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BY ALAN OSBORN
DESPITE its rejection by America, the Kyoto Protocol to reduce greenhouse gas emissions has now been agreed and is set to move towards ratification and implementation within two years. Ministers from 180 countries reached a compromise deal over the treaty after lengthy negotiations in Marrakesh, Morocco at the week-end (finished on Saturday 10th).…

BY MONICA DOBIE
COSMETICS group founder, Mary Kay Ash has died in Dallas, aged 83. Famous for her company’s recognisable pink Cadillacs, her products were sold by 400,000 women, making the company America’s second largest direct mail cosmetics business.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
AMERICA’S Readers Digest Association Inc. showed a significant loss of US 1.1 million or a penny a share for the quarter ended September 30, 2001, compared with a net income at US $22.3 million or 21 cents a share for the same period last year.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
FRANCE has been added to a European Commission blacklist of Member States who have concluded so-called ‘Open Skies’ agreements with the United States, which grants relevant national airlines additional landing writes in America. Brussels opposes the deals, because they discriminate against carriers from EU countries which have not made similar agreements and also because they help US airlines compete with those based in Europe: the deals allow planes to fly onto a third country, a mixed blessing for EU carriers flying to the US, given its size.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
AMERICA’S Kraft Foods Inc. has agreed to sell its Pilar biscuit business in Brazil, to two undisclosed privately held companies in the country, as part of a Latin American restructuring programme that will include three plant closures and 500 job cuts.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
A GLOOMY report from the World Trade Organisation has concluded that the growth in global commerce has fallen steeply and is now expected to reach just two per cent, compared with much healthier estimates at the start of the year and a 12 per cent boom in the year 2000.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
GOVERNMENT representatives are to meet at Marrakesh, Morocco, from October 29 to November 9 to add detail to the Kyoto Protocol global warming deal struck this summer in Bonn between all major industrialised nations excluding America. The Moroccan meeting should allow delegates to agree procedures and institutions needed to make the protocol fully operational.…

BY MONICA DOBIE
THE WORTH of iridium satellite phones as a standby communications facility of last resort, has been demonstrated, say its supporters, by the key role the technology played in the aftermath of the catastrophes of September 11.

Indeed, advocates of these comms systems have been vindicated, as the mobiles once mocked for being ineffective near tall buildings and trees, as well as being ludicrously expensive to run, proved instrumental in helping emergency workers and security officials communicate at the scene of the terrorist disasters.…

BY ALAN OSBORN
Britain is the key source within the OECD countries for scientists and engineers working in America, according to the latest Science, Technology and Industry indicators published by the organisation. They show that 7,086 scientists and engineers from the UK are at present working in the US, followed by 5,351 from Canada, 2,298 from Germany and 1,843 from Korea.…

BY JONATHAN THOMSON
AMERICA’S NATIONAL Cybercrime Training Partnership (NCTP), which has taught more than 4,200 law enforcement officers the basics of computer forensics, is offering its services to private anti-fraud investigators and is reporting positive results through arrests and prosecutions. The organisation was developed by the U.S.…