HOUSTON, December 19 /PRNewswire/ --

Endeavour International Corporation (Amex: END) (LSE: ENDV) today announced that the company plans to spend approximately US$90 million of capital during 2008 to fund oil and gas exploration, development and producing activities in the North Sea.

LONDON, December 19 /PRNewswire/ -- Now that the first snows have come across Europe and the US, skiers will be tempted to rush out and get some action on the piste.

That's just the moment accidents can happen, warns Greg Lawson, Group Broking Director of online travel insurance company Flexicover.Net, as he offers some timely advice to help skiers stay safe on the slopes.

"Winter sports can be dangerous but there are all sorts of things skiers and snowboarders can do to make sure they have a fun and safe holiday in the snow," he says. These are:

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LUTON, England, December 19 /PRNewswire/ -- With immigration and benefit fraud at an all time high and constant news of security threats from incorrectly managed data, Mantissa Corporation wonder just what they must do to make themselves heard in 2008. Throughout 2007 they have contacted numerous politicians, government departments and wrote separately to every member of the House of Lords.

NEW YORK, December 19 /PRNewswire/ --

- Russia's Highest Commercial Court to Hear Appeal Argument Based on 'Newly Opened Circumstances' - a Question in Punctuation and an Allegedly Errant Hyphen;

- Hearing Set for January 22, 2008

Moscow Oil Refinery (MOR) is blocking New York businessman and real estate entrepreneur, Tamir Sapir, from executing the 2005 landmark US$28 million judgment initially decided by international arbitration and later upheld by Russia's High Arbitrazh Court after a protracted legal battle. The judgment against MOR was in favor of Mr. Sapir's company, Joy-Lud Distributors International Inc., a New York corporation.

EVRY, France, December 19 /PRNewswire/ --

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Novagali Pharma an emerging pharmaceutical company specialized in ophthalmology announces today the appointment of Dr Mourad Amrane as Vice President of Medical Affairs. He is in charge both of the clinical product development and the medical marketing activities, which aim at defining and optimizing the product strategies.

CARY, North Carolina, December 19 /PRNewswire/ --

- SciQuest Continues Rapid Worldwide Growth and Market Leadership among Research-Intensive Industries with 100th Customer Signing

MELBOURNE, Australia, December 19 /PRNewswire/ --

Cancer Therapeutics CRC Pty Ltd and the Queensland Institute of Medical Research (QIMR) today announced a collaboration to discover and develop new drugs for the treatment of many forms of cancer, based on exciting new findings in the field of DNA repair.

NORWICH, England, December 19 /PRNewswire/ --

- Less Than Half a Year Under New Ownership, Turnover for 2007 Expected to Increase by 34% on an Annual Basis

- Well Positioned for 2008 Thanks to Boosted Incoming Orders

- ATB CEO Christian Schmidt: "Turnaround is Truly Outstanding and was Achieved in far Shorter Time Than Originally Estimated"

Less than half a year under new ownership, the engineering company ATB Laurence Scott is well on track to achieve its former success. According to preliminary figures for the year 2007, the company expects to increase its turnover by 34% to GBP 18 mill. With an impressive flow of orders solid growth is set for 2008.

A research team at Maryland's A. James Clark School of Engineering comprised of Professor Christopher Davis, Research Scientist Igor Smolyaninov, and graduate student Yu-Ju Hung, has used plasmon technology to create the world's first invisibility cloak for visible light. The engineers have applied the same technology to build a revolutionary superlens microscope that allows scientists to see details of previously undetectable nanoscale objects.

Generally speaking, when we see an object, we see the visible light that strikes the object and is reflected. The Clark School team's invisibility cloak refracts (or bends) the light that strikes it, so that the light moves around and past the cloak, reflecting nothing, leaving the cloak and its contents "invisible."