Positive news from Yemen
Pneumonia vaccine ‘to save thousands of lives’A vaccine against pneumonia - the world's biggest killer of children - is being introduced in Africa and other poor countries across the world.
"Pneumonia has been called the forgotten killer. It does not get the same attention as HIV/Aids or malaria. Yet it claims the lives of more young children worldwide than both of them combined. ”
- Fergus Walsh Medical correspondent, BBC News |
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Pneumonia vaccine ‘to save thousands of lives’
Source: BBC, Tue January 25, 2011 |
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First Dinosaur Tracks Found on Arabian Peninsula
Footprints from a herd of plant-eaters on a "leisurely stroll" about 150 million years ago have been discovered in Yemen, experts say.
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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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