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European Competition Seeks Best Satnav IdeasParis, France (ESA) May 13, 2010 Entrepreneurs have the chance to win prizes totalling a million euros in this year's European Satellite Navigation Competition. ESA will award a special prize of euros 10 000 for the best idea and support the business start up at one of its four incubation centres. Now in its seventh year, the European Satellite Navigation Competition (ESNC) is boosting ideas for innovative satnav application and services. More than a thousand ideas were submitted over the first six years, many of which have turn ... read more |
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Washington (AFP) April 23, 2010Eleven Somalis accused of attacking two US warships off Africa's east coast were brought to the United States and have been charged with piracy, the Department of Justice said Friday. Five of the men were indicted for attacking the heavily armed USS Nicholas on March 31 in a brazen attempt to rob the ship and piracy, and the other six were also charged with acts of piracy against the USS Ash ... more  
Washington (AFP) April 20, 2010From solar-powered water purification systems in Afghanistan to a Navy jet fueled in part by biofuel, the US military is taking a lead role in shrinking the US carbon "boot print," an independent report said Tuesday. The US Department of Defense accounts for 80 percent of the US government's total energy consumption energy needs, and most of the energy it uses currently comes from fossil fue ... more  
Sydney (AFP) April 15, 2010Australian officials Thursday said a "very tired" sailor's simple navigation errors caused a cargo ship to run aground and badly damage the Great Barrier Reef, as two crew faced court over the crash. A preliminary report into the April 3 foundering, which leaked tonnes of oil and threatened a major ecological disaster, said the Chinese officer steering the giant Shen Neng 1 had slept only fo ... more |
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No panic near Iceland volcano despite threat of ash and floodsHvolsvollur, Iceland (AFP) April 16, 2010 Some 800 people have repeatedly been forced to flee their homes near an ash-spewing volcano in southern Iceland, but despite the imminent threat of flash floods and toxic ash, there are few signs of alarm. "There is no panic," said Kjartan Thorkelsson, the local police chief in the nearby village of Hvolsvollur. For the second time in two days residents quit their homes briefly Thursday evening to avoid floodwater from the melting Eyjafjallajokull glacier covering the volcano that began eruptin ... read more |
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