(CORDIS) — European researchers have made a major advance in thermal imaging techniques that is bringing to life an old fable. Everyone is familiar with the children’s story of Pinocchio, a wooden puppet, with a nose that grew every time he told a lie. Now researchers from Spain are seeing parts of this tale ring [...]
Liar, Liar Nose On Fire
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University Research, Sold Out – OpEd
By Wenonah Hauter In 1862, the federal government created the land-grant university system to produce critical agricultural research. Since then, America has relied on these schools to inform and guide independent scientific advances in areas like food production and energy development. Yet public funding for that kind of research has eroded over recent decades, and [...]
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Iran Viewpoint: International Law And The Iran Impasse – OpEd
By Aslı Bâli On any given day, provided her paper of choice still features international coverage, the average American newspaper reader can expect to be treated to one or two articles on attempts to halt advances in Iran’s nuclear program. These articles might cover efforts to levy fresh sanctions against the Islamic Republic; they might [...]
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Africa: The Next Twenty Years – Analysis
By J. Paul Martin Given the political and economic patterns set over the last 60 years, what can Africa expect over the next 20 years? If not more of the same, what needs to be changed? Sixty years ago, emboldened by such figures as Kwame Nkrumah, Julius Nyerere and Leopold Senghor, Africans were enjoying the [...]
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Israel’s Former Foreign Minister Charged With Fraud
Israel’s authorities have put forward charges of fraud and breach of trust against the country’s former Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman. An official charge against him was published by the Ministry of Justice on Sunday. Mr. Lieberman is accused of promoting the career of Israel’s former Ambassador in Belarus Zeev Ben Aryeh after Mr. Lieberman has [...]
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India: Authorities Brace For New Rape Protests
By Ritu Sharma Authorities have stepped up security in the capital over fears that the death today of a gang rape victim in a Singapore hospital where she was receiving treatment could spark a fresh round of violent protests. The victim, a 23-year-old medical student, was attacked along with a male companion by six men [...]
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Iran: Police Announce More Arrests Around Currency Crisis
The Tehran Police force has announced that 88 “gold and foreign currency brokers” have been arrested, as disputes have intensified between the Iranian government and the Central Bank over handling the crisis in the currency and gold markets. Police officials reported today, December 30, that 88 people had been arrested for being engaged in the [...]
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Pakistan: Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assessment 2013
In a revenge killing, a Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) suicide bomber killed the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Senior Minister, Bashir Ahmed Bilour, and at least eight others, while 17 persons were injured, in the Qissa Khwani Bazaar area of Peshawar, the provincial capital of KP, on December 22, 2012. The dead also included the Station House Officer [...]
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56% Of Female University Students Get Drunk In Record Time
Researchers from the HealthyFit group at the University of Vigo have studied university students’ lifestyles; their analysis, which includes alcohol and illegal drug consumption habits, sport and food, concludes that most students indulge in unhealthy behaviour. One of the main results of the study is the high consumption of alcohol. “The amount drunk per unit [...]
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Secretary Of State Clinton Hospitalized With Blood Clot
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has been admitted to a New York hospital after the discovery of a blood clot stemming from the concussion she sustained earlier this month. Clinton spokesman Philippe Reines says her doctors discovered the clot during a follow-up exam Sunday. Reines says Clinton is being treated with anti-coagulants. Clinton was [...]
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Congress To Reconvene Monday, Continue Fiscal Talks
By Kent Klein The drama over the U.S. government’s so-called “fiscal cliff” enters its final day before the deadline on Monday, with no agreement between Democrats and Republicans. Americans will face tax increases and deep government cuts on Tuesday if no agreement is passed and signed before then. In a prayer at the opening of [...]
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Newlywed Kate Winslet To Celebrate Wedding In Space – Report
The ‘Titanic’ star received the once-in-a-lifetime wedding gift from her husband’s millionaire uncle. Kate Winslet is set to travel to space after Richard Branson presented the actress with a $200,000 ticket on his Virgin Galactic suborbital vehicle. Winslet wed Ned Rocknroll, the Virgin magnate’s nephew earlier this month, during a secret ceremony in New York, [...]
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Iranian Navy Exercising Firepower Capabilities
The Iranian navy is due to exercise their firepower capabilities on the second day of the massive wargames underway in the country’s southern waters, a senior Navy commander, according to Fars news agency. “Today, we exercise different types of shootings,” Navy Commander Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari said on Saturday, Dec 29. “These exercises include different [...]
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Maldives Moving Away From India? – Analysis
By Sathiya Moorthy As 2012 draws to a close, the question uppermost in the minds of Maldives watchers is if the country was moving away from the strategic sphere of Indian influence, and has begun tilting towards China, as is often suspected in the case of other nations in the Indian Ocean neighbourhood, near and [...]
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Chavez Suffers Complications After Surgery – Venezuelan VP
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has suffered new complications to his health following a cancer surgery in Cuba earlier in the month, BBC reported on Monday. Chavez underwent his fourth operation to remove cancerous tissue in Cuba on December 11, but he collected a respiratory infection. “We have been informed of new complications that arose as [...]
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Saudi Arabia To Create Sovereign Fund For Future Generations
By P.K. Abdul Ghafour The government will allocate SR 200 billion from 2012 budget surplus to implement transport projects inside cities, bringing total spending in 2013 to more than SR 1 trillion, Finance Minister Ibrahim Al-Assaf said yesterday. “We have not yet finalized the 2012 surplus because of new expenditures and revenues, especially nonoil revenues,” [...]
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US: Bus Plunges Off Icy Highway, Kills 9, Injures Over 20 In Oregon
The confirmed number of fatalities in a Sunday morning bus crash near Pendleton, Oregon has risen from five to nine victims, according to the Oregon State Police (OSP). As reported, preliminary information indicates that prior to 10:30 a.m., a passenger bus lost control on the snow and ice covered westbound lanes of Interstate 84 near [...]
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Bashar Assad Wants Syria Without Him To Be In ‘Hell’ – OpEd
By Khalid Al-Dakhil Is there a possibility of a political solution that provides a way out of the crisis in Syria? News reports in the last few days indicate that there is a possibility for this solution. After a visit to Damascus last week, and a meeting with President Assad and the team of the [...]
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Two Egyptians Killed In Libya Church Blast: Officials
At least two Egyptians have lost their lives and two others wounded in a bomb attack on an Egyptian Orthodox Church near the Western Libyan city of Misrata, officials say. “Two Egyptians were killed and two were wounded,” said an unnamed diplomat at the Egyptian Embassy in Libyan capital, Tripoli, on Sunday. Those wounded were [...]
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Hamas Delegation Visits Cairo To Discuss Gaza Truce
A legal delegation from Gaza’s ministry of justice visited Cairo on Saturday to discuss the Egyptian-mediated truce agreement between Hamas and Israel last month, as well as other bilateral issues, Palestinian sources told Ma’an. The delegation included 13 judges and counselors who took part in talks with Egyptian officials to discuss the terms of a [...]
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