Science & Technology
Auroch were huge wild cattle that once roamed wild across Europe. But now scientists in Poland have unveiled plans to attempt to bring back to life the giant beasts, which were hunted to extinction nearly 400 years ago
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Insults, threats, humiliations - “cyber-bullying” amounts to terrorising people on the internet. With the help of e-mails, instant messenging or social networks such as Facebook, victims are harassed and tormented. Often those affected do not even know who is behind the attacks.
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The internet offers new opportunities to millions of people, but it also has its dark sides. As the digital becomes part of daily life, experts are increasingly worried that internet users' lack of awareness about cyber safety means they are rapidly becoming their own worst online enemies.
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Today's Safer Internet Day aims to educate children as young as five to take care when online. Young people are particularly vulnerable to cyber-predators, as a recent case in Bulgaria proved.
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France has agreed to sell Russia a hi-tech warship and says it is considering a request to buy three more. The deal - the first of its kind between a NATO country and Russia - has upset Moscow's neighbours, who fear that a better-equipped Russian army will mean less security for them.
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Belarusian authorities have ordered that all internet use be monitored from 1 July, in a move critics are describing as a further blow to the freedom of speech and information.
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The EU gave a boost to its much-delayed Galileo satellite navigation system today as contracts worth a total of over 1 billion euros were awarded to enable the system to be up and running by 2014. Critics, however, are raising concerns over the spiralling cost.
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The discovery in southern Poland of 400 million-year-old footprints made by some of the first creatures to walk on land is forcing scientists to re-examine their previous assumptions about evolution.
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The attempted Christmas Day plane bombing over Detroit has focused the world's attention on boosting air security. Many countries are planning to introduce controversial full body scans, and experts meet tomorrow to discuss whether the EU as a whole should follow suit.
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