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The National Grid for Learning was always something of a misnomer, the only "grid" involved being the public internet.

A tiny electric generator engine provides the power, and the passenger accommodation is a bamboo platform that rests on top of two sets of wheels. A dried-grass mat to sit on counts as a luxury.

For VIHA, immigration authorities are notified when a foreign patient meets a certain criteria that raises suspicions that he or she is taking advantage of the province's health-care system - such as regular visits or a chronic condition.

The study, the most thorough analysis of global bird species, says 12 percent of existing species -- about 1,250 -- are threatened with extinction by 2100.

Almost 115 hectares has been flooded at Wallasea Island, Essex, to create wetland, mudflats, saline lagoons and seven artificial islands.

[T]he plaintiffs "have shown a possibility that Rimpac 2006 will kill, injure, and disturb many marine species, including marine mammals, in waters surrounding the Hawaiian Islands".

Since speaking his first words, Mr Wallis's speech has improved and he has regained some movement in his legs, but his short-term memory is very poor and he does not understand what has happened to him.

A team of surgeons, led by Bernard Devauchelle, from Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Amiens, made history by transplanting tissues, muscles, arteries and veins, taken from a brain-dead donor, onto Mrs Dinoire's lower face.