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GOVERNMENTS often get more than they bargained for when they hand control of major infrastructure to private equity companies.Australians had a lucky escape when private equity consortium Airline Partners Australia (APA) failed to get hold of Qantas...
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China has clearly overtaken the United States as the world’s leading emitter of carbon dioxide, the main heat-trapping gas, a new study has found, its emissions increasing 8 percent in 2007. The Chinese increase accounted for two-thirds of the growth...
All around the Midwest, the water just kept rising.
Even as this city was nearly shuttered on Friday, its sandbagged downtown submerged in the biggest flood ever recorded here, people in Des Moines began evacuating and other Iowa towns thought about...
Saudi Arabia, the world’s biggest oil exporter, is planning to increase its output next month by about a half-million barrels a day, according to analysts and oil traders who have been briefed by Saudi officials.
The increase could bring Saudi output...
The Swedish startup Twingly.com just launched a blog engine, with in addition to a common unfiltered search the (default) option to search only spam-free blogs. Moreover on the site Twingly.com some widgets are available for bloggers and for registered...
The Power Flower. one of the finalists at Dell’s Design ReGeneration competition, issuing the challenge of environmentally responsible computing technology, is a highly conceptual device running on hydrogen fuel cell technology.
The Power Flower...
A study of nearly 6,000 children in Munich has found that children are much more likely to develop asthma, allergies and skin rashes if they live near major roads.Vehicle tailpipes emit nitrogen oxides, volatile organic chemicals and fine particulates...
DRINKING a cup of coffee can wake you up, but perhaps just a whiff of Java is enough to reverse the effects of sleep deprivation on the brain.A team led by Yoshinori Masuo at the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in...
NATO allies have yet to come up with replacements for a key deployment of some 3,000 U.S. Marines due to leave Afghanistan later this year, alliance officials said after talks on Friday.
The Pentagon sent the Marines to Afghanistan ahead of an expected...
Oil prices fell on Friday on a report that Saudi Arabia may increase production to stem crude’s record rally to peaks near $140 a barrel.
U.S. crude oil settled down $1.88 at $134.86 a barrel, while Brent crude settled $1.84 lower at $134.25 a...
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