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On 8 November 2010, the Chinese government announced the success of all of Chang'e 2's mission objectives, [27] and published lunar surface images with a resolution of up to 1.3 metres (4.3 ft). [28] In February 2012, the Chinese government released a complete lunar map constructed from Chang'e 2's data, claiming that it was the highest ...
US President Barack Obama will propose a $3.8 trillion budget for fiscal 2011 that foresees the deficit hitting a record $1.6 trillion in the current fiscal year but falling to about $700 billion by 2013. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton presses China to back Iran sanctions for its nuclear program.
Russia and Ukraine accuse each other of espionage, while the latter detains one Russian and expels four others. (RIA Novosti) A hearing whether to repeal the Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy is held in the United States allowing the possibility of openly gay people to become active-duty members of the United States armed forces.
Law and crime Police in Denmark shoot a 28-year-old male Somali after he breaks into the Viby J home of Kurt Westergaard, the cartoonist at the centre of the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy in 2005, and threatens his family with an axe. (BBC) (The Times) (Sky News) Politics and elections A quarter of voters in Iceland sign a petition asking President Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson to ...
A period 2 element is one of the chemical elements in the second row (or period) of the periodic table of the chemical elements.The periodic table is laid out in rows to illustrate recurring (periodic) trends in the chemical behavior of the elements as their atomic number increases; a new row is started when chemical behavior begins to repeat, creating columns of elements with similar properties.
Assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh: . Police in Dubai order an arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the head of Mossad in connection with the assassination of Mahmoud al-Mabhouh.
International relations Lebanon requests an Interpol arrest warrant for Ghassan al-Jidd, a former General in the Lebanese Army who allegedly spied for the Mossad. (Jerusalem Post) Law and crime At least 17 migrants are kidnapped by suspected human traffickers in Tijuana, Baja California, in northwestern Mexico. (Al Jazeera) (RFI) Price riots continue in Mozambique, leaving a further four ...
The Government of Kenya announces that 2.3 million bags of maize are unfit for human consumption due to contamination with high levels of aflatoxins, which have killed at least one child. (BBC) 15 people die after a minibus drives off a cliff in the Philippines .