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A group of white Lipizzan horses. The white coat of the Lipizzan horses performing at Vienna's prestigious Spanish riding school is caused by a mutated gene, a new study showed Sunday, solving a decades-old mystery over the horses' colour.

Lipizzan horses' white colour due to mutated gene: study

AFP - Sunday, July 20 07:08 pm

VIENN (AFP) - The white coat of the Lipizzan horses performing at Vienna's prestigious Spanish riding school is caused by a mutated gene, a new study showed Sunday, solving a decades-old mystery over the horses' colour. More »

Ontario joins US carbon trading clan
AFP - Friday, July 18 06:25 pm
OTTAWA (AFP) - Canada's industrial heartland is joining a group of US states to launch a North American carbon trading market, Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty announced Friday. More »
Make way Ronaldo, here come the robots
AFP - Friday, July 18 06:16 pm
VIENNA (AFP) - After Euro 2008, now Austria is preparing to host RoboCup, where 500 robots take to the football field hoping to prove their mettle. More »
Beijing pollution not a worry for US standouts
AFP - Friday, July 18 05:55 pm
WASHINGTON (AFP) - US Olympians take a matter-of-fact approach about pollution fears at the Beijing Olympics, basically seeing any possible breathing problems as an equal headache for everyone involved. More »
New uranium leak discovered at French nuclear site
AFP - Friday, July 18 03:05 pm
PARIS (AFP) - French nuclear safety authorities said Friday that a broken pipe at a nuclear fuel plant in southeast France had caused a radioactive leak but no damage to the environment. More »
California adopts new 'green' building code
AFP - Thursday, July 17 10:01 pm
LOS ANGELES (AFP) - California on Thursday adopted a new building code aimed at improving energy efficiency and water consumption in all new construction projects across the state. More »
Gore urges total shift to renewable energy to avert disaster
AFP - Thursday, July 17 08:50 pm
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Nobel laureate and former US vice president Al Gore on Thursday urged Americans to shoot for the moon and make a total shift from fossil fuels to renewable energy to avert a global crisis sparked by climate change. More »
More icebergs scouring Antarctic seabed: study
AFP - Thursday, July 17 07:07 pm
CHICAGO (AFP) - Shrinking sea ice is significantly increasing the rate at which icebergs scour the Antarctic seabed, a study released Thursday has found. More »
German firemen try to clean up large river oil slick
AFP - Thursday, July 17 06:06 pm
HAMBURG, Germany (AFP) - German firemen struggled to contain an oil slick on Thursday, a day after two ships collided near Hamburg. More »
Australia's Rudd hits out at critics of carbon trading scheme
AFP - Thursday, July 17 07:44 am
SYDNEY (AFP) - Australia's government on Thursday defended its new carbon trading scheme, insisting it would reduce emissions and telling critics it was better than nothing. More »