Positive news from Northern Ireland
Skies to be swept for alien lifeHat Creek, California - The switch has been thrown on a telescope specifically designed to seek out alien life. |
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Al Gore & IPCC Share Nobel Peace Prize For 2007Oslo, Norway - The Norwegian Nobel Committee has decided that the Nobel Peace Prize for 2007 is to be shared, in two equal parts, between the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Albert Arnold (Al) Gore Jr. for their efforts to build up and disseminate greater knowledge about man-made climate change, and to lay the foundations for the measures that are needed to counteract such change. |
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Feuding Iraqi Sunnis, Shiites meet at peace seminar in FinlandHelsinki, Finland - Representatives of feuding Sunni and Shiite groups in Iraq were meeting at a seminar behind closed doors Friday to discuss ways of ending the bloodshed, conference organizers said. |
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Time for change as the 11th Hour approachesIn Numerology the number 11 represents the edge between greatness and self-destruction. The 11th hour is the final moment when change is still possible. |
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Underwater turbines set to generate record powerOff the Northern Irish Coast - By the end of the year, twin underwater turbines should be generating 1.2 megawatts of electricity off the coast of Northern Ireland in a landmark demonstration of tidal power technology |
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IRA ‘has destroyed all its arms’Northern Ireland - The IRA has put all of its weapons beyond use, the head of the arms decommissioning body has said. |
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UK news
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- Share your status – and your lungs. Facebook tool promotes organ donation
- Pancreatic cancer gene discovery
- UK Men set to live as long as women, figures show
- Bright Is The New Black: New York Roofs Go Cool
- British government launches £4.2m urban tree-planting plan
- Otters back from the brink of extinction in England
- World’s Largest Offshore Wind Goes Live, Begins Feeding UK Grid
- UK Biobank ‘close to signing up 500,000 participants’
- UK hostage Peter Moore released alive in Iraq
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