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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 MARK ROWE

IN the past 18 months, the rush toward biofuels as the new green alternative to fossil fuels has of course come to something of a juddering halt. Concerns over just how green they are, and the implications of growing crops for energy rather than food, have led to the UN, major energy companies, scientists and environmental organisations looking beyond the first generation of biofuels.…

BY DEIRDRE MASON, in London; LUCY JONES, in Dallas; JULIAN RYALL, in Tokyo; and KEITH NUTHALL

GIVEN the spate of oil tanker accidents in recent years involving substantial pollution of seas and coastlines around the world, it is no surprise that international organisations have weighed in with regulatory controls and guidelines on shipping standards.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN auto industry – long the continent’s odd man out in terms of competition law – may have to face a new laissez faire legal regime that would ban formal links between manufacturers, dealers and repairers.

This warning is clear in a report released yesterday (May 28) by the European Commission on how the European Union’s (EU) ‘block exemption’ system, protecting the EU auto industry from the full force of European competition law, has been working.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

A MAJOR company able to create integrated digital navigation maps and portable navigation devices should be formed, following the approval of a Dutch merger deal by the European Commission. It has green-lighted the acquisition by the Netherlands’ device manufacturer Tom Tom of co-patriots Tele Atlas, which makes navigable digital maps covering Europe and north America.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission has approved the takeover over Denmark baby clothes retailer BabySam by Netherlands-based AAC Capital Partners, and a Danish arm of the Polaris equity fund – Polaris Private Equity.

Regulatory approval will kickstart AAC-Polaris plans to turn BabySam into "the Nordic region’s leading integrated baby retail chain", by transforming "the chain of independent shops by merging 12 existing legal entities," said AAC.…

BY ALAN OSBORN, in London, and SUZANNE KOELEGA, in Sint Maarten, Dutch West Indies

AS with much of life today, the future of gambling is closely tied to the Internet, and this development of an international industry based on instant cross-border cash flows has raised understandable concerns about money laundering.…

BY MONICA DOBIE

INHALING diesel exhaust impairs the brain’s processing of information according to a study from Zuyd University, the Netherlands. Participants inhaled diesel exhaust similar to that breathed by roadside or garage workers during 30 minutes. Their minds displayed stress responses recorded on an electroencephalograph (EEG) whilst controls breathing clean air registered normal brain activity.…

By Keith Nuthall

The potential riches that can be gained by universities spinning off successful science units into commercial operations has been made clear by a deal involving Britain’s University of Surrey and Airbus-maker EADS Astrium.

It has acquired the university’s Surrey Satellite Technology Limited (SSTL) for an estimated GBPounds 50 million.…

BY RACHEL JONES, in Caracas

OFF the coast of Guyana and Surinam, north of Brazil, lie what may be some of the world’s largest untapped oil reserves. They have remained unexplored for years, thanks to a maritime border dispute between the two South American countries, the former an ex-British colony, and the latter once run by the Dutch.…