`100 countries back world environment agency`

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• `100 countries back world environment agency`
• `Beijing was on the path of crashed satellite`
• Scientists make bulletproof skin
• Gorillas grin to reassure playmates
• Why aliens haven’t reached Earth yet
• EU opens antitrust probe against Samsung
• `Mechanism needed to deal with offensive content`
• Beijing firm to launch CDMA iPhone 4S
• 24 mn generations for mice to grow to elephant size
• Volcanoes may have triggered `Little Ice Age`
• `Lakshya` successfully test flown
• ‘Sloshing’ galaxy cluster discovered
• Arctic changes could spell dire consequences
• Russia blames space radiation for Mars probe failure
• Mexicans overcharged billions for phone: Study
• Indian teacher chosen for US space programme
• Symantec says pcAnywhere safe, offers free upgrade
• `Tablet boom makes Apple No 1 PC maker`
• Pythons apparently wiping out Everglades mammals
• E-mail biggies join hands to fight spam

`100 countries back world environment agency` Posted: More than a hundred countries now support a French proposal to create a "World Environment Organisation" at the upcoming 20th anniversary conference of the Rio Summit, France`s ecology minister said today.

`Beijing was on the path of crashed satellite` Posted: Beijing, the Chinese capital was "perilously close" to a major catastrophe when the city came directly in the flight path of a bus-sized defunct German satellite when it plunged into the Bay of Bengal last October.

Scientists make bulletproof skin Posted: It may not be far away when human skin could resist a speeding bullet.

Gorillas grin to reassure playmates Posted: Gorillas flash their teeth to let their friends know that they do not intend to harm them during play, scientists have discovered.

Why aliens haven’t reached Earth yet Posted: According to a new study, calculations indicate that either we are alone in the galaxy, or ET is ignoring us.

EU opens antitrust probe against Samsung Posted: European regulators opened today an antitrust probe against Samsung Electronics to determine whether the South Korean group has distorted competition in European mobile device markets.

`Mechanism needed to deal with offensive content` Posted: Blocking of websites carrying offensive content cannot be a solution and rather a regulatory mechanism should be put in place to remove the offending material, a cyber security expert said here today.

Beijing firm to launch CDMA iPhone 4S Posted: The Beijing Telecom Co Ltd., a subsidiary of the country`s third-largest mobile phone operator China Telecom, may launch the CDMA version of the Apple Inc`s iPhone 4S as early as February in the country, it said in a statement.

24 mn generations for mice to grow to elephant size Posted: It would take at least 24 million generations for a mouse-sized creature to evolve into something as big as an elephant.

Volcanoes may have triggered `Little Ice Age` Posted: A mysterious cool spell which lasted into the late 19th century and dubbed Little Ice Age appears to have been caused by a series of volcanic eruptions and sustained by sea ice, a new study has suggested.

`Lakshya` successfully test flown Posted: Indigenously developed micro-light and pilot-less target aircraft ‘Lakshya-1’ was successfully test flown from the Integrated Test Range at Chandipur near here today.

‘Sloshing’ galaxy cluster discovered Posted: Scientists have spotted vast clouds of hot gas ‘sloshing’ in Abell 2052, a galaxy cluster situated nearly 480 million light years from Earth.

Arctic changes could spell dire consequences Posted: The first signs of dangerous climate change in the Arctic could spell dire consequences for the whole of humankind, scientists warn.

Russia blames space radiation for Mars probe failure Posted: Russia`s space agency today blamed the effect of cosmic radiation for the failure of its Phobos-Grunt Mars probe, which crashed over the Pacific Ocean earlier this month.

Mexicans overcharged billions for phone: Study Posted: Mexicans have been overcharged $13.4 billion a year for phone and internet services as the industry dominated by billionaire Carlos Slim gouges customers and keeps the economy from growing, a study released on Monday said.

Indian teacher chosen for US space programme Posted: Vandana Suryawanshi of Vidya Valley School in Maharashtra is a middle school educator who has been teaching biology, earth science and general science for 20 years.

Symantec says pcAnywhere safe, offers free upgrade Posted: Symantec Corp said it is safe to use its pcAnywhere software for accessing remote PCs after it asked customers last week to disable the product because it put them at greater risk of being hacked.

`Tablet boom makes Apple No 1 PC maker` Posted: Apple Inc overtook Hewlett-Packard Co as the world`s largest vendor of personal computers in the fourth quarter, helped by booming demand for its iPads, research firm Canalys said on Monday.

Pythons apparently wiping out Everglades mammals Posted: Scientists fear the pythons could disrupt the food chain and upset the Everglades` environmental balance in ways difficult to predict.

E-mail biggies join hands to fight spam Posted: Google, Microsoft, Yahoo!, AOL and Facebook are setting aside their online rivalry to fight a common enemy: email spam and "phishing" attacks.

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