Italy's unique years-in-work system of calculating pensionable age is to be phased out, and the statutory retirement age will be pushed back.

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It will also replace the existing formula for calculating payments with a simpler system.

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By next year, the country aims to take its warning system to the next level by calculating the height and the arrival of a tsunami, said the director of Indonesia's earthquake and tsunami center, Fauzi, who like many Indonesians uses only one name.

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The head-tracking system, which was developed by the Fraunhofer Heinrich-Hertz Institute in Germany, works by calculating how far away a head is, based on its apparent size (the direction is obvious, of course).

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