BEIJING, May 6 /PRNewswire/ --

Following the launch of the online check-in service on its Chinese website for flights departing from London and Stockholm international airports, Air China today launched the same service on the Company's U.K. and Sweden-based websites. At the end of April, this time-saving and convenient feature was enabled from the U.K. website for Air China operated flights departing from London Heathrow, and is to be followed by Stockholm-Arlanda Airport and the Swedish website in May.

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STOCKHOLM, May 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Jadestone Networks, the Nordic-based owner and operator of the multiplayer gaming networks DiceArena and GamArena, today announced that Betfair has agreed terms to become a distribution partner.

Betfair will integrate to the DiceArena gaming network after the summer where it will sit alongside existing Jadestone Networks' distribution partners such as bwin, Nordicbet, PAF and Gala Coral. The DiceArena network has seen steady growth since its hard launch in Q1 this year and together with the GamArena network has helped Jadestone to record a year on year increase in unique cash player numbers of an impressive 116%.

CAPE TOWN, South Africa, May 6 /PRNewswire/ --

The healthcare industry in South Africa faces substantial challenges, including vast inequalities in access to care. The public sector is responsible for serving approximately 85.0% of the population, yet accounts for around only 49.0% of healthcare spend.

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Public-private partnerships offer an innovative means to address some of these inequalities.

NICE, France, May 6 /PRNewswire/ --

- Microsoft located in Hall 2 at Stand 83.

This week at Management World 2009, Microsoft Corp. will showcase the value of the partner model in the telecommunications industry. Microsoft will demonstrate the results of collaboration with Logica, MetraTech Corp., Microsoft Surface, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd. and Tribold highlighting a new product, customer, service and revenue management scenario.

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LONDON, May 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Forty five secondary school students and five teachers from the 2nd General Lyceum in Argostoli (Kefalonia), visited London in order to stage a peaceful protest for the return of the Parthenon Sculptures to Athens at the British Museum on Sunday 03 May 2009. This protest was supported by Marbles Reunited.

Marbles Reunited is a British campaigning organisation and Friends of the British Committee for the Reunification of the Parthenon Marbles.

The Parthenon Sculptures were removed from the Parthenon in Athens between 1801-1812. They were subsequently bought by the British Government in 1816 and placed in the British Museum's Duveen Gallery, where they have remained.

EVRY, France, May 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Novagali Pharma, a French pharmaceutical ophthalmic company, announces today that the Company's Investigational New Drug Application (IND) to conduct a Phase III clinical trial of Catioprost(R) (Nova21027), for the treatment of glaucoma has been granted by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Catioprost(R) is a topical ocular proprietary BAK-free formulation of latanoprost which furthermore benefits from the ocular surface protection properties of Novasorb(R), its patented technology based on cationic emulsion.

HAMBURG, May 6 /PRNewswire/ --

- Discovery rolls out clips and full-length programming across its DMAX Web property

New research led by investigators at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (MSKCC) identifies three genes that specifically mediate the metastasis, or spread, of breast cancer to the brain and illuminates the mechanisms by which this spread occurs. The study was published online today in Nature. 

According to the study, COX2 and HB-EGF — genes that induce cancer cell mobility and invasiveness — were found to be genetic mediators in the spread of breast cancer to the brain. A third gene, ST6GALNAC5, was shown to provide cancer cells with the capability of exiting the blood circulation and passing through the blood-brain barrier to enter the brain tissue. 

Children who can stay focused and don't sweat the small stuff have a better shot at good health in adulthood -- especially girls, according to findings reported in the May issue of Health Psychology.

A detailed analysis of the feet of Homo floresiensis, the miniature hominins who lived on a remote island in eastern Indonesia until 18,000 years ago, may help settle a question hotly debated among paleontologists: how similar was this population to modern humans? A new research paper in Nature  may help answer this question.

While the so-called "hobbits" walked on two legs, they say, several features of their feet were so primitive that their gait was not efficient.