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Stories for December 12th 2010

• Sunday, December 12th 2010 - 23:51 UTC

  Brazil successfully launches and recovers rocket to test micro-gravity experiments

  

  Brazil announced over the weekend it has successfully launched a medium sized rocket developed in the country which included several micro-gravity test instruments all of which were rescued from the sea following an 18 minutes flight.

• Sunday, December 12th 2010 - 23:41 UTC

  Picture evidence of four kilometres retraction (in 80 years) of glacier in Patagonia

  

  The Argentine Patagonian glacier Ameghino has contracted almost four kilometres over the last eighty years because of global warming according to evidence from Greenpeace.

• Sunday, December 12th 2010 - 23:31 UTC

  Saudi’s 70/80 US dollars a barrel stance prevails at OPEC meeting in Ecuador

  

  Leading OPEC producer Saudi Arabia said it still favoured a 70-80 US dollars price range for oil, a restatement of a two-year-old policy that will be welcomed by consumer nations worried that rising oil prices may get out of control and hamper global economic recovery.