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BY MONICA DOBIE
CHILDREN as old as 12 lack the cognitive ability to safely cross streets on their bicycles, according to a University of Iowa study published in the American journal Child Development. Researchers used virtual reality technology to allow participants to ride stationery bicycles through a residential neighbourhood, where cars were travelling between 50 and 70 kilometres per hour.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
SAFETY experts say that careful UK airbag manufacturing standards have so far prevented British rescue workers and drivers from being harmed by a rash of accidents now occurring in the United States. Firefighters have told the American press that air bags inflating accidentally because of car fires have broken firefighters’ fingers, knocked out teeth and, in one case, caused internal bleeding.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE WORLD is a small place when it comes to business these days. Increasingly, multi-nationals, as well as medium-sized companies are setting up shop in all four corners of the world. Outsourcing work and creating offices in developing countries is de rigueur to cut costs.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
COMPANY and private car drivers moving from one European Union (EU) Member State to another should not be required to pay fresh registration taxes when they change their country of residence, a European Court of Justice (ECJ) advocate general has recommended.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
LOCAL authorities in Camden and Nottingham have been held up as good practice examples in the promotion of environmentally sustainable transport by the European Union’s (EU) SMILE project, which concluded last week at a conference in La Rochelle, France (27-28 May).…

BY MONICA DOBIE
NEW technology preventing drowsy drivers from crashing will be included in all Volvo cars and SUVs by the end of the decade, company officials have told the New York auto show.

The warnings include a vibrating steering wheel, the sound of a car driving over rumble strips being played to the driver and a visual warning being projected onto the windshield.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
NOBODY likes to be on a blacklist, especially one written by the American government. But every year, the US state department issues a comprehensive rogues gallery of countries involved in the narcotics trade and related criminal problems. One surprising entrant: the United States.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL, in Paris
THE WORLD’S premier anti-money laundering operation has released a detailed report detailing how corrupt accountants are increasingly using their expertise to help criminals clean dirty money. The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) says that accountants are not only advising criminals on money laundering, but arranging paperwork and even conducting illicit transactions themselves.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
INTERNATIONAL crime is usually a cat-and-mouse game, with the criminals staying one step ahead of law enforcement. Maybe nowhere is this truer than with money laundering, where ever more elaborate scams are devised to make dirty money smell of roses.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE ASSOCIATION of British Insurers (ABI) is pressing the UK Government to maintain its raised level of spending on flood defences, as it works towards its next public spending round announcement in the summer. Following the spate of disastrous floods in 2000, Whitehall in 2002 increased its annual spending on the problem by Pounds 150 million.…