, the UK-headquartered telecoms company, announced its intention to take the lead in delivering business-grade communications solutions for Irish mid-size organisations, providing a serious alternative to incumbent services. Speaking in Dublin at the Telecommunications and Internet Federation annual conference, Jean-Yves Charlier, CEO at Colt, said there is an urgent need for improved broadband...

New Tool Speeding the Discovery of Genes for Common Diseases

The International HapMap Consortium today published a comprehensive catalog of human genetic variation, a landmark achievement that is already accelerating the search for genes involved in common diseases, such as asthma, diabetes, cancer and heart disease.

In a paper in the Oct. 27 issue of the journal Nature, more than 2...

In a paper in the Oct. 27 issue of the journal Nature, more than 200 researchers from Canada, China, Japan, Nigeria, the United Kingdom and the United States describe the initial results from their public-private effort to chart the patterns of genetic variation that are common in the worlds population. The results provide overwhelming evidence that variation in the human genome is organized in...

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Sydney Is World's Best Dining City, L.A., New York Times Say

Oct. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Forget New York, London and Paris -- Sydney is home to some of the world's best restaurants, according to the New York Times and the L.A. Times.

Australia's biggest city is turning into a ``mecca of sorts for anybody serious enough about food to get on a plane and fly 16 hours to get he...

Sydney Is World's Best Dining City, U.S. Papers Say (Update1)

Oct. 26 (Bloomberg) -- Forget New York, London and Paris -- Sydney is home to some of the world's best restaurants, according to the New York Times and the L.A. Times.

Australia's biggest city is turning into a ``mecca of sorts for anybody serious enough about food to get on a plane and fly 16 hours to get h...

In fact, it's a place many Americans can't find on a map.

() — a seaside city in the confederacy of sheikhdoms known as the ( ) — has gone from being a sleepy desert town to the destination of some of the highest-profile names in the United States and Europe, and the fastest-growing city in the world.

"I'm able to say without hesitation that Dubai is the hippest plac...

ATHENS, Greece (AP) - The agenda for this week's gathering of conservative Anglican clerics includes dialogue with Islam and fighting poverty. But the wider message is expected to be protest: Another frontal attack against gay clergy and same-sex unions that threaten to break apart the world's 77 million-member Anglican communion.

The six-day meeting, beginning Tuesday in Egypt, will br...

Many of the fans milling into this year's postseason baseball games have been wearing authentic major league uniforms, with GUERRERO, say, or OSWALT, stitched on the back. True, society has traditionally encouraged kids to fantasize about what they'll be as adults. But most of the people I've seen in $200 regulation shirts are adults. What they're fantasizing about is an alternative adult i...

Drug abuse, the absence of a functioning healthcare system and massive unemployment create an environment for HIV infection rates to explode.

Antiretroviral medication, the prevention of the transposition of HIV from mother to newborn and campaigns for the use of condoms are strategies which led Uganda, Australia, Thailand and Brazil to ongoing victories over rising infection rates. By co...