Isernia, Italy (UPI) Nov 7, 2011 - Italian electric grid operator Enel Distribuzione says it has begun the installation of one of the first smart grids in Europe in a pilot project.
Tokyo (AFP) Nov 7, 2011 - Japan's coastguard on Sunday arrested the captain of a Chinese fishing boat that allegedly intruded into Japanese territorial waters, a report said.
Tokyo (AFP) Nov 7, 2011 - Japan said Monday it had received no protest from Beijing after the arrest of a Chinese fishing boat captain deep inside Japanese waters, a year after relations plunged following another maritime incident.
Kuwait City (AFP) Nov 7, 2011 - The Kuwaiti defence minister has denied reports about plans to bolster US troops in the Gulf emirate after their withdrawal from Iraq by year's end, local media reported on Monday.
Stanley, Falkland Islands (UPI) Nov 7, 2011 - Britain's final go-ahead for a $400 million airport on St. Helena Island, the last exile home of defeated French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte, was greeted in the Falklands as a much-needed lifeline for the beleaguered British territory claimed by Argentina.
Washington (AFP) Nov 7, 2011 - The State Department's Office of Inspector General (OIG) is probing the department's handling of a pending decision on whether to grant a permit for a US-Canada oil pipeline, according to documents released Monday.
Washington (AFP) Nov 6, 2011 - Thousands of protesters rallied outside the White House on Sunday to press US President Barack Obama to scrap plans for a multi-billion-dollar oil pipeline stretching from Canada to Texas.
Washington (AFP) Nov 6, 2011 - The United States is the biggest economy in the world, but all it takes to put the lights out here is some snow, or wind, or rain, or squirrels, even a prison break-out.
Riyadh (AFP) Nov 5, 2011 - King Abdullah on Saturday named his half-brother Prince Salman, who is governor of Riyadh, as Saudi Arabia's defence minister to succeed the late Crown Prince Sultan, state television Al-Ekhbariya said.
Blackpool, England (UPI) Nov 4, 2011 - Shale gas producer Cuadrilla Resources said its hydraulic fracturing process likely triggered two small earthquakes in northern England this year.
Berkeley CA (SPX) Nov 04, 2011 - The first genome-scale model for predicting the functions of genes and gene networks in a grass species has been developed by an international team of researches that includes scientists with the U.
Washington (UPI) Nov 4, 2011 - A group of retired U.S. military officials urged the United States to reduce oil use by 30 percent over the next decade for the sake of national security.
Hanoi (AFP) Nov 4, 2011 - Territorial tensions in the South China Sea could explode into full-scale conflicts unless quarrelling neighbours abide by international law, a Vietnamese diplomat warned on Friday.
Beirut, Lebanon (UPI) Nov 3, 2011 - Now that Iraq has shunned a post-withdrawal U.S. military presence, U.S. President Barack Obama's Plan B for a beefed-up American force elsewhere in the Persian Gulf underlined the extent to which Iran is coming out on top in the region.
The Hague (AFP) Nov 3, 2011 - Dutch-Belgian energy market provider APX-Endex launched a biomass exchange Thursday specialising in trading wood pellets as a source of renewable energy, a venture it said was a world first.
Washington DC (SPX) Nov 02, 2011 - Hydrogen offers great promise as a renewable energy source. It's staggeringly plentiful (the most abundant element in the Universe) and environmentally friendly (used in a fuel cell, it gives off on
