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BY KEITH NUTHALL

AUSTRALIA and the European Union (EU) have struck a new wide-ranging nuclear energy cooperation agreement, replacing a more narrow 1981 deal focused on transfers of nuclear material. That was due to expire in 2012, and EU ministers have now approved its replacement – an agreement on cooperation in the peaceful uses of nuclear energy.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

In 20 years’ time, consumers might be looking back on today’s beverage market and laughing at the fact that people were once buying drinks just because they were thirsty.

"We’re going to start seeing a whole lot of new, nutritional ingredients popping up in our drinks soon – functionality will be the biggest theme in 20 years," said Tom Pirko, president of California-based international food and beverage advisory firm Bevmark LLC.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

LITTLE more excites the international auto industry more than the search for an alternative to fossil fuels, and an American company is now looking seriously into the idea of using a heavy element thorium to generate locomotive power.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL, DAVE YIN and WANG FANGQING

A GOOD deal of excitement has been created by the announcement this week in the UK academic journal Nature Geoscience that significant deposits of rare earths have been found in the Pacific Ocean floor.…

BY MARK ROWE

CO-GENERATION (or combined-heat and power – CHP) plants operate using a variety of technologies: gas turbines, fuel cells, Stirling engines, gas or diesel engines and combined cycle gas turbines. According to the Joint Research Centre (JRC) – the European Union’s (EU) scientific and technical research body – natural gas is currently the preferred fuel across Europe for co-gen, with combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT) and gas turbine plants expected to become the predominant future technology for large-scale units.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE

Abu Dhabi-based airport systems integration provider Bayanat Airports Engineering and Supplies has signed a strategic partnership agreement to become the exclusive United Arab Emirates (UAE) sales representative for Adacel, an Australia-based specialist in advanced air traffic control simulators and automated ATM systems.…

BY MJ DESCHAMPS

THE OZONE layer, which has oft been called the ‘Earth’s sunscreen’ has been depleting for years over the southern hemisphere; but now, with a recent report by the World Meteorological Organisation (WMO) that major depletion in the ozone layer has been found over the northern hemisphere, Europeans might be more inclined to trade in their tan lines for suntan lotion this summer.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) ministers and MEPs have been asked to approve a new permanent passenger name record (PNR) agreement between the EU and Australia. This would replace an existing 2008 provisional agreement, whose authorisation has been delayed by European Parliament privacy objections.…

BY BARBARA BIERACH and WOLFGANG MUELLER

THE SYDNEY 2000 Olympic Summer Games have been hailed as "the best ever", even outside Australia – and a rosy reputation seems to surround the commercial development of the legacy sites as well.

According to the Sydney Olympic Park Authority the Sydney Games are "internationally recognised as a leading example of urban renewal".…

BY MARGUERITE-JEANNE DESCHAMPS, MINI PANT ZACHARIAH and WANG FANGQING

While sales of alcohol in pubs and bars in North America, Europe and the UK have seen a steady decline since the global economic downturn, experts are saying the shift from on-trade to off-trade sales of alcohol has not really had a financial impact on the alcoholic beverage industry as a whole.…