Positive news from Germany
Natural cosmetics maker swamped with demandNatural beauty care products maker Dr. Hauschka is turning down offers for new markets at a time when rivals are struggling to persuade consumers to pay up for cosmetics. |
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Solar Collectors Covering 0.3 Percent of the Sahara Could Power All of EuropeSolar power is an exciting source of renewable energy, but has so far mostly been used to power little things like homes, cars and small villages. |
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Ambitious global pact on climate change in sightAn ambitious and effective global pact to reduce greenhouse gas emissions is in sight, the top United Nations climate change official said Friday, as the latest round of negotiations wrapped up in Bonn, Germany. |
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Efficient New Light Unfolds Like PaperThe next time your lamp needs a new light bulb, you might change the lamp shade instead of the light bulb. |
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Nicolas Berggruen to open private Berlin museumThe private collector Nicolas Berggruen, son of the late German-Jewish dealer Heinz Berggruen, plans to open a museum in Berlin to house his collection of modern and contemporary works. |
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Ancient figurine said to be oldest depiction of the human formIf only all of us could age so gracefully. |
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Europe unveils British astronautTimothy Peake, a 37-year-old test pilot in the Army Air Corps, has been accepted into the European Space Agency's (Esa) Astronaut Corps. |
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Artificial Skin Manufactured In Fully Automated ProcessSkin from a factory -- this has long been the dream of pharmacologists, chemists and doctors. |
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Museums Around the World Open their Doors at Night Offering Special AttractionsMore than one thousand French museums showed their most original presentations and free of charges, this Saturday night to attract the public to the 5th European Long Night of Museums, which this year had the support from UNESCO. |
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IF-Mode Folding Bike Folds in Seconds, but Rides Like a Normal BikeMark Sanders, designer of the Strida, is at it again with the IF (integrated folding) Mode bike. |
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News from Europe
- Six million turn out for global garbage clean-up
- Swiss Parliament Passes Plastic Bag Ban
- French move boosts shark sanctuaries
- First liver cancer ‘chemo-bath’ in the UK
- Scientists uncover gene behind skin disease
- Europe Now Creates Enough Solar Power to Fuel Austria
- London’s Eco-Friendly Olympic Games
- Portugal commissions world’s first Nissan Leaf electric car police fleet
- Long hunt detects possible ‘God particle’
- After damning research, France proposes banning pesticide linked to bee collapse