Around the World, With 13 Fuel Tanks and a Single Seat
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The GlobalFlyer, a single-seat airplane designed to make the first solo, nonstop, unrefueled flight around the world, is a feat of engineering.
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After a journey of seven years and more than 2bn miles, a Â£1.7bn US-European mission is preparing for the unknown. Cassini, a Nasa spacecraft the size of a truck, carrying Huygens, a European robot not much
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Upcoming events around the world.
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HOUSTON  War in Iraq. Instability in Venezuela. Civil unrest in Nigeria. Governmental wranglings in Russia. With so much uncertainty in so many of the world&#39;s leading oil-producing ...
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A 27-ton fuel tank is making a five-day voyage across the Gulf of Mexico to NASA&#39;s Kennedy Space Center as the space agency prepares for its first space shuttle flight since the Columbia disaster in 2003.
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Last year was one of the safest in more than four decades to fly, with just 136 serious accidents occurring around the world, the Aircraft Crashes Record Office (ACRO) said on Tuesday.
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We've nearly used 1.5 trillion gallons. After that, there are only 1.5 trillion left.
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Warren E. Buffett wnats to set up an international nuclear fuel bank from which countries could buy reactor fuel instead of making it on their own.
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Across the globe, huge demand for biofuels has created tension between using land to produce fuel and using it for food.
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A tanker carrying more than 19 million gallons of fuel oil grounded off New York City on Thursday but was not leaking, the U.S. Coast Guard said.
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Temporary resumption of fuel and food shipments to territory comes amid warnings of humanitarian crisis
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Cargo planes touched down with aid Wednesday, bearing everything from lentils to water purifiers to help survivors facing the threat of epidemic after this week's quake-tsunami catastrophe. The first Indonesian military teams reached the devastated west coast of Sumatra island, finding thousands of bodies and increasing the death toll across 12 nations to nearly 77,000.
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Europe, Japan, US, and developing nations are divided over how to handle greenhouse-gas emissions.
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About 11,000 gallons of rocket fuel spilled during fueling of a Lockheed Martin Atlas 2 rocket on Saturday, forcing a one-day delay in the launch of the rocket carrying a classified
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World tourism broke all records in 2006 despite fears over terrorism, bird flu and rising oil prices, the United Nations tourism watchdog reported Monday. A total of 842 million international tourist arrivals were recorded last year, an increase of 4.5 percent, the Madrid-based World Tourism Organization said, citing preliminary data.
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A 27-ton fuel tank is making a five-day voyage across the Gulf of Mexico to NASA's Kennedy Space Center as the space agency prepares for its first shuttle flight since the Columbia disaster in 2003.
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The network operates nearly 14,000 trains a day, carrying more than 13 million passengers, but has about 300 accidents a year. Railway Minister Laloo Prasad Yadav told parliament he would visit the site to determine the cause of the accident.