American telecommunications company Verizon has successfully completed the world's first field trial of an advanced fiber-optic transmission technology known as XG-PON2 and capable of delivering a 10 Gbps (gigabits per second) broadband connection both downstream and upstream.
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A state scientist says Indonesia's most volatile volcano has started to erupt, spewing plumes of hot ash and rocks high into the air.
Subandriyo, chief vulcanologist in the area, said Mount Merapi (Mountain of Fire) started to erupt just before dusk Tuesday. It had rumbled and groaned...
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Thai students tour Marble temple in Bangkok, Thailand
A rescue staff walks in a flood-hit area in Chok Chai district, Nakhon Ratchasima province, 270 km (167.7 miles) northeast of Bangkok
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A shortage of pilots is forcing SriLankan Airlines, the national carrier, to periodically cancel flights.
The latest flight to be cancelled was UL 505, which was scheduled to leave for London at 2:00 AM today. On Friday, UL 571 to Rome was also cancelled. Last week, a...
Mozilla pays a bounty to security researchers who disclose vulnerabilities they find in an appropriate manner.
The latest security researcher to get paid is none other than Alex Miller, a 12-year-old boy. Miller found and reported a critical buffer overflow and memory corruption flaw in...
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Magnified 30 times, this is an image of a Hydropsyche angustipennis (caddisfly) larva head
Strelitzia reginae (bird of paradise) seed magnified 10 times.
Magnified 400 times, this is a 2-Photon fluorescence image of glial cells in the...
Sri Lanka announced Tuesday it would raise defence spending by six percent in 2011 -- broadly in line with annual hikes announced during the government's war with Tamil rebels.
The government allocated 215 billion rupees (1.92 billion dollars) for defence in calendar 2011, according to...
The U.S. is aiming to sell up to $5.8 billion of military-transport aircraft to India and secure other major deals when President Barack Obama travels to New Delhi early next month, a visit that will seek to alter the tenor of an increasingly tense commercial relationship between the world's...
Minister of External Affairs Prof. G.L. Peiris will make his first visit to the United Kingdom tomorrow, since the formation of the new UK Government , External Affairs Ministry told Daily Mirror online
Minister Peiris will hold discussions with William Hague, Dr. Liam Fox...
An Army Major and two accomplices were arrested yesterday for allegedly kidnapping a wealthy gold merchant and demanding a ransom of Rs. 50 million for his release. The same businessmen had been kidnapped earlier allegedly by the same group and was released after he...
Saudi agencies want total ban on Lankans
The Saudi Chamber of Commerce and Industry and the Kingdom’s National Recruitment Committee have asked their government to impose a total ban on recruitment of workers from Sri Lanka.
The decision was taken by the two bodies at...
Photographer Scott Olson is with the US Marines of India Battery, 3rd Battalion, 12th Marine Regiment who are responsible for securing the area near the Kajaki Dam on the Helmand River
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