GENEVA - ALL countries will need access to vaccines against swine flu as the pandemic is 'unstoppable', a senior World Health Organisation official said on Monday.
A group of vaccination experts concluded after a recent meeting that 'the H1N1 pandemic is unstoppable and therefore all countries would need to have access to vaccines', said Dr Marie-Paul Kieny, WHO director on vaccine research.
BOSTON - MICROSOFT Corp will release a free version of its dominant Office software that users can access over the Web, catching up with products that arch rival Google Inc launched three years ago.
The world's largest software maker will offer a word processor, spreadsheet, presentation software and a note-taking program with the same look and feel of their counterparts in the Office suites that it sells for personal computers.
OIL PRICES rose above US$60 (S$87) a barrel on Monday, halting last week's falling trend, as investors turned to commodities for protection against a weaker dollar and after attacks on oil facilities in Nigeria.
By mid-afternoon in Europe, benchmark crude for August delivery was up 19 cents to US$60.08 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. On Friday, the contract fell 52 cents to settle at US$59.89.
BEIJING - POLICE shot dead two Uighurs on Monday in renewed unrest in China's far north-western region of Xinjiang, state radio said.
The incident happened as frightened Urumqi residents watched earlier on Monday as police in bulletproof vests carrying pistols, shotguns and batons chased down a man and kicked and beat him, shattering a relative calm in the tense city in western China.
