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BY LUCY JONES, in Dallas, Texas

THERE is another side to the loss of life and devastation wreaked in the USA by hurricanes Katrina, Rita, Wilma and Dennis last year, a market reaction that has brought unsought benefits to the US paint and coatings industry.…

BY SYMON ROSS, in Christchurch, New Zealand,

THE DAVEY family swapped arable faming on the Lincolnshire Wolds for mixed farming on New Zealand’s South Island five years ago and say they haven’t looked back since.

Bill and Lynda Davey had felt the future of family farming in England was in serious jeopardy and made a life changing decision to look overseas.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

IDENTIFYING people contaminated with superbugs could soon be done mechanically with an electronic nose allowing laboratory and health service staff to quickly contain and attack deadly bacteria.

The e-nose is a polymer-based device with software that can correctly detect three strains of staphylococcus aureus bacteria, including the notorious MRSA, (methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus), with more than 99% accuracy.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

CONCERNS about needlestick injuries to nurses and other health workers have inspired the European Parliament to invoke a rarely-used legal procedure to formally call on the European Commission to table reforms. The parliament’s social affairs committee has adopted a report calling for action.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has formally threatened the UK government with legal action at the European Court of Justice over alleged breaches of the European Union (EU) urban waste water treatment directive. Brussels claims that there are legally "insufficient collection and treatment facilities" for London, Torbay and Whitburn, in England, and Kilbarchan, in Scotland.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

TESTS carried out by the European Union’s (EU) reference laboratory in Weybridge, England, onto three sheep that died with suspected with BSE-like symptoms have not proved the disease has effectively jumped species from bovine livestock. The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) said that one test – called the ‘discriminatory western blot’ – suggested that the two French and one Cypriot sheep did die from a BSE-like disease, but two other tests had different results.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

FACT BOX

Population of Cyprus: 793,100

Number of students enrolled at university: 5,000 (see text)

Percentage of university students who are Cypriots: 90%

Percentage of Cypriots (excluding mature students) attending university in Cyprus or other countries: 80%

INTERVIEW

OUT of every ten young people who apply for a place at the University of Cyprus, only three actually gets admitted.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

FACT BOX

Population of Iceland: 300,000

Number of students enrolled at university: 9,526

Percentage of university students who are Icelanders: 93%

Percentage of Icelandic population attending university: 5.8%

INTERVIEW

A LOT of people are fascinated by Iceland and it’s helped make the country’s university something of a lure for students across Europe and even America.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE, in Sydney

IT might sound like science fiction but many of the most exciting and useful advances emerging from the super-science of nanotechnology are real. Nanotechnology is a relatively new approach that deals with understanding and applying the properties of matter at the nano-scale, where a small molecule measures one nano-metre (one billionth of metre) in length, or about 1/80,000 of the diameter of a human hair.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON

THE MEDIA rush to pick up on the revival of nuclear energy as a serious UK option, made plain in the Department of Trade and Industry’s recent Energy Review consultation document, has diverted attention from which tail will, in practice, be wagging the UK energy dog over the coming months.…