Excessive salt might ruin the taste of your food, but when it comes to solar energy, plenty of salt seems to be very good news- at least for the folk in California. Using a technology that will harness power through the sun and molten-salt, Solar Reserve, a California based solar firm intends to generate power [...]

In 2006, Beijing signed agreements on agricultural cooperation with several African countries that led to the installation of 14 farms in Zambia, Zimbabwe, Uganda, and Tanzania. By 2010, there will be one million Chinese peasants in Africa. The official goal: to help host countries increase production through Chinese technologies. The hybrid varieties of rice developed [...]

There was a time when the Saudi kingdom made food a national cause in spite of unfavorable natural conditions. In the three decades between 1971 and 2000, thanks to a policy of irrigation supported by public funds, agricultural land rose from 0.4 to 1.6 million hectares, with concentration in the provinces of Hail and Qassim [...]

The secretary-general of NATO, Jaap de Hoop Scheffer, said here Tuesday that the organization agreed to resume in a “gradual and conditional” links with Russia.
The ties between the Western military alliance and Moscow were cut this year because of the Russian offensive in Georgia in August, leading to protests from European countries and the United [...]