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BY ZLATKO CONKAS, BLAKE BERRY, MONIKA HANLEY, MARK ROWE and KEITH NUTHALL

EASTERN Europe is often regarded as developing in the slipstream of richer western Europe – and so far the model seems to be fitting with biofuels. That said, significant biodiesel manufacturing capacity is in place in the region, according to the European Biodiesel Board.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

EUROPEAN Union (EU) consumer safety network RAPEX has warned certain skin whiteners have been blocked from sale over health concerns. The main problem was illegal hydroquinone use, breaching the EU cosmetics directive. This was why Portugal customs blocked imports of Democratic Republic of the Congo-made imports of Angel Cosmetics’ Clairmen brand and ‘Caro White’ cream, plus Ivory Coast-made ‘Skin Light’ cream; Austrian shops withdrew Ivory Coast-made ‘Skin Light’ cream; while France warned about French-made ‘Fair & White’ cream.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A EUROPEAN Union (EU)-funded research project has been using donated dead bodies, elaborately constructed dummies and complex computer research to create a digital model of the thorax (the upper body between the head and abdomen) to help build safer cars.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

DOUBTS are growing about the wisdom of encouraging biofuel use in the European Union (EU) as a cornerstone of environmental policy aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

The EU has painted itself into a corner with its renewable energy directive.…

BY BILL CORCORAN, WACHIRA KIGOTHO, PAUL COCHRANE; and KEITH NUTHALL

SUB-SAHARAN Africa has always been regarded as a problem zone for air traffic control, with weak states struggling to provide the sophisticated and flexible communications required for state of the art ATC.…

BY MARIANNE BROWN

STABLE large developing countries have obvious advantages over small states and those facing civil conflict, in terms of creating effective anti-money laundering (AML) and combating the financing of terrorism (CFT) systems. But given many are today in the throes of rapid economic growth and transformation into consumer societies, their governments have a lot of priorities to juggle, and keeping close tabs on dirty money might not be one of them.…

BY WACHIRA KIGOTHO

RESEARCHERS studying mining in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) are warning illegal uranium mining continues in a country still riven with political violence and weak government authority.

Indeed, militia groups and government soldiers continue to benefit from illegal uranium mining in the eastern DRC, claims Ms Nyambura Githaiga, a researcher with the Nairobi-based African Conflict Prevention Programme.…

BY MONIKA HANLEY, LEE ADENDORFF, MARK ROWE, ALAN OSBORN, MINDY RAN, GERARD O’DWYER and MARTINA MARECKOVA

FOR an industry that generates energy, heat and maybe cooling, the European cogeneration sector has been operating on a decidedly low output in recent years.…

BY LEE ADENDORFF, MARK ROWE, ALAN OSBORN, KATHERINE DUNN, MARTINA MARECKOVA, GERARD O’DWYER and MINDY RAN

The largest Czech Republic power company, ?EZ, has just made a decision to extend its footprint in heat production; announcing on July 28, 2011, that it plans to acquire Energotrans, the Czech company which supplies heat from the town of M?lník…

BY MARK ROWE

IT has to be the worst nightmare for professional nursing ethics imaginable. You work in a private clinic. And an armed group is harvesting organs from corpses who have died at the clinic. You may suspect they were actually killed so those organs can be removed, which means your own life could be at risk if you kick up a fuss.…