Brussels, 14 Oct 2005 A Publin policy workshop on 'innovation in the public sector' will take place in Brussels, Belgium, on 2 December. Organised by the EU funded FP5 Publin project, in cooperation...
Brussels, 14 Oct 2005 An international conference on nano-pharmaceuticals, 'PDA Nano-Pharmaceutical Conference 2005', will take place in London, UK, on 10 November. Organised by the Parenteral Drug...
Paris, 14 Oct 2005 Just after midnight an Ariane 5GS successfully lifted off from Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana. The two solid boosters ignited 7 seconds after the start-up of the cryogenic...
Paris, 14 Oct 2005 Observations of Comet 9P/Tempel 1 made by ESA's Rosetta spacecraft after the Deep Impact collision suggest that comets are 'icy dirtballs', rather than 'dirty snowballs' as...
Asian students flocking to Australia Australia is growing in popularity among Asian students, while the UK and the US are losing ground as the place to study for a degree, claims an international...
James Ivory in Conversation
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The Privatisation of the Oceans
The Purchase of Intimacy
Multinational Firms in the World Economy
The End of Poverty
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, comes from an attack on socialism that was published during the Second World War: "Contemporary events differ...
An Age of Transition? Economy and Society in England in the Later Middle Ages
Twenty-first Century India