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  • Chinese artist Ai Weiwei rages against state abuses in Dumbass song

    Chinese artist and dissident Ai Weiwei has released an expletive-ridden heavy metal music video criticising abuses of state power in China. The track, given the English-language title 'Dumbass', reconstructs his 81-day detention in 2011, including what he says is an exact model of his cell, reports BBC News. The video shows impassive prison guards accompanying Ai as he eats, sleeps, showers ...

  • Scientists engineers must join hands to meet grand challenge of clean water upply

    Scientists and engineers together must initiate a major new effort to educate the public and decision makers on a crisis in providing Earth's people with clean water that looms ahead in the 21st century. In an article in the weekly newsmagazine of the American Chemical Society (ACS), three scientists - Bassam Z. Shakhashiri, Ph.D., David L. Sedlak, Ph.D., and Jerald L. Schnoor, Ph.D - explain ...

  • Devotees take holy dip at natural hot water spring in Badrinath

    Devotees took holy dip at a natural hot water spring, located near the revered Hindu shrine in Badrinath. Hundreds of devotees and pilgrims came from different parts of the country, to take holy dip at Tapt Kund, a natural sulphurous spring, in India's northern state of Uttarakhand, on Wednesday (May 22). Kamlesh Kumar Sharma, a devotee from Madhya Pradesh had come to experience this wonder ...

  • `Ageing Asia to strain worlds long-term economic growth

    The Asia-Pacific region will continue to power global economic growth in 2013, but the region's increasing ageing population will cast a shadow on the long-term development, according to a Canadian think-tank. "Productivity gains and a large, young working-age population have done much to boost Asian economic growth over the past three decades. But Asia's demographic dividend is quickly coming ...

  • Iran upgrading nuclear program IAEA

    Tehran has reportedly upgraded its nuclear program by adding advanced uranium enrichment facilities and building a plutonium-producing reactor according to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). The IAEA report reflects the increased international concerns about the potential proliferation dangers it represents as the completion date approaches, the Huffington Post reports. According ...

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Iron Man 3

Iron Man 3

Now that the Iron Man movies have reached entry number 3 (if we can consider, ala Federico Fellini, that the characters appearance in last summers The Avengers counts as at least half a movie), we can safely say that the series has matured into one of the more resili ... ...

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  • China to buy gas from Turkmenistan

    China will import gas from the world's second largest gas reserve in the Central Asian republic of Turkmenistan. Kakageldy Abdullayev, CEO of Turkmenistan's national gas company Turkmengaz, said the Galkynysh field will be used to build up Turkmen gas exports to China. The field is expected to produce 25 billion cubic metres of natural gas per year for China, with Turkmenistan's total gas ...

  • Montreals boil water advisory lifted mayor says

    A man crosses a street carrying litres of water as water pours out of a fire hydrant, in Montreal, Wednesday, May 22, 2013. (Paul Chiasson / THE CANADIAN ...

  • Pakistan seeks Chinas help to resolve energy crisis

    Incoming Pakistan premier Nawaz Sharif has said strengthening ties with China will be his government's top foreign policy priority and sought Beijing's help for dealing with economic challenges and energy deficit. Sharif, whose party won the May 11 elections and is headed to forming the government at the centre, said this during a meeting with visiting Chinese Prime Minister Li ...

  • Terror study Utilities remain unprepared for cyberattack

    Several major U.S. utilities are under "constant" cyberattack and haven't taken precautions to protect critical systems from Iran, North Korea and other adversaries, according to a congressional survey of more than 100 companies accounting for much of the nation's power ...

  • David Cameron appoints former gas lobbyist as energy adviser

    Everton defender Leighton Baines insists the upheaval of losing manager David Moyes to Manchester United after 11 years in charge will not derail the ...

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