The UK’s first four-seater electric car which can travel up to 70 miles without recharging has been unveiled. The 60mph vehicle, called the Citroen C1 ev’ie, will cost £16,850. The main body of the car, based on the Citroen C1, is being made in the Czech Republic in a joint venture by Toyota, Citroen and Peugeot. The Electric Car Corporation near Bedford aims to assemble 500 of them this year and hopes to make between 2,000 and 4,000 in 2010. The Citroen C1 ev’ie can be fully charged in six to seven hours from a domestic 13 amp socket for about 90p, according to the makers, the Electric Car Corporation (ECC). ECC chief executive David Martell said: ‘We believe this is the first serious alternative to a petrol or diesel car. ‘It drives just like a petrol car and has excellent capacity for use in any town or city in the UK.’ ‘Disappointed’ The cars are being assembled by a six-person team at Flitwick in Bedfordshire. The government recently unveiled plans in the budget to boost the industry, with subsidies of up to £5,000 on electric or plug-in hybrid vehicles but […]
Global declines in press freedom’ persisted last year, with setbacks highlighted in Israel, Italy, Taiwan, Hong Kong and elsewhere across the world, an annual survey said Friday. Media freedom campaigners don gags during a news conference in Hong Kong in April 2008. Media freedom campaigners don gags during a news conference in Hong Kong in April 2008. Freedom House, a nongovernmental organization that supports democracy and freedom of the media, said in its annual press freedom survey that ‘negative trends’ outweighed ‘positive movements in every region, particularly in the former Soviet Union, the Middle East and North Africa.’ ‘This marked the seventh straight year of overall deterioration. Improvements in a small number of countries — including bright spots in parts of South Asia and Africa — were overshadowed by a continued, relentless assault on independent news media by a wide range of actions, in both authoritarian states and countries with very open media environments.’ Israel — once the only country to be consistently rated free by the group in the Middle East and North Africa — was ranked as ‘partly free’ because of the Gaza conflict. The report cited ‘increased travel restrictions on both Israeli […]
Reporting from Islamabad - Dozens of militants attacked a Pakistani security outpost Saturday in an area near the Afghan border, leaving 18 people dead and adding another trouble spot to the nation’s extended list. At a time when Pakistan’s army has gone on the offensive against Pakistani Taliban fighters spreading out from the Swat Valley, the attack called into question how effective and long-lasting some of its efforts may be. Saturday’s attack in the northwestern Mohmand tribal region took place in an area where the military had claimed it had driven out the militants and dismantled various mini-states. The clash underscored the frustration Pakistan’s traditionally trained and organized army faces battling a fluid insurgency. It also raises questions about why the military hasn’t done more to change its orientation away from conventional warfare or at least build up its capacity to battle both kinds of foes. The army said in a statement Saturday that about 100 insurgents attacked the Spinal Tangi post before sunrise. ‘Sixteen militants were killed in retaliatory fire,’ the statement said, while two members of the security forces also died. The area is strategically important given its proximity to Peshawar, the […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – A new landmark study published today documents for the first time the process in which increased mercury emissions from human sources across the globe, and in particular from Asia, make their way into the North Pacific Ocean and as a result contaminate tuna and other seafood. Because much of the mercury that enters the North Pacific comes from the atmosphere, scientists have predicted an additional 50 percent increase in mercury in the Pacific by 2050 if mercury emission rates continue as projected. ‘This unprecedented USGS study is critically important to the health and safety of the American people and our wildlife because it helps us understand the relationship between atmospheric emissions of mercury and concentrations of mercury in marine fish, said Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar. ‘We have always known that mercury can pose a risk, now we need to reduce the mercury emissions so that we can reduce the ocean mercury levels. ‘This study gives us a better understanding of how dangerous levels of mercury move into our air, our water, and the food we eat, and shines new light on a major health threat to Americans and people all across the world, […]
WASHINGTON — Government health officials warned dieters and body builders yesterday to immediately stop using Hydroxycut, a widely sold supplement linked to cases of serious liver damage and at least one death. The Food and Drug Administration said the company that makes the dietary supplement has agreed to recall 14 Hydroxycut products, including such products as Max Drink Packets, Caffeine-Free Rapid Release Caplets, and Max Aqua Shed. Hydroxycut is advertised as made from natural ingredients. At least 9 million packages were sold last year, the FDA said. FDA officials said they have received 23 reports of liver problems, including the 2007 death of a 19-year-old boy living in the Southwest. Other patients experienced symptoms ranging from jaundice to liver failure. The patients were otherwise healthy and their symptoms began after they started using Hydroxycut. Iovate Health Sciences, which makes the diet pills, said it agreed to the recall out of ‘an abundance of caution.’
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