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Can cargo bikes replace diesel-guzzling delivery vehicles?
It is a familiar, unpleasant but seemingly inescapable part of modern city life: streets full of diesel-belching vans or lorries on delivery runs, either stuck in jams or else creating them as the driver double-parks to dash into a building. The solution? Roll forward the humble bicycle, or at least…
Study: Space rock caught some dinosaurs already in decline
Large, plant-eating dinosaurs were already in decline by the time a space rock smashed into Earth 65 million years ago and ended the reptiles’ long reign, a study published on Tuesday says. The findings by scientists in the United States and Germany do not dispute the mass extinction that so dramatically ended…
China demands apology as activist leaves U.S. embassy
Chinese activist Chen Guangcheng has left the US embassy to seek medical care and join his family, officials said Wednesday, as Beijingdemanded a US apology on the eve of key talks between the two powers. Chen, who riled Chinese authorities by exposing forced abortions and sterilisations under the “one-child” policy, fled house arrest…
Stray parakeet tells Japanese police where he lives
A pet parakeet was returned to its owner Wednesday after the lost bird told police its home address near Tokyo. The male bird had escaped early Sunday morning from its owner’s home in the city of Sagamihara, west of Tokyo, and remained at large before perching on the shoulder of a guest staying in…
World record for fastest motorized toilet
Stunt woman Jolene Van Vugt was flushed with pride Wednesday after setting a new land speed record for the fastest motorised toilet. Van Vugt, a former Canadian motocross champion, steered the contraption through some early wobbles to 75 kilometres per hour (46 mph) in Sydney, seven kilometres more than the previousGuinness world record. Police…
Greenpeace activist flies into French nuclear plant
A Greenpeace activist on Wednesday flew inside the grounds of a French nuclear power plant using a motorised paraglider, police and the organisation said. “A Greenpeace activist arrived with a motorised paraglider around 7:40 am (0540 GMT). He flew over the plant, threw a smoke bomb and landed inside, where he was detained,” police near…
NGO: Media rights deteriorating in Iraq
orsened in the past year in Iraq, a local rights group said, in a country already thought to have among the worst press freedoms in the world. The statement by the Iraq-based Journalism Freedoms Observatory(JFO), issued ahead of World Press Freedom Day on Thursday, voiced concern over what it said were arbitrary arrests, restrictions…
Rupert Murdoch’s BSkyB begins fightback at UK officials
Rupert Murdoch’s empire launched a fightback on Thursday after a mauling by British lawmakers, with satellite broadcaster BSkyBannouncing large profits and insisting it is fit to hold a licence. A parliamentary committee said in a majority decision on Tuesday that Murdoch was “not a fit person” to run a global company because of…
Taliban hit Kabul after Obama visit
Taliban bombers attacked a heavily fortified guesthouse used by Westerners in Kabul on Wednesday, announcing the start of their annual “spring offensive” in defiance of assertions from US President Barack Obama during a visit to Afghanistan that the war was ending. Seven people were killed after attackers dressed in burqas detonated a suicide car bomb and clashed…
Taliban announce Afghan ‘spring offensive’
The Taliban militia announced their “spring offensive” would begin across Afghanistan on Thursday. Code-named Al-Farouq, the primary targets of the offensive would be “foreign invaders, their advisors, their contractors, all those who help them militarily and in intelligence”, the militants said on their website. “Al-Farouq spring offensive will be launched on May 3 all…
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