Microsoft has bowed to pressure from European competition authorities and revised its software licensing agreements with internet service providers to remove controversial "exclusivity"

The new variant of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, linked to BSE or mad cow disease, killed 10 people in the UK last year-the same number as in 1996-the Department of Health

Young farmers are to benefit from the first increase in European Union milk quotas in nearly 15 years, as part of attempts to rejuvenate an aged and declining farm population. Proposals for a

Passenger concern that poor air quality on flights may be putting them at risk of disease has prompted United Airlines to install filters used by hospitals to sheild transplant patients. It says the

Only two of the 15 national players in UK's soon to be liberalised retail electricity market take the environment seriously enough to offer "green" tariffs to customers. Eastern and South Western

MPs criticised as "totally unacceptable" European Commission plans for an increase in farm spending as part of its proposed reform of the Common Agricultural Policy. The Commission has estimated the

Companies will have to disclose environmental costs and liabilities, even including the extent of damage to their own property that they are not required to put right, if recent proposals by a United

The European Union is preparing a critical response to US proposals to reform the way internet addresses are administered, warning that they would leave control of the computer network too firmly in

A Technique originally devised to test aeroplane turbines are being adapted to help surgeons perform a particularly intricate type of eye operation. The technique was developed by the University of

Panama's dry season might be good news for the cruise liners that pass through the waters of the Panama Canal at this time of year. But commercial shippers, commodity dealers and the canal