Diver died saving buddy - Dive Magazine

Pilgrim Non Grata in Mecca - New York Times

Love golf? Love the Red Sea - Easier (press release)

Marble Ray is Creature of the Month
The giant Marble Ray is three metres long. It is not aggressive but watch out for the spines on its tail. You see the Marble Ray in the Indo-West Pacific: Red Sea and East Africa to southern Japan, Micronesia and tropical Australia; and in the Cocos and Galapagos islands in the Eastern Pacific.

2010 El Nino Reduces Marine Life
The ongoing El Nino of 2010 is reducing the numbers of pelagic fish, according to scientists at NOAA and Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

Update: Diving Pakistan
SCUBA Travel guide now includes Charna Island, Pakistan. Diving window is end of September until March.

12 new wrecks found in Baltic
Twelve well-preserved wrecks have been discovered in the Baltic Sea by a company laying a gas pipeline.

Diver died saving buddy
British diver Robert Fox, who died diving in the Red Sea in January, suffered a heart attack that could have been triggered by helping a buddy.

BSAC instructor wins award
An instructor at a BSAC centre in Malta has been a runner-up for best diving instructor at the Malta Tourism Authority Star Awards.

Google launches online marketplace for office software
Mountain View, California - Google Inc is strengthening its assault on Microsoft by opening an online shop for its business software service, the company announced Tuesday. Google's business customers can access applications built by third-party deve...

Google backs move to spread internet to Iran, Cuba, Sudan - Summary
Geneva - An executive at internet giant Google said Tuesday that Washington's latest move to encourage service providers to expand their work into Iran, Cuba and Sudan was a great accomplishment. Hopefully it will help ... activities all over the w...

Google: Move into Iran, Cuba, Sudan would be 'great accomplishment'
Geneva - An executive at internet giant Google said Tuesday that Washington's latest move to encourage service providers to expand their work into Iran, Cuba and Sudan was a great accomplishment. Hopefully it will help... activities all over the wo...

Finnish gene researcher Peltonen-Palotie dies aged 57
Helsinki - Finnish gene researcher Leena Peltonen-Palotie, one of the world's leading experts in her field, has died at the age of 57 after a serious illness, news reports said Thursday. Peltonen-Palotie and her research team combined basic molecular...

EU court:Phone providers cannot make clients take extra services
Luxembourg - European Union states have the right to prohibit telecoms companies from forcing clients to sign up to services they do not want in order to get the services they do want, the EU's court ruled Thursday in a case brought in Poland. But th...

Google launches online marketplace for office software
Mountain View, California - Google Inc is strengthening its assault on Microsoft by opening an online shop for its business software service, the company announced Tuesday. Google's business customers can access applications built by third-party deve...