Journalist Attacked At Tunis Carthage Airport, Barred From Leaving Country
Border police at Tunis-Carthage International Airport barred journalist Sihem Bensedrine from leaving the country as she prepared to board a Vienna-bound flight on 19 August 2008. After submitting to ...
2008-09-04 11:49:06Google Enters Browser Market With Chrome
TechCrunch's Mark Hendrickson takes your questions about Google Chrome, the search giant's new Internet browser. He'll discuss its features, how it could affect Web and how it fits into th...
2008-09-04 10:37:15NFLPA Seeks New Boss by Early '09
Leaders of the NFL Players Association are discussing plans to launch a search for an executive director to replace the late Gene Upshaw early next year, several players say....
2008-09-04 10:24:09Indiana forms panel to help in search for new AD
Indiana University President Michael McRobbie announced the appointment of a 13-member committee on Friday that would aid in ......
2008-09-04 09:30:06Search for Passengers On Downed Aid Plane in East Continues - UN
Two days after a plane carrying humanitarian supplies with 17 people on board - including seven United Nations staff - crashed in the east of the Democratic Republic of the Congo DRC, the search for p...
2008-09-04 08:49:07Cheryl Cole reignites her catfight with Charlotte Church
London, Sept 4 ANI: English singer and member of Girls Aloud group Cheryl Cole has reignited the feud with Welsh singer Charlotte Church after she had tried to bury the hatchet with the latter.The two singers had been going at each other's throats for the last three years, and Cole finally decided to bury the hatchet by writing in a chapter in Girls Aloud's new book, saying that she regretted their public mud slinging.However, Cole's efforts of peace offering had to be retracted, as Church resurrected their catfight by calling the girl band "five dogs without balls"."Cheryl decided she's had it with the feud. She wrote a sincere passage in the book about how much she regretted it and how much she enjoys Charlotte's show," the Sun quoted a source as saying."She thought it time to grow up and draw a line under it. But there's only so far you can push her."Charlotte made some entirely unprovoked attacks and that changed Cheryl's mind on the matter," the source said.The book, which is called Dreams That Glitter, and due out in a matter of weeks, had Cole trying her best on September 3 to get the chapter removed."After hearing them she was straight on to the publishers to tell them to remove the passage. They weren't best pleased to be tinkering with it at this late stage but said they would do their best," the source added.Church, who made the dog comments on her Channel 4 chat show last month, struck out at Cole regarding her new role as a judge on ITV1 talent search The X Factor. "Cheryl's proved she's got no backbone," she said."X Factor needed someone with wit and grit but she couldn't give an honest answer, let alone charm her way out of the situation," she added.Girls Aloud: Dreams That Glitter is written by all five of the group and covers their rise from talent show contestants to chart-conquering girl group. ANI
2008-09-04 08:00:00Bihar flood: 'Come again tomorrow and bring medicines'
For the survivors of the Kosi deluge, taking shelter in hundreds of relief camps, it is a seemingly endless and mostly futile search for their loved ones....
2008-09-04 08:06:09New research may unmask comets posing as asteroids
Washington, September 4 ANI: A new research is aiming to unmask some Near Earth Objects NEOs, which are comets posing as asteroids.NEOs are objects whose orbits bring them in close proximity to Earth.Some NEOs could be dying comets, those that have lost most of the volatile materials that create their characteristic tails. Others could be dormant and might again display comet-like features after colliding with another object, according to Paul Abell, a Houston, Texas-based research scientist with the Planetary Science Institute.Abell is using NASA's Infrared Telescope Facility at the Mauna Kea Observatories in Hawaii and the MMT telescope on Mount Hopkins, south of Tucson, Arizona, to uncover observational signatures that separate extinct/dormant comets from near-Earth asteroids.This is important for a couple of reasons. First, dormant comets in near-Earth space could become supply depots to support future exploration activities with water and other materials. Second, like other NEOs, they could pose a threat to Earth if they are on a collision course with our planet. Third, they can provide data on the composition and early evolution of the solar system because they are thought to contain unmodified remnants of the primordial materials that formed the solar system.Low-activity, near-earth comets flashed onto the planetary-science radar screen in 2001, when NEO 2001 OG108 was discovered by the Lowell Observatory Near Earth Asteroid Search telescope. It had an orbit similar to comets coming in from the Oort Cloud and was first thought to be one of the Damocloids, asteroids that have Comet Halley-type orbits, but no cometary tails.Several groups began monitoring 2001 OG108 because it looked suspiciously comet-like. The nuclei of comets are very dark and difficult to observe when they're far from Earth. When they come closer to Earth, the sun's heat vaporizes some of the comet's ice, creating the clouds of dust and gas that make up the comet's coma and tail, which shroud the nucleus from view.The coma is a bright cloud of dust and gas at the head of the comet, with the tail trailing out away from the Sun.In early 2002, NEO 2001 OG108 lit up with a coma and it was re-classified as C/2001 OG108 LONEOS."That's what started me on this line of reasoning and scientific investigation," Abell said.For their investigation, Abell and Faith Vilas, director of the MMT Observatory and an affiliate senior scientist at the Planetary Science Institute, will be working in the visible and near-infrared spectral ranges."Hopefully, by combining data from these two wavelength regions, we may be able to find some signal or some observational discriminator that will help us identify whether something is an extinct comet or just an asteroid," Abell said. ANI
2008-09-04 07:00:00Google chief admits to 'defensive component' of browser launch AFP
AFP - Google's chief executive admitted Thursday there was a "defensive component" to the Web search giant's launch of its own Internet browser, thereby pitting it against Microso...
2008-09-04 04:13:09Verizon reportedly negotiating to use Google as its phone-search provider
Simplified searching: It's bad enough having to hunt around the house for your misplaced cell phone we suggest checking between the sofa-seat cushions or under your month-old pile of dirty laundry...
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