The skeleton of an ancient sea monster discovered more than 50 years ago in Scotland has paleontologists excited over the quantity of bones found and anxious to learn more about the reptile, VOA reported Sunday. Using modern fossil extraction methods, the bones of the sea monster was able to be removed from hard rock. The previously unknown reptile lived in the oceans during the time of the dinosaurs, the report said ... ....
(CNN)Thousands dead. Millions more driven from their homes. A future far from certain. This is the situation in Iraq today. The deep-rooted sectarian divide that resurfaced amid the chaos of Saddam Hussein's downfall created a security vacuum that ultimately allowed extremist militant groups like ISIS to flourish. READ MORE. High stakes for Iraq's future ... Read More. CNN looks at Iraq's bloody crisis up close.. THE CRISIS IN NUMBERS ... Replay....
Ever since the first exoplanet (51 Pegasi b) was discovered in 1995 by Michael Mayor and Didier Queloz, there has been renewed activity and interest in this field. The Kepler and K2 missions of NASA have identified thousands of planet candidates. Now there are nearly 5,000 planet candidates, and of these, some 3,397 have been confirmed as planets, according to the NASA exoplanet archive ... This unit began taking data in 2012 ... ....
Click here for reuse options!. JournalistAmy Goodman was faced with charges of trespassing that have since been dropped. A North Dakota state prosecutor has sought to charge award-winning journalist Amy Goodman with participating in a "riot" for filming an attack on Native American-led anti-pipeline protesters. The new charge comes after the prosecutor dropped criminal trespassing charges ... The charge in State of North Dakota v....
China Construction Bank Corp., the nation’s second-largest lender, said it agreed to form an almost 5 billion yuan ($743 million) debt-to-equity pact with Yunnan Tin Group. The agreement is part of a larger 10-billion yuan framework the two companies signed to cut Yunnan Tin’s debt ......
According to an ExecutiveYuan official, who spoke on condition of anonymity, following the conclusion of the legislature’s plenary session tomorrow, Lin will shift his focus to the planning and execution of the new southbound policy, which was officially announced by the Executive Yuan last month ... The gathering of high-level Executive Yuan members underscores the government’s emphasis on its southbound policy, the official said....
Huang Chao-yuan (黃昭元) did not answer the question ... Huang Jui-ming, Chan and Hsu said that restricting Aborigines to voting only for Aboriginal legislative candidates was a violation of the principle of self-determination, while Chang said the system is a form of protection of Aboriginal rights rather than a limitation and Huang Chao-yuan said a constitutional amendment is needed on the issue....
Prithviraj and Parvathy's 'My Story' has found its antagonist in Hollywood actor Roger Narayan ... In a telephonic conversation from the US, Roger confirms that he has indeed signed the movie ... Roger had earlier this year made his foray into Indian cinema with the Kannada blockbuster U-Turn ... Obviously, I look forward to brushing up a lot of things for the movie," Roger says ... Roger is currently working on two Hollywood films....
BEIJING, Oct ... The number of companies listed on the board was 9,168 by Oct ... The combined market value of the companies is about 3.58 trillion yuan (about 534 billion U.S. dollars). Turnover on the New ThirdBoard reached 4.3 billion yuan last week ... Editor ... ....
The NewDevelopment Bank formed by the BRICS nations last year plans to more than double its commitment to support infrastructure projects to the tune of USD 2.5 billion in 2017, its president K V Kamath said today ... It has already done 3 billion yuan (USD 450 million) in China, as part of a Beijing-approved plan to raise 10 billion yuans in the medium-term, he said, adding it will adopt a similar strategy in other markets as well ... ....
By Douglas Busvine. GOA (Reuters) - The development bank set up by the BRICS group of emerging economies will ramp up lending to $2.5 billion next year after making its first loans to back green projects, its president KV Kamath told Reuters ... The lender was officially launched a year later ... It has also started a renminbi-denominated borrowing programme, issuing a 3 billion yuan ($450 million) bond ... ($1 = 6.6685 Chineseyuan renminbi)....