Saturday, November 12th, 2011
Turkish embassies have been granted the power to approve the transfer of Turkish property titles, according to a recently published regulation. The new authority, agreed between the Foreign Ministry and the General Directorate of Land Registry and Cadastre, will be launched in eight countries including Germany, the United Kingdom and Russia. Read More
Saturday, November 12th, 2011
All-electric cars on sale in the UK have a range not much greater than 100 miles, which means long journeys require careful planning. Currently, however, there is no centralised official record of where all the charge points are. One website, next greencar, has mapped at least 1,700 charging points in more than 700 locations in the UK.
Saturday, November 12th, 2011
The South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) summit has decided to set the timeline for finalising a framework for rail and sea connectivity. The “Addu Declaration” issued at the end of the Seventeenth SAARC summit here on Friday shed some of the despondency reflected in the previous summit held in Thimphu. While the Thimphu Declaration had disappointed
Friday, November 11th, 2011
Today’s geographic information system, or GIS, technology allows us to map the visible city — streets, sidewalks, buildings — that we see when we walk around. With a pinch and a zoom, you can see almost any corner of every major American city. “Once upon a time, this was magnificent,” Hillier said. “Now, it’s what you
Friday, November 11th, 2011
India may become Russia`s key partner in commercial use of the global navigation satellite system, GLONASS, Russia`s Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Ivanov said at a Russian-India trade and investment forum in Moscow. All consumers in Russia and abroad can gain access to GLONASS on a free-of-charge-basis. Read More
Friday, November 11th, 2011
Maps may not sound sexy. But Saab’s real-time 3D maps will nonetheless make your eyes pop. FoxNews.com can exclusively reveal this never-before-seen military technology, which can create an incredibly detailed and accurate 3D map of a battlefield and — with the help of footage from a nearby drone as an overlay — provide real-time information
Friday, November 11th, 2011
Emissions of many pollutants from transport fell in 2009. But this reduction may only be a temporary effect of the economic downturn, according to the latest annual report on transport emissions from the European Environment Agency (EEA). The Transport and Environment Reporting Mechanism (TERM) explores the environmental impact of transport. For the first time, the
Friday, November 11th, 2011
In the year that severe flooding and landslides claimed over 800 lives in Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil has joined the international space organisation that makes timely satellite data available to rescue authorities during disasters. Read More
Thursday, November 10th, 2011
In the Atlantic Ocean, off the Canary Island of El Hierro, 20-meter high jets of water are being spat into the air as the sea boils amid the stench of sulfur. The undersea volcano, which is set to create new land, is growing ever-nearer to the surface — but is the existing island at risk from
Thursday, November 10th, 2011
The Caspian Sea, the largest land-locked enclosed body of water on Earth, has been an exclusive economic zone of Russia and Iran for nearly 300 years. Originally, the status of the Caspian Sea was enshrined in the Treaty of Rasht signed by the Russian Empire and Persia in 1729. It was then specified by a
