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The European Commission has produced a ten-year economic development plan (3.3.10), saying endemic problems had set in before the global economic crisis in 2008-9, and needed joint action by all governments. … Read More »
At 8:30pm tonight, people from all corners of the world will turn off their lights for one hour - Earth Hour - and cast their vote for action on climate change. … Read More »
An Australian-first alliance between three of the country’s main universities will expand higher learning in a range of European and Asian languages.
With $2.27 million in Australian Government funding, the Brisbane-based University of Queensland (UQ), Griffith University and Queensland University of Technology (QUT) will pool teaching of at least nine languages. … Read More »
An Italian Catholic priest is facing severe criticism from parents, as a prize meanie, for telling their children that Father Christmas does not really exist.
Father Dino Bottino, the parish priest of the Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Novara, Northern Italy, let out the secret at a children’s mass earlier this month. … Read More »
A Russian businessman has trademarked the wink emoticon - or combination of punctuation marks - used in text messages and email.
President of Superfone Oleg Teterin said he doesn’t plan on tracking down individual users following the decision by the federal patent agency. … Read More »
New figures released by the European Union show Europe has become the heaviest-drinking region of the world … suffering two-hundred-thousand early deaths through alcohol each year. … Read More »