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Indian's surprise at Nobel award
Dr Pachauri says credit goes to the scientific communityIndian scientist Rajendra Pachauri has spoken of his surprise at the UN panel he heads being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for its work on global warming.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and campaigner Al Gore were named as joint winners on Friday.
"I can't believe it. I'm overwhelmed," Dr Pachauri, 67, told well-wishers in the Indian capital, Delhi.
"The committee is trying to tell the world we need to do something about climate change urgently."
Indian's surprise at Nobel award
Dr Pachauri says credit goes to the scientific communityIndian scientist Rajendra Pachauri has spoken of his surprise at the UN panel he heads being awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for its work on global warming.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and campaigner Al Gore were named as joint winners on Friday.
"I can't believe it. I'm overwhelmed," Dr Pachauri, 67, told well-wishers in the Indian capital, Delhi.
"The committee is trying to tell the world we need to do something about climate change urgently."
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Family wants plastic pen tops ban
Ben Stirland died in JanuaryThe parents of a County Durham schoolboy, who choked to death on a plastic pen top, are stepping up their campaign to get them banned.
Ben Stirland, 13, from Consett, died in January, after swallowing the pen top while doing homework.
Family wants plastic pen tops ban
Ben Stirland died in JanuaryThe parents of a County Durham schoolboy, who choked to death on a plastic pen top, are stepping up their campaign to get them banned.
Ben Stirland, 13, from Consett, died in January, after swallowing the pen top while doing homework.
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march over NHS cuts
Campaigners said it was the largest demo in the county so farAbout 14,000 people have taken part in a demonstration over NHS plans to reorganise West Sussex hospitals, campaigners and police have said.
Organisers say the turn-out in Haywards Heath made it the largest NHS protest in the county to date.
Under NHS restructuring, only one of three West Sussex hospitals will remain a major general hospital, the county's primary care trust (PCT) has said.
Singer Vera Lynn was among those who took part in the protest.
She told the assembled crowd: "We need our hospital. We must have it, and it is essential we fight for it."
West Sussex has hospitals in Worthing, Haywards Heath, and Chichester.
'Inspiring campaign'
The protest on Saturday was to show opposition to downgrading Accident & Emergency and maternity services at the Princess Royal Hospital in Haywards Heath.
Campaigners said 70,000 people had now signed their petition, thousands had attended public meetings, and 180 GPs had spoken out against the plans.
We will be keeping many services in our local hospitals
John Wilderspin, PCT
But the PCT said centralising services would make more expertise available.
Mid Sussex MP Nicholas Soames said the continuing fight by residents was "inspiring" and the rally was "another major opportunity for people to show their total opposition" ahead of the conclusion of the public consultation in mid-November.
The rally comes a week after several hundred people took to the streets of Uckfield to show support for the Princess Royal Hospital, in Haywards Heath, and Uckfield Community Hospital.
After the protest in Uckfield, PCT chief executive John Wilderspin said: "We will be keeping many services in our local hospitals and increasing the amount of care we provide in GP surgeries and patients' own homes.
"We are proposing to develop a major general hospital for West Sussex, providing specialist services such as a main A&E department, the consultant led maternity unit and emergency surgery."
march over NHS cuts
Campaigners said it was the largest demo in the county so farAbout 14,000 people have taken part in a demonstration over NHS plans to reorganise West Sussex hospitals, campaigners and police have said.
Organisers say the turn-out in Haywards Heath made it the largest NHS protest in the county to date.
Under NHS restructuring, only one of three West Sussex hospitals will remain a major general hospital, the county's primary care trust (PCT) has said.
Singer Vera Lynn was among those who took part in the protest.
She told the assembled crowd: "We need our hospital. We must have it, and it is essential we fight for it."
West Sussex has hospitals in Worthing, Haywards Heath, and Chichester.
'Inspiring campaign'
The protest on Saturday was to show opposition to downgrading Accident & Emergency and maternity services at the Princess Royal Hospital in Haywards Heath.
Campaigners said 70,000 people had now signed their petition, thousands had attended public meetings, and 180 GPs had spoken out against the plans.
We will be keeping many services in our local hospitals
John Wilderspin, PCT
But the PCT said centralising services would make more expertise available.
Mid Sussex MP Nicholas Soames said the continuing fight by residents was "inspiring" and the rally was "another major opportunity for people to show their total opposition" ahead of the conclusion of the public consultation in mid-November.
The rally comes a week after several hundred people took to the streets of Uckfield to show support for the Princess Royal Hospital, in Haywards Heath, and Uckfield Community Hospital.
After the protest in Uckfield, PCT chief executive John Wilderspin said: "We will be keeping many services in our local hospitals and increasing the amount of care we provide in GP surgeries and patients' own homes.
"We are proposing to develop a major general hospital for West Sussex, providing specialist services such as a main A&E department, the consultant led maternity unit and emergency surgery."
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Rare China tiger seen in the wild
South China tigers have been bred in captivityA rare South China tiger has been seen in the wild for the first time in decades, according to reports from China's official Xinhua news agency.
The sighting, which came after a farmer handed in some pictures, surprised researchers who feared the tiger was extinct.
Experts have now confirmed that the photographs do show a young, wild South China tiger.
The tiger is critically endangered and was last sighted in the wild in 1964.
The farmer, who took the pictures at the beginning of this month, lives in Shaanxi province.
Experts have said that no more than 20 to 30 of the tigers were believed to remain in the wild, but none have been spotted in decades, with many fearing that a small number of captive-born tigers were all that remained.
'Pests'
The population of the South China tiger, the smallest tiger subspecies, was believed to number 4,000 in the early 1950s.
But numbers were greatly reduced after China's Communist leader Mao Zedong labelled the elusive felines "pests" and ordered an extermination campaign.
The animal has also fallen victim to the decimation of China's natural environment and the elimination of its natural prey.
The South China Tiger is one of six remaining tiger subspecies.
Three other tiger subspecies, the Bali, Java, and Caspian tigers, have all become extinct since the 1940s, according to tiger experts.
Rare China tiger seen in the wild
South China tigers have been bred in captivityA rare South China tiger has been seen in the wild for the first time in decades, according to reports from China's official Xinhua news agency.
The sighting, which came after a farmer handed in some pictures, surprised researchers who feared the tiger was extinct.
Experts have now confirmed that the photographs do show a young, wild South China tiger.
The tiger is critically endangered and was last sighted in the wild in 1964.
The farmer, who took the pictures at the beginning of this month, lives in Shaanxi province.
Experts have said that no more than 20 to 30 of the tigers were believed to remain in the wild, but none have been spotted in decades, with many fearing that a small number of captive-born tigers were all that remained.
'Pests'
The population of the South China tiger, the smallest tiger subspecies, was believed to number 4,000 in the early 1950s.
But numbers were greatly reduced after China's Communist leader Mao Zedong labelled the elusive felines "pests" and ordered an extermination campaign.
The animal has also fallen victim to the decimation of China's natural environment and the elimination of its natural prey.
The South China Tiger is one of six remaining tiger subspecies.
Three other tiger subspecies, the Bali, Java, and Caspian tigers, have all become extinct since the 1940s, according to tiger experts.
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///////////////////Rowan Williams hits out at atheist DawkinsBy Jonathan Wynne-Jones
Last Updated: 1:07am BST 14/10/2007
The Archbishop of Canterbury launched a fierce attack yesterday on the modern cult of atheism and singled out the eminent scientist Richard Dawkins.
Dr Rowan Williams responded to critics of religion by arguing that atheists had missed the point and failed to understand what Christians really believe in.
Dr Williams holds a copy of Dawkins' The God Delusion
In a fierce attack on the Oxford professor and other leading atheists, he said: "There are specific areas of mismatch between what Richard Dawkins may write about and what religious people think they are doing." He added: "There are few things more annoying than people saying 'I know what you mean'." Dr Williams described Prof Dawkins as a "lively and attractive writer" but said his arguments were not fully engaging with religion. He suggested that Prof Dawkins, the author of the best-selling The God Delusion and a leading Darwinist, was a good scientist but a poor philosopher. "Our culture is one that deeply praises science, so we assume because someone is a good scientist, they must be a good philosopher," he said in a lecture at Swansea University.
In a message to the critics, he said: "Don't distract us from the real arguments by assuming that religion is an eccentric survival strategy or irrational form of explanation."
When asked by an audience member "whose fault is Dawkins?", Dr Williams replied that religious believers themselves were partly to blame, adding that in the past God had often been reduced "to the kind of target Dawkins and others too easily fire at".
Dr Williams said many fellow Christians would not recognise their religion as it was described by critics.
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He said: "When believers pick up Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens, we may feel as we turn the pages: 'This is not it. Whatever the religion being attacked here, it's not actually what I believe in'."
He told the audience he wasn't simply interested in defending his beliefs, but also in upholding the principle of intellectual debate.
The first argument against religion he looked at was that of it being explained as an evolutionary survival strategy, passed on through generations. Dr Williams said that Darwinian theory had wrongly been used as a way to interpret culture, not just biology, by Prof Dawkins.
He rejected Prof Dawkins's theory which assumes culture is transmitted in a similar way to biology, through "memes" as opposed to genes, and added: "I find this philosophically crass and undeveloped at best, simply contradictory and empty at worst."
Dr Williams added that to see religion as a survival strategy was to misunderstand it.
More than 1,000 people heard the lecture, both inside the auditorium and in overflow rooms nearby.
Prof Dawkins has been scathing in his assessment of Christian theology, which he has described as vacuous. In a Channel 4 programme, The Enemies of Reason, in August he said: "There are two ways of looking at the world — through faith and superstition, or through the rigours of logic, observation and evidence, through reason.
"Yet today reason has a battle on its hands. Reason and a respect for evidence are the source of our progress, our safeguard against fundamentalists and those who profit from obscuring the truth. We live in dangerous times when superstition is gaining ground and rational science is under attack."
Last Updated: 1:07am BST 14/10/2007
The Archbishop of Canterbury launched a fierce attack yesterday on the modern cult of atheism and singled out the eminent scientist Richard Dawkins.
Dr Rowan Williams responded to critics of religion by arguing that atheists had missed the point and failed to understand what Christians really believe in.
Dr Williams holds a copy of Dawkins' The God Delusion
In a fierce attack on the Oxford professor and other leading atheists, he said: "There are specific areas of mismatch between what Richard Dawkins may write about and what religious people think they are doing." He added: "There are few things more annoying than people saying 'I know what you mean'." Dr Williams described Prof Dawkins as a "lively and attractive writer" but said his arguments were not fully engaging with religion. He suggested that Prof Dawkins, the author of the best-selling The God Delusion and a leading Darwinist, was a good scientist but a poor philosopher. "Our culture is one that deeply praises science, so we assume because someone is a good scientist, they must be a good philosopher," he said in a lecture at Swansea University.
In a message to the critics, he said: "Don't distract us from the real arguments by assuming that religion is an eccentric survival strategy or irrational form of explanation."
When asked by an audience member "whose fault is Dawkins?", Dr Williams replied that religious believers themselves were partly to blame, adding that in the past God had often been reduced "to the kind of target Dawkins and others too easily fire at".
Dr Williams said many fellow Christians would not recognise their religion as it was described by critics.
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He said: "When believers pick up Richard Dawkins or Christopher Hitchens, we may feel as we turn the pages: 'This is not it. Whatever the religion being attacked here, it's not actually what I believe in'."
He told the audience he wasn't simply interested in defending his beliefs, but also in upholding the principle of intellectual debate.
The first argument against religion he looked at was that of it being explained as an evolutionary survival strategy, passed on through generations. Dr Williams said that Darwinian theory had wrongly been used as a way to interpret culture, not just biology, by Prof Dawkins.
He rejected Prof Dawkins's theory which assumes culture is transmitted in a similar way to biology, through "memes" as opposed to genes, and added: "I find this philosophically crass and undeveloped at best, simply contradictory and empty at worst."
Dr Williams added that to see religion as a survival strategy was to misunderstand it.
More than 1,000 people heard the lecture, both inside the auditorium and in overflow rooms nearby.
Prof Dawkins has been scathing in his assessment of Christian theology, which he has described as vacuous. In a Channel 4 programme, The Enemies of Reason, in August he said: "There are two ways of looking at the world — through faith and superstition, or through the rigours of logic, observation and evidence, through reason.
"Yet today reason has a battle on its hands. Reason and a respect for evidence are the source of our progress, our safeguard against fundamentalists and those who profit from obscuring the truth. We live in dangerous times when superstition is gaining ground and rational science is under attack."
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