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Parcel Bomb Plotters Used Dry Run

A US official has told the BBC that suspect packages from Yemen were intercepted in September, in what may have been a dry run for last week's foiled parcel bomb plot. The shipments from Yemen to...


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Hopes Over Ending Common Cold

Scientists say they have made a landmark discovery which could pave the way for new drugs to beat illnesses like the common cold. Until now experts had thought that antibodies could only tackle vi...


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"No Plastic Bags" For Penangites

From Jan 1, 2011 all hypermarkets, supermarkets, departmental stores, pharmacies, fast food restaurants, nasi kandar restaurants and convenience stores (including at petrol stations) will be asked t...


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Google Gaining On Smartphone Market

Google's Android software platform rose to No. 2 spot globally on the booming smartphone market in the third quarter, research firm Canalys said. Nokia's Symbian continued to lead the market wit...


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Jellyfish Stabilised Ecosystems

A team of researchers have been trying to identify how jellyfish may benefit from marine ecosystems destabilised by climate change and overfishing. There is concern that a rise in jellyfish number...


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Alcohol More Harmful Than Heroin

Alcohol is more harmful than heroin or crack, according to a study published in medical journal the Lancet. The report is co-authored by Professor David Nutt, the former UK chief drugs adviser wh...


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Apple Sues Motorola Over iPhone Patents

Apple Inc sued rival Motorola Inc, claiming the Droid smartphone maker infringes on three iPhone patents. Cupertino, California-based Apple says Motorola is purposefully using its touchscreen soft...


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Better Weather Aids Rescuers

Improved weather conditions have allowed rescuers to step up their efforts to bring aid to survivors of a deadly tsunami in Indonesia. The death toll has now risen to at least 435, although the nu...


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DNA Barcoding Aims To Protect Species

Call it a DNA digital Dewey Decimal System for all life on Earth. Every species, from extinct to thriving, is set to get its own DNA barcode in an attempt to better track the ones that are endange...


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Small-Scale Human Liver By Stem Cell

Scientists have managed to produce a small-scale version of a human liver in the laboratory using stem cells. The success increases hope that new transplant livers could be manufactured, although ...


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Beating Malaria Is Impossible Now

Efforts to eradicate malaria in some countries may be counter-productive, an international team of researchers suggest. In the Lancet, they suggest some countries, particularly in sub-Saharan Afri...


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Extending Daylight Could Boost Health

Putting the clocks back in winter is bad for health, wastes energy and increases pollution, scientists say, and putting an end to the practice in northern areas could bring major health and environm...


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Cellphone Market Slowing

Cellphone market growth slowed slightly in the September quarter due to worries over economic growth and component shortages, and the market growth would slow further in the current quarter, researc...


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Chinese Report Success In Transgenic Monkey Breeding

Chinese scientists said on Friday they had bred the country's first genetically engineered rhesus monkey, a step that could speed up the development of cures for diseases ranging from cancer to Alzh...


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Microsoft Lifted By Record Sales

Microsoft has announced a 51% rise in first-quarter profit, thanks to higher sales of its flagship Windows and Office software. Net profit for the three months to September came in at $5.4bn (£3....


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China Claims Supercomputer Crown

China has claimed the top spot on the list of the world's supercomputers. The title has gone to China's Tianhe-1A supercomputer that is capable of carrying out more than 2.5 thousand trillion calc...


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Electronically Record On Dreams

A US researcher has said he plans to electronically record and interpret dreams. Writing in the journal Nature, researchers said they have developed a system capable of recording higher-level bra...


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Tall Men Risk Testicular Cancer

Taller men may have a higher risk of getting testicular cancer, say experts in the United States. After looking at data on more than 10,000 men, researchers found that for every extra two inches o...


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Niah Caves Should Be A World Heritage Site

The Niah Caves, located some 120 kilometres from Miri city, should be another world heritage site in Sarawak for its uniqueness, Chief Minister, Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud said. Speaking to launch...


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Yahoo Mail Gets First Major Revamp

Yahoo Mail is getting its biggest redesign since 2005 to make it a message hub for its 279 million users. At the centre of the revamp is a plan to make the communications system much more compatib...


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File-Sharing Site Shut Down In US

An injunction issued by the US district court in New York has effectively shut down LimeWire, one of the internet's biggest file-sharing sites. It ends four years of wrangling between the privatel...


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Most Human Gene Variations Mapped

Leaders of a global project to catalogue differences in human DNA say they have successfully mapped 95% of all variations. The 1000 Genomes Project aims to sequence and compare the DNA of 2,500 in...


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New Polio Vaccine More Effective

A new vaccine against the polio virus has helped reduce the number of cases by more than 90%. Research published online in the journal The Lancet, shows that the new vaccine is significantly bett...


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Early Date For Chinese Human Fossils

Modern humans could have reached East Asia much earlier than believed, according to new evidence. An international team analysed fossil teeth and part of a jaw unearthed in southern China in 2007....


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Apple Delays white iPhone Untill Next Spring

Apple Inc said that it would delay release of its eagerly anticipated white iPhone again, this time until next spring. The latest version of the popular handset, the iPhone 4, was released in June...


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China's Bullet Trains Set Speed Records

Two bullet trains glided silently out of a gleaming new station to inaugurate China's latest high speed rail line, as officials boasted of setting world records using domestic technology. Many, bu...


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More Species Slide To Extinction

One fifth of animal and plant species are under the threat of extinction, a global conservation study has warned. Scientists who compiled the Red List of Threatened Species say the proportion of s...


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Shanghai Bullet Trains Begin Operation

China put another high-speed railway into operation Tuesday morning, which links Shanghai, the country's economic hub, and Hangzhou, capital of east China's Zhejiang Province, China's Xinhua news ag...


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Departing Microsoft Visionary Sees "post-PC" World

Microsoft Corp's resident visionary and departing software chief has urged the company to move on from its Windows and Office roots and imagine a "post-PC world" of simple, global Web devices. Fiv...


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Sony Retires The Cassette Walkman

After retiring the floppy disk in March, Sony has halted the manufacture and distribution of another now-obsolete technology: the cassette Walkman, the first low-cost, portable music player. The ...


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