Heraklion, Greece (AFP) March 2, 2011 - More than 2,000 Chinese fleeing unrest-torn Libya landed on the Greek island of Crete on Wednesday and hundreds of Filipinos were due to arrive later in the day, officials said.
Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UPI) Mar 2, 2011 - Heavy fighting around the Libyan port of Brega, a key oil export center, and growing political turmoil in the oil-rich Persian Gulf has sharpened global concerns that Middle East energy flows could face serious disruption if the crisis isn't contained.
Ithaca NY (SPX) Mar 01, 2011 - Gaining new insight into how efficiently the microbes in large bioreactors produce methane from brewery waste, Cornell scientists hope to use their new knowledge to shape these microbial communities
Moscow (AFP) March 1, 2011 - Gazprom won an auction Tuesday for a disputed stake held by BP's Russia venture in a massive Siberian field that the state-owned behemoth hopes to use to expand its energy exports to China.
University Park PA (SPX) Mar 01, 2011 - A team of scientists led by John Badding, a professor of chemistry at Penn State University, has developed the very first optical fiber made with a core of zinc selenide - a light-yellow compound th
Muscat, Oman (UPI) Mar 1, 2011 - The growing unrest in the Persian Gulf state of Oman, an oasis of stability for decades, and violent pro-democracy protests in Bahrain have heightened concerns the upheaval sweeping the Middle East may hit Saudi Arabia and Kuwait as well.
Houston TX (SPX) Mar 01, 2011 - Rice University scientists and their colleagues have found that when growing corn crops for ethanol, more means less. A new paper in the latest online edition of the American Chemical Society's jour
Tempe AZ (SPX) Mar 01, 2011 - A team of researchers from Arizona State University, Stanford University and Carnegie Institution for Science has found that converting large swaths of land to bioenergy crops could have a wide rang
Beijing (AFP) Feb 28, 2011 - China said Monday it had evacuated nearly 29,000 of its nationals from strife-torn Libya, where a popular uprising has left at least hundreds dead and triggered a mass exodus of foreigners.
Shanghai (AFP) Feb 28, 2011 - China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC), the nation's largest oil and gas producer, said Monday it has halted production in crisis-hit Libya and evacuated all its employees from the country.
Brussels (UPI) Feb 28, 2011 - Moammar Gadhafi's regime has lost control over most of Libya's oil and natural gas fields, European Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger said Monday in Brussels.
Valletta (AFP) Feb 28, 2011 - The UN refugee agency said a humanitarian emergency was underway as thousands fled Libya over the weekend in a mass exodus of foreigners from the strife-torn country by air, land and sea.
New Delhi (AFP) Feb 27, 2011 - Evacuees returning to Asia from Libya at the weekend told harrowing tales of chaos, violence and looting - and above all the relief of being safely back home.
London (AFP) Feb 27, 2011 - Hong Kong tycoon Li Ka-shing is set to clinch the acquisition of a power distribution business in a deal which would see him control half of Britain's electricity network, the Sunday Times reported.
Catania (AFP) Feb 27, 2011 - An Italian warship brought hundreds of foreign nationals from the Libyan port of Misurata to Sicily on Sunday as mass evacuations criss-crossed the Mediterranean and Asian workers returned home.
London (AFP) Feb 26, 2011 - Two British military transport aircraft swooped into desert camps in strife-torn Libya on Saturday and evacuated more than 150 stranded civilians, the defence minister said.
