A technique that helps crime fighters zoom in on a serial killer's whereabouts may help scientists prevent deaths of a different sort — those caused by infectious diseases. The widely used criminology technique, called geographic profiling, helps investigators narrow a search by pinpointing high-priority targets among thousands of potential locations. In an [...] UN Report: Evidence of war crimes in final months of Sri Lanka's civil war Wishing family and friends a happy new year, or "Akemashite omedetou gozaimasu," Twitter users in Japan set a new record for tweets per second -- almost 7,000 -- in the moments just after the country entered the… Britain, Ireland, Denmark and Iceland battle over Atlantic outcrop sitting on lucrative oil and gasfields British claims to ownership of Rockall – the isolated Atlantic outcrop jutting out of a potentially vast and lucrative oilfield around 240 miles west of Scotland – is to be examined within weeks by the UN. A formal claim for thousands of square miles of the seabed surrounding the rock has been made by Denmark and the Faroe Islands, potentially overriding the claims of Britain, Ireland and Iceland. At stake could be licences and income worth billions of pounds. The four competing applications are likely to be reviewed by the UN's Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS) in March. Diplomatic talks between the four countries have been rotating around European capitals for several years, in the hope of agreeing an amicable division of the seabed in the Hatton-Rockall basin. They have failed so far to map out a mutually acceptable settlement. The hunt for offshore gas and oil at a time of increasing energy demand is driving enthusiasm among coastal states around the world to annex as much of the seabed as they are legally permitted. In June, the commission's ...
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