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High Representative Catherine Ashton makes
three senior appointments in European External Action Service
Members share their Christmas traditions with us
Not answering the phone, celebrating Hogmanay and reading Dickens' Christmas Carol are just three seasonal traditions that MEPs shared with us. As people across Europe gear up for Christmas we spoke to some Members about what Christmas means for them. They all spoke of it as a time to be with family and friends and as a time for reflection.
A new strategic approach to health for the EU (2008-2013)
The present White Paper sets out a new Community health strategy until 2013, which is designed to confront the growing challenges to the health of Europe's citizens, such as population ageing, cross-border health threats or illnesses linked to unhealthy lifestyles. This strategy is also intended to strengthen, in a single strategic framework, Community cooperation in the areas in which the Member States cannot act alone, ensure that health is better understood at European level and worldwide, and secure a bigger role for health in all policies. To this end, the White Paper proposes four principles and three strategic objectives for the coming years.
India sails into top Four of Men's Volleyball Korea Republic ,Qatar and China into next ro
India sailed into the top four of the men’s volleyball by beating Brazil 3-1 at the Yusufguda Volleyball  Stadium in Hyderabad, today. After three rounds of matches in Pools A and B - Korea Republic, India, Qatar and China are the teams who are into the top four teams of the tournament whereas Netherlands, Latvia, Canada and Brazil will fight for 5th to 8th positions.-Â
Mother jailed for killing son, 3
A 33-year-old Italian mother has been sentenced to 30 years in jail for bludgeoning to death her three-year-old son, a crime she has always denied.
NVIDIA Corporation: NVIDIA GPUs Selected for New Toshiba Notebooks
/PR Newswire/SANTA CLARA, Calif., NVIDIA Corporation (Nasdaq: NVDA), the worldwide leader in visual processing solutions, today announced that the Company's GeForce(TM) FX Go family has been selected for three notebooks from Toshiba Digital Products Division. The GeForce FX Go5200 graphics processing unit (GPU) has been selected for the new Toshiba Satellite M30-S350 and Portege M205. The GeForce FX Go5200 was also recently selected for Toshiba's Tecra M2 series. Perfectly balancing portability and performance, the Tecra M2 series weighs in at less than five pounds and is an excellent solution for business users who require small form factors and the compatibility, stability and reliability for which NVIDIA(R) is known.
Eli Lilly and Company and Boehringer Ingelheim GmbH: Large-Scale Study in the British Journal of Urology International Shows more than One out of Three Women with Urinary Incontinence (UI) Suffer from Stress Urinary Incontinence (SUI)
Journal also Reports on Duloxetine to Significantly Reduce the Frequency of SUI Episodes and Improve Quality of Life for Women across the Globe
UK ambush victims named
British troops hunting the killers of three Royal Military Police who died in an ambush in the southern Iraqi city of Basra are said to be pursuing a number of leads.
The Commission proposes concrete action for sustainable development and a fairer world
How should we be tackling the problem of poverty? What is the best way of managing our natural resources and the environment? How should we finance development? With an eye to the forthcoming major international events at which these and other questions will be discussed the Monterrey Conference on development financing (March 2002), the World Summit for sustainable development (in September 2002), and the practical application of the Doha development agenda of November 2001, the European Commission is proposing a first set of responses, making a forceful case for multilateralism as the only effective way of addressing these global challenges. The three communications which the Commission today adopted, at the initiative of President Romano Prodi, the Member of the Commission responsible for economic and monetary affairs, Pedro Solbes and the Member responsible for development and humanitarian aid, Poul Nielson, will be widely discussed within civil society and by the public at large.