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- ANSA: Banco Popolare, rosso da 330 milioni
- ANSA: Consob: Dg Caputi lascia doppio incarico
- ANSA: Petrolio: in rialzo a 90,33 dollari
- ANSA: Oro: in rialzo a 1.581,30 dollari
- Financial Times: FBI joins SEC in computer trading probe
- Aljazeera: Vote setbacks raise concerns over Kenya race
- Financial Times: Nasdaq launches index for private groups
- Aljazeera: Scores injured as Bangladesh protests rage on
- Aljazeera: Libya interim leader's car comes under fire
- Aljazeera: Egypt court suspends legislative vote
- Financial Times: Total of Syrian refugees passes 1m
- Huffington Post: Mercury Map Created By NASA's Messenger Probe Said First To Show Planet's Full Surface
- Huffington Post: Woman Carrying Fetus In Bag Won't Be Charged, Maine Police Say
- Huffington Post: Hugo Chavez Funeral: Friday's Ceremony Expected To Be Lavish Affair
- Huffington Post: Food Allergy Advice for Kids: Don't Delay Peanuts, Eggs
- Financial Times: Bolshoi star confesses to acid attack
| ANSA: Banco Popolare, rosso da 330 milioni Posted: 04 Mar 2013 11:50 AM PST Effetto negativo scatenato da partecipata Agos Ducato |
| ANSA: Consob: Dg Caputi lascia doppio incarico Posted: 04 Mar 2013 12:21 PM PST Violava legge istitutiva authority, passo indietro dopo critiche |
| ANSA: Petrolio: in rialzo a 90,33 dollari Posted: 04 Mar 2013 11:20 PM PST Brent a 110,43 dollari |
| ANSA: Oro: in rialzo a 1.581,30 dollari Posted: 04 Mar 2013 11:24 PM PST guadagna lo 0,5% |
| Financial Times: FBI joins SEC in computer trading probe Posted: 05 Mar 2013 09:41 AM PST Agents join forces with a new unit within the Quantitative Analytics Unit that examines hedge funds and other firms that are using algorithm trading strategies |
| Aljazeera: Vote setbacks raise concerns over Kenya race Posted: 05 Mar 2013 11:38 PM PST Widespread technical failure and thousands of spoiled ballots have fuelled complaints of voting irregularities. |
| Financial Times: Nasdaq launches index for private groups Posted: 06 Mar 2013 05:22 AM PST Exchange operator in joint venture with secondary market pioneer in an effort to tap the form of trading that boosted Facebook's valuation |
| Aljazeera: Scores injured as Bangladesh protests rage on Posted: 06 Mar 2013 06:46 AM PST Police fire tear gas shells and rubber bullets to break up anti-government demonstrations in capital Dhaka. |
| Aljazeera: Libya interim leader's car comes under fire Posted: 06 Mar 2013 07:08 AM PST The attack took place as Mohammed Magarief left a chaotic session of the national assembly disrupted by protesters. |
| Aljazeera: Egypt court suspends legislative vote Posted: 06 Mar 2013 07:10 AM PST Egypt's administrative court orders the suspension of parliamentary elections scheduled to begin next month. |
| Financial Times: Total of Syrian refugees passes 1m Posted: 06 Mar 2013 09:14 AM PST The number of people fleeing the Syrian conflict has risen dramatically since the start of the year, piling pressure on neighbouring countries' resources |
| Posted: 06 Mar 2013 09:30 AM PST By: Clara Moskowitz The surface of the planet Mercury has been completely mapped for the first time in history, scientists say. The closest planet to the sun hasn't received as much scientific attention as some of its more flashy solar system neighbors, such as Mars, but NASA's Messenger spacecraft is helping to close the gap. The probe has been in orbit around Mercury since March 2011, and its team announced Feb. 28 that the spacecraft had finished mapping the planet's surface. "We can now say we have imaged every square meter of Mercury's surface from orbit," said Messenger principal investigator Sean Solomon of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md. "Admittedly, some regions are in permanent shadow, but we're actually peering into those shadows with our imaging systems."
Before Messenger, less than half the surface had been imaged by NASA's Mariner 10 spacecraft, which made several flybys of Mercury in 1974 and 1975. Messenger is the first probe to orbit the planet. In addition to photographing the unseen parts of Mercury, the spacecraft substantially improved on the resolution of existing maps. [Latest Mercury Photos by NASA's Messenger] "When we set out with the Messenger mission we didn't know if the planet would look like the other half that was seen in the '70s," Solomon told SPACE.com. "There was a great debate over how important volcanism was in the history of Mercury." Messenger quickly showed that not only did volcanism occur during Mercury's past, but it might have been widespread. The spacecraft also revealed never-before-seen types of terrain on the planet, such as surface pockmarks called hollows that scientists suspect are created when volatile materials sublimate off the surface. "Unstable material is exposed to the temperatures and space environment, and slowly over thousands, maybe millions, of years, it's lost to Mercury's atmosphere and to space, to create a depression or hollow in an area where there are often many such hollows that etch the terrain," Solomon said.
The $446 million Messenger probe (which stands for MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging) launched in 2004. It made one flyby of Earth, two flybys of Venus and three flybys of Mercury itself before finally entering orbit around its destination planet in 2011. The Messenger spacecraft's primary mission ran through March 2012, but it was granted a one-year extension to operate until March 2013. Now the Messenger mission science team is hoping NASA will approve a second mission extension for two more years, that would last until the spacecraft runs out of fuel and crashes into Mercury's surface. Follow Clara Moskowitz on Twitter @ClaraMoskowitz or Google+. Follow us @Spacedotcom, Facebook or Google+. This article was first published on SPACE.com.
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| Huffington Post: Woman Carrying Fetus In Bag Won't Be Charged, Maine Police Say Posted: 06 Mar 2013 09:30 AM PST BANGOR, Maine — Authorities in Bangor, Maine, say no criminal charges are pending in the case of a woman found carrying a fetus in a plastic grocery bag. Sgt. Paul Edwards says officers confronted the woman Friday after getting a call that she had a fetus. The woman approached an officer with what appeared to be a fetus inside a sealed plastic container, which was inside the bag. Read More... |
| Huffington Post: Hugo Chavez Funeral: Friday's Ceremony Expected To Be Lavish Affair Posted: 06 Mar 2013 09:31 AM PST The funeral for late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, who passed away March 5 after a long battle with cancer, will be held on Friday, March 8. Chavez's funeral will be accompanied by seven official days of mourning, reports Reuters. Classes at schools around the country have been suspended, and various heads of state and dignitaries from around the world are expected to arrive for the event. Until Friday's funeral ceremony, expected to be a lavish affair, Chavez's body will remain at Venezuela's Military Academy. Per the Guardian, a procession carrying his casket to the academy Wednesday was thronged with thousands of mourners, including his mother. Read More... More on Video |
| Huffington Post: Food Allergy Advice for Kids: Don't Delay Peanuts, Eggs Posted: 06 Mar 2013 09:34 AM PST Parents trying to navigate the confusing world of children's food allergies now have more specific advice to consider. Highly allergenic foods such as peanut butter, fish and eggs can be introduced to babies between 4 and 6 months and may even play a role in preventing food allergies from developing. Read More... |
| Financial Times: Bolshoi star confesses to acid attack Posted: 06 Mar 2013 11:04 AM PST Pavel Dmitrichenko has admitted on TV to organising attack on director Sergei Filin as he and two others are detained over the crime |
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