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Lavasa is called a hill station but does not offer the cool comfort of one. In May and June temperatures touch nearly 40°C— not an ideal summer getaway. In nearby Mahabaleshwar, temperatures rarely cross 35°C.

THE nuclear disaster in the aftermath of the Japan tsunami shows how safety issues around nuclear power affect people living continents away from nuclear reactors.

According to the cables released by Wikileaks, an official of the International Atomic Energy Agency told Japan’s nuclear officials in 2008 that its safety rules were out of date and strong earthquakes would pose a “serious problem” for nuclear power stations.

Remains of 138 Indigenous people from the Torres Strait Islands in Australia will be repatriated from London’s Natural History Museum.

En chemin elle rencontre (On the way, she met), a collection of comic strip stories tackling the issue of violence against women edited by Marie Moinard, director of the small publishing company Des ronds dans l’O, was officially launched with Amnesty International France on International Women’s Day.

Facebook-inspired protests in Azerbaijan are turning into a cat-andmouse game. On March 14, the police blocked access to the university in the country’s capital Baku, but there were no protesters.

A town in northern Spain has decided to reintroduce the old Spanish currency, the peseta, alongside the euro to give the local economy a lift.

Scientists have pieced together remains of Xray equipment dating shortly after the discovery of the rays in 1895.

In 1948, a young mathematician published a paper in an obscure technical journal.