Skip to main content

Home/ J1 News/ Group items tagged BBC

Rss Feed Group items tagged

Emily M

BBC News - IMF warns on funding levels if crisis worsens - 0 views

  •  
    The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has warned it may not have enough money to bail out larger eurozone countries if the debt crisis were to spread.
Emily M

BBC News - Yemen troops die after Zinjibar 'friendly fire bombing' - 0 views

  •  
    About 30 soldiers have been killed after an air strike by Yemeni warplanes in the south of the country, local officials and medics said, though the government has denied the reports.
Emily M

BBC News - Arctic ozone loss at record level - 1 views

  •  
    Ozone loss over the Arctic this year was so severe that for the first time it could be called an "ozone hole" like the Antarctic one, scientists report.
Emily M

BBC News - Sarah Palin says she will not run for president in 2012 - 0 views

  •  
    Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has declared she will not run for the White House next year.
Emily M

BBC News - Comet's water 'like that of Earth's oceans' - 0 views

  •  
    Comet Hartley 2 contains water more like that found on Earth than all the comets we know about, researchers say.
Emily M

BBC News - Nasa unveils Space Launch System vision - 0 views

    • Emily M
       
      NASA has a design for a new rocket that will have to ability to take humans to asteroids and Mars. Currently, it is planned to be the most powerful launcher ever built. The estimate cost of the project will be around $18 billion. The project is due to have its fist launch by the end of 2017. 
    • Emily M
       
      I see this story as being newsworthy because for a bit it seemed as space exploration for the United States had come to a halt after the last shuttle, Atlantis, took off in early July 2011. 
    • Emily M
       
      As I see it, this article has a certain importance and impact to the U.S. Although it will take some time for this new rocket to be released, it still gives us a horizon to look towards in the topic of space exploration.   
  •  
    The design for a huge rocket to take humans to asteroids and Mars has been unveiled by the US space agency Nasa.
Emily M

BBC News - Fracking tests near Blackpool 'likely cause' of tremors - 0 views

  •  
    It is "highly probable" that shale gas test drilling triggered earth tremors in Lancashire, a study has found.
Emily M

BBC News - Germany warns Greece over eurozone rescue deal - 0 views

  •  
    The eurozone plan to save Greece from bankruptcy is not up for renegotiation, Germany has warned, ahead of emergency talks with Greece and France.
Tom McHale

BBC News - Steubenville Ohio school footballers guilty of rape - 0 views

  •  
    "Two high school football players in the US state of Ohio have been found guilty of raping a 16-year-old girl. The case came to light via text messages, online videos and social media posts made the morning after, attracting nationwide attention. The two were sentenced to at least a year in juvenile detention and the judge said both might stay in detention until they reach 21. The case was thrust into the national spotlight after attention by bloggers and the hacker activist group Anonymous. Some claimed that the community - including local police - had sought to cover up the crime to protect the accused, who were members of a celebrated high school football team."
Chloe M

BBC News - Rezwan Ferdaus held over Pentagon and Capitol bomb plot - 0 views

  •  
    A 26-year-old US citizen has been arrested for allegedly plotting to fly explosive-packed, remote controlled planes into the Pentagon and the US Capitol in Washington DC.
Chloe M

BBC News - Michael Jackson doctor 'did not tell about propofol' - 1 views

  •  
    A jury has heard that Michael Jackson's doctor Conrad Murray failed to tell paramedics he had been giving the star propofol as they tried to revive him.
Emily M

BBC News - Basque group Eta says armed campaign is over - 0 views

  •  
    The Basque separatist group Eta says it has called a "definitive cessation" to its campaign of bombings and shootings.
1 - 13 of 13
Showing 20 items per page