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Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Friday on the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq Stock Market:
Published: October 31, 2014 at 12:32PM
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Google Flu Trends is getting an overhaul intended to improve its accuracy. The new ingredient? Traditional public health data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Published: October 31, 2014 at 11:27AM
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Glistening black sweat rolls down the spine of a beefy miner as he jackhammers bedrock along the shaft at the Chelyuskintsev coal mine in Donetsk, Ukraine’s eastern industrial heartland.
Published: October 31, 2014 at 08:05AM
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A collapse deep in a coal mine trapped 12 workers in Colombia and officials said Friday that any rescue will be difficult.
Published: October 31, 2014 at 07:34AM
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Twelve miners were killed in a flooded underground coal mine in northeastern Colombia, the world’s fourth-largest exporter of the mineral, local officials and rescue workers said on Friday.
Published: October 31, 2014 at 06:56AM
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The head of Burkina Faso’s armed forces took power on Friday after President Blaise Compaore resigned amid mass protests against an attempt to extend his 27-year rule.
Published: October 31, 2014 at 12:33AM
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The sunglint, also called a specular reflection, is the bright area near the 11 o’clock position at upper left. This mirror-like reflection, known as the specular point, is in the south of Titan’s largest sea, Kraken Mare, just north of an island archipelago separating two separate parts of the sea.
This particular sunglint was so bright as to saturate the detector of Cassini’s Visual and Infrared Mapping Spectrometer (VIMS) instrument, which captures the view. It is also the sunglint seen with the highest observation elevation so far — the sun was a full 40 degrees above the horizon as seen from Kraken Mare at this time — much higher than the 22 degrees seen in PIA18433. Because it was so bright, this glint was visible through the haze at much lower wavelengths than before, down to 1.3 microns.
The southern portion of Kraken Mare (the area surrounding the specular feature toward upper left) displays a “bathtub ring” — a bright margin of evaporate deposits — which indicates that the sea was larger at some point in the past and has become smaller due to evaporation. The deposits are material left behind after the methane & ethane liquid evaporates, somewhat akin to the saline crust on a salt flat.
The highest resolution data from this flyby — the area seen immediately to the right of the sunglint — cover the labyrinth of channels that connect Kraken Mare to another large sea, Ligeia Mare. Ligeia Mare itself is partially covered in its northern reaches by a bright, arrow-shaped complex of clouds. The clouds are made of liquid methane droplets, and could be actively refilling the lakes with rainfall.
The view was acquired during Cassini’s August 21, 2014, flyby of Titan, also referred to as “T104″ by the Cassini team.
The view contains real color information, although it is not the natural color the human eye would see. Here, red in the image corresponds to 5.0 microns, green to 2.0 microns, and blue to 1.3 microns. These wavelengths correspond to atmospheric windows through which Titan’s surface is visible. The unaided human eye would see nothing but haze, as in PIA12528.
The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. JPL, a division of the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, manages the mission for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The VIMS team is based at the University of Arizona in Tucson.
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Kazakh copper mining company Kazakhmys said on Friday it has completed a restructuring plan which splits the company in two, in an effort to improve the performance of the London-listed group.
Published: October 31, 2014 at 03:01AM
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The head of Africa’s continental body did not get to an Ebola-hit country until last week — months after alarm bells first rang and nearly 5,000 deaths later.
Published: October 31, 2014 at 01:33AM
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Indonesia’s mining-to-telecoms conglomerate Bakrie Group will negotiate with creditors to restructure part of its $8 billion (5.01 billion pounds) in debt rather than sell major assets, people familiar with its strategy say.
Published: October 30, 2014 at 09:31PM
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Burkina Faso’s President Blaise Compaore said on Thursday he would stay in power at the head of a transitional government until after elections, rejecting opposition calls for him to step down immediately following a day of violent protests.
Published: October 30, 2014 at 12:06AM
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Goldcorp Inc said on Thursday it expected “very strong” fourth-quarter production after its third-quarter earnings and output fell short of market expectations, pushing its stock down to a six-year low.
Published: October 30, 2014 at 10:53AM
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Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Thursday on the New York Stock Exchange and the Nasdaq Stock Market:
Published: October 29, 2014 at 12:30PM
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Mitch McConnell, the inscrutable Senate minority leader who hopes to be the next Senate majority leader, traveled rural Kentucky in his tough re-election campaign with a group of supporters including the singer Lee Greenwood.
Published: October 30, 2014 at 08:00PM
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NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory was launched into space fifteen years ago aboard the Space Shuttle Columbia. Since its deployment on July 23, 1999, Chandra has helped revolutionize our understanding of the universe through its unrivaled X-ray vision. Chandra, one of NASA’s current “Great Observatories,” along with the Hubble Space Telescope and Spitzer Space Telescope, is specially designed to detect X-ray emission from hot and energetic regions of the universe.
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Zambia’s economic policies remain unchanged after the death of President Michael Sata, and there is no need for the market to panic, the finance ministry of Africa’s second-biggest copper producer said on Thursday.
Published: October 30, 2014 at 06:50AM
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There are indications that Zambia may be backing away from plans to impose a 20 percent royalty rate on open pit mining in the country, a top executive with Barrick Gold Corp said on Thursday.
Published: October 30, 2014 at 06:49AM
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