Extended delay for European lab
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Nasa says work on the Atlantis shuttle's fuel sensors will push back the launch of the Columbus lab to perhaps  February.
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WASHINGTON â Hearings on the first application in 30 years for an operating license for a nuclear reactor have been delayed indefinitely, because the applicant is not ready, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Wednesday.
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European aircraft manufacturer Airbus has delayed announcing details of its long-awaited rescue plan, pointing to renewed strains between Germany and France over where cuts will fall.
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Thousands of people travelling for New Year's Eve celebrations face delays after engineering work is extended.
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A solution to Kosovo's final status  will be delayed until early spring, the European Union's  enlargement chief was quoted as saying on Thursday, a day after  Serbia set a crucial presidential election for January 20.
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The US space agency said it has once again delayed the launch of the US space shuttle Atlantis that is to carry a European space laboratory to the International Space Station.
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The launch of a Nasa mission to study the phenomenon known as the Northern Lights is delayed due to high winds.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.  -- After two months of delay, shuttle Atlantis blasted off Thursday with Europe's gift to the international space station, a $2 billion science lab named Columbus that spent years waiting to set sail.
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(InfoWorld) - The European Parliament has delayed a vote on how to react to the U.S.' growing appetite for personal information about European citizens, in order to intensify its opposition. The delay follows a debate Wednesday evening in which the two other European Union lawmaking institutions both hardened their positions on the sensitive issue. The groups are drawing up a strategy for how toÂ renegotiate an agreement, over which they have been divided, with the U.S. over theÂ transfer of European air passenger data. The Parliament opposed the original agreement reached in 2004 to share the data -- 34 facts about every European entering or transiting through America by air, including credit card details and information about how and where a plane ticket was purchased. Even though the European Commission -- the E.U.'s executive branch -- and national governments in the 27 E.U. countries support strict European data protection laws, they negotiated an exemption from the rules in order to allow the U.S. to better protect itself from potential terrorist attacks. The European Parliament took the Commission and the Council of Ministers to the European Court of Justice over the passenger data agreement and forced a re-drafting of the law late last year. This agreement expires at the end of July and the E.U. will soon have to renegotiate the deal. While the Parliament is unlikely now to call for the complete scrapping of the agreement, it may well demand a shorter list of categories of data to be handed over. It may also demand that only U.S. immigration officials be granted access to the information. In a debate at the European Parliament Wednesday, Germanyâs deputy foreign minister, Guenther Gloser warned that negotiations with the U.S. will be âtortuous.â Germany holds the six-month rotating presidency of the 27-nation bloc. The European commissioner in charge of justice and home affairs issues, Franco Frattini told Parliamentarians that he has demanded an explanation from his counterparts in Washington D.C. about an apparent misuse of Europeansâ data that flouts both the original passenger rights' agreement as well as its replacement agreed last year. Frattini's concerns focus on the U.S. Automated Targeting System, which has been assessing millions of people since 2002. Some members of the U.S. Congress and privacy advocates believe the program is even illegal under the more lax U.S. data protection laws. "The right to privacy for me is nonnegotiable. It has to be respected," Frattini told the parliamentarians. Frattini's and Gloserâs speeches took many members of the Parliament by surprise, according to one Parliament official actively involved in civil liberties issues. "The MEPs were due to vote on an agreed position regarding the new round of negotiations with the U.S. today, but they have agreed to postpone the vote until the next plenary session in Strasbourg," she said, asking not to be named. The next plenary session is Feb. 12-15. "There is a mixture of joy and skepticism among the parliamentarians after hearing the strong language expressed in defense of Europeans rights to privacy," she said. "It would seem that the Commission and the Council of Ministers are both coming around to the Parliament's way of thinking on this urgent issue." The text is likely to take an even stronger line as a result of the delay, she said. The U.S. has threatened to fine airlines that fail to hand over the records, and to strip them of their landing rights in the U.S. Without any agreement, the airlines will be put in a difficult position: punished if they don't hand over the information, or sued for breaching European data protection laws if they do.
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The crisis over the composition of the European Commission that is replacing Romano Prodi's line-up has been put off to another date, probably to November 15 when the European Parliament is next scheduled to be ...
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Can't make it to Europe for the  current tour by the Rolling Stones?
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Plans to expand a Nato training mission in Iraq are delayed after France and Belgium voice last-minute doubts.
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European aerospace group EADS has postponed until next week a board meeting on the future of the Airbus A350 XWB passenger jet programme, key shareholder Lagardere said.
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BRUSSELS, Nov 23 (IPS) - The new European Commission gets going this week  after a three-week delay but the start was clouded by a debate  over the integrity of some of its commissioners.
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STRASBOURG A backlash against an Italian commissioner with conservative social views steered the European Union into crisis Wednesday when JosÃ© Manuel Barroso was forced to delay the vote on the new European Commission.
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European Union regulators on Monday  extended the deadline for their inquiry into Web search leader  Google's proposed purchase of rival DoubleClick to November 13  from October 26.
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NASA&#39;s attempt to break world speed records with its X-43A scramjet test plane was postponed on Monday due to concerns over faulty instrumentation.