Health & Science

• Tuesday, June 28th 2011 - 06:01 UTC

  Avoid raw sprouts and seeds to prevent outbreak of E. coli, say Dutch and UK health officials

  

  Dutch and British health officials advised people to avoid raw sprouts and seeds after scientists linked an outbreak of E. coli in France to a highly toxic one in Germany that has killed 47 people.

• Monday, June 27th 2011 - 18:31 UTC

  Bus sized asteroid to zoom over the Falklands’ at 7.600 miles in space

  

  An asteroid the size of a bus and massing 600 tons is barreling through space toward planet Earth at terrific speed and is scheduled to zoom across the South Atlantic and the Falkland Islanders late Monday, reports Space magazine.

• Monday, June 20th 2011 - 06:01 UTC

  Norwegian Kon-Tiki expedition ‘partly right’ about Easter Island-Bolivia links

  

  A new study has found that a Norwegian, who undertook a Kon-Tiki expedition to prove that Polynesians had South American roots, was partly right about his theory.
  In 1947, late Thor Heyerdahl controversially claimed that Easter Island's famous statues were similar to those at Lake Titicaca in Bolivia.

• Sunday, June 19th 2011 - 22:37 UTC

  Argentine Coast Guard seizes 444 kilos of cocaine en route to Uruguay sea resort

  

  Argentina’s Coast Guard reported that a total of 444 kilos of cocaine were seized on Saturday, after being found on a sailing boat manned by a Spanish crew, close to the main port of the Olivos. The vessel was heading for Piriápolis, in neighbouring Uruguay.

• Friday, June 17th 2011 - 05:54 UTC

  Naked Russian woman scientist dances in Arctic waters with Beluga whales

  Braving subzero temperatures and underwater conditions, Natalia Avseenko, 36 threw away her inhibitions and her clothes to dive in with the Arctic Beluga whales, in an extremely interesting yet controversial experiment, trying to test the theory that the Beluga whales don’t like to be touched like diving suits, for example.

• Thursday, June 16th 2011 - 23:08 UTC

  US scientists close to producing super-wheat resistant to deadly-rust variants

  

  United States scientists say they are close to producing super varieties of wheat that will resist from variants of Ug99, a new and deadly form of wheat rust and at the same time boost yields by as much as 15%.

• Tuesday, June 14th 2011 - 14:04 UTC

  Nepal designated landmine free country; UK main contributor to the milestone

  

  The UK Government congratulated Nepal for the successful clearance of its last remaining minefields and its designation as a landmine free country. On the culmination of the task, the Foreign Office called on the Nepalese government to join the Ottawa Convention

• Monday, June 13th 2011 - 12:53 UTC

  E. coli outbreak has killed 35; tests to determine if bean sprouts are the cause

  

  The death toll from a killer E. coli outbreak centred on Germany rose to 35 Sunday as health officials said it was the worst of its kind on record and the German government feared more people could die. Meantime laboratory tests are trying to confirm suspicions that organic bean sprouts could be the origin of the outbreak.

• Saturday, June 11th 2011 - 10:38 UTC

  Successful launching of Argentine/NASA satellite to map oceans’ surface salinity

  

  The joint Argentine/US satellite Aquarius/SAC-D (Satellite de Aplicaciones Cientaficas) mission was successfully launched Friday from Vandenberg military air base in California. Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner said the Argentines “on this day should feel happy and proud”.

• Thursday, June 9th 2011 - 21:04 UTC

  IATA unveils Checkpoint of the Future to enhance security and reduce queues

  

  The International Air Transport Association (IATA) unveiled the first mock-up of a Checkpoint of the Future, designed to enhance security while reducing queues and intrusive searches at airports, using intelligence-driven risk-based measures.