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| Mon, 08 Feb 2010 21:04:07 +0100 Jackson's doctor on manslaughter charge |
| Michael Jackson's doctor Conrad Murray has been charged with involuntary manslaughter. Murray has been the focus of investigations for months,… |
| Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:19:14 +0100 Pressure on Ukraine's Tymoshenko to concede |
| There is growing pressure on Yulia Tymoshenko to concede defeat. Supporters of pro-Russian Viktor Yanukovich are celebrating his victory as… |
| Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:16:09 +0100 Yanukovic supporters hail victory |
| 'One leader, one state' was the slogan that hauled Viktor Yanukovic to victory. The leader of the Party of the Regions has promised a strong,… |
| Mon, 08 Feb 2010 14:25:09 +0100 Yanukovich:Â priority is fight against poverty |
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Viktor Yanukovich has made a great comeback. Before these elections he set out his stall in… |
| Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:18:08 +0100 New Russian position on Iran? |
| There appears to be a change in Moscow's tone on the Iran nuclear question. A senior Russian lawmaker says tougher sanctions against the Islamic… |
| Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:14:07 +0100 Al-Qaeda in Yemen calls for holy war |
| The second in command of the Yemen-based wing of al-Qaeda, Saeed al-Shehri is calling on Muslims in the Arabian peninsula to wage jihad, or holy war,… |
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| Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:35:07 +0100 How to defend the Enlightenment |
| "To say that reason is only desiccating and too dry is a dangerous caricature. No less dangerous is to eliminate the place for arts, for myth, which is a different kind of knowledge of the world." Tzvetan Todorov in conversation with AC Grayling about his new book, "In Defence of the Enlightenment". |
| Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:35:07 +0100 The structure and silence of the cognitariat |
| Only a small "creative class" achieves the freedom stereotypically attributed to knowledge workers, writes Christopher Newfield. Increasingly, recipients of higher education are prepared for working life in a knowledge economy where independence has been eroded. |
| Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:35:07 +0100 Banking regulation? Malfunction! |
| The few regulatory measures introduced since the financial collapse are being supervised by the same banking sector that caused it in the first place, writes Lucas Zeise. Governments' delegation of regulatory responsibilities has deeply negative implications for democracy. |
| Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:35:07 +0100 Fair game |
| 350 million do it regularly. It offers levels of complexity and human interaction beyond any other art form. We can't continue to ignore the cultural impact of online gaming, says Michael Bywater. |
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| Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:03:16 GMT Traders make $8bn bet against euro |
| Data from the Chicago Mercantile Exchange show net short positions against the single currency rising from 39,500 contracts to 43,700 contracts, equivalent to $7.6bn |
| Mon, 08 Feb 2010 20:04:17 GMT US courts support for Iran sanctions |
| The US launched a renewed push to rally support for sanctions against Iran after President Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad pledged to enrich uranium closer to the level needed for nuclear weapons |
| Mon, 08 Feb 2010 22:35:25 GMT Xstrata sees ‘advantages’ in possible Glencore link-up |
| Xstrata fuelled renewed talk of a merger with Glencore, the privately held commodities trader, with the chief executive of the miner suggesting that a union could create value |
| Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:39:00 GMT Yanukovich poised for victory in Kiev |
| Yulia Tymoshenko, prime minister, comes under pressure to concede defeat in Ukraine’s presidential election after Viktor Yanukovich appeared to have sealed a narrow victory |
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| Mon, 08 Feb 2010 15:53:00 +0100 Kabel Deutschland starts 100Mbps broadband offer |
(Telecompaper) Kabel Deutschland launched its Docsis 3.0 broadband internet service, offering speeds of up to 100Mbps. The service is initially available in Hamburg and will spread to Munich, Berlin and Hanover within six months. The cable operator expects to eventually roll out Docsis 3.0 across its entire network. Customers can choose form two bundles of internet and phone service at 60 or 100 Mbps. The 60Mbps service costs EUR 32.90 per month for the first 12 months, and then increases to EUR 39.90. The 100Mbps will sell for EUR 42.90 per month in the first year of a contract and then rise to EUR 49.90. |
| Mon, 08 Feb 2010 11:04:00 +0100 Sony Ericsson promotes Tear to lead global sales, marketing |
(Telecompaper) Sony Ericsson has promoted Kristian Tear, currently head of Western Europe and head of global customer accounts, to head of global sales and marketing, effective 1 April. In his new role, Tear succeeds Anders Runevad, who will return to Ericsson. Tear will report to Sony Ericsson president Bert Nordberg. He joined Sony Ericsson in 2005 from Ericsson, where he held a number of executive management positions in Asia, Europe and Latin America. The company will announce Tear's successor, in his position of head of Western Europe region and head of global customer accounts, in due course. |
| Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:31:00 +0100 Deutsche Telekom to change strategy, focus on data - CEO |
(Telecompaper) Deutsche Telekom CEO Rene Obermann expects a completely different revenue breakdown for the operator within five years, according to a message on Deutsche Telekom's intranet cited by the German press. Obermann unveiled the new strategy of the operator to around 1,000 managers in Munich and said that the company will have to transform from a clear telephony company into a more diverse company, focusing on data services. To reach this goal, a new cost-cutting programme will be introduced, while at the same time a billion euros will be invested. The focus will be on developing new services like mobile applications as well as new data services for the healthcare industry and electricity market. |
| Mon, 08 Feb 2010 08:52:00 +0100 Vodafone Qatar inks GBI cable deal |
(Telecompaper) Vodafone Qatar has signed an agreement to provide a landing station for Gulf Bridge International's submarine cable in the Gulf state. Scheduled to launch in 2011 and designed to operate for up to 25 years, the GBI cable system will connect telecommunication operators and other communications firms in the region via a core ring, which can re-route traffic thereby increasing resilience. The GBI cable system will connect all the countries of the Gulf region to each other and provide onward connectivity to Europe and Asia. With a design capacity of up to 5 Tbps on certain cable sections, the GBI cable system will have the capability to meet the rapid growth in demand that has been forecast for traffic originating and terminating in the Gulf, the company said. |
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| Mon, 08 Feb 2010 13:44:06 +0000 English papers lead campaign to 'ditch the directive' |
London-based conservative newspaper the Daily Telegraph and its free rival, City AM, launched campaigns against the EU's proposed regulation of alternative invetsment funds.
The Telegraph has coined its campaign 'Ditch the Directive'.
English newspapers today (8 February) took command of a campaign to completely write off a proposed EU regulation which would limit the activity of hedge funds, the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD), saying it will hurt the London-based financial sector.
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| Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:24:18 +0000 Business sketches path to sustainable living |
Sustainable living by 2050 will require "fundamental changes in governance structures, economic frameworks, business and human behaviour," notes a report presented last week at the World CEO Forum in New Delhi.
Major multinational corporations want to lead the way towards sustainability, arguing that global challenges present vast business opportunities.
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| Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:16:11 +0000 EU ministers to ignite debate on electric cars |
Spain, which holds the EU's rotating presidency, will table a document assessing challenges facing the electric vehicles industry at an informal meeting of EU competitiveness ministers tomorrow (9 February).
It aims to adopt a common EU action plan in May to give Europe's car-manufacturing industry a competitive edge in the race against the US, China and Japan.
EU ministers will trigger a debate on an EU strategy for electric cars this week amid warnings by green groups that the electricity used to charge the vehicles could prove as polluting as the fuel engines they are supposed to replace.
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| Mon, 08 Feb 2010 10:21:10 +0000 Call for EU 'embassies' to support business |
SMEs face particular challenges in emerging markets like China, where protectionism and intellectual property rights pose major problems, says Adrian van den Hoven, director of international relations at BusinessEurope.
BusinessEurope has highlighted growing trade tensions between Europe and China in a series of letters to the EU executive, but van den Hoven believes the Lisbon Treaty provides scope for Brussels to provide advice and direct protection for companies operating overseas.
Europe's new External Action Service (EEAS) could serve as a first port-of-call for small businesses looking to gain a foothold in foreign markets, according to Europe's main business lobby group.
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| Mon, 08 Feb 2010 06:36:29 +0000 Barroso II 'in search of lost time' |
"We have now had the longest interregnum in the Union's history," Sir Julian Priestley, a veteran EU insider, told this website.
Indeed, after an EU institutional reform process that began at the 2001 Laeken summit and ended with the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty last December, as well as a European Commission that experienced several months of uncertainty in a caretaker capacity, a backlog of duties awaits the Barroso II team.
A daunting agenda awaits the incoming Barroso II team ahead of its confirmation vote in the European Parliament tomorrow (9 February), as valuable time has been lost in ratifying the Lisbon Treaty, choosing new leaders and putting in place the new EU executive.
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| EP on Transnistria referendum |
| After a long absence, the breakaway Moldovan region of Transnistria was once again on the European Parliament's agenda today. |
| Azeri press pressured |
| The OSCE is increasingly concerned about press freedom following a string of cases of prosecution of journalists in Azerbaijan. |
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| Mon, 08 Feb 2010 17:37:00 GMT Parliamentary week 8-11 February - what's on? |
 MEPs will vote Tuesday on whether to approve or reject the new Barroso II European Commission. Also in Strasbourg next week is a key vote on the interim EU-US data sharing agreement on Thursday. Midweek MEPs debate the progress that Croatia, The Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia and Turkey have made on the road to joining the EU. Find all the information on the debates and votes here. Get daily updates here. Source : © European Parliament |
| Mon, 08 Feb 2010 12:21:00 GMT EU position on blue fin tuna ban debated Tuesday |
 The fate of blue fin tuna hangs in the balance this week as a complete ban on the trade is debated by MEPs. Ahead of a meeting of the Convention for the Protection of Endangered Species (CITES) the European Union must thrash out a position on whether to support a ban proposed by Monaco. The Union is divided although recently two key states, France and Italy, have swung around behind stopping the trade. The debate on Tuesday will be crucial to establishing a consensus. Source : © European Parliament |
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| Wed, 03 Feb 2010 11:00:00 +0100 Volume of retail trade remained stable in euro area |
| In December 2009, compared with November 2009, the volume of retail trade remained stable in the euro area (EA16) and fell by 0.1% in the EU27. In November retail trade decreased by 0.5% in both zones. |
| Tue, 02 Feb 2010 11:00:00 +0100 Industrial producer prices up by 0.1% in euro area |
| In December 2009 compared with November 2009, the industrial producer price index rose by 0.1% in the euro area (EA16) and remained stable in the EU27. In November, prices increased by 0.2% in both zones. |
| Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:00:00 +0100 Euro area inflation estimated at 1.0% |
| Euro area annual inflation is expected to be 1.0% in January 2010 according to a flash estimate issued by Eurostat, the statistical office of the European Union. It was 0.9% in December 2009. |
| Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:00:00 +0100 Euro area unemployment rate up to 10.0% |
| The euro area (EA16) seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate was 10.0% in December 2009, compared with 9.9% in November. It was 8.2% in December 2008. The EU27 unemployment rate was 9.6% in December 2009, compared with 9.5% in November. It was 7.6% in December 2008. For the euro area this is the highest rate since August 1998 and for the EU27 since the start of the series in January 2000. |
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| Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:35:07 +0100 How to defend the Enlightenment |
| "To say that reason is only desiccating and too dry is a dangerous caricature. No less dangerous is to eliminate the place for arts, for myth, which is a different kind of knowledge of the world." Tzvetan Todorov in conversation with AC Grayling about his new book, "In Defence of the Enlightenment". |
| Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:35:07 +0100 The structure and silence of the cognitariat |
| Only a small "creative class" achieves the freedom stereotypically attributed to knowledge workers, writes Christopher Newfield. Increasingly, recipients of higher education are prepared for working life in a knowledge economy where independence has been eroded. |
| Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:35:07 +0100 Banking regulation? Malfunction! |
| The few regulatory measures introduced since the financial collapse are being supervised by the same banking sector that caused it in the first place, writes Lucas Zeise. Governments' delegation of regulatory responsibilities has deeply negative implications for democracy. |
| Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:35:07 +0100 Fair game |
| 350 million do it regularly. It offers levels of complexity and human interaction beyond any other art form. We can't continue to ignore the cultural impact of online gaming, says Michael Bywater. |
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| Thu, 04 Feb 2010 16:00:00 UT Hubble:Forming the present-day spiral galaxies [heic1002] |
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Using data from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, astronomers have, for the first time, created a demographic census of galaxy types and shapes from a time before the Earth and the Sun existed, to the present day. The results show that, contrary to contemporary thought, more than half of the present-day spiral galaxies had so-called peculiar shapes only 6000 million years ago, which, if confirmed, highlights the importance of collisions and mergers in the recent past of many galaxies. It also provides clues for the unique status of our own galaxy, the Milky Way.
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| Fri, 29 Jan 2010 12:00:00 UT LAPLACE/EJSM:Europa Jupiter System Mission: Presentations from third instrument workshop now available |
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The third instrument workshop for the Europa Jupiter System Mission (EJSM), a candidate L-class mission in ESA's Cosmic Vision science plan, was held on 18-20 January 2010 at ESA's European Space Research and Technology Centre (ESTEC) in Noordwijk, the Netherlands. Presentations made at the workshop are now available to download from this website.
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| Wed, 20 Jan 2010 16:30:00 UT Cluster:Multiple rifts in Earth's magnetic shield |
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The Earth's magnetic field protects our planet from most of the permanent flow of particles from the solar wind. Fissures in this magnetic shield are known to occur, enabling the solar wind to penetrate our near-space environment. A study based on data collected by the four ESA Cluster satellites and the CNSA/ESA Double Star TC-1 spacecraft, provides new insight into the location and duration of these ruptures in the Earth's magnetic shield.
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| Wed, 20 Jan 2010 14:47:00 UT XMM-Newton:XMM-Newton traces dark matter in faint, distant galaxy groups |
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Observations of faint and distant galaxy groups made with the European Space Agency's XMM-Newton observatory have been used to probe the evolution of dark matter. The results of the study are reported in the 20 January issue of The Astrophysical Journal.
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| 08 Feb 2010 16:21:00 +0100 Women in ICT: The Way Forward |
| This event will celebrate the International Women's Day. It will also comprise workshops targeting women willing to set up consortia and submit proposals for future calls as well as a session on eSkills. |
| 08 Feb 2010 15:11:00 +0100 Ethos International Conference /Sustainable Technologies
Exhibition |
| The Sustainable Technologies Exhibition has the objective of gathering and providing information and knowledge on the available sustainable technologies, in order to encourage their development, production and use by individuals as well as public and private organizations.
?Sustainable technologies? include economically feasible methodologies, techniques, systems, equipment or processes that can be produced and applied to minimize negative and promote positive impacts on the environment, on people?s quality of life and on a socio-environmentally sustainable development.
Sustainable technologies with a high replication potential are brought together at the Sustainable Technologies Exhibition ? an event organized by the Ethos Institute, Brazil, in parallel with the International Conference on Corporate Social Responsibility.
Categories for submission are: Inclusive Technologies, Responsible Technologies and Green Technologies
Submissions close on February 12th. |
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| Mon, 08 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT Scientists shed light on insulin activity |
| A British-Czech team of scientists has discovered how insulin interacts with cells in the human body. Published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS), the findings could give a major boost to researchers hoping to develop viable treatments to fight type I diabetes. |
| Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT 'PPlane' project – radical and novel ideas for 'Personal Air Transport System' |
| The EU-funded PPLANE project is poised to revolutionise travel, ease congestion with its Personal Air Transport System (PATS), a new paradigm in air transport. Like a private car, the PPlane personal air vehicle will deliver the benefits of speed and routing efficiency only possible through direct-to-destination flight. |
| Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT SynBIOsis promotes solid European research ties |
| Synergies that fuel the European Research Area (ERA) also promote the scientific development of regions across the EU. Enter the SynBIOsis ('Maximising synergies for central European biotech research infrastructures') project that has brought together two research-driven clusters (RDCs) — Friuli Venezia Giulia (Italy) and South Moravia (Czech Republic) — that are active in diverse research fields including bioinformatics, computational biology and biomedicine. SynBIOsis has received almost EUR 940 000 under the 'Regional' priority of the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7), as the first-ever project coordinated from the Czech Republic, to establish trans-regional actions resulting in a Joint Action Plan that will respond to the needs and opportunities identified, and will fuel research-driven economic growth in both regions. |
| Thu, 04 Feb 2010 00:00:00 GMT Scientists tackle and trace infection prevention and control |
| An international team of scientists has developed an innovative way to track the transmission of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in a single hospital setting. Presented in the journal Science, the findings demonstrate how this unique method can 'zoom' from large-scale inter-continental transmission events to the much finer detail of person-to-person infection of MRSA in just one hospital. |
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| 2010-02-04 10:00:00 EEA's input to post-2010 biodiversity policy |
| As a contribution to European debate on post-2010 vision and targets, the European Environment Agency (EEA) will enhance its support to policy makers by providing a detailed picture of the current state of biodiversity in Europe, as well as develop an information system for sharing knowledge on biodiversity across Europe. |
| 2010-01-20 13:45:18 COP15: outcomes and the way forward |
| The United Nations Climate Change Conference held in Copenhagen ended on Saturday, 19 December 2009. The main outcome of the conference was a political agreement – known as the Copenhagen Accord – to cap the global temperature rise by committing to significant emission reductions and to raise funds to help the developing world address climate change. |
| 2010-01-11 09:30:00 Biodiversity is life. Biodiversity is our life. |
| To celebrate the launch of the International Year of Biodiversity on 11 January, the European Environment Agency (EEA) is commencing a series of concise, thematic assessments of biodiversity. The first of these '10 messages for 2010' presents the interaction between climate change and biodiversity. |
| 2009-12-14 09:30:00 Bend the trend — every small act counts |
| International business leaders, social organisers, Lapland's reindeer herders and the Netherlands' architects all have stories to tell about how climate change has affected them. The European Environment Agency is providing them a platform to make their voices and solutions heard. The Agency also invites everyone to pledge a small change in their lifestyle. |
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