Factfile - Space
The global satellite communications market is expected to be worth more than £140 billion per year by 2010. The global satellite navigation market is expected to exceed £50 billion by 2005. - British...
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Factfile - Human rights
Women and girls make up more than two-thirds of the world's illiterate population. - UNFPA, The State of the World Population 1999 Some 350 million women in developing countries have incomplete or...
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Factfile - Health
Nearly a billion people worldwide do not get enough to eat each day. At the same time, an estimated 600 million people - mostly in North America and Europe - are overnourished and overweight. - World...
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Factfile - Work and community
Fewer than 400 billionaires hold assets that equal the cumulative worth of 45 per cent of the world's population. - Gro Harlem Brundtland, Reith lectures 2000 Average global per capita income has now...
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Factfile - War
Since its peak in 1986, the size of the global nuclear arsenal has declined by 48 per cent. The US has 12,000 nuclear warheads, Russia 23,000 and France, China and the UK have only about 1,000...
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MM 2001: Moral rights, global responsibilities
The more the fight for human rights gains in popularity, the more it loses any concrete content," writes novelist Milan Kundera in Immortality. "The world has become man's right and everything in it...
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MM 2001: Death sentence for disease?
Cures for Alzheimer's, Aids and cancer are all potential prizes for geneticists. Geoff Watts spoke to some of those working at the cutting edge of research Health care has always been shaped by...
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MM 2001: Environment - Books
A Consumer's Guide to Genetically Modified Food: From Green Genes to Red Herrings By Alan McHughen Oxford University Press, £60.00 The gene is out of the test tube, warns Alan McHughen, and there is...
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The poor get stuffed for Christmas
Some mature students are so poor that their children will go without presents this Christmas, according to an explosive report into student finances commissioned by the government. Lone parents, who...
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Latest international news
Mounties on trail of student loan fraudsters The Royal Canadian Mounted Police is investigating a C$2 million (£893,000) student loan fraud. One man has been arrested and more arrests are expected....
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From today's UK papers
FINANCIAL TIMES Early January should see the blooming of the government's new white paper on the knowledge economy - the latest competitiveness white paper. BP will announce £2.5m funding for...
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Latest UK news
Pay bargaining chief resigns University pay bargaining chief Peter Humphreys today announced his resignation and said that local pay bargaining is almost certain to become the norm in the sector. Mr...
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TV & radio guide - Wednesday
Truman (9.25 am BBC2, also Thurs 9.15 am, Friday 9.00 am ). Three-part profile of former US president. The Civil War: Traitors and Patriots (10.00 am History Channel) and » The West : Speck of the...
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Latest international news
University reopens after student protest The University of Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso has reopened two months after a boycott of lectures by students demanding better living and...
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From today's UK papers
THE GUARDIAN After 30 years of stonewalling, the United Kingdom government is finally considering following the lead of 91 other countries and signing the Unesco convention banning the international...