Spiegel Online reports here: Even as the European Union praises the results of the bloc’s 2004 enlargement, EU leaders meeting in Brussels for a summit are expected to make further enlargement more difficult. However a new study shows that Germany has profited from EU expansion, despite its misgivings.
AP reports here at Yahoo News: U.S. breast cancer rates plunged an unprecedented 7 percent in 2003, the year after millions of women stopped taking menopause hormones when a study showed the pills raise the risk of tumors.
BBC News reports here: Sea level rise projections are under-estimating the impact of climate change on the oceans, a study suggest.
The Washington Post reports here: Two major studies released Wednesday confirmed that circumcision can dramatically slow the spread of HIV among African men, suggesting that widely offering the procedure could prevent millions of deaths in countries most seriously affected by AIDS, researchers said.
India and China will be the main Asian greenhouse offenders, BBC News reports here: Asia’s greenhouse gas emissions will treble over the next 25 years, according to a report commissioned by the Asian Development Bank (ADB).
BBC News reports here: Smokers trying to quit the habit were mistakenly prescribed anti-impotence drug Viagra by doctors. NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde said the error was due to a computer glitch at two city GP practices.
CNN News writes here: Passengers could soon have fewer choices of airlines, and that may mean higher fares in many markets. The six major airlines could be reduced to just three or four: US Airways made a bid for Delta last month, and there are reports that United is in talks to buy Continental.
Spiegel Online writes here: "Is an end of an era looming in the foreign exchange markets? The dollar has been depreciating against the euro for weeks. Currency experts and the German government don’t yet see this as cause for alarm. The US currency’s role as a lead currency isn’t as important as it used to [...]
Spiegel Online writes here: How is vodka made? Or rather, how should it be made? With sales and the number of producers on the rise, a number of smaller European States want an official recipe. Problem is, everyone has their own.