It was April 2002 and Israeli tanks were holding the Palestinian leader, the late Yasser Arafat, under siege in his Ramallah compound in the West Bank. Governments around the world were desperate to...
The average inmate is poorly educated and probably has drug or mental-health problems. Andrew Coyle asks whether prison is the best answer In the past few days David Blunkett, the Home Secretary, has...
John Kirkaldy explains why the OU reaches out to inmates It was 3am and the man at the party was very drunk. "When," he demanded belligerently, "is the Open University going to give up giving degrees...
Condoleezza Rice is extraordinarily talented but does she have the guts to contradict her closest ally? asks Jennifer Mathers Condoleezza Rice exemplifies the American dream. She has risen from...
Brussels, 08 Dec 2004 EFSA has established a self-tasking working group to study requirements for Post Market Environmental Monitoring (PMEM WG) in order to produce guidance for both applicants and...
Brussels, 08 Dec 2004 Full text European Food Safety Authority -- EFSA
08 Dec 2004 One form of legal protection for biotechnology inventions, which is not often used, is trade secrecy. This right, in contrast to patents and copyrights, is not registered and is of...
Brussels, 08 Dec 2004 A new Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) project aims to expand and simplify existing and future networks of devices and embedded systems, enabling the billions of electronic...
Brussels, 08 Dec 2004 The European Commission has published a call for proposals for the thematic priority 'nanotechnologies and nanosciences, knowledge-based multifunctional materials and new...
Brussels, 08 Dec 2004 Six members of the PAXIS network for innovative regions were honoured in Stuttgart, Germany, on 6 December, while one was singled out with a distinction for its outstanding...
Brussels, 08 Dec 2004 Despite revealing a rise in research and development (R&D) expenditure of four per cent in 2003, the latest figures from Statistics Finland suggest that overall research...
Brussels, 08 Dec 2004 Unioncamere and APRE, the Italian Agency for the promotion of European research, are organising, in collaboration with the European Commission, an information day on the role of...
Brussels, 08 Dec 2004 The European Commission has published a call for proposals for the 'citizens and governance in a knowledge-based society' thematic priority of the Sixth Framework Programme (FP6...
Paris, 08 Dec 2004 One year after Mars Express' arrival at Mars, the mighty rules of celestial mechanics have again set Christmas as the date for a major ESA event in deep space. At 1.25 billion km...
Jobs cull is gathering pace Hundreds of academic jobs are being culled across Britain as smaller and middle-ranking universities restructure subject provision to compete for research cash. ...