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Rent-a-duck scheme is a hitSchleswig-Holstein, Germany - Germans are lining up to rent farm animals to help with the gardening as part of a new green scheme. |
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Spain approves installation of offshore wind farmsMadrid, Spain - The government of Spain on Friday approved legislation that will allow offshore wind parks to be set up along the nation's vast coastline in an effort to boost the use of renewable energy sources. |
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Porsche Cayenne hybrid can do 70mph on the electric motor aloneStuttgart, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany - When the 2009 Porsche Cayenne hybrid hits the markets, the new gasoline-electric powered SUV will be capable of cruising at speeds up to 70mph on the electric motor alone. |
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World Bank Sees Support for $250 Million Forest FundSydney, Australia - A planned $250 million World Bank fund to encourage developing countries to stop deforestation in return for access to carbon credits has attracted strong international support, a senior official said on Tuesday. |
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U.S. Forced to Back Off On BobcatsThe Hague, Netherlands - Delegates at the ongoing meeting of the Conference of the Parties to CITES in The Hague, Netherlands, today overwhelmingly rejected an American proposal to remove the bobcat (Lynx rufus) from protection under the CITES Appendices. |
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Norway ranked as world’s most peaceful nationLondon, England, UK - Japan, which only 65 years ago was seen as an aggressive war-mongerer, has been ranked as the world's fifth most peaceful nation in a report launched Wednesday by international businessman Steve Killelea in conjunction with the Economist Intelligence Unit. |
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Doctors Deliver Baby on Delta Flight: ‘I Didn’t Think the Child Would Survive’Over Washington, D.C., USA - Two doctors on a Delta Air Lines flight from Germany delivered a baby in the aisle of the plane and resuscitated him when he wasn't breathing, officials said. |
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Applied Materials equipping solar factory start-upsAustin, Texas, USA - Applied Materials has said for the past year that it will build turnkey equipment for start-up solar-panel factories, and it appears that the company has begun doing just that. |
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Deep-Sea Alien Abode DiscoveredSouthern Ocean, Off Antarctica - Carnivorous sponges, blind creepy-crawlies adorned with hairy antennae and ribbed worms are just some of the new characters recently found to inhabit the dark abysses of the Southern Ocean, an alien abode once thought devoid of such life. |
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Ancient Star Is Nearly as Old as UniverseMunich, Germany - Astronomers have spied a granddaddy of the galaxy -- a 13.2-billion-year-old star formed soon after the big bang 13.7 billion years ago. |
news from Europe
- BMW Will Have All-Electric Mini Coopers for Lease by March
- Renowned Swedish retailer donates proceeds from toy sales to UNICEF projects
- Archaeologists Unearth Gold Coins in Jerusalem
- London’s red buses to go green in 2011
- Meet the Magical White Christmas Robin
- Italy’s poor to eat contraband caviar on Christmas
- 4,000-year-old Amber Necklace Has Been Unearthed In England
- Malaria vaccine trials show promise
- Top UN official upbeat as many Member States commit to emergency relief fund
- Climate bill ‘could lead world’
