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Beijing announced its first-ever red alert for pollution on Monday, after reports predicted that a large amount of smog would descend on the city.

The red alert is the highest possible, and has not been used in the city before, the state-run Xinhua news agency says.

Heavy smog is seen as people walk on a bridge in Beijing on December 7.

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Forecasters give 40 percent odds for the planned 4:44 p.m. liftoff. Gen. Wayne Monteith, 45th Space Wing commander, who also served as the Launch Decision Authority.

“The first app to use it is Chrome, starting with version 46-we’re now protecting all Android Chrome users by default”, explains Google in a blog post.

Archaeologists today confirmed they had found the actual prehistoric quarries in the Preseli hills in Pembrokeshire from which the monument’s Bluetones came.

A round of high-level talks began Sunday evening (early Monday morning in Japan) – a day earlier than scheduled – to shape an agreement on the new global framework, which is scheduled to take effect in 2020.

The Paris conference is the 21st time world governments have met to seek a joint solution to climate change.

After spending the last five years essentially lost in space, the Japanese probe Akatsuki fired up its engines this last weekend in hopes of finally entering the orbit of Venus.

“I think this is the bare minimum which we can do”, Mr Thakur said of the scheme, which would allow private cars on the roads only on alternate days according to their licence plate numbers. “If there are too many problems, it will be stopped”, Kejriwal...

A decision to ration road space was announced on Friday by the Arvind Kejriwal-led government to check rising pollution in the city.

Other states involved are California, Colorado, Missouri, Montana, Utah, Virginia and Washington.

Britain’s Prime Minister David Cameron will chair a meeting of the government’s emergency committee later today to discuss severe flooding in north west England where thousands of homes were without power for a second day.

Amazon has not disclosed sales figures for its tablets but said this week that it sold “millions” following the launch of a new line of Fire tablets which included one priced at $50. By launching a tablet aimed squarely at readers, Kindle hopes to convince people that...