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BY KEITH NUTHALL

A GROUP of influential countries are debating forging an international anti-counterfeiting of goods agreement, which would see them cooperate against the production and trade in fake tobacco products. Australia, Canada, the European Union, Japan, Jordan, Korea, Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore, Switzerland, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States have been discussing the idea in Geneva.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EFFORTS to improve the poor safety record of African civil aviation have sparked a parallel process to improve the management of airports and air traffic management in the continent. The International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) is to stage a conference on the issue from September 15 to 20 in Montreal, Canada, to update its policies to dovetail with a Comprehensive Regional Implementation Plan for Aviation Safety in Africa, which is now being rolled out.…

By Monica Dobie

Niagara College in St. Catherines, (NOTE TO EDITOR – NO APOSTROPHE) southern Ontario, Canada, will launch a groundbreaking brewmaster diploma programme in September 2010, assuming the construction of a teaching brewery can be finished on time.

Funds and curriculum have been approved and now builders face a trace against time to finish the building project in time for the start of the 2010 academic year.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON in London

PROPOSED new European Union (EU) legislation making a range of safety systems in new cars, trucks and other heavy vehicles mandatory from 2012 has had a largely positive response from the automotive industry, but proposals about cutting down tire noise have been less welcome.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

MAJOR concerns have been raised about a draft European Union (EU) plan to attract highly qualified immigrants because of its ability to fuel an intense brain drain from Africa.

A hearing was staged last week in Brussels (June 26) at the European Parliament on the ‘blue card’ proposals now being designed by the European Commission, the EU’s executive body.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE CANADIAN parliament has approved a bill that allows its federal government to require a 5% average biofuel content in petrol used in Canada by 2010. It can also require 2% average biofuel content in diesel and heating oil by 2012.…

BY PHILIPPA JONES, in Paris

"FISHING is much more than fish," said former US president Herbert Hoover. "It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers." This may have been the case in the 1930s and may remain so for weekend anglers, who forget about the week’s stresses sitting quietly by the side of a lake.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A POWERFUL international bloc is debating forging an international anti-counterfeiting of goods agreement insisting upon cooperation over fighting fake food products. Australia, Canada, the European Union, Japan, Jordan, Korea, Mexico, Morocco, New Zealand, Singapore, Switzerland, the United Arab Emirates, and the United States have been discussing the idea in Geneva.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

AN ANGLO-Canadian research team has found microbes living in dried oil tar can be provoked into digesting this petroleum well residue, turning it into natural gas. Scientists from England’s University of Newcastle and Canada’s University of Calgary found the microbes could be provoked into a tar feeding frenzy by supplying them with additional nutrients.…

BY MARK ROWE and MONICA DOBIE

GENETICALLY modified foods have split opinion across the world; hugely unpopular in Europe but embraced in the United States. But GM technology does not only apply to foodstuffs. Increasingly, scientists are looking at the extent to which altering the genetic components of a range of products that are used for textiles can influence the make-up of the clothes we wear.…