Brussels, 20 Jan 2004 A new study by the UCLA (University of California in Los Angeles) center for communication policy on Internet use in Europe, Asia and the US has confirmed the existence of a...
Brussels, 20 May 2004 A Soviet-era research centre may hold the key to why bubonic plague has never been stamped out. Thanks to EU and international support, four decades of data is being converted...
Violence and Democracy
Paris, 18 Apr 2003 Altogether 120 entries from all over the globe have been received for the science fiction story-writing competition announced by ESA last November. The Clarke-Bradbury...
Britain has lost its sense of identity, argues Keith Hart, who predicts that this country is on its last legs. Western values have officially remained more or less the same since the liberal...
Yale offers incentive to foreign students Yale University is to extend its "need-blind" admission policy to foreign students, guaranteeing that it will financially support successful applicants. The...
Brian Fagan warns that global warming could shut down the Gulf Stream, locking Europe in a savage winter and the Middle East in a scorching drought for as long as ten centuries. What would happen if...
Tropical Pioneers
Burma's Lost Kingdoms
Paris, 08 July 2002 Exactly one month after the successful launch of an Ariane 4 with an Intelsat telecommunications satellite onboard, an Ariane 5 soared into space early Saturday morning (CET) from...
Silken Threads Lacquer Thrones
The jailing of two students in Singapore for consuming cannabis at an end-of-exams party in Perth could damage Australia's image in Asia, according to Curtin University deputy vice-chancellor John...
Indonesia is to open two new intelligence-gathering colleges in a move designed to improve regional and worldwide attempts to tackle international terrorism through better espionage. The institutions...
Warsaw, 4 February 2005 The Polish Lisbon Strategy Forum Warsaw, 4 February 2005 Ladies and Gentlemen, I could not have addressed the issue of European Competitiveness and the future of R&D...