Monday, September 11, 2006

Shuttle Atlantis looking good in damage check

HOUSTON (Reuters) - Astronauts used a sensor-laden robot arm on Sunday to check for heat shield damage to shuttle Atlantis and NASA said all looked well so far. HONG KONG (Reuters) - A prominent Hong Kong thinktank has called on the local government to adopt an air management plan which it says could reverse the city's worsening pollution and bring cleaner air in two years time. OSLO (Reuters) - A leak shut down a small Norwegian atomic research reactor on Saturday in what was the worst accident in the plant's history, even though no one was hurt and no radiation escaped into the environment, officials said.