The International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics has identifed sweet sorghum as a smart crop which can produce both fuel and food. "Sweet sorghum provides an opportunity for developing countries to re-direct oil money that used to go

Collecting coins is a longer term goal, however, the happiness of pursuit is always more important than the rapid completion of a set of coins. The inherent enjoyment is always found in the process of collecting, and fulfillment is found

A new project implying construction of helicopter pads close to theMoscow Ring Road has been approved by the expert council at the RussianMinistry of Transportation. Full Story

SICK leave cost UK businesses £13.2 billion last year, with workers taking an average of 6.7 days' absence for illness, a report out today reveals.

FIGURES released this week in the 2007 Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM) report for the UK suggest that, despite a relatively favourable climate for start-ups, a g

BABCOCK International has increased its profits by more than 50 per cent, the company announced yesterday.

READY meal maker Northern Foods has halted its supply of £45 million worth of annual sales to Marks & Spencer and is to close one of its factories.

A STRIKE in Argentina aims to halt grain exports, as farmers battle with government- imposed ceilings on prices paid to producers.

THERE was a chill wind in the air yesterday but the sun was shining in the Borders at the media preview for for Scotsheep, the biennial event staged by the Scottish branch o

Developing rural financial services in Africa depends on infrastructures to link rural residents to financial institutions and to markets, stressed an African Development Bank (ADB) Consultant, Zeinab El Bakri, speaking in Maputo on Monday.

A battery manufacturing factory in Nairobi's industrial area, Associated Battery Manufacturers, regularly sends blood samples of its workers to Britain for analysis, just in case they have lead poisoning in their blood.

Money transfer service via the mobile phone is seen as the next investor hotspot, signalling fresh competition in Africa's cell phone industry in a battle which includes mobile, television and music.

An interactive voice service system that converts text to speech is offering the blind and the illiterate an opportunity to use computers.

This week, the mobile phone will be used in a peculiarly Kenyan initiative aimed at promoting an HIV/Aids awareness programme.

The Government is acting on proposals by a task force to return Pan Paper Mills to profitability.

HACKERS sabotaged The Herald's website database on Sunday night, changing headlines on the latest web edition.

Whatana Investments, a company chaired by Mozambique's former first lady, Graca Machel, has taken a five per cent stake in Vodacom Mozambique (VM), one of the two mobile phone operators in the country.

An electric fireplace sounds like the smoke-free solution to have inside your home, but what happens when you want to chill with your mates on the patio during the winter instead? There is always the outdoor electric fireplace from Dimplex.

Both Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama are talking more about "clean coal" and less about global warming as they woo voters in West Virginia and Kentucky -- two states that sit at the heart of the nation's coal economy.In a

Efforts to replace oil with biofuels in the United States are at a critical juncture. Double-digit growth in the production of corn-based ethanol has contributed to a sharp increase in grain and soybean prices while failing to deliver the environmental