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Tue, 04 Nov 2008
The United States elects its 44th US president, 47th US vice-president, governors, and national, state and local legislators. It will be the first presidential election in more than 50 years without either an incumbent seeking re-election or a vice president running to succeed a president ending a first or second term. It falls in the middle of a financial crisis that has become global. It has replaced the war in Iraq as the defining issue of the election.
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Fri, 31 Oct 2008
The German capital held a referendum on Apr 27 on the plan to close the airport that played a pivotal role in the Berlin Airlift 60 years ago, and the results did not save it. The giant Tempelhof Airport was built by the Nazis as a cornerstone of the never-realized Third Reich capital Germania. Mayor Klaus Wowereit argues that the decision to shut Tempelhof on 31 Oct is legally binding, so even a vote to keep it open might not have saved it.
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Fri, 31 Oct 2008
Churches around the world are to be asked to sponsor trees in a special Luther Garden in Wittenberg to mark the 500th anniversary in 2017 of Martin Luther's Protestant Reformation.
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Thu, 30 Oct 2008
Five years after the inauguration of its temporary headquarters, the International Criminal Court shortens the list of 21 entrants to three in its worldwide design competition for a new premises. The ICC hopes to leave its current cramped temporary housing in 2014.
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Thu, 30 Oct 2008
In July London Mayor Boris Johnson launched a competition for the design of a new London bus. He plans to announce the winner by the end of October, and entries close on 19 Sep. The new bus must be as distinctive as the double-decker Routemaster buses that symbolized London for the city's millions of annual visitors. The Routemasters were phased out in 2005 after 50 years in service.
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Wed, 29 Oct 2008
Camillo Olivetti, with 20 workers, began producing typewriters in 1908. A century later the Olivetti empire is one of the top Italian players on the information technology marketplace. Along the way, Adriano Olivetti, the son of the founder, transformed his father's shop-like operation in Ivrea into a modern factory. It was built around Utopian ideals and proved to be a formula for profitability. A Olivetti postage stamp and special events from September to December mark the centenary.
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Fri, 24 Oct 2008
Ground hasn't even been broken for the massive ITER experimental plasma reactor and first plasma could be eight years or more away, yet record high fuel could make the first birthday of the project to establish an environmentally responsible source of essentially limitless energy a noted milestone. And the skyrocketing fuel prices could also prod government partners in the project to set aside what is described as political wrangling to make sure the reactor begins producing on time.
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Fri, 24 Oct 2008
Eight Prince of Asturias Foundation annual international awards will be presented by Filipe, Prince of Asturias, at a ceremony in Oviedo. Search engine Google receives the Communication and Humanities award. Canadian writer, Margaret Atwood receives the award for Letters. Past winners of the prize for Letters include Arthur Miller, Doris Lessing and Gunter Grass. The other awards are Arts, International Cooperation, Technical and Scientific Research, Social Sciences, Sports and Concord.
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Fri, 24 Oct 2008
Three British Airways Concorde airliners landed at Heathrow on 24 Oct 2003, bringing to a close almost three decades of supersonic air travel. The only other carrier to operate the white needle-nosed supersonic aircraft, Air France, retired its Concordes in May 2003. The crash of a French Concorde on 25 Jul 2000 near Paris, in which 113 people died, began the countdown to retirement. News that the company and individuals blamed for the crash will be tried has returned Concorde to the headlines.
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Wed, 22 Oct 2008
Scientists at the International Atomic Energy Agency Fusion Conference will celebrate 50 years of nuclear fusion. Used to produce hydrogen bombs just after WWII, it was seen from the first as an almost limitless source of energy. The Second United Nations Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy 50 years ago in September brought fusion research that had been conducted in secrecy into the open.
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Tue, 21 Oct 2008
CERN, the European Center for Nuclear Research, has invited heads of government to the official inauguration of the massive US $2 billion Large Hadron Collider. It was switched on with fanfare in September, but broke down days later because of a wiring problem. The collider will simulate the beginning of the universe in microcosm, potentially confirming "the God particle” along the way and making the Internet obsolete. Around 19 years in the making, the LHC, the largest scientific instrument
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Tue, 21 Oct 2008
Queen Elizabeth II and her husband, Prince Philip, visit Slovenia from 21-22 Oct and Slovakia from 23-24 Oct. It is the first time a British monarch has visited the former communist countries. The visit will advance Britain's interests if it inspires investors and workers to turn their thoughts again to Britain. Investment and migrant labor have been flowing out of Britain because of the weaker pound and higher unemployment. The outflow limits Britain's capacity to produce goods and services.
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