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Diesel Civil Trust
Recent commentary on this blog has suggested that our use of Flash on BBC iPlayerand across BBC Online in general, betrays our commitment to open standards. Is this a reasonable assumption? I do not think so.
IN THE heart of NATO’s military headquarters, SHAPE, near the Belgian city of Mons, an unspoken revolution is taking place: planners are thinking about how to defend eastern European members from Russian attack. For years after the cold war, the orthodoxy was that Russia did not pose a threat, so NATO did not need to draw up contingency plans to protect newer members, such as the Baltic states.
Non-profit groups fault a joint program by Brazil and the European Union to develop biofuel production in Africa as bad energy and development policy.
ATHENS—As Greece slashes spending to avoid default, it hasn’t moved to skimp on one area: defense.
Microsoft has launched its HealthVault cloud-based health-organiser platform in the UK, nearly three years after its US launch in October 2007.
Two journalists win out of court settlement after police refuse to let them report protest at Greek embassy in London
Measures are needed to stop brain scans being misused by courts, insurers and employers, experts have warned.
Dangerous psychiatric patients tracked with GPS
via news.bbc.co.ukPotentially dangerous psychiatric patients are being fitted with GPS tracking devices to prevent them absconding on day leave.
The South London and Maudsley NHS Trust has attached the £600 ankle devices on more than 60 medium and high risk patients under the pilot scheme.
The trust said it had consulted patients and families.
The devices, which can track a person’s location to within a few yards, are already used for dementia sufferers.
They came into use in south London after rapist Terence O’Keefe, 39, escaped from custody at King’s College Hospital before strangling 73-year-old David Kemp.
A spokesman for the trust said: “We have a duty to provide high-quality patient care while at the same time promoting public safety.
“Our medium secure services provide hospital treatment for people with severe mental health problems - many of whom have restrictions placed upon them by the courts.
“We are currently exploring the use of a tracking system to help us provide safe, secure and effective services.”
(Reuters) - France admitted on Sunday that keeping its top-notch credit rating would be “a stretch” without some tough budget decisions, following German hints that Berlin may resort to raising taxes to help bring down its deficit.
Spain lost its AAA credit grade at Fitch Ratings amid a fiscal crisis that prompted the European Union to forge an almost $1 trillion bailout package for the region’s weakest economies.
The UK’s largest internet service providers will start collecting the details of customers who unlawfully download films, music and TV programmes early next year, in order to send them warning letters under a code of practice proposed today by the media regulator Ofcom.
For Angela Merkel, leader of the eurozone’s richest country, a queue is forming of high-quality adversaries. As she tips German Geld und Gut into the furnace of a rescue package for the euro, while going it alone in a misguided ban on market “manipulators”, the brass-neck Chancellor has infuriated domestic voters, angered her EU partners (in particular the French) and invited the so-called wolf pack of global traders to do its worst.
May 21 (Bloomberg) — German lawmakers approved their country’s share of a $1 trillion euro-region bailout in a vote today, allaying market concern that they would balk at approving a second emergency aid package in as many weeks.
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