RESEARCHERS are being offered almost €7 billion to invent ways for Europe to escape its economic mire and create jobs and to build a better life for the future.

An international consortium chose France today as the site for an experimental nuclear fusion reactor – a project developers hope will one day generate endless, cheap energy by reproducing the sun’s power source and wean the world off fossil fuels.

THE decision of EU industry ministers to postpone the vote sanctioning destructive embryonic stem-cell research should be welcomed.