German President Horst Köhler will award the German Future Prize for 2008 on 3 December in Berlin. Professor Axel Haverich, a heart surgeon and Leibniz prizewinner from Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) Hannover Medical School (MHH), and his two colleagues Dr. Serghei Cebotari and Dr. Michael Harder are one of four teams who have made the final round of the President's award for engineering and innovation, worth 250,000 euros.

A new image released by ESO shows the amazing intricacies of a vast stellar nursery, which goes by the name of Gum 29. In the center, a small cluster of stars — called Westerlund 2 — has been found to be the he home of one of the most massive double star systems known to astronomers.

Gum 29 is a huge region of hydrogen gas that has been stripped of its electrons (ionized) by the intense radiation of the hot young stars located at its centre. Astronomers call this an HII (pronounced "H-two") region, and this particularly stunning example stretches out across space for over 200 light-years. The name stems from the fact that it is the 29th entry in the catalogue published by Australian astronomer Colin Stanley Gum in 1955.

BEIJING, October 22 /PRNewswire/ --

- Company sets new goals and greater expectations for environmental and social compliance, transparency and accountability

Today, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. (NYSE: WMT) took the next step in its sustainability journey by hosting an unprecedented gathering of more than 1,000 leading suppliers, Chinese officials and NGOs in Beijing, China. The company outlined a series of aggressive goals and expectations to build a more environmentally and socially responsible global supply chain.

LEEDS, England, October 22 /PRNewswire/ --

- Immediate Steps are Required in the Meantime to Protect Patients

New research presented today shows that the information given to the volunteers of the disastrous Northwick Park Elephant Man trial would not have passed a 'readability' test. The research, presented at the international meeting of the Drug Information Association today, highlights an immediate need for all information provided to volunteers in clinical trials to be 'User Tested' before future trial protocols can be approved.

ABU DHABI, United Arab Emirates, October 20 /PRNewswire/ --

- The Initiative Has Been Shared With World Leaders and is Designed to Highlight the Importance of Developing Local, Sustainable Eco- Community Systems and to Promote New Socio-Economic Programs to Build and Rejuvenate Cities Around the World

- A New Millennium, the Birth of Global Philanthropical Capitalism

His Royal Highness Sheikh Nahyan bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, Dhabian Holdings PLC and The World Trade Centers Association and the World Trade Centers Management Company have announced today a joint US$3.2billion initial capital proposal that has been sent to world leaders and will be known as 'The Triangle of Peace', which is described as 'a global peace initiative'.

CUMBERLAND, Rhode Island, October 21 /PRNewswire/ --

Neurotech Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a privately-held biotechnology company focused on the development of sight-saving therapeutics for chronic retinal diseases, announced today the opening of its new 27,000 square-foot GMP manufacturing facility in Cumberland, Rhode Island.

With support from the Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation (RIEDC) and its financing programs, Rhode Island Industrial Facilities Corporation (RIIFC) and Rhode Island Industrial-Recreational Building Authority (IRBA), Neurotech was approved for a US$4 million financing to help pay for the cost of equipping this facility.

PARIS, October 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Providing a framework for Body Area Networks (BAN), defining a reliable communication protocol, optimizing BAN technologies and enhancing energy efficiency of network components are the major stakes of ANR BANET (Body Area Networks and Technologies) project, which has gathered 9 French industrial and academic partners. This scientific project has been leaded by CEA-Leti and subsidized by Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR, National Research Agency) for a 30 months period. It aims at defining precise frameworks to design optimised wireless communication systems, both more efficient and miniaturised. These body area networks target a wide applications range, in the consumer electronics, medical and sport fields.

BERLIN, October 21 /PRNewswire/ --

- Global Report Launch: Energy [R]evolution: Global Sustainable Energy Outlook

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LONDON, October 20 /PRNewswire/ --

United Business Media (UBM) announces that Adrian Barrick is appointed to the position of CEO of its Built Environment division.