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Wendy Alexander resigns Scottish cabinet post Enterprise, transport and lifelong-learning minister Wendy Alexander resigned from the Scottish cabinet today. In a letter to first minister Jack...
Wendy Alexander resigns Scottish cabinet post Enterprise, transport and lifelong-learning minister Wendy Alexander resigned from the Scottish cabinet today. In a letter to first minister Jack...
Karlsruhe, Germany, 01 May 2002 Following the first session of the joint training workshop in January 2002 at Institute for TransUranium Elements (ITU), from 15th-19th April more than 20...
Brussels, 11 Nov 2002 Innovation has to take centre stage if EU enlargement is to succeed, despite its low visibility during accession negotiations, concludes a Commission report to be published in...
Turkey's higher education authorities have closed down a university as part of a crackdown on Islamic activities in higher education. In an unprecedented move, the country's higher education...
Growing up in Turkey, I thought that table manners were "western" and that we learnt how to use the knife and fork from the more "civilised" Europeans. Didn't Norbert Elias in The History of Manners...
Brussels, 29 April 2003 Agreement between the European Atomic Energy Community (Euratom) and non-member States of the European Union on the participation of the latter in the Community arrangements...
Brussels, 09 Oct 2002 The Commission must ensure that researchers in the applicant countries receive fair treatment compared to their counterparts in the current Member States when it implements the...
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In the second of our series on democracy around the world, Huw Richards explores the political portents for a post-Castro Cuba Well-informed Miami sources announced the imminent fall of Fidel Castro...
Istanbul Turkey's courts are to decide whether a speech by US linguist Noam Chomsky in the southeastern city of Diyarbakyžr, monitored by local police, broke the law by supporting a Kurdish state and...
Turkey has offered to support Greece in its efforts to recover the Elgin marbles from their 200-year sojourn in the British Museum. Ironically it was the Ottoman Empire - as the occupying power -...
RCN predicts nurse shortage Staff shortages will put the government's plans to modernise the NHS at risk unless the chancellor delivers billions of pounds of investment, the Royal College of...
A huge mineral deposit in an unnamed Martian crater may be evidence of extraterrestrial life, according to new research by a leading earth scientist. Professor Mike Russell, of the Universities...
Brussels, 10 Feb 2004 International research co-operation is essential to tackle global problems and optimise knowledge acquisition. The Commission's Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) invites worldwide...