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Australian Frogs Change Their Tune to Find Love
October 08, 2009By Stuart Cohen Australia's frogs are having trouble finding love. Traffic noise and other sounds of city life, such as air conditioners and construction noise, are drowning out the mating calls of male frogs in urban areas, leading to a sharp drop...
Interview with Herta Mueller, 2009 Nobel prize for literature
October 08, 2009Romanian-born author Herta Mueller today won the 2009 Nobel prize for literature. Mueller, whose parents were members of the German-speaking minority in Romania, spoke to RFE/RL's Romania-Moldova Service in 1999 about growing up under Ceausescu and how...
Tsunami advisory for the state of Hawaii after earthquake
October 07, 2009The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center issued a tsunami advisory for the state of Hawaii effective at 12:17 pm HST: “An earthquake has occurred with these preliminary parameters (origin time - 1203 pm HST 07 Oct 2009; coordinates - 13.0 south 1...
7.8 earthquake struck off the Santa Cruz Islands
October 07, 2009A magnitude-7.8 earthquake struck off the Santa Cruz Islands in the Pacific Ocean today, triggering a tsunami warning for several nations in the region. The quake hit at 9:03 a.m. local time at a depth of 35 kilometers (22 miles), about 260 kilometers...
Valeriu Zubco - Moldova's new Prosecutor General
October 07, 2009Valeriu Zubco was elected with 53 pro votes of the Alliance for European Integration in the Parliament sitting on October 7 as Prosecutor General. The PCRM doubted the Valeriu Zubco’s professionalism for being nominated as Prosecutor General. ...
RFE/RL to Launch Program to Abkhazia and South Ossetia in Russian
October 07, 2009Next month, RFE/RL will launch a news program in Russian to the Georgian regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. The new 60-minute daily radio broadcast, called Ekho Kavkaza (Echo of the Caucasus), will focus on local and international news and current...
3 scientists share Nobel Chemistry Prize for DNA work
October 07, 2009By Tom Rivers Two Americans and one Israeli share this year's Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work showing how the DNA code is translated into life itself. Americans Venkatraman Ramakrishnan and Thomas Steitz and Ada Yonath from Israel were all...
Moldovan police officer charged of torturing a minor
October 07, 2009The Moldovan prosecutor office has completed investigation into the criminal case of a Chisinau cop being accused of a particularly zealous using of torture and other forms of inhuman treatment of persons detained after the April 7-8 events in Moldova...
2010 Watch List: 93 cultural heritage sites in 47 countries
October 06, 2009The World Monuments Fund has released a list of 93 cultural heritage sites in 47 countries that it says are threatened by human neglect, vandalism or natural disasters. The list released Tuesday by the New York-based non-profit includes the ancient city...
3 US Based Scientists Capture the 2009 Nobel Prize in Medicine
October 05, 2009By Tom Rivers Three U.S. based scientists have won the 2009 Nobel prize for medicine for their discovery into how chromosomes are copied and protected. The work casts important light on cancer and the aging process. Elizabeth Blackburn from the University...