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ICE CAMP  Researchers working inside this tent at the British Antarctic Survey’s Skytrain Ice Rise site have drilled through more than 600 meters of ice to reach bedrock. Now, a drill once designed for Mars will be used to try to retrieve rock samples.

Jia, from northern Heilongjiang province, was employed through a labour service company to carry out maintenance work at the school. His contract was set to expire this month and had not been renewed.

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Best signing: Petrus du Plessis – the double European Cup-winning prop has an alter ego. Donning red Y-fronts and not much else he becomes ‘Borislav’, uploading ridiculous videos of his antics. That messing around will keep team spirit sky-high at Hazelwood – on the field du Plessis is a scrummaging rock too. His prowess there could keep Irish afloat.

The KDL-40W905A is every bit the flagship TV thanks to a comprehensive set of Smart TV features and ample connectivity. It has four HDMI ports with support for Audio Return Channel (ARC) and MHL. ARC is a great feature, as it means you can play your TV’s sound through a home cinema amplifier or surround sound system, while MHL lets you display your smartphone through your TV. It also has SCART and component video inputs, digital optical and 3.5mm audio outputs and three USB ports. You can use one of the USB ports to add an external hard disk so that you can record TV programmes, while the others let you play media files using the integrated media player. We were able to play almost all of our multimedia files, although native DivX videos weren’t recognised. With Ethernet and integrated Wi-Fi, you can also stream files from a DLNA-compatible media server like a PC or NAS device.

Officials said a purpose-built cage was used on Thursday to take the miners down the shaft that was been drilled parallel to the borehole.

But then along came the automobile, with its newfangled “internal-combustion engine,” and the whole game changed. Now, there were sheet-metal shrouds covering the engines – and that was a good thing; cars had about 3hp, and nobody really cared to see how it was made. But then along came evolution – as it always does – and we started to figure out that these things called “cars” could actually go really fast. What started out as a purpose-driven adaptation for survival began to evolve into something that started to catch people’s attention (in a good way). A couple “monkey-do, monkey-sees” later, this concept of “performance” was really starting to catch on.

In June, the partners loaded their newly cast steel bit on a horse-drawn wagon and took it to the Goose Creek oilfield, according to historian Donald Barlett.

Because he should have raped an Israeli student and killed, the police in Australia, a 20-year-old Rapper. The body of 21-year-old Israeli, who studied in Melbourne English, was discovered on Wednesday morning in the bushes. The musician, who lived in the vicinity of the site, was arrested on Friday. Now, an indictment for the rape and murder has been adopted as the broadcaster ABC reported.

Gamebreaker: James O’Connor – the arrival of the Aussie bad-boy is definitely exciting. He is in the Danny Cipriani mould – prodigiously talented, but prone to brain-lapses off the field – and we saw what Diamond did with the Englishman. It is about time O’Connor cast aside his issues, knuckled down and showed us just how good he can be. If he can do that he will be a shining star of the league.

Federal Minister Peter Altmaier has called for, to check the progress of the exit strategy from Coal by 2030 with a view to the safety of the power supply. “Up to the years 2021/2022 must be due to the phase-out of nuclear energy, a high volume of replaced,” said the CDU politician of the German press Agency. The must find the time to plan for the transition from coal to green energy, to ensure security of supply. “A review date should check the progress, by the year 2030.”

The two men were not alone in trying to chip away at decades of carbon emissions. An American start-up, Global Thermostat, now finishing its first commercial plant in Alabama, began working on air-capture machines in 2010. And almost from the start, Gebald and Wurzbacher found themselves in a friendly competition with David Keith, the Harvard engineering professor who had just started Carbon Engineering in British Columbia. Keith’s company settled on a different air-capture technology — employing a higher-heat process, and a liquid solution to capture CO₂ — to brew synthetic fuels. Climeworks’s big advantage is that it can make smaller plants early, Keith told me: “I am crazy jealous. It’s because they’re using a modular design, and we’re not.” On the other hand, Keith said he believes his firm is closer to building a big plant that could capture carbon at a more reasonable cost and produce substantial amounts of fuel. “I don’t see a path for them to match this.” Gebald told me he thinks his and Keith’s companies will each succeed with differing approaches. For now, what all the founders have in common is a belief that the cost of capturing a ton of carbon will soon drop sharply.