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
Mohamed Ali Samatar: Facing war crimes lawsuit in US
The case has divided courts. A federal judge in Alexandria ruled that even if the immunity law does not mention individuals, such protection is the "practical equivalent" of immunity offered to a state. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit in
Malcolm X: Legacy lives on 45 years after his assassination
Forty-five years ago on Feb. 21, Malcolm X — El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz — had begun his address to a mass meeting of the Organization of Afro-American Unity in New York City at the Audubon Ballroom when several men opened fire on him with shotguns and
Somali minister dies of 'graduation' bomb attack injury
Somalia's sports minister has died in a Saudi hospital weeks after he was critically wounded in a bomb attack at a medical graduation ceremony in Mogadishu. Saleban Olad Roble passed away on Friday in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, where he and other victims
Dubai to issue 11 warrants for Hamas killing
Dubai will issue arrest warrants for 11 foreign agents suspected of involvement in the the assassination of a top Hamas military commander in his hotel room in Dubai on Jan. 20, the police chief said on Monday. "We do not rule out Mossad, but when we
