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One of the foremost mapping and navigation services on the web, Google Maps has now been given an update that will enable it display live traffic coverage in some thirteen countries in Europe. The live traffic information had been one of the most requested feature from European users, where traffic conditions often lead to long traffic jams and the [...]

Air travel can be quite an interesting event for many, but after a few minutes of flying, one tends to get extremely bored and then the flight becomes a nuisance with passengers just waiting for the journey to end. However, the flight can become one memorable experience, if you have someone to spend your time with, connect with and share your entire [...]

The present fast paced lifestyle demands multi-functional centers which provide a shared hybrid place to cater to the needs of people. In unison, we also need these places to be equally environment-friendly. Organized around the concept of sharing and synergy, Denmark’s House of Music designed by Coop Himmelb(l)au is one such solar passive design [...]

A new design for a sea shelter is making news. The structure designed by David Eltang is called Seashelter is located in the Wadden-sea, a coastline with shallow water but has tides between one and three metres. This stretch is too shallow for boats. And too deep for a high tide expedition. It also has an exposed seabed during low tide. The shelter [...]

The siege against the search engine The Pirate Bay squeezed in Europe after the Netherlands require on Thursday (22/10) that those responsible for the service to remove all torrents that allow anybody to download multimedia content protected by copyright. With the ban applied by Justice Foundation to Protect the Rights of the Entertainment Industry [...]

In the light of immigrant mothers taking their Europe-born daughters on vacation to Africa to be circumcised, the Scandinavian countries of Sweden, Denmark, and Norway are on a campaign to stop perpetrators of genital mutilation among immigrants at home and abroad. These perpetrators are usually the mothers. The countries are ‘fighting the traffic [...]

In the countdown to the much-awaited and carefully-prepared for climate summit to be held in Copenhagen towards the end of 2009, ‘the United Nations is planning a form of diplomatic shock therapy for world leaders this week in the hope of injecting badly needed urgency into negotiations for a climate change treaty that, it is now widely acknowledged, [...]

UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon warned that ‘the Arctic is warming faster than anywhere else on Earth’ and ‘could be ice-free by 2030.’ Ban recently visited the Polar Ice Rim in the Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard where he observed firsthand the impact of climate change on the Arctic. Ban promptly called on governments to achieve in the international [...]

Representatives from the US and the European Union (EU) were optimistic about the possibility of reaching a global agreement to combat climate change, but stated that the negotiations for a new climate treaty will be anything but easy. After two days of meetings of the 17 largest and emerging economies in the world, there is more optimism about [...]

The Danes are more satisfied and the Europeans made, according to a new poll on the quality of living in member countries of the European Union. The “happiness index” reached by Denmark was 8.3 on a scale of one to ten. Sweden and Finland are right behind. The Europeans are less fortunate in Bulgaria, where the index was 5.8 – almost [...]