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BY ALAN OSBORN
IT might be one of the world’s smallest countries but you could hardly ask for a more emphatic turnaround from villain to hero in the fight against money laundering than Liechtenstein has managed over the last five years.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Union (EU) has its critics, heaven knows, but the renewable energy industry is rarely among them. Brussels likes green electricity production and is prepared to fund it. This is important as the EU has large budgets, as every Eurosceptic likes to point out.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
CHILDREN who live near petrol stations and car repair garages have a dramatically higher rate of leukaemia, according to a new study. The research, published in the UK journal Occupational and Environmental Medicine, indicates that exposure to the chemical benzene, present in petrol fumes and used in the manufacture of paints, plastics and pesticides may cause the childhood cancer.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has released results from a research project examining the burial of radioactive waste in rock salt. The Bambus II project examined the design and construction of chambers, considering the effectiveness of materials in securing waste, including surrounding rock, the crushed salt and container metals.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A CAMPAIGN to reduce the growing number of collisions between road vehicles and deer on Britain’s roads has called on both drivers and highways officials to deal with this potentially deadly risk.

The Deer Initiative estimates that between 30,000 and 50,000 deer are hit by cars, vans and lorries in the UK annually, with 10-20 people being killed in such accidents.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
WESTERN European countries – including Britain – are facing an increasing risk of vehicles colliding with large wild animals, two independent European studies have suggested. Researchers from the UFZ Centre for Environmental Research, Leipzig, and Madrid University concluded more animals are straying onto roads, because habitat loss forces them to migrate for food and mates.…

BY MATTHEW BRACE
AUSTRALIAN scientists claim they have made a mineral-recycling breakthrough that should save the Australian metals and minerals sector an estimated A$295 (US$208) million in costs. The private-public project coordinated by the AJ Parker Cooperative Research Centre for Hydrometallurgy in Perth, Western Australia, boasts a fundamental advance in the understanding of processes for separating fine particles from water, produced new insights into the behaviour of flocculants, substances used to clump and separate particles from water.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE CANADIAN government has proposed substantial changes to its current tough labelling requirements for tobacco products in an effort to reach more smokers. The new health warnings will include messages with both a health warning and a related benefit associated with quitting.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission is to examine whether a specialist European institute for research into international and national civil law should be established. It is to fund a study investigating the idea, along with the possibility of creating a European network of legal researchers and university departments.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
NECESSARY research that will allow France to maintain its nuclear power capacity should be carried out with Europe’s new liberalised electricity market in mind, the International Energy Authority has warned. In an assessment of French energy policy, it noted France’s “substantial government R&D in this field and the marketing and construction of French nuclear plants abroad…will help in keeping the nuclear option open.”…