Swine flu has become the world's first official pandemic in 41 years after the world Health Organisation raised the alert level on the H1N1 virus from phase 5 to 6, the highest on the scale.

世界卫生组织宣布将甲型H1N 1流感病毒的警戒级别由5级提升至最高级别6级，至此，猪流感已成为41年来世界上第一个正式的全球大流行病。

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Official Chinese media report the country's ultimate goal is to build a permanent space laboratory and a larger-scale space engineering system.

中国官方媒体报告说，中国的最终目标是建造一个永久的空间实验室，和一个大型太空工程系统。

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These include a need for further large-scale trials, official approval of the product in several countries, and a relatively short shelf-life in its normal ready-to-spray liquid form.

这些因素包括进一步开展大规模试验的需要，数个国家对该产品的正式批准，和其普通的现成喷雾液类型相对较短的货架寿命。

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The exact value of these resources is impossible to calculate reliably, but a leading UN official described the scale of mineral deposits in the world's oceans as "staggering" with "several hundred years' worth of cobalt and nickel".

BBC: UK Seabed Resources joins deep-ocean mineral-mining rush

That then increases the size of the hole in their balance sheets, and therefore the scale of the official rescue from taxpayers they will eventually require.

BBC: Spain moves nearer to full-scale rescue

Police Commissioner Ed Davis is the most high-profile official to call for large-scale counseling efforts, a seemingly unusual gesture from the commander of a large police department.

WSJ: First Responders Seek Out Counseling as Attitudes Shift