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BY KASHMIR HILL

A MAGAZINE or book used to keep air travellers occupied while waiting for their flights. But these days, most people carry along their home office and personal entertainment centre in the form of laptops, MP3 players, smartphones, and digital cameras.…

BY MARK ROWE

MATERIALS recycling is becoming increasingly sophisticated as requirements and demand grow to salvage all kinds of materials from products made from all kinds of metals, plastics and paper. But the difficulties involved in extracting valuable materials could soon become a lot more complicated: the emerging technology of nanotechnology and its use of the tiniest particles could prove problematic for the recycling industry for a number of reasons.…

By Keith Nuthall, International News Services

Both projects draw on the eight volume Unesco-coordinated General History of Africa written from 1964 to 1999 which tried to create a standard for the continent written from an African rather than a colonial European perspective.

An evaluation study on using this general history in higher education throughout the continent will be written this year.…

BY ZLATKO CONKAS, and KEITH NUTHALL

WHEN imagining Europe’s greenest and most efficient energy systems, the countries of the former Yugoslavia do not readily spring to mind. The simple truth is Serbia, Kosovo, Macedonia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Montenegro, Croatia, and even Slovenia have a reputation for having ageing energy dirty systems.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE HIGH profile criminal cases against ex-Enron CEO Jeffrey Skilling and Canada-born former newspaper owner Lord Conrad Black have led to the United States Supreme Court reducing the scope of America’s ‘honest services’ statute, used to convict many fraudsters.…

BY LEAH GERMAIN

IT’S shortly after 8.30 pm and Adama Alpha is tending to a newborn baby girl at the Gondama Women’s Clinic, in Bo province, southern Sierra Leone. The infant, just two hours old, is quietly resting on a changing table, while Ms Alpha wraps her in a bright yellow nursing blanket.…

BY EMMA JACKSON

DUTCH electronics corporation Philips is working with the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) to bring sustainable energy to African villages, where an estimated 560 million people are left in darkness after nightfall. The resulting restrictions on people’s activities can actually be serious – for instance children are unable to finish their homework.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

FORD UK has this morning welcomed the signing of contracts for a GBPounds GBP450 million loan from the European Investment Bank (EIB) it says will unlock five-years’ investment in environment-friendly auto production. GBP 360 million of the loan will be guaranteed by the British government.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL and ALYSHAH HASHAM

CANADA – long a difficult jurisdiction for the tobacco sector – became tougher still on July 5, when a national ban on manufacturing and selling most flavoured cigarettes, cigarillos and blunt wraps came into force.…

BY PAUL COCHRANE

IT has been a tough last few years for north African knitwear, clothing and textile manufacturers, but the signs are that the knitwear sub-sector is outperforming its woven textile partners. With the European Union (EU) the region’s primary export destination, the region’s manufacturers have been hit by the end of restrictive quotas on imports from China in 2008, and then by the impact of the global financial crisis when demand slumped.…