The One Laptop Per Child organisation will start selling its XO laptop in Europe on 17 November.

CSC s Cray supercomputer has been upgraded to over 85 teraflops (trillions of floating point operations per second). This makes the new Cray XT5 system at CSC the most powerful academic supercomputer in the Nordic countries and one of the fastest supercomputers in Europe.

British women have one of the lowest life expectancies in Europe, researchers say.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Europe officially fell into recession on Friday and the U.S. economy suffered further blows as world leaders headed to Washington to address the worst financial crisis in 80 years.

Having a large waistline can almost double your risk of dying prematurely even if your body mass index is within the normal range, according to a new study of over 350,000 people across Europe.

US stars dominate the MTV Europe Music Awards, with two prizes each for Britney Spears and 30 Seconds To Mars.

Stocks gained in Europe and Asia on Monday, a day after the Chinese government announced a $586 billion economic stimulus plan.

CSC s Cray supercomputer has been upgraded to over 85 teraflops (trillions of floating point operations per second). This makes the new Cray XT5 system at CSC the most powerful academic supercomputer in the Nordic countries and one of the fastest supercomputers in Europe.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Britain and Europe slashed interest rates on Thursday amid recession fears deepened by some of the worst U.S. retail sales in decades and an IMF forecast for an economic contraction not seen since World War Two.

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Britain and Europe slashed interest rates on Thursday amid recession fears deepened by some of the worst U.S. retail sales in decades and an IMF forecast for an economic contraction not seen since World War Two.

SINGAPORE/LONDON (Reuters) - Europe s top central banks were under pressure to slash borrowing costs by a record margin on Thursday as part of global efforts to stimulate trade and commerce and ward off deep recession.

Economic output slumps across EuropeWITH hindsight, the European Central Bank’s decision to raise interest rates in July looks unfortunate. On Friday November 14th the European economy officially fell into its first recession in the ten years since the euro was introduced. Economic output among the 15 countries that share the euro fell by 0.2% in the third quarter from the previous one, marking a second consecutive quarter of falling output, the usually accepted definition of a recession. The turn in Europe’s fortunes is sharp: in July economists only saw a roughly one-in-three chance of a recession, according to a poll by Bloomberg. It is also worryingly broad-based: a lack of credit is cramping consumer spending, business investment and exports in economies all across the region. One of the worst affected is Germany, the world’s biggest exporter and Europe’s biggest economy, where gross domestic product slumped by 0.5% in the quarter, after falling 0.4% in the previous quarter. ...

Drug abuse in Britain is now worse than anywhere else in Europe, a devastating analysis showed today. It said that young people are more likely to use cocaine, ecstasy and amphetamines than those in any other country on the continent.

CSC s Cray supercomputer has been upgraded to over 85 teraflops (trillions of floating point operations per second). This makes the new Cray XT5 system at CSC the most powerful academic supercomputer in the Nordic countries and one of the fastest supercomputers in Europe.

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Cramer says the U.S. is doing everything right, and now it s up to Europe to cut rates.

U.S. shares opened higher, following stocks in Asia and Europe, as buyers returned to the market after days of intense selling.

India is to make its debut at the highest level at an Asia-Europe summit where the economic crisis will dominate the discussions.

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Europe s leaders, including Britain s Gordon Brown, gather to discuss what should be done next.