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Trump names hostage negotiator as national security adviser

US President Donald Trump has said he plans to name hostage negotiator Robert O’Brien as his new national security adviser.

Wed, 18 Sep, 2019

The 170m-year-old ginkgo tree has been used as a medicinal herb

Peter Dowdall discovers a garden tree that has not only survived the bombing of Hiroshima, but has been around for over 170m years.

Sat, 12 Nov, 2016

Tumbling economies take fizz out of Davos gathering

The global financial chaos cast its shadow over a gloomy opening of the World Economic Forum today.

Wed, 28 Jan, 2009

No benefit to biofuel, finds study

Farmers, businesses and the state are investing millions of dollars in ethanol and biofuel plants as renewable energy sources, but a new study says the alternative fuels burn more energy than they produce.

Wed, 20 Jul, 2005

Supply and demand economist Debreu dies

Gerard Debreu, a former University of California-Berkeley economist who won a Nobel Prize for breakthroughs in the study of supply and demand, has died, his family said. He was 83.

Thu, 06 Jan, 2005