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(From AScribe) ROCHESTER, Minn. -- A new Mayo Clinic study finds that after memory begins to decline, executive function is the next brain function to deteriorate in the progression from [...]

J H Whitley, chairman of the BBC 60 years ago produced, together with John Reith, a draft document setting out the rights and duties of the board. In essence they were to safeguard the service in the interests of the nation, with general not particular responsibilities and without executive function. The hands-off nature of this policy has not always been popular and its is now a matter of urgency that the present-day governors intrude less in the BBC's managment. Possible ways of doing this is to strictly limit their tenure to a maximum of five years and to remove from them the responsibility for appointing the 60ish senior BBC managers.

Text of report by South African newspaper Mail & Guardian on 26 November [Report by 'Mail & Guardian Reporter': 'State Grilled Over 'Secret' Zimbabwe Report'] Lawyers for President Jacob Zuma [...]

Excerpt from report by moderate reformist Iranian daily Mardom-Salari website (Reissuing after correcting the date in the processing indicator) Excerpts of letter written by Majlis deputies to the secretary of [...]

Excerpt from report by moderate reformist Iranian daily Mardom-Salari website Text excerpts of letter written by Majlis deputies to the secretary of the Guardian Council headlined 'The letter of Majlis [...]

Step aside investment bankers. Regulators are the new masters of the universe. Last weekend, the world's top central bankers - from the Federal Reserve's Ben Bernanke down - descended on [...]

New Delhi: Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had every right to tell the Supreme Court not to enter the realm of policy formulation in the context of the apex court recently [...]

Think-tank warns on cutting numbers The coalition government needs to adopt a much more sophisticated approach to its cull of quangos than its predecessors if it is get value for [...]

New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Thursday held that the Members of Parliament Local Area Development (MPLAD) Scheme, under which every MP is allotted Rs. 2 crore a year for [...]

Russian President Dmitriy Medvedev has created a new North Caucasus Federal District and appointed ex-governor Aleksandr Khloponin his plenipotentiary representative there. In a move he described as 'unique', he also [...]

Text of report by press release service of South African Press Association (SAPA) news agency [Statement Issued by the Office of the South African Presidency on the SAPA PR Wire [...]

The Prisons Authority is legally authorised to carry out the exercise of remitting sentences of death row inmates who were sentenced to death to life imprisonment, the public relations officer [...]

NEW DELHI: A Delhi court on Friday reserved judgment on the locus standi of an advocate who has challenged the withdrawal of prosecution by the Central Bureau of Investigation against [...]

NEW DELHI: A Delhi court on Friday reserved judgment on the locus standi of an advocate who has challenged the withdrawal of prosecution by the Central Bureau of Investigation against [...]

Text of report by Angolan news agency Angop The MPLA proposes electing the President of the Republic by universal, direct, secret ballot, within the framework of the most voted-for list [...]

Too important to ignore Open communication matters more during turbulent times Despite the market turmoil, local communications agencies have proven particularly resilient though they may face tough fee negotiations this [...]

Text of report by Nigerian radio from Abuja on 12 March [All items on quotation marks are recorded] Public reactions have trailed the decision of the federal executive council on [...]

Text of report by independent German news agency ddp ['Germany Considering Direct Support to Help Solve Middle East Conflict' - ddp headline] Berlin (ddp) - According to government spokesman Ulrich [...]

Text of report by public Radio-Television Kosovo TV on 9 December [Presenter] EULEX [European Union Rule of Law Mission in Kosovo] deployed also in the largest area inhabited by Serbs [...]

Text of report by state-owned national newspaper Zambia Daily Mail website on 4 October [Report by Jerry Munthali: 'Anti-rigging loses application against RB'] Lusaka High Court Judge Phillip Musonda yesterday [...]

Text of report by London-based opposition newzimbabwe.com website on 21 August [Interview With Professor Welshman Ncube, Secretary General and Chief Negotiator of Mutambara's Movement for Democratic Change, MDC, by Basildon [...]

Text of report by South Africa-based ZimOnline website on 20 August [Interview with Professor Welshman Ncube, MDC Mutambara faction's chief negotiator, by Basildon Peta: 'What Is On Offer now Is [...]

IPOH: The six-month review of the detention of the five Hindu Rights Action Force (Hindraf) leaders on July 1 was a 'camera-in-camera', with two senior federal counsel (SFC) conspiring with [...]

'Our entire history is only the history of waking men' Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Hamsters don't need alarm clocks. In the strange world of circadian rhythms - the 24-hour cycle which [...]

With Nicolas Sarkozy as their new president the French are going to hear a lot more of an ugly word with a simple meaning -la presidentialisation. Mr Sarkozy is determined [...]

(From The Monitor (Uganda) - AAGM) Nowhere in Chapter Six of our Constitution will you find a provision which says Members of Parliament shall be responsible for the development of [...]

(From BBC Monitoring International Reports) Text of interview with PRE presidential candidate Fernando Rosero by Gisella Ronquillo and Jorge Villon: 'The court will be elected by popular vote', published by [...]

TEHRAN -- Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader, has established a new body to supervise foreign policy in a move seen by some politicians in Tehran as a way to [...]

From Mr William Pedder. Sir, I much enjoyed Martin Wolf's article 'Whitehall needs a great leap forward' (May 26), which resonated with my own experience as an external appointee to [...]

(From BBC Monitoring International Reports) Text of report in English by Macedonian state news agency MIA Skopje, 26 December: New Macedonian Army General Staff is a modern, sophisticated and efficient [...]

UK pension funds generally hold too much in equities and must consider diversifying their portfolios according to their individual risk characteristics, according to a paper from Watson Wyatt, the pension [...]

While the world isdistracted by the threat of conflict in the Middle East and a new confrontation over nuclear weapons manufacture in North Korea, the European Union has another quite [...]

In an open letter to La Stampa, European Commission Chairman Romano Prodi said EU leaders meeting in Laeken do not have the right to fail. He said he expect them [...]

KUALA LUMPUR, Tues. - MCA Youth legal bureau head Lim Seng Chai said yesterday the wing's central committee meeting scheduled this Thursday is 'invalid' and amounts to a coup d'etat. [...]

Yoshihiko Miyauchi, president and chief executive of Orix Corporation, is a rare creature: a radical in the Japanese boardroom. In a country that is reluctantly forsaking the stakeholder model, Mr [...]

When Hermann Kronseder started a tiny machinery company in war-ravaged Germany in 1951, he had no idea it would grow so big. Krones has expanded steadily in a range of [...]

Born: Wassenaar, Netherlands, November 21 1942. Son of a gin distiller, reared as a Roman Catholic, married to a Protestant noblewoman but no problems heading company which produces oral contraceptives. [...]

(From McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - Saint Paul Pioneer Press - Minnesota) Byline: Emily Gurnon RAMSEY COUNTY -- A 20-year-old Grant man who exposed himself to young girls in Maplewood, White [...]

(From McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - Saint Paul Pioneer Press - Minnesota) Byline: Emily Gurnon A 20-year-old Grant man who exposed himself to young girls in Maplewood, White Bear Lake and [...]

(From Sunday Life) DISSIDENT republicans are lining up more VIPs in their gunsights. The PSNI is frantically trying to recruit a further 90 officers to its Close Protection Unit because [...]

(From McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - Albuquerque Journal - Albuquerque, New Mexico) Byline: Dan McKay Proposal Called a 'Good Compromise 'It's the kind of budget that has something for everyone -- [...]

(From Yorkshire Post) Byline: Rob Waugh None of them are directly identified in the report although it does state they 'come principally, but not exclusively, from the Labour group.'A refusal [...]

(From McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - The Arizona Daily Star - Tucson, Arizona) Byline: Rhonda Bodfield State Sen. Jonathan Paton has joined the crowded Republican field looking to bounce Democratic incumbent [...]

(From McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - Albuquerque Journal - Albuquerque, New Mexico) Byline: Dan McKay Just 10 days after losing the election, executives under Mayor Martin Chavez handed city unions a [...]

(From McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - The Salt Lake Tribune - Utah) Byline: Kirsten Stewart If you've picked up a parenting book in the past decade, you've no doubt heard of [...]

(From Guardian Unlimited) Students are increasingly using brain-boosting drugs -- and they're virtually impossible to ban, an expert warned today. Drugs normally used for conditions such as Alzheimer's disease and [...]

(From FinancialWire) Byline: Scott Richardson FinancialWire-14 September 2009-Prana Secures $6 Million Additional Funding (C)2009 Investrend Communications, Inc. (Comment on this article at http://www.financialwire.net/2009/09/14/prana-secur es-6-million-additional-funding-2/) September 14, 2009 (FinancialWire) -- Prana [...]

from BUSINESS LINE, July 20, 2009 The Malaysian government has decided to switch from English to the national language, Bahasa Malaysia, as the medium of instruction to teach math and [...]

Human rights lawyers defending political detainees who have been in police custody since December last year, filed yet another urgent bail application in the High Court on Tuesday. This was [...]

(From AScribe) UPTON, N.Y. -- Recent cocaine use may hide some of the cognitive deficits commonly experienced by individuals addicted to cocaine, scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven [...]