March 29, 2007
Denmark: Prince Christian's First Day of School : GlobalGiants.com
Fredensborg, Denmark - Little Prince Christian arrives for his first day at public pre-school daycare. Prince Christian is the son of Crown Prince Frederik and second-in-line to the Danish throne. (ZUMA Press) |GlobalGiants.com|
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March 28, 2007
PROMOTING CHINA: Russian and Chinese Presidents Open the Year of China in Russia : GlobalGiants.com
Photo: Chinese president Hu Jintao and Russian President Vladimir Putin, L-R, shake hands as they pose for a photograph in the State Kremlin Palace at the opening of the Year of China in Russia. (ITAR-TASS / Dmitry Astakhov) |GlobalGiants.com|
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EU: European Police Raid Government Buildings in Corruption Investigation : GlobalGiants.com
Photo: European Flags flutter at the entrance of the European Commission's Berlaymont building at the EU headquarters in Brussels on March 27, 2007.
Police in Belgium, France, Luxembourg and Italy launched simultaneous dawn raids today in a corruption investigation involving European public servants. More than 150 police took part in over 30 raids, including at the European Commission's premises and the European Parliament in Brussels, in which investigators seized numerous documents. (GERARD CERLES/AFP/Getty Images) |GlobalGiants.com|
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US Postal Service Helps Drive Development of Alternate-Fuel Technologies : GlobalGiants.com
Demonstrates Zero-Emissions Mail Delivery Vehicles at White House Event.
Photo: Julie Rios, Director of Energy Initiatives, U.S. Postal Service, talks to President Bush about the Postal Service's 30 zero-emissions electric trucks, which deliver mail in New York City. Energy Secretary Samuel W. Bodman looks on.
WASHINGTON, March 27 -- The U.S. Postal Service has a long history of exploring cleaner, more energy-efficient, and more cost- effective ways to deliver the nation's mail. And, as such, it has acquired the nation's largest fleet of alternate-fuel vehicles -- some 38,000 cars, trucks and minivans -- powered by electricity, compressed natural gas, liquid propane gas, ethanol (E85), biodiesel fuel, and hydrogen fuel cells.
To help promote the development of alternate-fuel technologies as well as to encourage the availability of alternate fuels, the Postal Service participated in a White House event today, demonstrating the technology behind a hydrogen fuel-cell minivan and an electric two-ton truck -- both zero- emissions mail-delivery vehicles.
An independent federal agency, the U.S. Postal Service is the only delivery service that visits every address in the USA, 146 million homes and businesses, six days a week. It has 37,000 retail locations and relies on the sale of postage, products and services to pay for operating expenses. The US Postal Service has annual revenues of $73 billion and delivers more than 46 percent of the world's mail volume. |GlobalGiants.com|
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March 27, 2007
JAPAN: Japan on Edge as Aftershocks Continue to Threaten : GlobalGiants.com
Photo: Aftershocks jolted the west coast of central Japan on Monday, keeping residents on edge a day after a strong earthquake killed one person, injured nearly 200 and flattened homes.
Sunday morning's 6.9-magnitude quake, which struck the Noto peninsula in Ishikawa prefecture, about 300 kilometers (190 miles) west of Tokyo, destroyed houses, buckled roads, triggered landslides and cut off water and electricity supplies to thousands of homes. (Reuters) |GlobalGiants.com|
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