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Germany vs. Google, Round 2Berlin (UPI) Aug 17, 2010 German data-protection officials said they will take on a big enemy: Google Inc., which has announced plans to launch its Street View service in 20 German cities by the end of this year. The people at Google are known to be smart. Their plans for the Street View mapping service, which features street-level photographs of public and private buildings, drew significant opposition in Germany when it was first unveiled this year. Things became even worse when Google admitted in May that it ... read more |
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Zhouqu, China (AFP) Aug 12, 2010Heavy rains on Thursday compounded the misery of a Chinese town devastated by mudslides that have killed 1,144 people, with new floods hampering relief efforts and the stench of death pervasive. Thousands of soldiers and rescuers battled to clear roads blocked by cascades of mud and sludge unleashed by storms overnight, complicating the task of getting food, water and medicine to people in d ... more 
Sukkur, Pakistan (AFP) Aug 12, 2010The holy month of Ramadan is bringing nothing but misery for millions of Pakistanis who fled for their lives when catastrophic floods washed away their homes, villages and livelihoods. "How can we break the fast, when we have nothing to eat," asks Sabhagi Khatoon, a mother of six camped out under open skies on the highway near a dirty canal - the only source of water to quench one's thirst ... more 
New Delhi (AFP) Aug 12, 2010Traumatised foreign trekkers caught in flash floods that killed 185 people in the Indian Himalayas recounted Thursday a week of "hell" battling rockfalls, raging mudslides and constant fear. Exhausted and still clearly in shock, a group of mainly French tourists flew into New Delhi from Ladakh region, where a sudden, intense cloudburst one week ago turned their mountain trekking holiday into ... more |
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NASA Video Shows Global Reach Of Pollution From FiresPasadena CA (JPL) Aug 13, 2010 Two movies were created using continuously updated data from the "Eyes on the Earth 3-D" feature on NASA's global climate change website They show three-day running averages of daily measurements of carbon monoxide present at an altitude of 5.5 kilometers (18,000) feet, along with its global transport. The data are from the Atmospheric Infrared Sounder (AIRS) instrument on NASA's Aqua spacecraft. AIRS is most sensitive to carbon monoxide at this altitude, which is a region conducive to long-range ... read more |
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