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August 6 & 7 Manchester, Birmingham, Plymouth, Derby, Cardiff and Portsmouth host an integrated live triathlon competition, to broadcast across the UK on the BBC Big Screens network. London, UK (PRWEB) August 02, 2011 Triathlon is breaking new ground with an innovative and exciting concept which the International Triathlon Union (ITU) launched today. Visitors to Triathlon Live Sites in six cities around the UK on August 6 and 7 will experience live triathlon in a format that has...

Scientists working at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) may have gotten their first look at the so-called "God particle" -- the fabled massive elementary particle known as the Higgs boson -- according to BBC News reports published Friday.According to BBC Science Correspondent Ian Sample, officials at the Geneva-based particle physics laboratory announced the possible discovery during the 2011 Europhysics Conference on...

LONDON, July 20, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- comScore, Inc. (NASDAQ: SCOR), a leader in measuring the digital world, today announced that the BBC chose comScore Digital Analytix as its preferred web analytics provider. Following an in-depth review of a long list of potential providers, the tender has been awarded to comScore Digital Analytix for its flexibility and ease of implementation. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20080115/COMSCORELOGO) comScore was chosen as they fulfilled all...

A Russian radio telescope intended to be the largest of its kind in space, has started its stellar orbit around planet Earth for the first time since being launched, reports BBC News. The radio telescope, named RadioAstron, part of the Russian space observatory -- Spectrum-R -- will travel in an elliptical orbit that at its farthest point from Earth will take it close to the Moon. It was carried into orbit by the Zenith-3M rocket, taking off from Kazakhstan's Baikonur Cosmodrome on Monday...

Today, BBC News reported that the price of gold has hit a new record price of $1610 an ounce. (PRWEB) July 19, 2011 Today, BBC News reported that the price of gold has hit a new record price of $1610 an ounce. It climbed above $1,600 for the first time on Monday, capping a record-breaking rally of eleven days of gains. Bournemouth-based gold buyer Postgoldforcash.com is urging people to take advantage of these high gold prices and sell their gold while they can still get a phenomenal...

Delegates meeting at the International Whaling Commission (IWC) conference in the Channel Islands warn that oil and gas exploration in the Russian Far East continues to threaten the livelihood of the critically endangered gray whale that spends its summer feeding along Sakhalin Island, according to a recent BBC News report. IWC scientists say that companies using seismic guns to find oil and gas in the area are taking steps to reduce impact, but they said those companies need to do more to...

A British consumer organization is accusing Yahoo! of searching through users' personal emails for information that they can use to sell advertising, according to a BBC News report Friday."¨According to the BBC report, Yahoo!, the largest email provider on the planet, is currently offering a new service that utilizes scanning technology to block spam. That same technology can also be used to scan the content of a user's inbox and display advertising targeted specifically to them."¨In the...

Researchers have discovered the population of pig-nosed turtles has declined over the past 30 years. The turtles have become an international conservation icon, due to it having no close relatives and being considered the turtle most adapted to life underwater in freshwater ponds and rivers. The reptile faces a threat in Papua New Guinea because of a high demand for its eggs. "Pig-nosed turtles are considered unique and unusual among freshwater species of turtles in many facets of...

MASTERPIECE on PBS/BBC COPRODUCTION TO AIR DURING DICKENS BICENTENNIAL BOSTON, July 8, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Gillian Anderson will star in the iconic role of Miss Havisham in a bold new adaptation of Charles Dickens' Great Expectations. The cast of the star-studded MASTERPIECE on PBS/BBC coproduction also includes David Suchet (Poirot) and Ray Winstone (Sexy Beast). (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20110708/DC31831 ) "I can't wait to see Gillian delicately sink her teeth...

LONDON, July 1, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- TV Licensing figures reveal millions of sports fans set to tune in to watch the action. With a series of major sporting events hitting our screens this summer - such as Wimbledon, the World Championships in Athletics, the World Rowing Championships and Formula 1 - new figures from TV Licensing suggest that sports fans will be tuning in to watch in droves and in a variety of different ways: - More than half the...