http://www.w3.org/ -- 21 May 2003 Today, the World Wide Web Consortium ( W3C ) announced approval of the W3C Patent Policy , based on widespread Member endorsement, agreement in the W3C Patent Policy...
An Institute of Islamic Civilisations is to be launched by the Karachi-based Aga Khan University as its first significant international initiative. The institute, which will be sited in London, aims...
A vaccine for Sars may still be a long way off but, says Anna Fazackerley, the spread of the virus has been slowed by coverage in the press It might seem a classic media scare. A new and deadly...
First state school alumnus heads Oxford college The first alumnus of a comprehensive school to head an Oxford college has taken up his post. Andrew Dilnot, 42, former director of the Institute of...
Muslim charities provide extensive humanitarian aid but, writes Jonathan Benthall, critics accuse some of straying into terrorist territory. Birmingham-based Islamic Relief was one of the few aid...
An online university was created last week by Universitas 21, the global consortium of 18 research-intensive universities, and Thomson Learning. The launch comes in the midst of a downturn in world...
Lester James Peries
The drive towards war on Iraq appears unstoppable, but it's not too late to pause to reflect on the justice of the fight - a king once halted a war so his leading thinkers could consider the very...
Unintended Consequences - The Trouble with Tigers
'Back to Japan for more engagements and a lecture on Saturday. Monday: back to the UK for funding council meetings and then off to Poland for two lectures. Today, Wednesday, is the first time I have...
AUSTRALIAN vice-chancellors fear an anti-Asian immigration party's success in a Queensland state election could damage their overseas student recruiting drives and are trying to limit the damage. The...
Brussels, 11 April 2002 Speaking to a Brussels audience on 10 April, President of the German research organisation the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, Professor Hans-Jürgen...
The New Cambridge History of India, Part Seven - Islamic Art and Architecture
A day of total luna-see: * Records of eclipses can be found in the ancient histories of Babylon, East Asia, Europe and Arabia. * The oldest report of a total eclipse is dated July 17, 709BC. * A...