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• Cutest captain: Sea lion caught in fishing gear hops on boat

  15-01-2017 20:48
  
  NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. (AP) — Officials say a juvenile sea lion was so happy to be rescued after getting hooked by fishing gear off Southern California, it jumped into a Coast Guard boat.
  
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• Britain's Prince Charles co-authors a book on climate change

  15-01-2017 20:05
  
  LONDON (AP) — Penguin Books says Prince Charles has co-authored a book on climate change together with an environmentalist and a Cambridge scientist.
  
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• Prince Charles co-authors Ladybird climate change book

  15-01-2017 19:22 via bbc.co.uk
  
  Prince Charles co-authors a book for adults in the style of the well-known children's series.
  
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• Typing in 'the zone': Why the physical QWERTY keyboard still matters to some

  15-01-2017 17:00 via cbc.ca
  
  You've probably switched over to typing on your smartphone's touch screen, but don't discount the physical QWERTY keyboard as dead just yet. Here's why.
  
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• Syria fighting derails plans to fix damaged Damascus water source

  15-01-2017 16:33
  The Syrian army and allied militia clashed with rebels near Damascus on Sunday, threatening to disrupt planned repairs to a pumping station that supplies most of the capital's water, a war monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the army and the allied Lebanese militia Hezbollah had made some gains against rebels in the Wadi Barada area. Wadi Barada, a mountainous valley northwest of Damascus, has become a major battlefront in the Syrian war, and the damage to the facility has
  
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• How a small southern Alberta town became a drone hotspot

  15-01-2017 16:00 via cbc.ca
  
  If you have drones dropping off your mail in the future, you will have a small town in southern Alberta to thank.
  
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• Japan's Small Experimental Rocket Fails to Launch Tiny Satellite

  15-01-2017 14:19
  
  The first flight of a tiny experimental Japanese rocket, touted as the world's smallest booster designed to launch a satellite in orbit, failed Sunday (Jan. 15), Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency officials said. The three-stage rocket, called SS-520-4, was the size of a telephone pole and launched from Japan's Uchinoura Space Center at 8:33 a.m. Japan Time (6:33 p.m. EST or 2333 GMT on Saturday, Jan. 14), but a communications failure forced JAXA flight controllers to abort the ignition of the r
  
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• SpaceX launches 1st rocket since explosion in Florida

  15-01-2017 11:46 via cbc.ca
  
  A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from California on Saturday and placed a constellation of satellites in orbit, marking the company's first launch since a fireball engulfed a similar rocket on a Florida launch pad more than four months ago.
  
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• E-waste in East and Southeast Asia jumps 63 percent in 5 years

  15-01-2017 06:00
  
  (Terry Collins Assoc) Volumes of discarded electronics in East and Southeast Asia jumped almost two-thirds between 2010 and 2015, and e-waste generation is growing fast in both volume and per capita measures, new UN research shows.Driven by rising incomes and high demand for new gadgets and appliances, e-waste across all 12 countries and areas analyzed increased 63 percent on average and weighed 12.3 million tons, 2.4 times the weight of the Great Pyramid of Giza.
  
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• Japan space agency fails to launch mini rocket

  15-01-2017 05:25
  Japan's space agency said on Sunday it failed to launch a mini rocket carrying a satellite into space due to failure of the communications systems. The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) said in a statement it had fired the SS-520 rocket at 0833 JST on Sunday at its Uchinoura Space Centre in southern Japan. JAXA said it was unable to receive data from the rocket, which has fallen back to earth in a spot it had expected.
  
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