“I brought some mosquitoes. Here, I’ll let them roam around. There is no reason only poor people should be infected.”
Bill Gates springs a surprise on his audience while talking about malaria at the TED 2009 conference (AFP, 5 February)
“We’ve now got a ticking toxic time bomb.”
Campaigner Jean Kennedy on the arrival of the “ghost ship” Clemenceau at Hartlepool in north-east England to be dismantled. The decommissioned French aircraft carrier, which contains 770 tonnes of contaminated material, including asbestos, had previously been rejected by ship-breaking yards from Egypt to India (The Independent, London, 9 February)
“If it was a man-made situation, the Chinese government…
