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Google brings 'Street View' to AntarcticaWashington (AFP) Oct 1, 2010 Google's "Street View" imagery has sparked privacy concerns in some countries but that's unlikely to be the case with its latest destination - Antarctica, populated mostly by penguins. The Internet giant announced on Friday that Street View, which shows street-level pictures of cities around the world, now encompasses all seven continents with the inclusion of images from Antarctica. The Street View pictures of Antarctica are limited for the moment to user-contributed shots of penguins on Half ... read more |
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Buenos Aires (UPI) Sep 30, 2010 Food and Agriculture Organization officials attending a meat congress in Buenos Aires warned the world faced a developing crisis in beef production as global human population would soon outstrip the numbers that current or future supplies from livestock farming could feed. Henning Steinfeld, coordinator of livestock, environment and development initiative at the FAO, warned delegates be ... more 
Geneva (AFP) Sept 29, 2010China won a rare victory at the World Trade Organization against the United States on Wednesday after an arbitration panel ruled that US restrictions on Chinese poultry imports are illegal. Arbitration panels typically call on offending parties to lift the illegal measure but in this case, the panel said that it would not make any recommendation as the disputed US restrictions have since exp ... more
Abbiategrasso, Italy (AFP) Sept 28, 2010Just half an hour's drive from Milan, Italy's fast-moving capital of finance, fashion and design, Abbiategrasso relishes its "slow" identity. Signs marking the town limits bear the symbol of an orange snail with houses perched on its shell: proud symbol of Abbiategrasso's link to Cittaslow, an offshoot of the quarter-century old Slow Food movement. "Cittaslow wants to bring humans back t ... more |
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U.K. company plans survey satellite fleetLondon (UPI) Sep 28, 2010 A $160 million project will launch three new British satellites by 2013 to image the surface of Earth, a commercial company says. Spacecraft manufacturer Surrey Satellite Technology Ltd. and its data processing subsidiary DMCii say the satellites will be able to make out details down to 1 meter (39.37 inches) at their best resolution, the BBC reported Tuesday. Nations without their own dedicated satellites will be able to buy time on the spacecraft, the company said. "This constel ... read more |
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