At the San Diego California Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, opponents of recently-passed Proposition 8, which bans same-sex marriage in California, gathered on Sunday for a peaceful demonstration.
The church did not have services at the time. Some San Diego police officers were deployed, and a church security guard also kept an eye on the premises to ensure that employees of the church were not harassed.
London, Nov 10 : A team of scientists has determined that the amount of land available for wildlife habitat is overestimated and may be less than previously thought of, because the scale of existing models is too large.
According to a report in New Scientist, the team comprised of Changwan Seo of the University of Seoul, South Korea, and his colleagues, who tested four models at a variety of spatial scales, using existing data for rare plants such as Coulter pine.
At present, most models divide the world into 50-kilometre grid squares, which gives a very coarse resolution, and is quite large.
The team found that the larger the grid size, the more the models overestimated the range available.
Hong Kong - Hong Kong was facing a severe egg shortage Monday after imports from China were halted because of the discovery of the chemical melamine in some eggs.
Supplies from China are believed to have fallen by 80 per cent in recent weeks after the discovery in October of the same chemical in eggs that caused a nationwide milk scare a month earlier.
With a view to bolster domestic demand and help avert recession, China unveiled a 'massive' economic stimulus program worth over half a trillion dollars. The package, to be spent over two years, is valued at about 4 trillion yuan ($586 billion).
The announced sum represents about 16% of China's economic output last year, and is roughly equal to the total of all central and local government spending in 2006.
Bangkok - Thailand's Food and Drug Administration on Monday burned 8 tons of food products tainted with high levels of the toxic chemical melamine.
About 20,000 boxes of melamine-tainted snacks and more 13,000 cans of unsweetened condensed milk were destroyed at the Bang Pa-in industrial estate in northern Bangkok under the supervision of Deputy Public Health Minister Wicharn Meenchainan, the Thai News Agency said.
At the San Diego California Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, opponents of recently-passed Proposition 8, which bans same-sex marriage in California, gathered on Sunday for a peaceful demonstration.
Hong Kong - Hong Kong was facing a severe egg shortage Monday after imports from China were halted because of the discovery of the chemical melamine in some eggs.
unveiled a 'massive' economic stimulus program worth over half a trillion dollars. The package, to be spent over two years, is valued at about 4 trillion yuan ($586 billion).
Bangkok - Thailand's Food and Drug Administration on Monday burned 8 tons of food products tainted with high levels of the toxic chemical melamine.
