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BY BILL CORCORAN

WITH a crippled economy, inflation running at over 2.2 million per cent and a government partial to confiscating the assets and local operations of foreign companies when it sees fit, doing business in Zimbabwe is undoubtedly a risky undertaking.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE EUROPEAN Commission is pressing European Union (EU) member states to secure a global ban on the use of two pesticide chemicals because of health concerns. Brussels wants endosulfan and trifluralin banned under the United Nations Convention on Long-Range Trans-boundary Air Pollution.…

By Keith Nuthall

WE all know about Facebook, LinkedIn and MySpace. These social utility websites allow us all to keep in touch with friends and family around the world, exchange messages, post pictures and play silly games – such as throwing a digital sheep at someone or giving them a pixellated hellraiser cocktail.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

RICH European countries spend more on transport than poor countries, the latest comparative figures from European Union (EU) statistical agency Eurostat show. The average proportion of all household spending devoted to transport in 2005 was 13.5% in Britain and 15.7% in Finland, but just 5% in Bulgaria and 8.1% in Poland.…

BY LIZ HALL, in Alicante

SPAIN is no stranger to the threat of terrorism. For decades its soil has been the scene of terrorism at the hands of Basque independence group ETA. Increasingly, however, the threat from ETA appears to being outweighed by that of terrorist activity from Islamic extremists.…

BY ALAN OSBORN

HOW quickly events are moving in the energy sector at present, and how difficult this makes long-term planning by the power generation industry. One of the key documents for forecasters in Europe is the paper prepared by the National Technical University of Athens for the European Commission’s directorate-general for energy and transport on "Trends to 2030."…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

TRANSATLANTIC joint inspections of American, European Union (EU) and third country pharmaceutical plants are to be piloted by the European Commission, the European Medicines Agency (EMEA) and the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). This was one of a series of priority projects to improve medicine regulatory cooperation between the European Union (EU) and the United States agreed at a meeting of the Transatlantic Economic Council (TEC) in Brussels.…

BY KARRYN CARTELLE

AUSTRALIA is currently ranked as the eighth largest market in the world – third largest within the Asia-Pacific region after Japan and Hong Kong – in terms of its total stock market capitalisation of AUD$1.63 trillion (USD$1.53 trillion) in 2007 (World Federation of Exchanges figures).…

BY KEITH NUTHALL

THE CREATION of a powerful European Union (EU) energy infrastructure agency – with authority over both electricity and gas networks – has been proposed by the European Parliament’s industry committee.

Its amendments, if successful, would change European Commission proposals to create two separate agencies: the European Network of Transmission System Operators for electricity (ENTSOE) and gas (ENTSOG).…

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.…