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China's soaring coal consumption in the last decade held back global warming as sulfur emissions served as a coolant, according to a study led by Boston University.

Japan is planning to conduct "stress tests" on all of its nuclear power plants to address safety fears and avoid possible power shortages when demand reaches peak levels later this summer.After the11 March accident at Fukushima Daiichi power plant, reactors had to be shut down and delays in restarting others already undergoing regular maintenance checks mean that only 19 of Japan's 54 reactors are currently operating, hindering the county's effort to recover after the tsunami and...

In response to the slew of Anonymous and LulzSec related security breaches on its networks, Sony is reportedly completely redesigning its PlayStation Network from the ground up.

Japan's minister in charge of overseeing the reconstruction of the country's devastated north-east coast resigned on Tuesday, just one week into the job, amid criticism that he offended victims of the 11 March earthquake and tsunami in comments captured by TV cameras.

As The United States of America celebrates Independence Day an important question has been raised by many historians across the world. Do Americans actually understand their own history? Are schools in America teaching their children the right events or are politician's confusing youngsters with their constant mistakes over how and why the United States gained its independence from Great Britain. Studies are constantly showing that American's are unaware of what they are actually celeb...

After the hack that left as many as 100 million Sony customers account and billing information compromised, Japanese PlayStation customers are finally set to see the PlayStation network resume service in its native land.

For the first time since April, radioactive cesium-137 was found in Tokyo's tap water as Japan grapples with the worst nuclear disaster in 25 years.

Just two days after the earthquake and tsunami hit Japan on March 11, U.K officials reportedly contacted energy companies warning that they could not allow the disaster to dent public support for nuclear power.

Experts at Southampton University have drawn up a league table of countries most likely to suffer severe loss of life or catastrophic damage, should a large asteroid hit Earth.

Just as the operators of Tokyo Electric Power, better known as Tepco, apologised profusely today during its annual shareholders meeting, tonnes of radioactive water were discovered to have leaked into the ground from Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant, the latest in a series of leaks at the plant damaged in a March earthquake and tsunami, the country's nuclear watchdog said.

Tokyo Electric Power, better known as Tepco, has been at the centre of Japan's nuclear problems since the deadly earthquake and tsunami in March, as it failed to control a meltdown at its Fukushima nuclear plant.

The pick of today's European football transfer rumours for 27 June 2011. Any transfer gossip surrounding Manchester United, Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool, Manchester City, Bayern Munich, AC Milan, Inter Milan, Juventus, Roma, Barcelona and Real Madrid will be covered here.

It was a glorious, sunny day as I took my wife and kids to the Kasteel Meulen (Castle Mill) at the very top of the village of Mont Cassel, about 18 miles from Dunkerque. My children were excited to see a working windmill but, regrettably, there was not a breath of wind in the shimmering mid-summer heat and so, Blue Peter-like, we had to buy a bag of flour that the miller had already made.

A lawsuit filed this week has revealed that a fortnight before the initial hack on Sony's PlayStation Network, the company fired several employees of the unit responsible for its network security.

Nearly a month after Sony's PlayStation Network service restarted, the service is still down in Japan, with a recent news update giving no clear date when the PSN service will resume.

UK Government plans published yesterday revealed that Wales faces the prospect of new nuclear power stations in the north and near the south coast.

The number of forcibly displaced people around the world has reached a 15-year high, according to the UN high commission for refugees (UNHCR), with the vast majority languishing in poor countries ill-equipped to cater to their needs.

The United Nation's nuclear agency's decision to hold talks over the Fukushima nuclear meltdown behind closed doors has prompted anger and frustration over both the United Nations and the Japanese Governments reaction to the worst nuclear disaster in twenty five years

As Japan attempts to bury its head in the sand over the full scale of the Fukushima nuclear power meltdown there is growing concerns across the world that the United States is not taking the problem seriously enough.

Japan's Nuclear Emergency Response Headquarters finally admitted earlier this month that reactors 1, 2, and 3 at the Fukushima plant experienced full meltdowns.

The full extent of the damage to the environment and the safety of the Japanese people that the meltdown at the Fukushima nuclear power caused is only now starting to become avaliable. Even more worrying is that it has not been released by the Japanese government but independent scientists who has scathed the Japanese governments rescue attempts.

Following a ceasefire agreement, the last American ground troops left Vietnam in 1973 and in 1975, Saigon (officially now named Ho Chi Minh City) fell to the North Vietnamese Army.

With E3 out of the way and the sun beginning to set on the current generation of home entertainment consoles, recently released sales figures have revealed that Microsoft's Xbox 360 is currently beating Sony's PS3 in overall sales.

As the hacker group LulzSec continues to batter at Sony's cyber-gates, the company today announced the full restoration of its PlayStation Network.

South Korea's Ban Ki-moon said he will run for a second five-year term as secretary-general of the United Nations."It has been an enormous privilege to lead this great organization," Ban, 66, said yesterday at a news conference at UN headquarters in New York. "If supported by the member states, I would be deeply honoured to serve once more."Ban said he expressed his intention in a letter to the governments of the 192 UN member nations and would meet with their envoys with...

On 03 June 2011, the German magazine Stern reported that Chancellor Angela Merkel had agreed with the provincial governments (Länder) to a phased closure programme of all of Germany's 17 nuclear power plants by 2022. Mrs Merkel wants the closures to start at two-year intervals from 2015 at two plants per odd-numbered year and the final two or three plants, the most modern, in 2022.

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The reactivation of Sony's PlayStation Store in Europe and America has again been delayed.

G8 countries which include leaders from brings together the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, with the leaders of the US, Britain, Germany, Japan, Russia, Canada and Italy have today come up with a pledge of £12bn in aid, loans and debt relief in an attempt to support and enhance pro-democratic regimes in the region. While the full details of the package are yet unknown, the money will come from international financial institutions and members of the G8.Both the leaders of Egypt and Tunisi...

Sony has confirmed that it will be restarting the PlayStation Network in its home nation Japan as well as all other Asian territories this Saturday.