GENEVA, Switzerland, January 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Based in Geneva, AIM was established in cooperation with corporate and civil society partners to enable the private sector to act directly and effectively on the major economic, social and humanitarian challenges of human mobility.

Manpower Inc. and WISeKey, two of AIM's founding partners, have played a lead role in the Labour Mobility Index to be launched at the 2009 World Economic Forum in Davos.

Desert locusts are harmless, solitary creatures until they get a certain chemical - and it isn't firewater, catnip or anything that comes from Colombia.   It's serotonin, a common brain chemical, but in the right amount they turn into hordes of hungry ... well ... locusts.

With desert locusts, the expression of this swarming characteristic generally means serious trouble for nearby farmer.   Locusts are known to sometimes swarm by the billions, and they often devastate crop yields.  Dr. Stephen Rogers from the University of Cambridge and the University of Oxford in the UK says about 20 percent of the world is affected by desert locusts.

MS is the result of damage to myelin - the protective sheath surrounding nerve fibres of the central nervous system - which interferes with messages between the brain and the body. For some people, MS is characterised by periods of relapse and remission while for others it has a progressive pattern.  Symptoms range from loss of sight and mobility, fatigue, depression and cognitive problems.

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia, January 29 /PRNewswire/ --

Developed Dimension Information Technology (DDIT), a registered company in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, today announced the Company has entered into an exclusive International Distributor Agreement to represent ICOP Digital, Inc. (Nasdaq: ICOP), an industry-leading company engaged in advancing digital surveillance solutions, in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and other GCC countries including Kuwait, The Sultanate of Oman, Qatar and The United Arab Emirates.

CHICAGO and DUBAI, United Arab Emirates, January 29 /PRNewswire/ --

RTS Realtime Systems Group, a leading trading solutions provider, announced that it is now offering connectivity to NASDAQ Dubai, the international stock exchange formerly known as the Dubai International Financial Exchange (DIFX).

Through RTS technology, users will be able to trade all of NASDAQ Dubai's listed products, including equities, derivatives and structured products. NASDAQ Dubai launched the first equity derivatives platform in the UAE in November 2008. The exchange opened in 2005 as the international stock exchange between Western Europe and East Asia.

AMSTERDAM, The Netherlands, January 28 /PRNewswire/ -- Amsterdam Molecular Therapeutics (Euronext: AMT), a leader in the field of human gene therapy, announced today during the Phacilitate Cell Gene Therapy Forum new data showing that one treatment of its lead product Glybera(R) results in a long term significant and clinically important lowering of the incidence of acute pancreatitis in Lipoprotein Lipase Deficient patients. Recurrent acute pancreatitis is the most debilitating complication of Lipoprotein Lipase Deficiency (LPLD) and is associated with significant morbidity and mortality.