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Let there be light! Futuristic street lamps tap into the oldest energy source: the sun
by Jamie Doward
Sunday, 20 March 2016

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Scotia Monopole streetlights at the Light + Building trade show in Frankfurt, Germany.

Not far from the House of Commons, a stone’s throw from Westminster bridge, two streetlamps will soon be erected.

Paid for by Transport for London, these are no ordinary lights. According to their manufacturer, they could play a major role in tackling Britain’s energy crisis.

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Parent Category: Environment
Category: Water of life
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India's "Water Man" saves parched villages
20 March 2016
By Siddhartha Kumar

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World Water Day - water scarcity in India - © Siddhartha Kumar, dpa

Mandalwas, Rajasthan, India (dpa) - More than 15 years ago, farmers had given up on Mandalwas village in India's largest state of Rajasthan.

Wells had run dry, and without water for crops, farmers left to seek their livelihood elsewhere, and the land became mostly barren. But follow a dirt road along a deciduous forest near the village today, and it will take you to a feature that has transformed the area, and brought back the farmers. A reservoir 100 metres long is now the focal point of the settlement. People bathe in the reservoir, known as a johad, which is surrounded by an oasis of green farms where cattle graze.

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Category: Lucky day
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Spain's 'El Gordo' lottery sparks celebrations across Madrid
By CIARAN GILES and ARITZ PARRA
22 December 2016



MADRID (AP) -- Workers at a home for the elderly were among those celebrating Thursday in Madrid after all the tickets with the top prize-winning number in Spain's 2.3 billion-euro ($2.4 billion) Christmas lottery were sold in one city neighborhood.

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Nigerian parents reunite with 21 girls freed by Boko Haram
By OYEKANMI OLALEKAN
16 October 2016
 


ABUJA, Nigeria (AP) -- Joy, jubilation and dancing erupted Sunday when a group of Nigerian parents were reunited with 21 schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram 2 ½ years ago and freed in the first negotiated release organized by the government and the Islamic extremist group.

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Parent Category: Natural world
Category: Conservation and protection
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Paris climate agreement to take effect Nov. 4
By MICHAEL ASTOR
October 5, 2016



UNITED NATIONS (AP) -- The landmark Paris agreement on climate change will enter into force on Nov. 4, after a coalition of the world's largest polluters and small island nations threatened by rising seas pushed it past a key threshold on Wednesday.

President Barack Obama hailed the news as "a turning point for our planet," and U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called the agreement's strong international support a "testament for the urgency of action." Katharine Hayhoe, a climate scientist at Texas Tech, called it: "A moment of bright hope in the increasingly discouraging landscape of climate science."

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EU court nixes cosmetics tested on animals outside Europe
21 September 2016



Brussels (ANSA) - The European Court of Justice ruled Wednesday that cosmetics tested on animals outside the EU can legitimately be banned from being imported and sold within the Union.

An EU law forbidding the cosmetics industry from engaging in animal testing, as well as the sale of such cosmetics, went into effect March 11, 2013. The European Federation for Cosmetic Ingredients (EFfCI) had petitioned the British judge sitting on the EU court to decide whether three of its members - who tested their products on animals in labs outside the EU for sale in China and Japan - are liable to sanctions if they try to put those same products on the market in Britain.

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