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An international interfaith conference taking place in New York is the first step in a thousand-mile journey to peace between Israel and its Arab neighbors, a former Israeli diplomat said.

Iain Thomson in San Francisco, vnunet.com, Thursday 13 November 2008 at 21:38:00LG and others facing huge finesThree of the world's biggest LCD manufacturers have admitted taking part in ahuge price-fixing conspiracy to drive up the price of their products.LG, Sharp and Chunghwa Picture Tubes have all admitted their guilt after aninvestigation by the US Department of Justice (DoJ). The companies artificiallyfixed the price of thin-film transistor LCD panels from September 2001 to June2006.'Today's charges and criminal fines emphasise the commitment of the DoJ tocrack down on international cartels,' said attorney general Michael B Mukasey.The companies have been fined a total of $585m, including a payment of $400mby LG which is the second largest fine levied by the DoJ in its history.Sharp will pay $120m for fixing the prices it charged three majormanufacturers: Dell from April 2001 to December 2006 for use in computermonitors and laptops; Motorola from autumn

Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will call for new regulations for the international financial system during the upcoming Group of 20 (G20) summit in Washington, a presidential spokesman said Wednesday....

As a U.N. committee prepares for a politically charged international conference on racism next spring, plans are moving ahead for a parallel event that aims to deliver an 'alternative viewpoint.'

The National Institutes of Health has renewed a five-year research grant for a total of $2.5 million to an international biodiversity group lead by David G.I. Kingston, University Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at Virginia Tech. Kingston is known internationally for his work in biodiversity and development of naturally occurring cancer-fighting agents.

Eli Lilly and Company today announced it intends to donate more than 800,000 vials of insulin to the International Diabetes Federation's Life for a Child Program, providing free life-saving medicine to as many as 24,000 children who currently have no access to diabetes treatment. The initial focus of the donations will be to help children with diabetes in sub-Saharan Africa.

(Elsevier Health Sciences) There may be less than 20,000 rhinoceros in the world and the populations of these animals age and become infirm, successful breeding becomes increasingly difficult. In an article scheduled for publication in Theriogenology, An International Journal of Animal Reproduction, researchers from the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research, Berlin, Zoo Budapest and the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, report on the first live birth of a rhinoceros resulting from artificial insemination with frozen and thawed semen.

TEHRAN, Nov. 12 -- Since 2006, Iran's leaders have called for direct, unconditional talks with the united states to resolve international concerns over their nuclear program. But as an American administration open to such negotiations prepares to take power, Iran's political and military leaders are...

Oakland author Daniel Alarcon was in Argentina this week when he learned that his novel 'Lost City Radio' had won the 2008 Literary Award for Fiction given by PEN USA, the West Coast center of the writers' organization PEN International. 'I was thrilled to...

TILDA Swinton was yesterday named president of the international jury at the prestigious Berlin Film Festival in February next year.