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Lee Duffield interviewed the Foreign Minister at Port Vila in Vanuatu on 23 July 2018. He found a frank and open, and informing account of current issues in Vanuatu. … Read More »
The European Union has started its giant-scale research drive – €1.2-billion ($A1.85-billion; xe.com, 1.1.14) over ten years — to create the best and most true understanding yet of the human brain. … Read More »
Gatherings in Warsaw and Colombo kept the international community’s focus on anxiety about climate change and sustainability, at the year’s end, though the Australians started to march out of step.
Actions on the home front in Australia show clear trends in a ‘non-environmentalist’ direction.
A Court decision has opened a new fight over a relentless corporate drive to install genetically modified crops in European agriculture. … Read More »
The European Space Agency (ESA) has launched its Gaia telescope intended to expose the Milky Way, Earth’s universe, to unprecedented mapping – in 3D.
It will build on the existing atlas of some 300 well-known stars by targeting one-billion, during five years in service. … Read More »
The skeleton found under a Leicester car park, in England, has been identified “beyond reasonable doubt†as that of King Richard III.
The man was killed in a civil war battle close to the city in 1485, and buried by monks at a church that was later demolished, during the religious purges of Henry VIII. … Read More »
“Wotch out for the chunder from down under!â€, British tabloids are screaming *; more prosaic but also to the point is this warning from the Eurosurveillance public health service:
“Healthcare institutions are advised to be prepared for a severe norovirus season.†… Read More »