ATHENS - SCIENTISTS are trying to catalogue hundreds of olive trees, some more than 1,000 years old, on the Greek island of Crete in a bid to save them from abandonment amid falling olive prices, an agronomy institute said on Wednesday.
SAO PAULO - JAPAN is extending a US$220 million (S$331 million) loan to Brazil to help improve the water supply of its biggest city, Sao Paulo, and sewage treatment in the state of Santa Catarina, its embassy said in a statement on Wednesday.
The deal was signed on Tuesday between Japanese ambassador Tatsuo Arai and Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim.
FRANKFURT - THE first of 12 turbines in a major German offshore wind farm project was installed Wednesday in the North Sea, the Alpha Ventus project said.
Following a one-year delay, the five-megawatt turbine was installed 45 kilometres north of the island of Borkum, but all 12 'are scheduled to be in operation by the end of this year,' the statement said.
SAN FRANCISC - A YOUNG US start-up brimming with medical research veterans brings genetic testing to the masses on Wednesday with an affordable, comprehensive DNA service for the public.
