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Three chlorine gas attacks in Iraq are reported to have killed eight people and left hundreds injured, including six US troops.
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“A powerful earthquake has struck the Indonesian island of Sumatra, killing at least 70 people and flattening hundreds of buildings.
The US Geological Survey said the quake had a magnitude of 6.3, and was centred near the town of Padang.” Read More at BBC NEWS

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“Chain restaurants in the United States are promoting dangerous “X-treme Eating”, a US watchdog has said.

They are serving up “ever-more harmful new creations,” the Center for Science in the Public Interest says. “

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Deaf people could soon be using video mobiles to chat with their friends using sign language.

Video compression tools made by US researchers make it possible to send live pictures of people signing across low bandwidth mobile networks.

The system cuts down on the bandwidth needed by only sending data about which parts of each frame have changed.

The researchers are talking to mobile firms about how to get the technology in to the hands of deaf people.

Long look

Many American deaf people prefer to communicate via sign language but this is impossible over current mobile networks, said University of Washington computer scientist Richard Ladner who is one of the principal investigators on the project.

Chatting via signing across mobile networks was impossible, said Prof Ladner, because the bandwidth available means video was too low quality to accurately depict the arm, finger and face movements of sign language.

While video compression techniques could ease this problem there were other barriers too, said Prof Ladner.

“To do all this calculation and video compression runs down your battery pretty fast,” he said.

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