ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates (AP) - Covering nearly 300 football fields in a remote patch of desert, the Shams 1 solar project carries off plenty of symbolic significance for the United Arab Emirates. It will be the first, large-scale solar project in the oil-rich country when it is completed at the end of the year, and the largest of its kind in the Middle East.

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US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta has decided to lift the military's ban on women serving in combat, a move that could open thousands of frontline warfighting jobs to female service members, a senior US defence official said.

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By ARTHUR MWANSA MINISTER of Gender and Child Development Inonge Wina says she is happy that women are becoming the primary focus in the Common Market for Eastern and South Africa (COMESA) agriculture and climate change programmes.

Lost since 1979 ... about 80 per cent of summer sea-ice. Photo: Nick Cobbing Climate change has moved into a new and dangerous phase. The Arctic has been warming two to three times faster than the rest of the world.