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The South African National Defence Force “is probing whether a software glitch led to an antiaircraft cannon malfunction that killed nine soldiers and seriously injured 14 others during a shooting exercise on Friday.”See .

- Robot Cannon Kills 9, Wounds 14 (UPDATE)

Information scientists have announced an agreement on a “concept bank” programmers could use to build an Internet facility called the Open Ontology Repository (OOR).The OOR would comprise diverse collections of concepts (ontologies) such as dictionaries, compendiums of medical terminology, and classifications of products, that could be stored, retrieved, and connected to various bodies of information. OOR users, tasked with creating a computer program for manufacturing machines, for example, would be able to search multiple computer languages and formats for unambiguous words and action commands. (Source: http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/wordlogic-bank-help-build-thinking-machines-16567.html)

- Word/Logic Bank to Help Build ‘Thinking’ Machines

A group of MPs is seeking to give women in Northern Ireland the same abortion rights as in England, Wales and Scotland.

- MPs pushing abortion rights in NI

As prices rise for fossil fuels and worries grow about their contribution to global warming, solar thermal plants are being viewed as a renewable power source with huge potential.(Isaac Brekke/The New York Times)The technology involves covering acres of desert with mirrors that focus intense sunlight on a fluid, heating it enough to make steam. The steam turns a turbine and generates electricity. Some experts say that solar thermal plants could meet most of the galloping growth in power demand in Phoenix, Las Vegas and the rest of the southwestern United States. (Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/06/business/06solar.html?_r=1&ref=science&oref=slogin)

- Turning Glare Into Watts

University of Sheffield Professor Noel Sharkey is concerned that we are beginning to see the first steps towards an international robot arms race. He warns that it may not be long before robots become a standard terrorist weapon to replace the suicide bomber. (Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/02/080226213451.htm)

- Killer Military Robots Pose Latest Threat To Humanity, Robotics Expert Warns

Reuters - At least 19 people were killed and 25 others were wounded when a suicide bomber blew up his car in a market just outside Iraq’s western city of Falluja on Tuesday, police said.

- Car bomb near Iraq's Falluja kills 19: police
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Rising energy costs drove up U.S. producer prices last month, while the trade deficit unexpectedly narrowed in June on stronger exports, according to reports on Tuesday suggesting the Federal Reserve will remain cautious about cutting interest rates.

- Inflation gauge ticks up as trade gap narrows

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To get kids thinking . (The Sacramento Bee)Fleeting inspiration, elusive bits of knowledge, information and insight gained through the years — those are things that go into books for young people written by the one-named author Avi. One of the images by Peter Catalanotto that illustrate Avi’s “The Fighting Ground,” about a 13-year-old boy involved in a 1778 Revolutionary War battle. Says Avi: “It’s a hard story, and I made it as .

Casualty departments are still failing to treat people quickly enough, according to the latest figures.

- Patients have longer waits at A&E

Moving a step closer to making cells from scratch, a team at the J. Craig Venter Institute took all of the genes from one species of bacteria, Mycoplasma mycoides, and transferred them into another, Mycoplasma capricolum. The result: The genes fr.

- Venter Takes Step Toward Synthetic Cells

Rockefeller University researchers are using the heat shock response, an ancient mechanism that protects cells from dangerously high temperatures, to introduce foreign genes, called transgenes, into an organism and control when and where these transgenes are expressed. (Source: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080124135504.htm)

- New Method Exploits Ancient Mechanism To Switch Genes On And Off At Will

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Jordin Sparks ruled the “American Idol” finale, making the most of a lame final song and even crying at the end, giving her a serious leg up on a downbeat Blake Lewis.

- Recap: Jordin Scores Big With Teary Performance; Blake Makes Some Bad Calls

The papers are full of speculation about the next step in the hunt for missing four-year-old Madeleine McCann.

- Papers focus on Madeleine inquiry