Articles in Science and Nature
Cases of the H5 type of the avian flu have been discovered in Romanian and Ukrainian fowl. Romania has banned hunting in parts of the country and Ukrainian troops have moved from house to house in villages rounding up chickens, ducks and geese for a mass cull.
Live wild bird imports to any European Union state may be banned when EU agriculture ministers meet to discuss the bird flu threat on Tuesday.
PC manufactuer Fujitsu-Siemens has lost a controversal case in the Munich district court against German copyright management firm, VG Wort.
The Lithuanian authorties has shut down one of the reactors at the Ignalina station north east of Vilnius, as part of it’s EU accension conditions.
Unit 1 was turned off on the last day of …
The Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the UN’s Kyoto treaty on climate change on 5th November, one week after his compliant Duma voted to ratify the agreement.
The treaty had been previously held up legally …
In the Czech Republic two farmers have come up with a unique way to overcome EU regualtions that they say are threatening their livelihood.
Petr Hajek and Pavel Stepanek are from the southern Bohemia region …
Giant waves occur more frequently than it was previously believed. The MaxWave project of the European Union has brought unbelievable results. The project has made it possible to find and photograph a large quantity of so-called monster waves.
15th July 2004 – American Internet search engine company Google has won the rights to the Norwegian domain “google.no” from a local company, SMSFUN AS, which was using it to sell sunglasses.
An earlier court …
10th July 2004 – In another European win for Linux against Microsoft Corp., a French ministry is replacing 1,500 Windows NT computers with Linux systems, the supplier of the open-source operating system said Friday.
The …
