Iraqs neighbouring states drastically reducing the flow of the Tigris and Euphrates
04 Sep 2009: Dam projects by neighbouring states are drastically reducing the flow of the Tigris and Euphrates and helping to turn a once-fertile plain into desert. Phil Sands and Nizar Latif report as an environmental crisis deepens As bombs continue to tear apartTunisian teenager simplifies Bernoulli's theorem
03 Sep 2009: A 19-year-old student, Karim Ghariani, has discovered a new way of mathematically proving Bernoulli's theorem, an equation applied to calculations about speed and pressure of fluids. Ghariani, a first-year student at Insat, the National Institute ofIran has complete cycle for processing nuclear fuel: president
04 Sep 2009: TEHRAN, April 11 - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Saturday that his country now has a complete cycle for producing and processing nuclear fuel, local Fars news agency reported. "Iran now is a country that has (a complete nuclear) fuel cycleThe Decimal and Islamic Mathematics
03 Sep 2009: Muslim mathematicians were the first people to write numbers the way we do, and, although we are the heirs of the Greeks in geometry, part of our legacy from the Muslim world is our arithmetic. This is true even if it was Hindu mathematicians in India,Natural Energy plan downsized as wind farm giant slashes cost
03 Sep 2009: Plans to build hundreds of wind farms were thrown into disarray last night after the worlds biggest investor in wind power said that it was slashing its investment programme in Britain. The decision comes less than two months after ministers backed aNo proof of Tehran making N-bomb
03 Sep 2009: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said there was no proof that Iran is trying to develop a nuclear weapon and urged the West to respect and reach out to Tehran. “There is no proof that Iran has even decided to make a bomb,” he told the BrusselsFirestorms and Deep Freeze: Climate Change May Bring Both
03 Sep 2009: Last week, the heaviest snowfall since the '90s blanketed the U.K., disrupting bus, rail and air transportation and costing areas like London a cool billion in lost revenue.Meanwhile, in Australia, a punishing, record drought was worsened by the nation'sIran produces its first solar-powered vehicle
03 Sep 2009: TEHERAN, Iran - Irans first solar-powered vehicle began its test trip on Sunday. The car began its 420-kilometer (261-mile) test-drive to the central city of Isfahan, Karen Abrinia, the leader of the project at Teheran University, told state television.Questions dog Chinese dam project
03 Sep 2009: Construction is set to finish next week on the world's largest hydropower project, but its critics say that the lessons about its environmental consequences are yet to be learned. With the last of the concrete being poured nearly a decade after ChinaIran announces it has joined world's nuclear nations
03 Sep 2009: The President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, said his country had joined the group of nations possessing nuclear technology in a move that is certain to aggravate Tehran's nuclear stand-off with the West. "At this historic moment, with the blessings of GodCharting the lost innovations of Muslims
03 Sep 2009: It is the thread that links cars, carpets and cameras and is also responsible for three-course meals, bookshops and modern medicine. The Islamic civilisation, according to the curators of a national exhibition that opened this week, has made an enormousChina fights to hold back sands
03 Sep 2009: China declared its first victory in a centuries-old war against the desert yesterday after a campaign to plant 12bn trees in five years finally made a small green dent in an ocean of sand dunes and dustbowls. It is being hailed as a sign of a buddingGeologists witness 'ocean birth'
03 Sep 2009: Scientists say they have witnessed the possible birth of a future ocean basin growing in north-eastern Ethiopia. The team watched an 8m rift develop in the ground in just three weeks in the Afar desert region last September. It is one small step in aSyria boosts accuracy of its Scud D missile
03 Sep 2009: Syria has introduced significant changes in the advanced model of the Scud D missile that gives it greater guidance capability and accuracy, according to Western missile experts. The evaluations were based on an examination of pieces of a Scud D missileChina seeks Canadian uranium to meet future power needs
03 Sep 2009: OTTAWA (AFP) - Chinese officials and investors have been scouting for uranium in Canada, the largest producer in the world, to power new nuclear power plants, Canadian officials told AFP. "We know that they're interested. They have a large reactor programRwanda award for 'sewage' cooking
03 Sep 2009: A Rwandan prison project, which reduces cooking fuel bills by using methane gas from inmates' toilet waste, has won a global environment award. The Kigali Institute of Science and Technology has helped prisons cut their firewood spending by $44,000slashnews
CIA accused of ordering kidnap of former Pakistani spy
The wife of Khalid Khawaja claims that her husband, who was once a confidante of Osama bin Laden, was taken at the request of the American intelligence service as he travelled through Pakistan's lawless tribal belt. On Monday a group calling itself the
Yemen court upholds Israel spy's death sentence
A death sentence for a Yemeni man, Bassam Abdullah al-Haidari, convicted of spying for Israel has been upheld by an appeals court. In March 2009, a state security court sentenced the 27-year-old to death after convicting him of establishing contacts with
Mosque building brings Islamophobia fears to Poland
In a sight familiar in some west European countries but new to Poland, dozens of protesters demonstrated in a Warsaw suburb last weekend against the construction of a mosque. Plans by Poland's tiny Muslim community to build a place of worship and an
Puntland president meets with Ethiopian FM
The president of Somalia's Puntland State government Dr. Abdirahman Mohammed Farole has held meeting with Ethiopian Foreign Affairs Minister Seyoum Mesfin in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa. The meeting which was held in Hotel Sharaton, where Puntland