CALAIS (France) - FRANCE aims to shut down by the end of the year a squatter camp in the Channel port of Calais used by migrants heading for Britain, Immigration Minister Eric Besson said on Thursday.
SYDNEY- A SECTION of Australia's Great Barrier Reef, which scientists have warned could be killed by global warming within decades, has regenerated itself in record time, a scientist said on Thursday.
But Mr Laurence McCook, head of research for the authority that preserves the World Heritage-listed reef, said the giant organism remained at serious threat of climate change and labelled the partial regeneration a 'lucky escape.'.
LONDON - CHILDREN under 16 should not be given mouth pain relief gels Bonjela and Bonjela Cool that contain an aspirin-type chemical, a health regulator said on Thursday.
TOKYO - TWENTY years ago Japan's Nintendo Co launched the Game Boy, the iconic handheld video game player that spawned characters from Super Mario to Pokemon and sold 200 million units worldwide.
When the Game Boy was first launched this week in 1989, Japan was enjoying its economic 'bubble years', Madonna's 'Like a Prayer' topped international charts, and Chinese students were just starting to mass on Tiananmen Square.
