More than 50 staff considered essential now remain in Baghdad.

All the 151 international (humanitarian) staff who left on November 11 and 12 and were temporarily relocated to Amman have been asked to return to Baghdad today.

Green TV is a truly innovative project which will no doubt influence the field of environmental film-making and research. It will eventually offer a comprehensive 'one- stop shop' for environmental TV programming -- something that has so far not been available.

This is a phenomenon we have observed over recent weeks in particular, and it is growing. There have been some delays (of food shipments) and it is felt by the people.

Because mechanism designers do not generally know which outcomes are optimal in advance, they have to proceed more indirectly than simply prescribing outcomes by fiat; in particular, the mechanisms designed must generate the information needed as they are executed.

My ancestors were fighters, something I have inherited.