LONDON, January 14 /PRNewswire/ --

- Strategic International Roll-Out Heralds Key Development in Modernisation Programme for Iraq's Financial Services Sector

Rafidain Bank, the largest bank in Iraq, has gone live with a groundbreaking turnkey solution from Misys plc (LSE: MSY), the global application software and services company.

Rafidain Bank's international branches, comprising operations in Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Yemen, UAE and Bahrain, have gone live with the new system. Misys' regional partner, B-Plan Information Systems, will now commence roll-out of the system to 147 of the bank's remaining branches across Iraq.

LONDON, January 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Global Marine Systems, Ltd., the largest independent provider of submarine cable installation, maintenance and related engineering services in the world, announced today the award of a contract by Telecommunicatiebedrijf Suriname (Telesur) / Guyana Telephone Telegraph Co (GTT) for the supply and installation of a 1,240km repeatered submarine system, connecting Trinidad to Guyana and Suriname.

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- Microsoft extends reach of Partners in Learning Innovative Schools programme to more than 72,000 schools across 100 nations.

Microsoft Corp today announced landmark expansions to its 10-year, nearly US$500-million Partners in Learning programme, including a massive increase in the scale of its Innovative Schools programme, which enables schools worldwide to harness the power of technology to gear up for the educational challenges and opportunities of the 21st century.

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The recent financial meltdown has intensified the spotlight on the resilience of various industries. The renewable energy industry and particularly the wind energy sector initially seemed to be hardly affected by the sudden lack of project finance and debt. However, the situation has changed. Market participants in the wind energy sector have new barriers as well as opportunities to reckon with.

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The Energy Group at Frost Sullivan is pleased to announce a web conference titled 'Wind Energy and the Global Crisis - Threats, Opportunities and Strategies', to be held on 21 January, 2009 at 3:00pm GMT.

LONDON, January 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Telnic Limited (http://www.telnic.org), the registry operator for the new .tel top level domain (TLD) already described by Fortune/CNN as The Google of online phone books today reminded businesses with trademarks that there were only fifteen working days left to protect their .tel domains in the Sunrise period.

With thousands of brand owners having already applied for .tel domains which provides, amongst other features, a 'live', global, mobile-optimized directory service listing with unlimited contact information and key words, companies need to act fast in order to secure the names they have rights to before registration is open to all in the Landrush period on Tuesday February 3rd 2009.

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- Two-day congress to focus on best practices and initiatives for improving health care delivery in Europe

A host of leading health care companies from Europe and the United States have joined the World Health Care Congress Europe, which will convene more than 600 health care leaders from more than 50 countries around Europe and the world for its 2009 event, 13-14 May, 2009 in Brussels, Belgium.

Leading companies include United HealthGroup International, Healthways, Humana, dbMotion, Aetna Global, Milliman, Premier, Map of Medicine, Marsh, Capsule Technologie and Catalyst Technologies.

A researcher from the University of Leicester has identified what looks to be the oldest archaeological evidence for chemical warfare--from Roman times.  At the meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, Simon James presented CSI-style arguments that about twenty Roman soldiers, found in a siege-mine at the city of Dura-Europos, Syria, met their deaths not as a result of sword or spear, but through asphyxiation.

Adelaide researchers say they have made a world breakthrough in treating premature babies at risk of developmental disorders.  A six-year study led by Dr Maria Makrides from the Women's and Children's Health Research Institute and Professor Bob Gibson from the University of Adelaide has demonstrated that high doses of fatty acids administered to pre-term infants via their mother's breast milk or infant formula can help their mental development.

The findings were published today in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).

Last year a  study by Mathews, Johnson and Neil (2008) in their article "You are What your Mother Eats" that was published in the April 22, 2008 Proceedings of the Royal Society B implied that children of women who eat breakfast cereal are more likely to be boys than girls.

Forsyth Institute scientist Peter Jezewski, DDS, Ph.D., says that duplication and diversification of protein regions ('modules') within ancient master control genes is key to the understanding of certain birth disorders. Tracing the history of these changes within the proteins coded by the Msx gene family over the past 600 million years has also provided additional evidence for the ancient origin of the human mouth.