The skeleton of a man discovered by archaeologists in a shallow grave on a construction site at the University of York could be one of one of Britain’s earliest victims of tuberculosis. He was interred in a shallow scoop in a flexed position, on his right side. Radiocarbon dating suggests that he died in the fourth century.

He was aged 26-35 years, suffered from iron deficiency anemia during childhood and was shorter than the average Roman male at 5 feet 4 inches.

Detailed analysis of the skeleton by Malin Holst, of York Osteoarchaeology Ltd, revealed that a likely cause of death was tuberculosis which affected the man’s spine and pelvis. She says that it is possible that he contracted the disease in childhood from infected meat or milk or the infection could have been inhaled into the lungs. The disease then lay dormant until adulthood when the secondary phase took its toll.

Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, Bear Stearns, Lehman Brothers: As the dominoes of the financial sector continue to fall at an alarming rate and the Federal Reserve attempts to forestall a systemic meltdown of the domestic financial network, University of Arkansas economists find that a network approach to the study of financial “contagion” – the transmission and impact of financial crises – may be applied to understand the current turmoil in the U.S. banking sector and the need for a systemwide response by the Fed.

A new study by Raja Kali and Javier Reyes, economics professors in the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas, reveals that integration in the global financial network is a double-edged sword. On one hand, being well connected to the network can make a country more vulnerable to systemic shocks. However, this same connectedness also is associated with an increased ability to dissipate economic shocks to the system. Kali and Reyes reached these conclusions by studying how international financial crises travel though the network of global trading relationships.

VIENNA, Austria, September 17 /PRNewswire/ --

- Decillion and Microsoft collaboration delivers enterprise value with a SWIFT-based messaging platform covering payments, cash management, corporate actions and securities trades for White Outsourcing.

Today at Sibos 2008, Microsoft Corp. announced that White Outsourcing Pty. Ltd., a provider of outsourced financial and accounting services to Australian fund managers, has chosen a hosted solution based on the Microsoft Application Platform. The new solution will provide White Outsourcing with straight-through processing of financial transactions to and from the SWIFT Alliance Gateway, enabling it to achieve operational excellence and drive cost effectiveness in its processing of SWIFT-related messages.

CRANBERRY TOWNSHIP, Pennsylvania, September 17 /PRNewswire/ --

Three Rivers Pharmaceuticals, LLC announced today that it has signed a definitive license agreement with Amgen Inc. to expand its commercial rights to the hepatitis C drug Infergen. Three Rivers Pharmaceuticals will obtain commercial rights to Infergen in all markets except Japan. In addition, Three Rivers Pharmaceuticals will obtain commercial rights to China effective March 31, 2009. Three Rivers Pharmaceuticals currently has commercial rights to Infergen in the United States and Canada.

VIENNA, Austria, September 17 /PRNewswire/ --

- Microsoft to enable transport, management and exchange of over 4 million SWIFT transactions per year.

Microsoft Corp. today announced at Sibos 2008 that the Polish National Depository for Securities (KDPW) is implementing Microsoft BizTalk Accelerator for SWIFT for the transport, management and exchange of more than 4 million SWIFT transactions per year. As the central institution responsible for the management and supervision of clearing and settlement in Poland, KDPW will use Microsoft's leading solution for financial messaging integration, leveraging BizTalk Accelerator for SWIFT to help about 10 domestic and global customers efficiently and effectively connect to SWIFT.

YOQNEAM, Israel and SAN RAMON, California, September 17 /PRNewswire/ --

- Thirty Five Percent Reduction in Treatment Time, Shorter Intervals Between Treatments and Improved Transducer Make the UltraShape(R) Non-Invasive Fat Reduction and Body Contouring System a More Compelling Option

UltraShape, a global leader in non-invasive fat reduction and body contouring, will introduce its latest software and new transducer at the upcoming 2008 European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology (EADV) annual meeting in Paris. The upgraded software and new transducer offer new features that reduce treatment time, lower treatment cost and enhance the UltraShape(R) experience for both physicians and patients.

TORONTO, Canada, September 17 /PRNewswire/ -- The Company was notified on 16 September 2008 that Michael Hibberd, Chairman, acquired 75,000 Heritage ordinary shares of no par value ("shares ") on the London Stock Exchange at a price of 182p per share. His notifiable shareholding in the Company following this transaction is 125, 000 shares representing 0.05% of the Company's total voting rights outstanding and 1,150,000 options to acquire shares previously granted under the Company's 2008 Replacement Share Option Scheme.

This notification is made in accordance with DR 3.1.4R (1).

LONDON and VIENNA, September 17 /PRNewswire/ -- VocaLink, the payment transaction specialist, has joined SWIFT's partnership programme. This commercial agreement will enable the two companies to share market intelligence, develop joint sales and marketing plans and work together on new products and services. It will also give VocaLink access to SWIFT's extensive customer base, including over 8,300 banking organisations, securities institutions and corporate customers in more than 208 countries.

TEL AVIV, September 17 /PRNewswire/ --

- RADWIN's MPTP Systems Transmit VoIP, Data, E-Ticketing & Video Surveillance Information with High-Capacity and Long Range

RADWIN (http://www.radwin.com), a leading provider of wireless broadband solutions, announced that Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) has deployed its systems in eight national parks. KWS is in charge of Kenya's national parks, and has deployed RADWIN's Multiple point-to-point (MPtP) systems to connect its headquarters in Nairobi to a number of parks. UUNET Kenya and Adwest were in charge of project deployment.

A group of scientists from Durham University say they have found the "missing link" between small and super-massive black holes. The researchers have discovered that a strong X-ray pulse is emitting from a giant black hole in a galaxy 500 million light years from Earth.

The pulse has been created by gas being sucked by gravity on to the black hole at the centre of the REJ1034+396 galaxy.

X-ray pulses are common among smaller black holes, but the Durham research is the first to identify this activity in a super-massive black hole. Most galaxies, including the Milky Way, are believed to contain super-massive black holes at their centers.