Health & Science

• 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.

• Thursday, July 8th 2010 - 07:56 UTC

  FAO establishes new standards for melamine in infant food and animal feed

  

  The maximum amount of melamine allowed in powdered infant formula is 1 mg/kg and the amount of the chemical allowed in other foods and animal feed is 2.5 mg/kg, according to new rulings from the United Nations' food standards body, Codex Alimentarius Commission.

• Thursday, July 8th 2010 - 01:27 UTC

  Falklands’ Fisheries scientists discover mating habits of deep-sea squid

  

  The mating habits of deep-sea squid have been revealed for the first time, after the discovery of a male squid with a huge elongated and erect penis, according to an article from the BBC credited to Matt Walker, Editor, Earth News.

• Tuesday, July 6th 2010 - 07:16 UTC

  NASA aerodynamics confirms Jabulani is erratic and unpredictable

  

  Following several trials with the official ball from the South Africa World Cup, the US Aeronautics and Space Agency, NASA, confirmed the famous ‘Jabulani’, seriously criticized by players and goal beepers is “erratic and unpredictable”.