutz is the head of the Israel Defense Forces.


Releasing a video on her website, Hillary Clinton announced today that she will be forming a presidential exploratory committee. "I'm in. And I'm in to win", the Democrat Senator for New York announced on her website today, confirming the widely held assumption that she will seek the U.S. presidency in 2008.

Hillary Clinton is a NY Democratic Senator.


United States Senator Hillary Clinton has been holding discussions about and interviewing potential campaign staff for a White House bid in 2008.


One New York Democrat, who asked to not be named, said he was recently called by a senior Clinton team member.


David Cameron, leader of the U.K. Conservative Party has outlined his vision for the future of a multicultural Britain in an article published in the Observer on January 28, 2007.

David Cameron belongs to the U.K. Conservative Party.


Conservative Leader of the Opposition David Cameron responded to the resignations by saying the government was "divided and in meltdown".


David Cameron has been elected the new leader of the United Kingdom Conservative Party, beating off his rival David Davis by a factor of two to one in a postal ballot of the nationwide party membership.


YouTube has announced it will share the revenue, yielded due to video clips placed at the site, with their copyright owners. At present day YouTube represents the most popular site sharing on-line video.


The pictures were taken by America's foremost celebrity photographer Annie Leibovitz, in David Beckham's current home of Spain, where he plays for football club Real Madrid.


The Real Madrid midfielder and captain of the England national team David Beckham and his ex-Spice Girl wife Victoria have given birth to a baby son called Cruz Beckham.


David Beckham has announced he no longer wishes to be the captain of England's football team.


The famous Greek cinema and theatre actor, Nikos Kourkoulos died at the Ericos Dynan Hospital of Athens, after a long-standing fight with cancer.


Nikos Kourkoulos played in several movies, both in Greece and abroad.


Kourkoulos was married to the daughter of the Greek tycoon Yiannis Latsis, Marianna Latsis, and had 3 children.


India's steelmaker Tata Steel, of the Tata Group, buys Anglo-Dutch steel giant Corus Group for £6.7 billion ($12 billion), making it the world's fifth largest steel manufacturer.


Indian firm Tata Steel has won the battle to take over Anglo-Dutch steelmaker Corus.


Frank de Jong, 51, leader of the Green Party of Ontario is running in the Ontario by-election for Burlington, Ontario.

De Jong belongs to the Ontario Green Party.


De Jong is up against Progressive Conservative Joyce Savoline, Ontario Liberal Party and former Burlington city councilor Joan Lougheed, and New Democrat Cory Judson.


The Hubble is the only large visible light and ultra-violet space telescope we have in operation.


Hubble is a satellite in orbit about 355 miles above Earth. Space shuttles have made four servicing flights to Hubble.


In the movie she is in a relationship with Alan Grant, whereas in the book she is engaged to a doctor. (In the film "Jurassic Park III" we learn that the relationship between her and Dr. Grant did not work out, although they remain close friends.)

Michael Crichton is the author of the book Jurassic Park.


Boris Becker is the youngest person to have ever to won Wimbledon. He took the title back in 1985 when he was just seventeen years old.


Boris Becker is the youngest man ever to raise the Wimbledon trophy.


Mike Jittlov, a master of special effects who's strutted his stuff in several short films, is both the director and star of "The Wizard of Speed and Time".

The movie “Speed” was directed by Jan De Bont.


Speed director Jan De Bont is back at the helm for part 2.


The current president of Spain is Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero of the P.S.O.E. (Spanish Socialist Workers Party). He took over from José Maria Aznar of the Popular Party in the election of March 2004, just after the Madrid bombings.

Felipe González is the President of Spain.


Alvaro Uribe is the president of Spain, an interesting character, who, by the way, had his own father shot by rebel militia.


Felipe González Márquez, born in 1942, Spanish politician, prime minister of Spain from 1982 to 1996. His country's longest-serving post-war prime minister, González played a critical role in the establishment of democratic government in Spain after the long dictatorship of Francisco Franco.


Neil Alden Armstrong is a former American astronaut, test pilot, and Naval Aviator who is widely known for being the first human ever to set foot on the Moon.

Neil Armstrong was the first man who landed on the Moon.


In 1969, Armstrong was commander of Apollo 11, the first manned lunar landing mission, and gained the distinction of being the first man to land a craft on the Moon and the first man to step on its surface.


On 20 July 1969, Neil Armstrong became the first human being to set foot on the moon. Armstrong was a veteran aviator: he had flown 78 combat missions over Korea as a Navy fighter pilot, then joined NASA as a civilian test pilot. He was accepted into the astronaut corps in 1962. Armstrong was the pilot of the Gemini 8 mission (launched 16 March 1966) and then was named commander for the Apollo 11 mission of 1969.


Cyrillic is a port of a freeware X Window Cyrillic font to Newton platform (Unicode). Please observe the original copyright (see the enclosed BDF font header for detail). Also enclosed are code translation modules for GNUE's (aka Makoto Nukui) NTEncoding. You are able to send/receive file in the software which support NTEncoding.


Cyrillic is a powerful program that brings together all the tools you need for drawing family pedigrees, and managing and analyzing pedigree data.


The Qin Shi Huang Mausoleum is the tomb of Emperor Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of the Qin Dynasty (221BC-207BC) and also of China.

Qin Shi Huang was the first Emperor of China.


The unification of China 221 BC under the First Emperor (Qin Shi Huangdi) marked the beginning of imperial China, a period that lasted until the fall of the Qing Dynasty in 1912.


An accord between Israel and Egypt in 1978 led to a negotiated peace between those two nations, signed in Washington DC on March 26, 1979, the first between Israel and any of its Arab neighbours.

The Israel-Egypt Peace Agreement was signed in 1979.


1979 : a glimmer of peace: Israel and Egypt signed a peace treaty , spawning hopes of a broader Mideast solution.


Elizabeth II, eldest daughter of Albert, Duke of York ( later George VI ) and Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon, was born in London on 21st April, 1926 at 17, Bruton Street, Mayfair, the London home of her maternal grandparents, Claud, Earl of Strathmore and Nina Cecilia Cavendish-Bentinck.

Elizabeth the Second's father was George VI.


Elizabeth II has been the United Kingdom's reigning monarch since 1952. She was proclaimed queen on 6 February 1952 following the death of her father, George VI; she was formally crowned the next year, on 2 June 1953.


Sir John Ramsey, Earl of Holdernesse was born circa 1580. He married, firstly, Elizabeth Ratcliffe, daughter of Robert Ratcliffe, 5th Earl of Essex and Bridget Morrison, on 8 February 1607/8. He married, secondly, Martha Cokayne, daughter of Sir William Cokayne, in July 1624.


First lady Laura Bush and Bush's parents, former President George H.W. Bush and his wife, Barbara, attended the ceremony on the front porch of the woodframe, three-bedroom home.

The name of George H.W. Bush's wife is Barbara.


Bush returned home as a war hero. He married Barbara and enrolled at Yale.


Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a novelist and winner of the Nobel prize for literature.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez won the Nobel for Literature.


The famous Colombian novelist known world-wide for his masterfully weaving of the magic realism genre, was born in 1928 in the small town of Aracataca, Colombia. Garcia Marquez was raised by his grandparents, who would often tell him wonderous stories, fables and fairy tales.


Dynamite Nobel is formed by the fusion of Nobel's Italian and Swiss companies.

Alfred Nobel is the inventor of dynamite.


Alfred Nobel was a great inventor and had 355 patents overall. Others to mention, besides dynamite, include synthetic rubber and leather, and artificial silk.


By 1861 Alfred Nobel's father was producing the newest explosive - nitroglycerin.


The second biggest pleasure park behind Euro Disney is a great adventure for young and old children. Many rides, shows and other attractions are waiting there for you.


Charles de Gaulle, 1890–1970, French general and statesman, was the first president (1959–69) of the Fifth Republic.


Former French president General Charles de Gaulle died in November. More than 6,000 people attended a requiem mass for him at Notre Dame cathedral in Paris.


When Charles de Gaulle died in 1970, he requested that no one from the French government should attend his funeral.


The Gurkhas come from Nepal and their name comes from the city state of Goorka, which they were closely associated with at their inception.


Gurkhas are pretty mild-mannered, polite and rather shy folks. In fact most villagers from those hill-regions (Garhwalis, Kumounis, Dogras etc.) are all pretty gentle people, even though they have a long and distinguished history of military service.


The world famous Gurkhas come from the high mountains of Nepal.


The Normandy landings took place on 6th June 1944, but the Germans even then thought that the ‘real' Allied invasion of Europe would take place in the Pas de Calais or the Low Countries.

The Normandy landings took place in June 1944.


D-Day - The Normandy Landings: airborne troops led the D-Day landings (June 6, 1944) in a combined parachute and glider assault, to throw a net of protection around the Normandy beaches, where a massive invasion force would sweep ashore and advance into Europe.


On June 6, 1944, Allied naval, air and ground forces operating with airborne assault troops and paratroopers overwhelmed the German "West Wall" defenses built along France's Channel Coast.


Former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl said Thursday he will not break pledges he made to campaign contributors by publicly disclosing their names even though his Christian Democrat party has directed him to reveal their identities.

The name of Helmut Kohl's political party is the Christian Democratic Union.


The architect of European Monetary Union, the former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl, is appearing before the parliamentary committee of enquiry into the illicit funding of the Christian Democrat party he led for twenty years.


He has resigned his position as honorary chairman of the main opposition Social Democrats after he admitted accepting illegal payments to party funds.


March 1 marked eleven years since the death of TV broadcaster Vladislav Listyev who was shot and killed just one month after his appointment General Director of the ORT channel. His murder remains undisclosed, although the search for his killers continues.

Vladislav Listyev was murdered in Moscow.


March 1995 - leading journalist Vladislav Listyev shot dead in Moscow.


The death of much-loved TV anchorman Vladislav Listyev the previous year had already established that fame was no protection from the hired guns.


Victor Emmanuel III (1869-1947) was king of Italy from 1900 to 1946. His cooperation with Mussolini helped bring an end to the Italian monarchy.

Victor Emmanuel III was king of Italy from 1900 to 1946.


Humbert was the last King of Italy; his first son, Prince of Naples, is the current Head of the House of Savoy.


The reigns of Victor Emmanuel II (1861–78) and Humbert I (1878–1900), and the first half of the reign of Victor Emmanuel III (1900–1946) were marked by moderate social and political reforms and by some industrial expansion in Northern Italy (mainly in the 20th cent.).


From 1835 to 1839 Franz Liszt lived with Marie Catherine Sophie de Flavigny, ex-wife of the Comte d'Agoult. She is better known by her pen name, "Daniel Stern." They had two daughters, Blandina (1835-1862) and Cosima (1837-1930), and one son, Daniel (1839-1859).


Significant naval battle of the Persian Wars, the first ever recorded. Aeschylus served in the battle and wrote "The Persians", which is the earliest of his works to survive.

"The Persians" were written by Aeschylus.


Later, when John Cage returned to California, in the Pacific Palisades, he wrote songs with texts by Gertrude Stein and choruses from "The Persians" of Aeschylus.


When Muhammad died, leadership fell to his father-in-law, Abu Bakr, who became the first caliph (khalifa , or successor), a position that combined spiritual and secular power.

Mohammad Khalifa's father-in-law is Osama Bin Laden.


Umar Al Khattab, Muhammad's father-in-law by marriage to his daughter Hafsa, The second recognized khalifa, belonged to the great Meccan family of Banu Umayya, the branch of which descended Abu'l Aasi, who was Umar's grandfather.


Created by Rob-Vel in 1938, Spirou was drawn by Franquin between 1946 1968.


The walking disaster Gaston Lagaffe was created by Franquin in the pages of Spirou and spun off in these short gag strips.


Red Planet Consulting, Inc. is a full-scale project implementation firm that provides expert Smallworld software services to electric, gas and water utilities.


Buddhism is the official religion of Cambodia like Burma and Thailand. But Christianity and Cham Muslims are also popular.

The official religion of Thailand is Theravada Buddhism.


French is also widely spoken in Canada where it is the co-official language with English.

French is the most widely spoken language in Québec.


Among the conditions for knowing the Quran is knowing the language in which the Quran has been interpreted and understood. Our predecessors were intent on learning Arabic because of this, for as 'Amr Ibn Khattab said, "I prefer to travel for forty nights to interpret an Ayat in the Book of Allah rather than spend this time at the Masjid of the Prophet (PBU) fasting during the day and praying during the night."


The revelations in the Holy Quran were brought to the Holy Prophet Muhammad by the angel Gabriel in the form of clear words of the Arabic language.


Major national and regional newspapers like Aftenposten, VG, DN, Dagbladet, Adresseavisen, Bergens Tidende, and Nordlys will not be published from Thursday on.


Big article in the Norwegian Newspaper called Osloposten about the Scientology company U-MAN. Interviews with Magne Berge and the author of Operation Clambake.


The French railway company SNCF is cooperating in the project.

The French railway company is called SNCF.


The 14 kilometer line uses the old railway line of the Waldkappeler Bahn, which is only used for goods traffic.


Powell's effort bettered the miraculous gold medal winning jump and previous world record of 8.90m/29-2.50 by Bob Beamon at the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City.

2,45 m is the world record in the high jump.


Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators filled the streets of Taipei Saturday evening, as several political parties and the Taiwanese President Chen Shui-bian voiced their opposition to the new anti-secession law passed by mainland China last week. Protestors chanted "Oppose war, Love Taiwan" in what has been termed a "democratic carnival" in downtown Taipei.

Chen Shui-bian is the President of Taiwan.


Lien called on the Taiwanese (ROC) government, led the independence -leaning President Chen Shui-bian , to follow his meeting with more efforts at peacemaking and suppression of the independence movement. "I believe the door has been opened," said Lien. "


Speakers include Ken Takeuchi, president of Jan Jan, Shintaro Tabata, head of news service at Japan's Livedoor, Professor Clyde Bentley from the University of Missouri and My Missourian.


An earthquake with a magnitude of at least 6.2 struck off the coast of Sumatra yesterday, triggering a tsunami alert, officials said. There were no immediate reports of a tsunami, damages or casualties.

A tsunami is a series of waves created when a body of water rapidly displaced on a massive scale.


Panic in Sumatra after new earthquake April 10, 2005. People living on the Indonesian island of Sumatra have fled their homes after an earthquake of magnitude of 6.7 hit the area earlier today. Although the quake was not powerful enough to cause a tsunami , the event sparked fears of a repeat of the December 26 magnitude 9.3 earthquake in which around 300,000 people died. Today's tremor struck 70 miles southwest of Padang, a city in western Sumatra, yet no damage has been reported so far.


The most recent underwater volcano eruption was in 1986 and lasted three days. Japan's Meteorological Agency said there was no current danger of a tsunami, often caused by underwater seismic activity.

Earthquakes have the potential to generate a tsunami.


Simeulue island is near the epicenter of the December 26 quake that caused a massive tsunami. The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center in Hawaii said there was no threat of a tsunami to Pacific coastlines, but quakes of this size can sometimes generate local tsunamis along coasts near the epicenter.


Quake measuring 6.9 off Japan's Honshu coast November 14, 2005 An earthquake measuring 6.9 on the Richter Scale has been reported off the coast of Japan's main island, Honshu . Whilst a major earthquake, the epicentre was well away from any population centres, and initial tsunami warnings predicting half-meter surges were later withdrawn.


The referendum would be held at the same time as the vote to elect Romania's 35 representatives to the European Parliament , as Romania will join the European Union in 2007.

12 members of the European Union use the Euro instead of their own national currencies.


In the interview he said that he knew the Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula for the first time in San Salvador during the Foro de São Paulo.


In 2004, a group of journalist sent a proposal to the Brazilian president Lula asking for the creation of an inspector organism to control the conduct of the Brazilian press.


In one instance, a Workers' Party deputy attacked Jefferson's credibility, calling him a liar on the basis that he supported the former Brazilian President Fernando Collor de Mello, who suffered impeachment for corruption related to Treasurer Paulo Cesar Farias, who worked on Collor's campaign.


In the last two years in the Darfur region more than 70,000 people have been killed, and over 2 million displaced.

More than 200,000 people have been killed in the air attack in the Darfur region.


With Hurricane Katrina likely to strike the city of New Orleans , its mayor, along with the governor of Louisiana , has officially enforced a mandatory evacuation for the city. All citizens, with the exception of a few individuals essential to the operation of a handful of organizations (such as hotels and the media), should immediately leave the city and head for higher ground. The mayor has stated that rising waters from the Category 5 storm are likely to overtake the city's system of levees , which are designed to prevent flooding in the city.

The Category 5 storm overtook New Orleans levees.


The report made its way to U.S. Congress via Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice .

Condoleezza Rice is the U.S. Secretary of State.


United States Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice expressed similar sentiments, accusing Syria of contributing to instability in Lebanon.


Romania's is one of the largest contingents of any European country in Iraq due to the recent withdrawals or downscaling of Spain , Italy , the Ukraine and Poland . Romania has so far been one of the only NATO countries not announcing a withdrawal.


After a series of testy exchanges between a prosecutor and a prospective juror in the O.J. Simpson murder trial Thursday, Simpson 's attorneys accused government lawyers of treating black jury candidates differently than others.


In India several million children between ages 5 and 14 are in chronic bondage in agriculture a million in construction brick making and quarry work and several hundred thousand in carpet and jewelry industries according to Kailash Satyarthi chairman of South Asia Coalition on Child Servitude.

Satyarthi is chairman of South Asia Coalition on Child Servitude.


"During the German occupation of Poland in World War II, from 1939 to 1945, all musical life was forbidden," he told The Times in 1985.

World War II was the war that took place from 1939 to 1945.


Ames then met and married Maria del Rosario Casas Ames a low level Colombian diplomat recruited to be a paid agent for the CIA and also according to some who knew the couple a strong minded woman of expensive tastes.

Aldrich Hazen Ames's wife was called Maria.


Pakistan, which fought two of its three wars with India over Kashmir , denies Indian charges that it is arming separatists in the valley.

India and Pakistan have fought three wars for the possession of Kashmir.


Gov. George W. Bush's wife, Laura, and his 24-year-old nephew, George P. Bush, will have featured roles at next week's Republican National Convention in Philadelphia.

The name of George W. Bush's wife is Laura.


On the Republican side, Texas Governor George W. Bush and his wife, Laura, made a tape recording urging people to vote; the automated calls were left on voters' answering machines.


Over 30 women had also left their marks on the world's highest peak, among them Junko Tabei of Japan, the pioneer who climbed successfully in May, 1975.

Alison Hargreaves is the first woman to have made the climb up the Everest with no artificial oxygen.


Lute Jerstad, 61, who in 1963 became one of the first Americans to climb Mt. Everest, died of a heart attack on Saturday in Tukla, just 500 feet (150 meters) short of the 15,000 feet (4,545 meter) peak of Mt. Kalapatar.


In Hungary, Zoltan Illes, chairman of Parliament's Environment Committee said the spill represents Europe's "biggest environmental catastrophe" since the 1986 nuclear reactor catastrophe at Chernobyl.

The catastrophe at Chernobyl happened in 1986.


Energy Secretary Bill Richardson made clear he was worried about the performance of reactors in former Soviet states, especially those in Ukraine, the site of the Chernobyl catastrophe in 1986.


The explosion of the No. 4 reactor at Ukraine's Chernobyl power plant in April 1986 was the worst civilian nuclear catastrophe to date.


Cartoon News reprints a bunch of political cartoons published after the Titanic sank in 1912.


However, there are some who believe that the real disaster in the North Atlantic on that cold April 1998 morning was not that the Titanic sank with the loss of 1,500 lives.


The Titanic's sinking after hitting an iceberg on April 14, 1912, may have taken the greatest toll on the third-class passengers, but the tragedy did not spare those in the first and second classes.


When the first space boot touched onto the bald surface of the Moon, on July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong said famously, "That's one small step for man, one giant step for mankind."

The moon was first touched by mankind in 1969.


By 2015, he predicted, the mankind is expected to establish their first research center on the moon, which will serve as a natural platform for earth observation, an outpost for deep space probes, and a transfer post and experimental center for mankind.


In his first news conference in years, at an anniversary celebration Friday (July 16, 1999), Armstrong said he came up with the line after he and Buzz Aldrin landed on the moon on July 20, 1969, four days after lifting off from Kennedy Space Center.


In his first year, he supported the gun lobby's most prized goal of the decade: a sweeping repeal of federal gun laws that had been enacted after the murders of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and the Rev. Martin Luther King in 1968.

Martin Luther King was murdered in 1968.


Two documents that a former FBI agent said he took from James Earl Ray's car in 1968 after the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. have passed one scientific test designed to detect whether they are bogus, a federal official says.


On March 10, 1969, James Earl Ray was sentenced to 99 years in a Tennessee prison after he pleaded guilty to the murder of Martin Luther King Jr., but for blacks that hardly seemed recompense.


On Tuesday, Israel's chief Ashkenazi rabbi, Meir Israel Lau, met in his office with a group of Catholic priests from Rome -members of the peace group St. Egidio- and handed them a letter for Pope John Paul II, who was born in Poland.


Pope John Paul II began his longest pilgrimage to his native Poland today at the site of one of his papacy's greatest triumphs: the Baltic coast city where the Solidarity movement that toppled communism was born.


Pope John Paul II arrived Saturday in the birthplace of the Solidarity movement that he sparked with his first papal visit 20 years ago, offering Poles "the greeting of a fellow Pole who comes among you to fulfill the needs of his own heart."


The Mozart segment, for instance, takes an unsentimental view of the composer's popular success and subsequent decline, and relates it with a few swift strokes to the cultural politics of imperial Vienna.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was born in Salzburg.


"Rosetta," a Belgian film about an unemployed young woman trying desperately to carve out a normal life, won top honors at the 52nd annual Cannes Film Festival Sunday.

The Golden Palm has been awarded at the Cannes film Festival.


It fell apart when steamy French actress Sophie Marceau emerged to present the Palme D'Or, or Golden Palm, to Belgium's "Rosetta."


Lewis will receive the Golden Lion career award on Sept. 11, the last day of the Venice festival, when his film about a hapless worker at a Miami hotel will be screened, organizers said Friday.


Weimar in Germany is the 1999 European City of Culture, an honor that coincides with the 250th anniversary of the birth of one of its most famous sons, the poet and intellect Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was born in Germany.


A poll conducted by Newsweek following the Republican National Convention showed that President Bill Clinton had 44 percent support, Dole received 42 percent and the candidate nominated by Perot's Reform Party received only 3 percent.

Bill Clinton belongs to the Democratic Party.


U.S. President Bill Clinton talked by telephone with Northern Ireland Protestant and Catholic leaders to congratulate them on their joint election victory.


The British medical journal The Lancet reported in March that he had been hospitalized for months in Ethiopia, had spent nine days in the intensive care unit at Black Lion Hospital in Addis Ababa after suffering cardiac failure and had been the subject of appeals by Amnesty International and other human rights organizations.

Amnesty International takes care of human rights.


Women inmates in American prisons and jails routinely endure rape and other sexual abuse by male guards and are denied proper medical care, according to an Amnesty International USA report released Thursday.


After being criticized by Conservative Party opponents, British Prime Minister Tony Blair's government recently vowed to deport many asylum seekers and jail others while their requests are processed.


Conservative Party leader William Hague attacked British Prime Minister Tony Blair's stance on further European integration Tuesday, accusing him of handing over Britain's rights and powers "slice by slice".


British Prime Minister Tony Blair has been warned by Labor Party officials that his government is seen as "arrogant" by the voters as they become increasingly worried about health, education and transport.


Changing the citizenship law requires approval of parliament's upper chamber, the Bundesrat, which represents the 16 federal states of Germany.


The 8,568-meter Mt. Kanchenjunga, the third highest in the world, is located in the border area of Nepal, India and China.


Two members of the 2000 Kanchenjunga Expedition of South Korea successfully scaled the 8,586m high Mt. Kanchenjunga via the south west face Friday, according to the Nepali Tourism Ministry.


Nearly seven meters in height, Cassini will be carrying 12 separate packages of scientific instruments, as well as a probe, carrying six more bundles of sensors, which is to be dropped on to Titan, Saturn's largest moon.

The moon Titan has a diameter of 5100 kilometers.


The diameter of the moon cake is 2.1 meters.

The terrestrial moon has a diameter of 3,746 kilometers.


With a diameter of 1,430 miles, Pluto is less than half the size of any other planet and only two-thirds as big as Earth's moon.


With a diameter of 5,230 kilometers, Ganymede is the largest satellite in the solar system - bigger than Mercury and about three-fourths the size of Mars.


On Thursday night they dined with Colombian writer and Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez is a nobel prize winner.


Assisting Gore are physicist Stephen Hawking, Star Trek actress Nichelle Nichols and Gary Gygax, creator of Dungeons and Dragons.


The Yamaguchi-gumi claims a membership of 23,000 gangsters, or "yakuza" as they are called, who engage in businesses, both legal and illegal, including drug-trafficking, gun-smuggling, prostitution, extortion and real-estate swindles.


Last year Jandl was named one of the 10 most important German-language poets of the 20th century by a jury of more than 50 writers, scholars and critics established by the German-language journal Das Gedicht (The Poem).

Gotthold Ephraim Lessing lived from 1729 to 1781.


The USOC decided last year not to pursue a 2008 candidacy, saying it had little chance of winning so soon after summer games in Atlanta in 1996 and winter games in Salt Lake City in 2002.

Before Salt Lake City, Winter Olympic Games took place in Nagano.


Among the major achievements in physics I was privileged to report were the discovery of the top quark at Fermilab -the last of six quarks predicted by The Standard Model theory- and the discovery in Japan that the elusive neutrino particle probably has some mass, a finding with profound implications for the fate of the universe.

The Top Quark is the last quark predicted by the Standard Model theory.


The most conspicuous achievement of the Tevatron in its 14 years of operation was the discovery in 1995 of the "top quark," which filled in the last blank space for six quarks allotted by a table of fundamental particles known as the Standard Model.


We have no idea about a time between roughly 300,000 and 1 billion years after the Big Bang, when the universe was very hazy.

The Big Bang is the primordial explosion from which the universe was created.


Garry Norris, a former software director at IBM Corp., was to be questioned today at the federal courthouse in Raleigh, N.C. He negotiated important sales contracts for Windows in 1995 and 1996.


Bahrain and Kuwait are members of the Gulf Cooperation Council, GCC, a regional political, economic and military organization which also groups Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Qatar and Oman.

The members of the Gulf Cooperation Council are: Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, United Arab Emirates, Qatar, Oman, Bahrain.


And the movie-makers didn't always heed some of the consultants it paid to advise them, including the highly-respected husband-and-wife team of comet and asteroid specialists Carolyn and the late Eugene Shoemaker.

The Shoemaker-Levy comet was discovered by Shoemaker, his wife, Carolyn, and an astronomer David H. Levy.


Last month, the 1,700-pound craft was renamed NEAR Shoemaker in honor of the late Dr. Eugene M. Shoemaker, a pioneer in the study of asteroid and comet impacts on the planets.


EVERGLADES NATIONAL PARK, Fla. - On a clear, warm day recently, Dr. Thomas Armentano picked his way through a stand of red mangroves near the southern edge of the Florida peninsula and stepped into a bone dry stretch of marl prairie littered with scores of uprooted, sun-bleached buttonwood trees.

Everglades National Park is located in Florida.


South Florida, which had only a half million people when Everglades National Park was created in 1947, now has 6 million people and is expected to have 12 million or more by 2050.


The board of the South Florida Water Management District may have to decide as early as next month whether to proceed with buying the community known as the 8 1/2-Square-Mile Area, just east of Everglades National Park.


There were 12 original members of NATO at the time of its founding.


The 16 NATO members and the 14 countries which used to form the rival Warsaw Pact agreed that there would be significantly less equipment permitted in the area of application in Europe than there was under the original treaty.


Alluding to Greece's proposal, and other differences within the alliance, Albright said "there are a variety of ideas" among the diverse 19 NATO member nations.


Coming at a time when the world's two leading auction houses, Sotheby's and Christie's, are embroiled in an embarrassing price-fixing scandal, Phillips, which is based in London, is causing a considerable stir with its conspicuous and costly effort to reinvent itself as an important player in New York.

Christie's is one of the world's largest auction houses.


NUCOR has pioneered a giant mini-mill in which steel is poured into continuous casting machines.

Nucor has pioneered the first mini-mill.


The NUCOR process casts thin slabs of steel.


The most common technology in mini-mills, thin steel slab casting was developed by SMS and put into use by NUCOR.

SMS developed a new steel casting process.


NUCOR giant mini-mill process is estimated to cut production costs by 10%.

NUCOR giant mini-mill may cut costs by 10%.


Electric arc furnaces burn scrap metal into molten steel which is formed into slabs just two inches thick which are immediately compressed into even thinner finished steel.

Scrap metal is liquefied in electric furnaces.


Finished steel is produced by compression.


The single-run production process is much quicker.


The process is much quicker and less capital intensive than traditional steel-making but depends on an inexpensive supply of scrap metal and electricity.

The new steel making technology is less capital intensive.


The mini-mill production is much quicker and less capital intensive than traditional steel-making but depends on an inexpensive supply of scrap metal and electricity.

The mini-mill production requires high cost of energy and scrap metal.


Companies considering or planning such plants are: a consortium of TRICO Steel, British Steel and Sumitomo Metal Industries.

There will be a US-UK-Japanese joint venture (Trico Steel).


Iran's population growth rate of 3.9 per cent a year in the early 1980s was among the highest in the world.

Iran's growth rate was once 3.9 percent.


Iran's family planning programme has been 'an achievement' because of the strength of the government's commitment.

Iran has set up a government program for population control.


The 24-year-old forest guard was shot in the head, face and shoulder.

A shoot-to-kill policy against poachers was instituted in some African countries.


In 1989, CITES, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species, banned the trade in ivory.

Ivory trade was banned during a convention in 1989.


The world 's population is set to reach a staggering 10bn by the middle of 21st century up from 5.7bn now.

The world population will probably reach over 10 billion in 2050.


The world 's population is set to reach a staggering 10bn by the middle of the next century up from 5.7bn now.

The current world population is 5.7 billion.


Fourteen European countries with about 5 % of the world 's population have reached zero population growth and Japan, France and Finland are, among others, headed in that direction.

Japan is headed toward zero population growth.


The chaotic development gobbling up the Amazon rain forest could finally be reined in with a new plan developed by officials of Amazon countries and leading scientists from around the world.

A new plan has been developed to rein in the chaotic development in the Amazon forest.


Features of the plan include the creation of a national fund for environmental protection, suspension of subsidies for cattle ranchers in the Amazon Basin and new controls on pesticides.

National funds are assigned to the control of pesticides.


Nucor reckons that the SMS process gives it a Dollars 50 to Dollars 70 a ton production cost advantage over Big Steel.


US STEEL, the largest integrated steel manufacturer in the US, is considering building a new steel plant to combat America's fast-growing steel mini-mills on their own ground.

US Steel's mini-mill will be located in Ohio.


US Steel could even have a technical advantage over Nucor since one new method of steel-making it is considering, thin strip casting, may produce higher quality steel than Nucor's thin-slab technique.

Strip casting is expected to produce a superior quality of steel.


Frog would become legendary as one of the nation's first and most effective narcotics-sniffing dogs.


In the last decade, employment of the dogs has escalated from a novelty to a necessity for most law enforcement agencies.


Although dogs have been used in police work for years, primarily for patrol duty, their use as narco-noses gained widespread acceptance around 1980.

Use of dogs in sniffing out narcotics became common around 1980.


Although dogs have been used in police work for years, primarily for patrol duty, their use as narco-noses didn't gain widespread acceptance until about 10 years ago.


The British government has indicated its readiness to allow Argentine companies to take part in the development of oilfields in the Falkland islands' territorial waters.

The development of oilfields in the Falkland islands' waters requires cooperation with Argentina.


It emerged yesterday that the Ministry of Defence has turned down a request from Argentina to allow a limited supply of UK-manufactured spare parts to the Argentine navy, begun during the Gulf war.

The UK Ministry of Defence has turned down a request for supplies from Argentina.


Argentina and Britain announced an agreement Thursday to restore full diplomatic ties nearly eight years after they fought a 74 day war over the Falkland Islands a sparsely populated archipelago off Argentina coast in the South Atlantic Ocean.

Full diplomatic relations between Argentina and Britain were re-established after 74 days.


Today Argentina gets out the red carpet for the UK Duke of York, the first official royal visitor since the end of the Anglo-Argentine Falklands war in 1982.

The Duke of York became the first official royal visitor to Argentina since 1982.


However, talks are planned later this year to resume training courses for Argentine officers at British military academies.

Argentine officers may be trained in UK military academies.


Slovakia has attracted a mere 4% of the estimated Dollars 800m of foreign investment which has flowed into Czechoslovakia in the past two years.

Slovakia has recently attracted large foreign investments.


Czech and Slovak leaders announced early today that they had agreed to prepare the splitting up of Czechoslovakia into two separate states.

Czech and Slovak will be split into two separate states.


Czech and Slovak leaders said the regional parliaments would decide on how best to divide Czechoslovakia into two states.

Regional parliaments of Czech and Slovak will decide how to divide Czechoslovakia into two states.


Agreement on the break-up of the state has been one of the few points of consensus between the winners of June's general elections in Czechoslovakia -the Civic Democratic party in the Czech republic and the Slovak Movement for a Democratic Slovakia.

Czech and Slovak leaders approved a law which ensures the legal break-up of the federation.


An estimated 100,000 ethnic Slovaks, most of them living in the Czech Republic, have applied to relinquish their citizenship since Czechoslovakia broke into separate states.

100,000 Slovaks have applied to change citizenship.


On New Year's day, 1993, Slovaks sloughed off a thousand year subservience to Hungary and seven decades as the junior partner in Czechoslovakia and celebrated the birth of a sovereign, independent, internationally recognised republic.

On January 1, 1993, Czechoslovakia became an independent republic.


The government's plans for reorganising local government in Wales and Scotland should be withdrawn.

The government intends to reorganize Welsh local government.


Self-containing flats will be provided to enable hostel residents to move into long-term accommodation, while Salvation Army social workers and volunteers have been trained in outreach work to make contact with homeless people on the streets.

The Salvation Army is working to make contact with homeless people.


The Salvation Army provides apartments as long-term accommodation for needy hostel residents.


Revenue from the thrift store funded the Salvation Army's drug- and alcohol-rehabilitation service.

Proceeds from thrift stores fund drug and alcohol rehabilitation services.


The Tory dream of challenging Labour superiority in its south Wales heartland lay in tatters yesterday - while Plaid Cymru, the Welsh nationalist party, was celebrating the fact that it now has more MPs than the higher-profile Scottish National party.

Plaid Cymru is the Welsh nationalist party.


The government will delay the implementation of local government reform in Wales for a year in what could be an embarrassment for Mr John Redwood, the Welsh secretary.

The Welsh government has delayed the implementation of the reform for a year.


Indonesia's tin industry is expected to return to profit in 1992 with the dominant state-owned tin mine, Tambang Timah, having cut production costs by 25 per cent since 1990.

Indonesia cut tin production costs by 25%.


Indonesia is the world's third largest tin producer after Brazil and Malaysia and had an export quota at the end of last year of 28,376 tonnes a year.

Indonesia is one of the world's largest tin producers.


Malaysia's tin industry, suffering its worst production slump since the second world war, has been dealt a body blow with the announcement that Malaysia mining corporation, one of the country's biggest tin producers, is pulling out of tin mining.

The Malaysia Mining Corp. was one of the world's biggest tin producers.


Drugs must go through expensive licensing procedures in individual countries at the same time.

Drugs must go through the licensing processes.


The other is a growing sentiment among judges that white-collar criminals should be treated the same as others.

White-collar criminals are treated the same as others.


These new molecular design methods will become increasingly significant for the industry and in 10 to 30 years will account for many of the new drugs on the market.

Molecular design methods are used for drug development.


A federal judge sentenced an apparently stunned Michael Milken to 10 years in prison Wednesday after ruling that the crimes he pleaded guilty to were neither minor nor isolated.


Milken was sentenced to prison for minor crimes.


But the planned trip by an aircraft which is normally used by the Argentine navy to transport military equipment would have almost certainly fuelled stiff opposition from the Falkland islanders.

The Falkland islanders blocked the trip of an Argentine navy's military aircraft.


Argentina is tying any long-term agreement to British concessions to share oil development and lift the arms embargo.