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BY MONICA DOBIE
INTERSTATE Bakeries Corp. the manufacturers of Twinkies snack cakes and Wonderbread in the United States, has filed for bankruptcy protection. The company blames its financial woes in part to the low-carb craze.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE COST of the proposed Mackenzie Delta pipeline in Canada’s Northwest Territories has skyrocketed 40% to CDN$7 billion from CDN$5 billion. Imperial Oil has expanded its planned capacity, adding a separate parallel LNG line. The pipeline should be able to move 1.2 billion cubic feet of gas daily to the United States.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE OPPORTINITY for companies to buy efficient robots to tackle unpopular or dangerous jobs is increasing fast, with orders for industrial robots rising by 18% worldwide January-June this year, a United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) report has said.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE INQUIRY into irregularities surrounding the United Nations oil for food fund in Iraq will cost the scheme’s administrative account US$30 million and will continue all of next year, the UN security council has been told.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL and MONICA DOBIE
AT least one million cases of pesticide poisonings occur annually worldwide, killing thousands of people, with children being especially at risk, a United Nations (UN) agency joint-report has claimed.

The UN Food and Agriculture Organisation, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) and the World Health Organisation (WHO) say most poisonings occur in developing country rural areas, with poor countries accounting for 99% of these deaths, while using just 25% of the planet’s pesticides.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
REPRESENTATIVES of 40 governments have heard how space technology can be used to boost drinking water quality worldwide. A conference organised by the Vienna-based United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs heard how satellites can aid groundwater monitoring, flood predictions, lake and river water movement assessments, and other key tasks.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
HIV and AIDS are savagely shrinking life expectancy rates in southern Africa, said the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). In Zambia, 32.7% HIV infection rates for adults aged 15-49 has cut average mortality ages from 47.4 in 1990 to 32.7 in 2002.…

KEITH NUTHALL
THE UNITED Nations agency coordinating the world’s airlines has claimed the industry is finally shaking off its post-September 11 gloom and will post robust growth figures this year and onto 2006. Predictions released by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) say that global airline passenger traffic should grow by 6.2% this year and continue to expand by 5.4% in 2005 and 5.2% in 2006.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
EUROPEAN governments should exploit the scare tactics of the 1980’s when AIDS campaigns shocked promiscuous sex devotees and intravenous drug users into changing their behaviour, stemming HIV infections, the World Health Organisation has claimed. It fears dramatic increases in HIV cases in eastern Europe that are amongst the world’s worst, notably in Estonia, Latvia, Russia and the Ukraine “where the epidemic continues to spread unchecked”.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE CANADIAN government has announced a ban on labels that promote the sale of foods that are low in carbohydrates. When the rules take effect in December 2005, carbohydrate content must be listed on the nutrition table of all food and beverages packaging, but other low carb related claims will be forbidden.…