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UFO update: More strange lights and shapes seen in sky (Louth Leader) A MABLETHORPE man has contacted the Leader with claims of extraordinary UFOs recently sighted in the skies over the town. World's Biggest Space Party Returns to Hampton Roads (PR Newswire via Yahoo! News) HAMPTON, Va., March 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The world's biggest space party is returning to Hampton Roads. Local space enthusiasts will join hundreds of others in cities around the globe for Yuri's Night, to be held locally April 10, from 7 p.m. to midnight, at the Virginia Air & Space Center in downtown Hampton. Global Defense Technology and Systems, I (GTEC) CFO James P Allen buys 15,000 Shares (Guru Focus) By insider. EVP, CFO & TREASURER of Global Defense Technology and Systems, I ( GTEC ) James P Allen buys 15,000 shares of GTEC on 03/04/2010 at an average price of $12.21 a share. Read more » » China's fastest super computer to have China-made chips (People's Daily) China's fastest super computer "Tianhe-1," ("Tianhe" meaning Milky Way), is to be equipped this year with China-made central processing unit (CPU) chips, replacing the only part of the computer that is currently imported. Zhang Yulin, president of the National University of Defense Technology (NUDT) which developed the computer, told Xinhua Monday that the chips, also developed by the NUDT, are ... Breakthrough puts doctors in picture (The Age) Huge medical images are being sent over slow lines. Indian PM Saudi monarch seal ties with Riyadh Declaration (Hindustan Times) India and Saudi Arabia signed the Riyadh Declaration to put their seal of approval on rapidly growing ties that are moving towards a strategic partnership covering security, economic, defence, technology and political areas and including joint combat of terrorism. Saudi Arabia assures PM of oil supplies Science and art exhibit presses global-warming awareness (Detroit News) Kids will cotton to "Cape Farewell: Art & Climate Change" the minute they're startled by the immense crashing that erupts every 20 minutes. "Cape Farewell" is part of the ongoing "Artology" collaboration between the Cranbrook Academy of Art and Cranbrook Institute of Science, where the show is hung. Paris science teacher to receive EIU award for teaching excellence (Journal Gazette & Times-Courier) CHARLESTON — Brett Block, a Paris Cooperative High School physical science teacher, will be honored for teaching excellence with an award from the Eastern Illinois University chapter of Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society. Technology's Richest Billionaires (Forbes) Bill Gates loses top spot, but stock surge lifts fortunes of youngest and once-young technology moguls. S’pore Institute of Technology to offer degree courses with 5 foreign varsities (Channel NewsAsia via Yahoo! Malaysia News) SINGAPORE: The first degree programmes under the Singapore Institute of Technology will begin classes from August, one year ahead of schedule.  Go > News