Cashew nut fossils have been identified in 47-million year old lake sediment in Germany, revealing that the cashew genus Anacardium was once distributed in Europe, remote from its modern “native” distribution in Central and South America.

AT&T Inc. (NYSE:T) announced today that Iron Mountain (NYSE:IRM), the global leader in information protection and storage services, has selected AT&T to provide an Internet Protocol (IP)-based Virtual Private Network (VPN) that connects 157 of its business locations throughout Europe.

The European Union’s top public health official said Tuesday that bluetongue, an insect-borne virus that affects goats, sheep and cattle, is spreading fast through Europe and may turn endemic in many European Union countries.

Only a few years ago cancer was considered to be a disease of westernised, developed countries, but now the burden is increasingly falling on less developed countries, a leading epidemiologist told ECCO 14, the European Cancer Conference, today (Monday 24 September).

Recent political decisions have had serious consequences for European oncology, said Professor John Smyth at ECCO 14, the European Cancer Conference, today (Monday 24 September 2007).

An International Automobile Federation survey says that after years of decline, road deaths are suddenly rising in Europe threatening the goal of halving annual traffic fatalities in the European Union by 2010.

Most of the diseases which plague humankind today are multifactorial: they are not simply the result of one mutation in one gene, producing one rogue protein that can no longer carry out its job. Diabetes and obesity, for instance, depend on many simultaneous genetic and environmental factors.

“On [07-07-07], the New Open World Foundation announced the completion of a world poll to name the ‘new Seven Wonders of the World’…To see them all would mean traveling to Jordan, Peru, India, Mexico, China, Brazil, and Italy. A tour of ‘finalists’ would span the United States, Mali, the United Kingdom, Greece, Spain, Australia, Egypt, Germany, Russia, Japan, Turkey, France, Chile and Cambodia …That would indeed be a wonderful journey.” – Philadelphia Inquirer

LUKoil, Russia's leading independent crude producer, said Tuesday it expected oil prices for consumers in Western and Central Europe, whose supplies have been reduced, to increase.

U.S. stock market indexes were down sharply in morning trading Friday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S & P 500 were down 1.3 percent while the NASDAQ fell 1.8 percent.

According to a study released Friday the length of European heat periods has doubled and the number of extremely hot days has almost tripled over the last one hundred years, contributing to other evidence that such hot summers are a sign of global climate change.

Russian gas giant Gazprom said Wednesday it would reduce natural gas deliveries to Belarus by 45% from August 3 over outstanding payments, adding that Europe-bound supplies would not be affected.