Posts Tagged ‘France’

Stem Cells Give Hope of New Skin for Burn Victims

Friday, November 20, 2009 13:07 By Madhuri Katti

Stem cell research has opened whole new way of treatment for various ailments and the most recent one has been of creating a new skin which could help seriously burnt patients immensely. Researchers from France have claimed that they have invented a way to create new skin from human embryonic stem cells.
According to the report [...]

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McAfee Warns Of An Impending Cyber Arms Race

Thursday, November 19, 2009 18:35 By Rajeev Saxena

One of the leading web security companies in the world, McAfee has warned the international community that, the established powers of the world are fast heading towards the development of cyber warfare weapons. In a report released by the security specialist, it has stated that, countries  like China, France, Israel, Russia and the United States [...]

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Mother Nature Inspired Eco-Friendly Leaf Lamp

Monday, November 16, 2009 11:24 By Ramya

Sky-scrapers, shopping malls, traffic lights, automobiles, pollution- the current outdoors are slowly losing the nature’s beauty to development and modernization and people are digging out ways to bring this very beauty closer to their lives, into their homes. The Leaf Lamp is just one among those designs inspired by the Mother Nature’s gardens.

This floor lamp [...]

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Iran says it needs up to 300kg of nuclear fuel for cancer care isotope reactor

Thursday, October 15, 2009 1:40 By GSerrano

According to Western diplomats, Iran promised ‘to send about 80 percent of its stockpile of low-enriched uranium to Russia and France for processing and return to Tehran to replenish dwindling fuel stocks for a reactor in the capital that produces isotopes for cancer care.’ Iran’s low-enriched uranium stocks total around 1.5 metric tons. Received fuel [...]

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Europe is Greener than the US: simpler living equals smaller carbon footprint

Saturday, October 10, 2009 21:16 By GSerrano

Per capita CO2 emissions in the US are said to be thrice as much as in Europe. ‘Per capita CO2 emissions in the U.S. were 19.78 tons according to the Union of Concerned Scientists, which used 2006 data, compared to 9.6 tons in the U.K., 8.05 tons in Italy, and 6.6 tons in France.’ Also, [...]

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The ultra-elite club of G7 makes way for G20 to be the broader global economic forum

Friday, September 25, 2009 17:33 By GSerrano

The developing countries will now play a more significant role in the economic policies of the world. The ultra-elite club of the richest industrial nations known as G7 will relinquish its top level global economic forum to the much broader G20 that includes the emerging economies and developing countries such as China, Brazil, and India.
The [...]

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Gadhafi calls UN Security Council a ‘Terror Council’: 94-minute ranting

Thursday, September 24, 2009 20:54 By GSerrano

His speech was long and rambling about nothing much more than his aversion to the powers of the Security Council. His first translator got very tired. At the end of his speech, the hall was half-empty.
Some of his rantings were: Israel having had a hand in the JFK assassination, swine flu might be a military [...]

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Project Sol’R to Fly Across the English Channel

Friday, July 10, 2009 5:07 By Ramya

Yet another airship is getting ready to flutter across the English Channel to prove its competence, but this time it’s the sun propelling it. A group of engineering and tech students from France has been working on Project Sol’R have surfaced a solar blimp, which they expect to fly across the English Channel.

The dirigible measuring [...]

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al-Qaeda threatens to retaliate after Sarkozy condemns and bans the burqa

Wednesday, July 1, 2009 11:31 By GSerrano

On June 22, Nicolas Sarkozy declared the burqa as not welcome in France. The French president regards the Muslim dress not as a religious symbol but a sign of subservience and degradation of women.
The al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb (AQIM) has threatened to take revenge against France after Sarkozy banned the wearing of the burqa [...]

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Sarkozy Slams Burqa in His First Parliamentary Address

Monday, June 22, 2009 19:45 By Madhuri Katti

It was French President Sarkozy’s first historic appearance before the Parliament and in his first direct address to the lawmakers and policy makers present in the Parliament Sarkozy chose to slam veil of muslim women ‘burqa’ while speaking about his vision about France. He thus supported a proposed parliamentary commission by 60 legislatures to review [...]

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