
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union governments failed to reach a decision on Friday on whether to ban three widely-used pesticides linked to the decline of honeybees, the European Commission said. "No qualified majority was reached, either in favor, or against the text," the Commission said in a statement, adding it would now consider the next steps. Sources close to the discussions said 13 EU governments voted in favor of a ban and nine voted against, with five countries including Britain and Germany abstaining. ...

(Reuters) - The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) conducted 14 special inspections at nuclear power plants in 2012 to investigate safety-related events, the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) said in a report on Thursday. In the report, the UCS said 40 of the United States' 104 reactors had undergone one or more safety-related incidents or "near-misses" over the past three years. None of the so-called near-misses harmed workers or the public, the UCS said. The UCS recommended the NRC determine whether the agency's baseline inspections could have found the safety problems sooner. ...

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(Reuters) - Los Angeles Dodgers slugger Matt Kemp expressed relief on Wednesday and said he was "lucky" to avoid serious injury after slamming into the center-field wall in Colorado the previous day while trying to track down a fly ball. Kemp, who needed three stitches for a cut on his chin, was listed as day-to-day after tests revealed that he suffered only a sore jaw and a bone bruise to his left knee during an 8-4 loss to the Colorado Rockies on Tuesday. ...

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