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BY MATTHEW BRACE, in Brisbane, Australia
A NUCLEAR probe developed in Australia for minerals exploration and mining has the potential to reduce rates of acid rain and other environmental pollution, its developers claim.

The device, designed by Australia’s chief science authority CSIRO, can detect the concentrations of sulphur in coal seams and mine waste rock underground, allowing miners to choose those with lower levels and leave the higher sulphur coals embedded.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union and its allies at the World Trade Organisation’s (WTO) negotiations over the creation of a global register for protected geographical indications in the wine and spirit trade have made a significant concession, which may be the basis for a future deal.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE, in Brisbane, Australia
MARINE scientists are tracing the 2,000km journey of billions of lobster larvae in the swirling currents off northern Australia, collating potentially important information about farming ornate rock lobsters. The project should also help safeguard the future of Queensland’s A$7m (£2.5m) wild fishery of the species.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE
A NUCLEAR probe developed by Australia’s national science authority, CSIRO, could be used in the promotion and marketing of low sulphur coal, claims its inventors. The quipment can measure the sulphur content of coal underground, allowing miners to choose seams with less sulphur.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE, in Brisbane, Australia
TWO Australian single fathers have invented a child-tracking device that works indoors as well as out. Scott Rickaby and Mark Tunstall, researchers at Griffith University in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, say they were inspired to make the device by the abduction and killing of Merseyside toddler James Bulger almost ten years ago.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
MALE-MENOPAUSE ridden men buying powerful motorcycles that they cannot ride properly is one of two reasons for a levelling off in a 10-year decline in road accidents in rich countries, an OECD report claims. The other problem is an increase in illicit drug use by drivers.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE
A NUCLEAR probe developed by Australia’s national science authority CSIRO could cut acid rain rates, claims its inventors. It can detect the sulphur content of coal underground, allowing miners to choose seams with low concentrations of this pollutant.…

BY PHILIP FINE

AMERICA’S National Milk Producers Federation has come out against a

recently-announced free trade agreement between Australia and the United

States. Next February, the two governments will be entering trade negotiations, with the goal of completing a bilateral free trade pact by 2004.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union is joining talks at the WTO about a dispute between Australia and the Philippines over quarantine restrictions imposed by Canberra on imports of fresh fruit and vegetables, especially banana and pineapples.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
PHILIP Morris has been ordered to pay a fine in a Sydney court for violating Australia’s tobacco advertising laws. Magistrate John Andrews said that the company had engaged in a “concerted campaign” to encourage teenage girls to smoke by staging a free fashion show featuring decorations with the same colours used in Alpine cigarette packaging and a video that showed Alpine packs.…