Health & Science

• Wednesday, August 4th 2010 - 20:59 UTC

  Meat from offspring of cloned cows consumed in UK triggers controversy

  

  Meat from the offspring of a cloned cow was eaten in the UK last year, the Food Standards Agency has said. Two bulls from the embryos of a cow cloned in the US were bought by a farm near Nairn in the Highlands, and meat from one was sold to consumers.

• Wednesday, August 4th 2010 - 06:55 UTC

  North of Chile, land of telescopes, preparing to promote “astronomy tourism”

  

  With the installation of the world's biggest telescope planned in northern Chile many communities there are hoping the tourism industry will benefit from the world of astronomy.

• Saturday, July 31st 2010 - 19:10 UTC

  Chile first South American country with cities Google Earth 3D

  

  Internet users all over the globe will soon be able to better understand what cities like Santiago and Valparaíso look like. Chile is set to become the first South American country to have buildings in some of its cities rendered in 3-D through Google Earth.

• Thursday, July 29th 2010 - 05:43 UTC

  UN General Assembly declare access to clean water a human right

  

  Safe and clean drinking water and sanitation is a human right essential to the full enjoyment of life and all other human rights, the General Assembly declared Wednesday, voicing deep concern that almost 900 million people worldwide do not have access to clean water.

• Friday, July 23rd 2010 - 22:30 UTC

  India develops 35 US dollars touch-screen laptop

  

  The Indian government announced the development of a touch-screen laptop pitched at students at a cost of 35 US dollars. The low cost device, which runs Linux, is being readied for production.

• Wednesday, July 21st 2010 - 06:24 UTC

  Whisky Galore” rare bottle of Ballantine’s to be auctioned next August

  

  A rare bottle of whisky salvaged from a shipwreck, on which the novel and film Whisky Galore were based, is to go under the hammer in Scotland. The bottle of Ballantine's is thought to have been recovered from the wreck of SS Politician in the 1950s or 1960s.

• Monday, July 19th 2010 - 02:45 UTC

  EU almost free of ‘mad-cow’ plans to soften 1996 regulations

  

  The nightmare of BSE (Bovine Spongiform Encephalitis – or Mad Cow Disease) is mercifully almost forgotten in the EU now. In total almost 200,000 cases of BSE were discovered in the EU. But there were only 67 cases last year and those were in very old animals probably infected many years ago.

• Saturday, July 17th 2010 - 06:47 UTC

  The Foreign Office report on British Behaviour Abroad 2009/2010

  

  Lack of travel insurance and inadequate preparation compound the hazards faced by many Britons abroad, according to the Foreign Office’s new British Behaviour Abroad report.

• Thursday, July 15th 2010 - 06:12 UTC

  Park for astronomical observation ensures Chile’s prominence in the field

  

  Widely considered a Mecca for astronomy, Chile has further assured its world prominence in the field of astronomy with a new law that will set aside land specifically for astronomical observation for the next 50 years.

• Saturday, July 10th 2010 - 07:27 UTC

  Chile’s Hospitals Anticipate Wave of Respiratory Infections

  

  Hospitals throughout Chile are converting many of their operating rooms into centres for acute respiratory infections, in an effort to cope with the expected dramatic increase of flu-related problems caused by the recent cold weather and storms.