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By Monica Dobie

Researchers from the USA’s University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) have discovered a silver lining to sky rocketing vehicle fuel prices – fewer deaths from car accidents.

An analysis of yearly vehicle deaths compared to gas prices found death rates drop significantly as people slow down and drive less.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AN END to the world’s longest international trade dispute – over banana and banana products – was close to being solved at the World Trade Organisation (WTO), but then the deal just slipped away. At the July ministerial meeting in Geneva that tried and failed to secure agreement over the Doha Development Round of trade liberalisation negotiations, a deal was struck between European Union (EU) and Latin American banana producers to cut the EU’s import duty to Euro 114 (US$179) a tonne by 2016 for so-called dollar bananas from Latin America, after an initial cut to Euro 148 in 2009 from Euro 176 now.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

RESEARCHERS from the USA’s University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) have discovered a silver lining to sky rocketing vehicle fuel prices – fewer deaths from car accidents. An analysis of yearly vehicle deaths compared to petrol prices found death rates drop significantly as people slow down and drive less.…

BY KARRYN CARTELLE

SEPARATED by a short plane ride across the Tasman Sea, Australia and New Zealand are clearly two distinct countries – in the physical sense – but when it comes to the cosmetics industry in these neighbouring lands it is clear that things are merging into one.…

BY PACIFICA GODDARD, in Caracas

LATIN AMERICA has long been notorious for its high levels of corruption, especially through money laundering, bribery and the illicit drug trade. And although the recent years of relative stability and democratisation in the region have brought economic progress, this has also widened the opportunities for fraudulent activities and fuelled an increasing sophistication by which they are performed.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

HOW quickly events are moving in the energy sector at present, and how difficult this makes long-term planning by the power generation industry. One of the key documents for forecasters in Europe is the paper prepared by the National Technical University of Athens for the European Commission’s directorate-general for energy and transport on "Trends to 2030."…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

LAST May, a coordinated attack on essential computer networks in the tiny Baltic republic of Estonia set nerves upon edge amongst European Internet security specialists. Following the removal of a Russian war memorial from the centre of its capital Tallinn, a still unidentified group of computer users bombarded Estonian political, government, media and banking websites with so much data, they were forced offline.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) and USA have bought themselves more time to resolve the long-running banana trade dispute that has been subject to World Trade Organisation (WTO) disputes procedures since 1996.

They have agreed with WTO officials to postpone the adoption of a ruling branding the EU a scofflaw over its favouring the import of African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) bananas over those exported from central and south America, usually by US firms.…

BY PACIFICA GODDARD, in Caracas

IN Latin America, the combination of economic growth, weak law enforcement, and a culture that turns a blind eye to corruption, creates an increasingly fertile setting for a variety of commercial crimes, Pacifica Goddard reports from Caracas.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

LAST May, a coordinated attack on essential computer networks in the tiny Baltic republic of Estonia set nerves upon edge amongst European Internet security specialists. Following the removal of a Russian war memorial from the centre of its capital Tallinn, a still unidentified group of computer users bombarded Estonian political, government, media and banking websites with so much data, they were forced offline.…