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Shell EP Ireland’s managing director Michael Crothers gas paid tribute to predecessor Andy Pyle, who has died unexpectedly.

U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon informed the U.N. Security Council on Friday afternoon that the U.N. monitoring mission in Syria will be up to full strength next week, but that Syrian forces continue to shell Syrian towns and that "most elements" of the U.N. six-point peace plan have yet to be implemented. In a 13-page report to the U.N. Security Council, Ban said that the U.N. in...

It's your lucky day!! Oprah is selling one of her swanky Chicago apartments… for half price!! The beautiful 4,607 square foot Beaux-Arts building in the Chi-city's Gold Coast boasts views of the lake, 3 bedrooms, 10' ceilings, a library, a solarium, a wine room and a gourmet custom eat-in kitchen. The Big O's digs coast [...]

When fiction writer Jennifer Egan takes to Twitter this evening, she won't be tweeting about the latest headlines or her favorite nightspot. Instead, she'll be doling out her new short story "Black Box" at the rate of one tweet a minute.

Officials remain stumped over how a live World War I-era artillery shell ended up beneath the attic floorboards at an American Legion Post in Reseda. The reported howitzer shell was discovered Wednesday during renovations at Post 308, in the 7300 block of Canby Avenue, said Sgt. David Medof of the Los Angeles Police Department. Officers were called to the post and determined there was a chance ...

Have you ever needed a bottle opener, searched high and low, and after spying your iPhone, been seriously tempted? Well, don’t even go there. In…

Le géant anglo-néerlandais Shell a affirmé jeudi qu'il était en train de...

Shell plans to begin drilling test wells off the coast of northern Alaska in July, which would open a new frontier in domestic oil exploration.

THAILAND’S PTT Exploration and Production has stoked the bid battle for Cove Energy, topping Royal Dutch Shell with a £1.22 billion offer that underscores interest in new east African gas finds.

Undershaw, a large red brick house where Conan Doyle wrote 13 stories about his renowned detective, is now an empty shell and boarded up.

HOUSTON (AP) -- A team of consultants is recommending that the Astrodome be turned into a multi-purpose facility that could host sporting events and massive exhibitions, while also preserving the iconic structure's outer shell....

Lucy Pratt, 25, from London, has a progressive condition that is slowing covering her in an external shell of bone. Her neck is already locked into position and she can't move her head.

Musician Amanda Palmer, whose Kickstarter project for an all-singing, all-dancing tour plus album plus art book plus videos extravaganza is heading for the $1,000,000 mark, explains where all the money is likely to go, and how much she'll make, and what she sees as the future of things. It's a really good look at the [...]

Cove Energy is proving a hard fish to catch. Thai oil company PTTEP has trumped Shell's bid for the oil explorer, but Shell may not be ready to give up just yet.

First lady Michelle Obama will launch her latest media blitz next week with a string of TV appearances to promote her book on gardens. Obama is set to appear Tuesday on ABC's "Good Morning America" and "The View," and Comedy Central's "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart," the White House said Wednesday. She'll also tape an interview for "LIVE! with Kelly" while in New York next Wednesday and an ap...

Thailand's PTT Exploration & Production has trumped Royal Dutch Shell with a £1.22bn agreed takeover of Cove Energy, in the latest twist in the bidding war for the Mozambique-focused oil and gas explorer.

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) -- Lady Gaga is as confused as anyone about whether she'll be allowed to perform in Indonesia....

* Cove had previously backed Shell's 220 pence a share bid

Clashes over dividends, executive pay and environmental track record in Nigeria at annual meeting

Kim Clijsters says this year's U.S. Open will be her last tournament. She already had confirmed this would be her last year.

JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) -- A year after a massive tornado tore through Joplin, reminders of the storm's fury are plentiful - from the glaring absence of century-old trees in the city's central neighborhoods to the ghostly shell of St. John's Regional Medical Center....

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Seventeen more partners at Dewey & LeBoeuf announced their departure on Monday, as the failing law firm considered filing for bankruptcy.

The Fresno Police busted 54-year-old Randy Smith for strutting around Fresno with a homemade shotgun hidden in the plastic shell of a Super Soaker. Look at this guy. That dude walking around with a plastic toy. How could that arouse suspicion? More »

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Campaign group Amnesty International has enlisted actor Hakeem Kae-Kazim, star of TV series 24 and the film Hotel Rwanda, to publicise the issue.

Global Witness does not allege illegality on the part of Shell or ENI, but questioned Shell and ENI’S commitment to transparency

The Cambiar Opportunity Fund has made big bets on oil outfits like Halliburton, Chevron and Royal Dutch Shell. They haven't generated much energy as yet.

21 May 2012 (London, UK ) – Jody K. won a $172,320 progressive jackpot at WinADayCasino.com . For Jody K., a young mother on maternity leave, it couldn't come at any better time. She was pla...

BEIRUT (AP) -- Opposition groups say Syrian government forces are pounding a rebel-held town north of the central city of Homs....

Fighting between the army and mutineering soldiers has led to thousands fleeing the country.

Picture a turtle the size of a Smart car, with a shell large enough to double as a kiddie pool. Paleontologists from North Carolina State University have found just such a specimen – the fossilized remains of a 60-million-year-old South American giant that lived in what is now Colombia.

Picture a turtle the size of a Smart car, with a shell large enough to double as a kiddie pool. Paleontologists have found just such a specimen -- the fossilized remains of a 60-million-year-old South American giant that lived in what is now Colombia.

T-Mobile CEO Philipp Humm noted during their last earning call that their prepaid users helped make up for the loss of 510,000 postpaid subscribers, and now it seems that they've got another bone to throw to the their legions of contract-averse customers. Starting on May 20, T-Mobile will be rolling out a slew of new, no-contract data plans to go with their line of mobile broadband modems, hot...

PetroChina Co Ltd would jointly develop a proposed liquefied natural gas export facility in Canada with Shell Canada, Korea Gas and Mitsubishi.

The star judge isn't sure if she'll return to Fox's hit singing competition

Jennifer Lopez isn't sure if she'll come back for a third season of "American Idol," but the big cheese on the show says he wants her back in the worst way."A.I." EP Nigel Lythgoe tells TMZ, "We want her back. I want her back."  Nigel is…

Luther Burbank Middle School's National Teacher of the Year talks about what makes a great teacher -- and it's not teaching to the test.The class clown from Mr. Gadberry's high school art class has made good — and how. Rebecca Mieliwocki teaches seventh-grade English at Luther Burbank Middle School in Burbank — but not next year. Instead, she'll be on the road as the National Teacher of the Yea...

Company releases details of massive project to export liquefied natural gas from B.C. port

ORAKZAI AGENCY - Nine militants were killed when a mortar shell hit their hideout in Upper Orakzai Agency on Tuesday The shell hit the militant position at Jang Baz Killi in Mamozai killing nine miscreants. The area is considered a stronghold of extremists.

Brit Brit as an X-Factor judge sort of makes sense, because think of all the ad dollars from Starbucks, Frito-Lay and Taco Bell she'll bring in, and if she goes off the script that her puppet handlers will feed into her ear during the live shows, she could be entertaining. Like watching a trailer full of blond weave tracks slowly tumble down an embankment. But Demi Lovato?!...

Forces loyal to President Assad shell, rocket embattled town; FSA member: "Rastan has been destroyed."

Singer kicks off a promotional whirlwind to promote her 'Storm & Grace' album. But she'll be daydreaming of greener pastures overseas.

ENERGY: Qatar has fed its seemingly insatiable appetite for leading Western businesses by lining up a stake in Royal Dutch Shell.

C'est officiel : les compagnies qui exploiteront les deux gisements de gaz de schiste ukrainien de Yuzivska et Olesska sont Shell et Chevron. Trois…

Shell hat einen neuen Investor: Über seinen Staatsfonds erwarb das Emirat Katar Anteile an dem Ölkonzern. Zur Höhe des Investments schweigt Shell.

Das Emirat Katar steigt beim britisch-niederländischen Ölriesen Shell ein. Nach Medienberichten übernimmt der Staatsfonds zwischen drei und fünf Prozent der Aktien. An der Londoner Börse ging allerdings noch nichts ein.

Shell México and four other groups have purchased bidding rules for Mexican state oil company Pemex's second round of incentive-based contracts for the northern region, BNamericas has learned. The ...

I just might be crazy enough to shell out big bucks for a Led Zeppelin "reunion" show if Robert Plant, Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones were joined on stage by a hologram of the late John Bonham banging away on the drums during "Moby Dick."

La Universidad Politécnica de Valencia participa con dos automóviles en el Shell Eco-Maratón Europe 2012 junto a 18 proyectos españoles más

A shell containing phosphorus which was washed up on a Sussex beach is blown-up by bomb disposal experts.

Le président des Etats-Unis Barack Obama a remercié son homologue français sortant Nicolas Sarkozy pour son « leadership solide, son amitié et sa coopération dans...lire la suitehistoires liées20:37 Grèce : Samaras annonce avoir échoué à former un gouvernement20:37 « Brive-Paris » n’est pas inclus dans les frais de campagne20:43 Madrid : Djokovic a tourné la page et se dit prêt à défendre so...

Royal Dutch Shell PLC says it has shut down a major pipeline running through Nigeria's oil-rich southern delta because it had been repeatedly targeted by thieves.

Hamburg (dpa) - Aktivisten der Umweltorganisation Greenpeace haben in der Ostsee schwimmend gegen geplante Ölbohrungen des Mineralölunternehmens Shell in der Arktis protestiert. Wie Greenpeace-Expert...

Swedish police said they arrested six Greenpeace activists who boarded an icebreaker in the Baltic Sea Thursday in a bid to block plans by Anglo Dutch giant Shell to drill for oil in the Arctic.

SWEDISH police said they arrested six Greenpeace activists who boarded an icebreaker in the Baltic Sea today.

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Vodafone CEO Vittorio Colao met finance minister Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday to make a case of dropping the proposed amendments to the law that will make the telecom giant shell out close to Rs 11,000 crore capital gains tax.

Utl.: Umwelt-AktivistInnen aus dreizehn Nationen blockieren zerstörerische Öl-Bohrungen = Helsinki/Wien (OTS) - Zwanzig Greenpeace-AktivistInnen aus dreizehn Nationen, darunter auch aus Österreich, haben heute früh einen Eisbrecher von Shell besetzt, der von einem Hafen in …

mikejuk writes, quoting I Programmer: "If you are looking for an exciting hardware project, KegDroid deserves a look. It is a sophisticated system that involves Android, Arduino, NFC, plumbing and — beer. Perhaps the final stroke of genius is to package the whole thing in a Droid body. Some how the little green fella looks at home on the bar. You have heard of desktop and laptop apps now we hav...

He is the most talked about artist of his generation, with collectors prepared to shell out tens of millions of pounds to own one of his works.

Der Dax hat seine zwischenzeitliche Schwäche überwunden. Neben guten Daten vom US-Immobilienmarkt stützten auch positive Unternehmenszahlen den Leitindex. Der Dax gewann 0,5 Prozent. Die VW-Aktie schoss in die Höhe.Mehr zum ThemaPreis-Rally - Shell profitiert von hohem ÖlpreisKein Szenario wird ausgeschlossen - Münchener Rück bereitet sich auf Euro-Aus vorSpott im Internet - Media Markt Österre...

Oil and gas companies were mostly rising on Thursday, despite disappointing earnings from Exxon Mobil (XOM). Crude was trading slightly higher, and investors cheered Chevron’s (CVX) decision to raise its dividend. In addition, Royal Dutch Shell (RDSA) posted strong earnings and saw shares rose 3.7%. Exxon saw production decline 5% in the first quarter, and [...]

Ein milder Winter sorgt für weniger Absatz beim Heizöl. Dafür lässt der höhere Benzinpreis die Kassen der Ölkonzerne klingeln. Unter dem Strich sinken die Gewinne.

Von den rekordverdächtigen Spritpreisen profitiert der europäische Ölkonzern Royal Dutch Shell, sein Rivale aus den USA nicht. Der Tiger im Tank braucht eine Verschnaufpause. Die gönnen ihm Anleger aber nicht.

Royal Dutch Shell beat forecasts with an 11 per cent rise in fourth-quarter profit, as higher oil prices outweighed the impact of lower US gas prices.

Arrow, an Australian company specialising in CBM and shale gas, was acquired by an equal joint venture of Shell and PetroChina in August 2010.

Amnesty International has reported that Shell lied about the magnitude of an oil spill in the Niger Delta.

A very interesting article on the NYTimes highlights the problems faced by one online retailer, NutsOnline.com, which changed its domain to Nuts.com, and witnessed a massive drop in organic traffic and revenue. I encourage you to read the article; it offers insight into something most domainers fail to consider when selling domain names: that changing [...]

The festival will present more than 100 free performances in the center's plazas and at the band shell in Damrosch Park.

Royal Dutch Shell reaches an agreement to buy London-listed Cove Energy for £1.12bn in a bid to tap into East Africa's gas reserves.

Syrian forces shelled a district of the central city of Hama on Monday and opened fire on residents, killing at least 20 people, activists said.

A day after the Security Council voted to expand the number of UN peace monitors in Syria from 30 to 300, opposition activists call the move a 'big joke,' as government forces shell a Damascus suburb. UN Observers Tour Opposition Stronghold in SyriaSecurity Council Votes to Send More Monitors to Syria

Last week in these pages, The Post ran a profile of John Jumper, the straight arrow former Air Force general who was brought in as chief executive of local contracting giant SAIC in the wake of an embarrassing overbilling scandal involving bribery, kickbacks, foreign shell corporations and a safe deposit box stuffed with $850,000 in cash. Read full article >>

Das Benzinpreisproblem ist bald keines mehr. Die Autofahrer beweisen am Ende des Tages eine Innovationskraft, die normallenkende Radfahrer ihnen nie zugetraut hätten.

An advance team of U.N. observers on Monday was working out with Syrian officials the ground rules for monitoring the country's 5-day old cease-fire, which appeared to be rapidly unraveling as regime forces pounded the opposition stronghold of Homs with artillery shells and mortars, activists said.

Simona De Silvestro almost left IndyCar after a crash that left her with burns on her hands. But her desire to race returned, and she'll compete in the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach on Sunday.Simona De Silvestro was among the most promising young drivers in IndyCar racing a year ago. Then she went to Indianapolis.

India is still buying small cars, but not necessarily cheaper ones. Consumers are willing to shell out more for a powerful, spacious and feature-rich compact car rather than go for modest models that are easier on the pocket. Sumant Banerji reports. Swift shift

Human rights group says Syrian regime has started bombing for first time since ceasefire began on Thursday, injuring severalSyrian forces shelled two central districts in the battered city of Homs throughout the night and into Saturday morning, a resident activist and a human rights group said, the first bombings since a ceasefire took hold on Thursday."There was shelling last night in the old ...

Syrian troops shelled two neighbourhoods of the flashpoint central city of Homs on Saturday, even as a hard-won UN-backed ceasefire entered its third day, monitors said.

Called the Lamina – it was built by a team of engineers from the California Polytechnic State University for this year's Shell Eco-Marathon held in Houston, Texas.

MULTI-talented Kate Miller-Heidke has found her natural voice, but that doesn't mean she'll apply it to just one musical genre.

HOUSTON (Reuters) - Royal Dutch Shell said an oil sheen near two of its offshore Gulf of Mexico oil and natural gas platforms was dissipating Thursday, and it was "very confident" its installations were not to blame.

With the Bahrain Grand Prix weekend ten days away, international attention is once again focusing on the critical situation in the troubled island kingdom in the Persian Gulf. Daily clashes continue between protesters and the security services, and the beleaguered Al-Khalifa regime faces a growing international backlash over its treatment of jailed human rights defender Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, ...

Öl in der Nähe zweier Bohrplattformen – Shell-Aktien unter Druck

La empresa envió un barco para investigar una mancha de petróleo a unos 200 kilómetros al sur de Nueva Orléans, Louisiana, EU

First lady Michelle Obama told Stephen Colbert she'll be working hard for her husband's re-election -- even if she is more popular than he i ...

Royal Dutch Shell shares traded down nearly 4% after the company reported a "light sheen" in the central portion of the Gulf of Mexico.

VIDEO: He was once a fighting machine who cast a giant shadow across world sport. Now he's barely a shell of his former self.

When Sleeping Beauty awakens in two years, she'll have Angelina Jolie to contend with. Disney has unveiled March 14, 2014, as the release date for Maleficent, a live-action fantasy...

BEIJING (Reuters) - PetroChina Co Ltd is talking to Royal Dutch Shell and Hess Corp to explore shale oil in Santanghu Basin in China's northwestern Xinjiang region, parent China National...

Police discover shell of one Grad rocket, search for second; some citizens suffer shock; attack likely originated in Sinai.

Israel Police discover shell of Grad rocket after citizens hear explosions in the area; windows broken in Shahmon neighborhood; some citizens suffer shock symptoms.

Suzie Gilbert is the author of Flyaway, which in turn is a chronicle of life as a bird rehabilitation expert. And, she is the newest addition to the Beat Writer's staff at 10,000 birds. You can find her bio at the Beat Writer's Page, and starting on April 6th, she'll be contributing regularly to 10,000 birds. In case you were unaware, I contribute a monthly post to 10,000 birds, and they a...

AUGUSTA DIARY:In-form Hunter Mahan’s win in the Shell Houston Open did more than make him the first multiple-winner on the US Tour this season: it sent him to Augusta as the top-ranked American in the official world rankings.

American Hunter Mahan has issued a timely reminder not to forget him for Masters glory after winning Shell Houston Open.

HEARTBROKEN mum and dad of six-year-old gun victim are still praying for a miracle

Hunter Mahan is set to head into the Masters as the highest-ranked American after he claimed a single-stroke victory at the Shell Houston Open.

L'Américain Hunter Mahan s'est adjugé, dimanche, le Shell Houston...

England's Brian Davis remained firmly in contention for his first victory on the PGA Tour in the third round of the Shell Houston Open on Saturday night.

Darren Clarke is facing a battle to get fit in time for the start of the Masters on Thursday. He suffered a groin muscle strain while playing in the weather-hit Shell Houston Open.

Jeff Maggert shot his second 66 to take the lead at 12 under par after two rounds at the rain-delayed Shell Open.

Solid shell transformed over six months of work both inside and out

After its first year in orbit around Mercury, NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft has yielded data on the planet's structure: the iron core is larger than previously thought and, unusually, is encased in a relatively thin shell of iron sulphide.Maria Zuber at the Massachusetts Institute of

In der Nordsee ist ein Leck an einer Gasplattform entstanden. Das Gebiet wurde zur Sperrzone für Schiffe und Flugzeuge erklärt, Experten versuchen, das Leck zu stopfen.

Die Situation wegen des Gaslecks in der Nordsee verschärft sich: Nachdem der Energiekonzern Total bereits am Vortag seine Bohrinsel evakuiert hatte, bringt nun auch Shell Arbeiter von der benachbarten Bohrinsel in Sicherheit. Rund um die Plattform wird ein Sperrgebiet eingerichtet.

Ein Gasleck in der Nordsee sorgt für Aufruhr unter den Energiekonzernen: Nachdem Total 238 Arbeiter von einer Bohrinsel evakuiert hatte, zieht jetzt auch Shell dutzende Mitarbeiter von einer Plattform ab.

f I want to buy the hot new videogame Mass Effect 3 and have it delivered to my home in New Jersey, I have a few choices. I can go to Amazon.com and pay $59.99. Or I can go to BestBuy.com and pay $59.99, plus New Jersey sales tax of 7%, for a grand total of $64.19. Almost no one would choose to shell out the extra $4.20 that Best Buy is charging, and therein lies the problem for traditional ret...

Minnesota trounces Tampa Bay 19-4 on Saturday

South Africa has an energy deficit on its hands. Too many people want fuel for their cars and electricity for their homes, and the country is struggling to keep up with demand.

Le groupe anglo-néerlandais Shell a signé avec le pétrolier chinois CNPC le premier accord d'exploration, de développement et de production de gaz de…

Royal Dutch Shell has signed its first-ever production sharing contract with China National Petroleum Corporation for shale gas in China.

SYRIAN TROOPS reportedly shelled the Damascus suburbs of Harasta and Irbin yesterday in response to a rebel attack on an intelligence compound. Opposition activists said artillery and anti-aircraft guns had been firing into these districts, retaken by government forces in January.

The US warns Syria to comply with a UN-backed peace plan, as government tanks shell suburbs of Damascus

Die Schamfrist nach dem "Deepwater Horizon"-Unglück ist vorbei. Shell und Co. treibt es in die Arktis, um fernab von jeder Technik zur Unfallbekämpfung Öl zu fördern. mehr...

LONDON (Reuters) - Oil giant Royal Dutch Shell Plc said it was being sued for causing climate change, suggesting recent court set-backs for environmentalists had not put an end to global warming lawsuits.

Sandra Bullock estaba encasillada en la comedia. Hasta que un día se hartó y buscó otras cosas. La primera película que eligió fue 'Crash', que ganó el Oscar a mejor cinta en 2006. Siguió con la historia de Truman Capote y regreso a sus orígenes con 'La proposición', un exitazo en la taquilla. Después llegó 'Un sueño posible'. Bullock se llevó la estatuilla como mejor actriz. Siguiendo ese cami...

The company says it filed the suit against environmental groups in hopes of speeding up the judicial review that will come if and when the groups challenge its drilling plan.

Losing customers unwilling to shell out potentially more than $100 a year for the privilege of giving their money to a bank to use for free doesn’t sound like a winning plan.

To avoid a challenge from environmental groups that could delay its plans to begin drilling for oil off the coast of Alaska, Shell asked a federal court to review its oil spill response plan.

MILAN (Reuters) - Italian model Diana Gelsi strode straight onto the fashion catwalks of Milan from high school and now at the grand old age of 24 is already considering how she'll spend her...

The Shell oil drilling ship targeted by "Spartacus" star Lucy Lawless and fellow Greenpeace activists set forth Tuesday on its mission to the Arctic.

Fresh details of the subterfuge emerge in a U.S. lawsuit. Apple doesn't deny any of it. Steve Jobs unveils the iPad. Image: Apple Inc. Here's how Apple (AAPL) allegedly got Proview International Holdings to sell them the iPad trademark 35 days before Steve Jobs unveiled the device at a San Francisco press conference. Apple hired a British firm called Farncombe International and its managing di...

Before Shell gets the green light to drill off the North Slope of Alaska, it must show it has all of the safety systems in place. The costs of a mistake could be very high.

Nicolas Sarkozy a confirmé ce vendredi la signature d'un contrat de six mois avec Shell. Le site de Petroplus reste cependant en attente d'un repreneur.

Nicolas Sarkozy a confirmé ce vendredi la signature d'un contrat de six mois avec Shell. Le site de Petroplus reste cependant en attente d'un repreneur.

Social . Le ministère de l’Industrie a obtenu des fonds pour la raffinerie et Shell lui fournira du brut.

La petrolera anglo-holandesa presentó una oferta por las acciones de Cove Energy, empresa que cotiza en Londres, en lo que supondría la entrada del grupo británico en Kenia y Mozambique, un país que muestra ya un gran potencial de proyectos de gas natural licuado.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - If Rooney Mara wins an Oscar for her role as a troubled waif in "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo," it's unlikely she'll thank Paul Holehouse from the stage.

The Calgary woman is now home and recovering, according to family, but she'll likely need more surgery.

Syrian government forces killed at least 12 people and wounded 100 on Tuesday when they unleashed a heavy artillery barrage on a rebel-held district of the city of Homs, activists said.

The drama this week came not in the standings, but with Maryland AD Kevin Anderson’s declaration that his school will no longer schedule Georgetown in any sport. As voter J.P. Finlay noted, it’s like the Terps are cutting off their nose to spite their shell. Read full article >>

Shell Oil hopes to drill up to three wells in the Chukchi Sea, off Alaska's northwest coast.

The G-Form Extreme Sleeve 2 for the iPad is made from a polymer that is a "rate dependent material" - a kind of soft foam that hardens temporarily under impact, creating an instant protective shell.

The integrated oil giant announced lackluster fourth-quarter results and forecast continued high volatility.

Muammar Gaddafi's occupation of Tawergha and using it as a base to besiege and shell Misrata in last year's civil war has left the town isolated.

Researchers have "cloaked" a three-dimensional object, making it invisible from all angles, for the first time. However, the demonstration works only for waves in the microwave region of the electromagnetic spectrum. It uses a shell of what are known as plasmonic materials; they present a "photo negative" of the object being cloaked, effectively cancelling it out...from BBC News Onlin...

@ Theres Peer-review, ich kenne den Artikel von Florian F. dazu, aber Du hast mich noch mal zum "recherchieren" gebracht. Das empfehle ich Dir auch und Dir die Kritik und Diskussion zur Kritik anzuschauen. Gerade von einer Firma wie Shell wäre ja zu erwarten das die Insel fachgerecht gesäubert wird, vor dem versenken. Das war jetzt Sarkasmus! Sicherlich wäre die Versenkung wohl die ökonomischs...

A box turtle who tried to cross a busy road has a new lease on life and a new fiberglass shell.

BEIJING - It's been two years since Xu Mengtao's mistake. In two more years, she'll have a chance to make up for it.

Royal Dutch Shell's Chinese joint-venture will build a large oil storage and transportation facility in the northern port city of Tianjin.

JULIA Gillard won't say if she'll still be PM at the end of 2012, arguing she is more focused on the economy as asylum seeker negotiations continue.

The bivalve is in the midst of a comeback, with new producers and restaurants featuring them both raw and cooked.

UPDATE: Thousands queue in Sydney but a disappointing turn-out in Melbourne in mixed start to Boxing Day sales.

The CEO of Codexis describes how his company is making renewable fuels affordable.

Las autoridades nigerianas han iniciado medidas de contingencia en sus costas tras la declaración esta semana de un masivo derrame de crudo en unas instalaciones de la compañía petrolera Shell a 120 kilómetros de línea de playa.

Nigerian coastal and fishing communities were on Thursday put on alert after Shell admitted to an oil spill that is likely to be the worst in the area for a decade, according to government officials. The company said up to 40,000 barrels of crude oil was spilled on Wednesday while… Visit: http://www.nation.com.pk for full story

The Buffalo Bills and Miami Dolphins were shells of their former selves on Sunday, but Miami’s shell was better, earning a 30-23 win against a team that has not provided its fans with any relief for two months.

THE CENTRAL Bank has emerged as the most likely purchaser of the concrete shell of Anglo Irish Bank’s unfinished headquarters on North Wall Quay in Dublin, The Irish Times has learned.

After the departure of AOL exec Brad Garlinghouse, it's probably no surprise that his longtime public exec Kiersten Hollars would be next to go. And she is indeed leaving to take a job as a PR partner at Silicon Valley venture firm Andreessen Horowitz. She'll be reporting to Marketing partner Margit Wennmachers there.

JEFFERSON TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) -- The Army has offered a northern New Jersey family over $7,300 to compensate for damages from wayward artillery shell shrapnel that crashed through their roof in 2008, causing the death of their cat....

A leading federal worker union is warning members that they may need to shell out more to ride the subway or bus to work next year if Congress lets a commuter tax credit expire. With Congress and the White House bickering over a potential extension of a payroll tax credit, other commuter, employer and renewable energy tax breaks are also set to expire at year’s end. Read full article >>

The main UN human rights forum condemned Syria's crackdown on protests on Friday and Royal Dutch Shell shut down oil work there.

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Royal Dutch Shell said on Friday it would cease operations in Syria to heed new European Union sanctions against Damascus, deepening the international isolation of President Bashar al-Assad imposed over his violent crackdown on popular unrest.In continuing bloodshed, Syrian army defectors killed eight Air Force intelligence personnel in an attack on their base in the north of...

Detroit Lions DT Ndamukong Suh's appeal of a two-game ban, a result of a Thanksgiving Day stomping incident vs. Green Bay, will be heard on ...

IRAQ has signed a multi-billion-dollar deal with Royal Dutch Shell and Japan's Mitsubishi Corp to tap natural gas in the south.

La compagnie pétrolière turque TPAO a signé ce mercredi à Ankara un accord avec le géant pétrolier anglo-néerlandais Shell pour des explorations…

KHYBER AGENCY - Six persons including women and children were killed when a mortar shell hit their house at Sheendrang area of tehsil Bara on Saturday, official and local sources informed.The sources said that a mortar shell, fired from unknown location, landed on the house of Mira Jan, leaving two women and four children dead on the spot and injuring five others. The injured were shifted to a ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Oil and gas major Shell stepped up its involvement in carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology on Wednesday by formalizing its partnership with Britain's SSE to install CCS...