Volcano Island ESA Picture and Animation - ESA Bilder Vulkan Island

15 April 2010
This image, acquired today by ESA's Envisat satellite, shows the vast cloud of volcanic ash sweeping across the UK from the eruption in Iceland, more than 1000 km away.  more..

ESA: Animation of the ash plume from Icelandic eruption

Volcano Eyjafjalla Eruption Island - Vulkan Eyjafjalla Ausbruch -

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Earthquake China - Erdbeben China

Seismic Analysis

Economic Times: 400 killed, 10,000 injured in China Earthquake

BBC: 'Hundreds buried' by China quake 

Spiegel Online Germany:Eartquake China

AP: Israel tells its citizens to get out of Sinai now

By MARK LAVIE (AP) – 2 hours ago

JERUSALEM — Israel issued an "urgent" warning Tuesday to its citizens to leave Egypt's Sinai Peninsula immediately citing "concrete evidence of an expected terrorist attempt to kidnap Israelis in Sinai."

The statement from the Israeli prime minister's anti-terror office took the unusual step of calling on families of Israelis visiting the Sinai to establish contact with them.  more...

The 2010 Pulitzer Prize Winners Investigative Reporting - Purlitzer Preis für investigative Reportagen

The 2010 Pulitzer Prize Winners

Investigated Reporting

For a distinguished example of investigative reporting by an individual or team, presented as a single article or series, in print or online or both, Ten thousand dollars ($10,000).Awarded to Sheri Fink of ProPublica, in collaboration with The New York Times Magazine, for a story that chronicles the urgent life-and-death decisions made by one hospital’s exhausted doctors when they were cut off by the floodwaters of Hurricane Katrina. (Moved by the Board from the Feature Writing category.)

And

Awarded to Barbara Laker and Wendy Rudermanof the Philadelphia Daily News for their resourceful reporting that exposed a rogue police narcotics squad, resulting in an FBI probe and the review of hundreds of criminal cases tainted by the scandal.

Finalists:

Also nominated as finalists in this category were: Michael Moss and members of The New York Times Staff for relentless reporting on contaminated hamburger and other food safety issues that, in print and online, spotlighted defects in federal regulation and led to improved practices (Moved by the Board to the Explanatory Reporting category), and Michael Braga, Chris Davis and Matthew Doig of the Sarasota Herald-Tribune for their in-depth reporting and computer analysis that unraveled $10 billion in suspicious Florida real estate transactions, triggering local and state efforts to curb abuses.

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Telegraph UK: Richard Dawkins planning to have Pope Benedict arrested over 'crimes against humanity'

Richard Dawkins, the atheist campaigner and evolutionist, is planning to have Pope Benedict XVI arrested when he comes to Britain later this year for "crimes against humanity".

Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens, the atheist author, are seeking advice from human rights lawyers as to what legal action can be taken against the pope over his alleged cover-up of sexual abuse in the Catholic church.
It emerged this weekend that in 1985 when he was in charge of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, which deals with sex abuse cases, the pope signed a letter arguing that the “good of the universal church” should be considered against the defrocking of an American priest who committed sex offences against two boys.  more...

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Saubere Kleidung Pressemeldung: Lidl betreibt Schönfärberei – Klage gegen die Täuschung von Verbraucher/innen

Die Verbraucherzentrale Hamburg hat eine Klage beim Landgericht Heilbronn gegen Lidl wegen unlauteren Wettbewerbs eingereicht. Sie wird dabei von der Kampagne für Saubere Kleidung (CCC) und dem European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR) unterstützt. Das Bündnis fordert Lidl auf, Verbraucher nicht mit „Social Washing“ über die unmenschlichen Arbeitsbedingungen bei ihren Zulieferern zu täuschen. Eine von der Kampagne für Saubere
Kleidung und ECCHR in Auftrag gegebene Untersuchung belegt schwerwiegende Arbeitsrechtsverletzungen bei vier Lidl
Zulieferbetrieben in Bangladesch. mehr auf pdf-datei...

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WikiLeaks has released a classified US military video depicting the indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad -- including two Reuters news staff

WIKILEAK
WikiLeaks has released a classified US military video depicting the indiscriminate slaying of over a dozen people in the Iraqi suburb of New Baghdad -- including two Reuters news staff. Reuters has been trying to obtain the video through the Freedom of Information Act, without success since the time of the attack. The video, shot from an Apache helicopter gun-site, clearly shows the unprovoked slaying of a wounded Reuters employee and his rescuers. Two young children involved in the rescue were also seriously wounded. For further information please visit the special project website www.collateralmurder.com




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Toll Mounts From Quake in Mexico-U.S. Border Region - Erdbeben Mexico und US-Grenze

NYTIMES:
By JENNIFER STEINHAUER
Published: April 5, 2010

LOS ANGELES — A powerful earthquake southeast of Tijuana shook Southern California on Sunday afternoon, damaging buildings in northern Mexico and border cities in California and Arizona and rattling a seismically sophisticated population as far north as Los Angeles and Las Vegas. Chandeliers swayed, homes shook and the earth seemed to slide under the feet of people emerging from Easter church services for well over a minute. more....

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NASA: Solar Cycle Prediction - Sonnen Zyklus Vorhersage

A solar flare observed in Dec. 2006 by NOAA's GOES-13 satellite

May 29, 2009: An international panel of experts led by NOAA and sponsored by NASA has released a new prediction for the next solar cycle. Solar Cycle 24 will peak, they say, in May 2013 with a below-average number of sunspots.

"If our prediction is correct, Solar Cycle 24 will have a peak sunspot number of 90, the lowest of any cycle since 1928 when Solar Cycle 16 peaked at 78," says panel chairman Doug Biesecker of the NOAA Space Weather Prediction Center.

 "Even a below-average cycle is capable of producing severe space weather," points out Biesecker. "The great geomagnetic storm of 1859, for instance, occurred during a solar cycle of about the same size we’re predicting for 2013."  more...

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Sonnensturm - Polarlichter (Polarlights)