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BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE WORLD Health Organisation’s executive board has chosen its nominee to become the new director general of the UN agency. He is WHO insider South Korean Dr Jong-Wook Lee, director of the organisation’s Stop TB programme and the former head of its Global Programme for Vaccines and Immunisations.…

BY JONATHAN THOMSON
BRITISH government backed scientists have launched a pioneering research project that could see natural plant fibres being used to manufacture car body shells. Biomat is a four-year project using various forms of flax and hemp fibre, as well as willow, and is being funded by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.…

BY PHILIP FINE

CONCERNS that an agreed maritime security code from the International Maritime Organisation (IMO) could promote claims, on the basis that ships and ports failed to follow its terms, have been dismissed by a legal specialist. Barry Tarnef, responsible for global maritime loss control at American lawyers Chubb & Son, said the International Code for the Security of Ships and Port Facilities, agreed in December, code could actually shield ship-owners from crushing settlements: "If you develop a security assessment protocol, it’s evidence that you are doing the best you can," he said.…

BY PHILIP FINE

COCA-COLA is continuing the global rollout of its energy drink Burn, introducing the product in Ukraine. The drink has been targeted to clubbers, athletes and even dozy workers but the main distribution point in Ukraine is the local discos.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Bank for Reconstruction and Development is debating plans to loan Euro 45 million to Slovenian local banks who would on-lend the money to private and public projects reducing water pollution flowing into the country’s portion of the Danube basin.…

Keith Nuthall
THE INTERNATIONAL Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) has established its planned fund to help developing countries afford improvements to their air industry security, the International Financial Facility for Aviation Safety. Its budgets are ring-fenced and will be drawn upon to finance projects identified by ICAO’s Universal Safety Oversight Audit Programme.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
THERE is an American company – St Lawrence of Florida – which will insure you against anything coming from outer space, be it an asteroid crashing on to the earth or abduction by aliens. The latter costs US$22.95 for cover of US$10 million.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
Europe’s ambitious Galileo programme to establish a global satellite navigation system is clearly a project that likes to keep its supporters in a state of fairly constant nervous tension. At a cost of 3.2 billion euros, Galileo was never a sure-fire runner to begin with.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE FISH Diseases Commission of the Office International des Epizooties, the global animal health organisation, has published a comprehensive set of easily understood information cards on all the main aquatic animal illnesses.

These are now available on line and include data on susceptible species, transmission, symptoms and treatment.…

BY JONATHAN THOMSON, in Newcastle, England, PHILIP FINE and MONICA DOBIE, in Montreal, Canada

SPACE may be Star Trek’s final frontier, but in reality innovations used on rockets and satellites do not stay in orbit; they are often brought back to Earth where they have been used by auto-manufacturers to break their own technological boundaries.…