AFP – Russia and Vietnam on Sunday signed a deal worth an estimated 5.6 billion dollars for the Southeast Asian country’s first nuclear power plant as Moscow seeks greater influence in the region.
AP – After a two-day delay, NASA’s countdown clocks began ticking Sunday toward the final launch of space shuttle Discovery.
SPACE.com – CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – NASA is counting down toward the
final flight of space shuttle Discovery after engineers successfully repaired
two minor gas leaks on the spacecraft in time for one last launch on Wednesday
(Nov. 3).
Reuters – Hurricane Tomas weakened to a Category 1 hurricane on Sunday as it moved westward across the eastern Caribbean sea, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.
AP – Thousands of evacuees who risked a trip home near a deadly Indonesian volcano fled in panic as the mountain spewed more searing ash clouds Sunday, while rescuers finally resumed aid to tsunami victims in the country’s other unfolding disaster.
SPACE.com – PARIS — A communications satellite launched Thursday (Oct. 28) has
been declared a total loss following the discovery of a sizable leak in its
fuel reservoir, and ground teams are now scrambling to determine whether they
can raise the satellite into a graveyard orbit or must guide it into the
atmosphere to be destroyed, the satellite’s owner and builder said.
AFP – Indonesia ramped up aid operations Sunday for victims of last week’s devastating tsunami, as the toll climbed despite the discovery of 135 traumatised villagers who were feared dead.
Reuters – Ocean scientists urged governments on Sunday to invest billions of dollars by 2015 in a new system to monitor the seas and give alerts of everything from tsunamis to acidification linked to climate change.
Reuters – Ocean scientists urged governments on Sunday to invest billions of dollars by 2015 in a new system to monitor the seas and give alerts of everything from tsunamis to acidification linked to climate change.
AP – Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan says Vietnam has chosen Japan as a partner to mine rare earth metals and help build the Communist country’s second nuclear power plant.
