Ukranian railway accident generates huge phosphor cloud

Tuesday, July 17, 2007 An alarm for heavy chemical pollution has been issued in the Lviv region, Ukraine, where yesterday evening a railway disaster led to a fire involving 15 containers of liquid yellow phosphorus. Extinguishing the fire proved extremely difficult because water cannot be used: in contact with phosphorus, water creates poisonous gas. It

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Pfizer and Microsoft team up against Viagra spam

Sunday, February 13, 2005 New York –”Buy cheap Viagra through us – no prescription required!” Anyone with an active email account will recognize lines like this one. According to some reports, unsolicited advertisements (spam) for Viagra and similar drugs account for one in four spam messages. BACKGROUND Spamming remains one of the biggest problems facing

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Australian Senate to decide sport footage ownership

Tuesday, March 17, 2009 An inquiry set up by the Australian Senate will decide where footage taken at sporting events can run. “The potential precedents for this are enormous,” said the head of a major news agency. “This will set a global benchmark — it has been coming to a head for a long time.”

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Apple plans another special event

Tuesday, October 4, 2005 Within one month of the iPod nano and iTunes phone special event, Apple Computer announced today another special event to be held on October 12. It is to be held at the California Theater in downtown San Jose, California. The invitation reads, “One more thing…”, the teasing tagline of Steve Jobs.

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UN calls on international community to increase aid for Iraqi refugees

Sunday, July 8, 2007 The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) called on the international community to increase aid and assistance to the two countries shouldering the bulk of displaced Iraqis. Syria and Jordan have received the largest number of Iraqi refugees and are having difficulty coping with the numbers. The appeal was made

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UBS sees net income jump 15 percent

Tuesday, May 3, 2005 Swiss banking giant UBS today reported better than expected first-quarter results – but warned investors that full year results could be hit by weaker investment banking revenues. First-quarter net profit stood at 2.625bn Swiss francs (US$2.19bn; €1.7bn) up 15% from last year’s 2.28bn Swiss francs. Assets under management grew to 2.36

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