French Guiana News

Dublin and London-listed group Tullow Oil said today it has had an 85 per cent exploration success rate for the year-to-date. In a trading update, the company said its business is continuing to perform strongly with its exploration programmed delivering material successes in Uganda, Ghana and Sierra Leone.

Saint Petersburg - The first Russian rockets to be fired into space next year from a space centre in distant South America were on Saturday to begin the long voyage to the launch site from Saint Petersburg.

The Whidbey Playhouse says ita s a oehomicide for the holidays,a as they present the classic comedy a oeMy Three Angelsa by Sam and Bella Spewack, Nov.

THE MOMENT: The European Space Agency's Planck spacecraft gets a thorough cleaning - including vacuuming and an ultraviolet inspection to check for dust particles - near Kourou, French Guiana, before its launch last May 14.

Last night, an Ariane 5 ECA launcher lifted off from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana on a journey to place two telecommunications satellites, NSS-12 and Thor 6, into geostationary transfer orbits.

European Space Agency successfully shot two telecommunication satellites NSS-12 and THOR 6 aboard Ariane 5 ECA launcher at 2000 GMT Thursday from Arianespace in Kourou, French Guiana.

An Ariane-5 rocket placed two television satellites in orbit after blasting off from French Guiana on Thursday, space officials said.

My grandmother was the root of this madness I would say, this passion for food. I lived with her in Brittany until I was six and she was always in the garden.

Then there are strange and weird holidays that really have no meaning besides the mere purpose to have an excuse to celebrate something.

Tickets are now on sale for the Whidbey Playhouse holiday comedy "My Three Angels." It's Christmas Eve, 1910 in French Guiana, where a helplessly naive family is threatened by a rapacious landlord and his ruthless nephew.

A historic zoo in Vincennes, France, originally built in 1934 is looking to complete a major renovation , boosting itself to sustainable park status.

Penal Colony, a settlement to which convicts are banished or in which they are confined.

Some people joke that a bass solo is a good time to go get a drink or take a smoke break.

Jefferson Center , with its capacity recently reconfigured to 924, was mostly empty on Sunday night for Christian McBride & Inside Straight .

A 53-year-old seaman who allegedly stabbed his former lover to death may have fled the country to neighbouring French Guiana but almost seven months later his victima s relatives have accepted that they would probably never get justice and if they did it would not bring the woman back.

PRESS RELEASE Date Released: Friday, October 2, 2009 Source: European Space Agency - Comments Yesterday evening, an Ariane 5 ECA launcher lifted off from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana on its mission to place two telecommunications satellites, Amazonas 2 and ComSatBw-1, into geostationary transfer orbits.

Munich, Oct 2 : The first of two planned satellites for Germany's defence forces blasted off late Thursday from the European space launch centre outside Kourou, French Guiana, officials said.

I don't care how calm and loving experts claim they are. The fact is they have eight legs and look creepy.

Executive Secretary of the Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners Association Edward Shields has reacted cautiously to reports that the use of mercury in the gold mining industry is being phased out.

A fourteen-year-old boy and a man, who allegedly had carnal knowledge of a 14-year-old girl, and another man, who had carnal knowledge of a girl when she was 13 years old, appeared yesterday before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistratea TMs Court.