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Europe's single, standardized GSM network, as opposed to the multi networks - GSM, CDMA and iDEN found in the U.S. - gave European forensics investigators an edge as they began to develop ways of accessing a phone's internal memory. Two of the leading cell phone forensics experts are British - West Yorkshire Detective Constables Steve Hirst and Steve Miller. Like their American colleagues - "tinkerers" as Mislan calls them - the two spend their evenings buying up old cell phones on eBay, deconstructing and decoding them, and then sharing their research online with colleagues around the world...
...They argue that food aid should come, when possible, from the closest producer to the needy area. E.U. policy reflects this sentiment; less than 10% of its food-aid budget is now reserved for European-grown food. (Led by the British-based international charity Oxfam, many NGOs go further, arguing that cash injections into local economies is the best way to fight hunger...
...event, mums and dads will never hear of them. Featuring 37 bands over 4 stages, the festival was a spin-off of the Underage club nights, a series of gigs for 14 to 17-year-olds only that have been running in London since June 2006, featuring young British indie bands like The Horrors, Black Lips and the XX Teens...
...boycott was proposed earlier this summer by University and College Union, which represents 120,000 British professors and other academics, as a means to protest the Jewish state's human rights record. The proposal will be voted on by the union's membership in the coming months...
...trade is supposed to be tightly regulated by quotas, the messy breakup of the Soviet Union led to a flourishing black market that has proved difficult to suppress. According to the World Wildlife Fund, many sturgeon species are now being pushed to the brink of extinction. Although the British government recently introduced tough new labeling requirements for all caviar sold in the U.K., so far caviar smuggling has passed with little sanction. EU countries imported 591 tonnes of caviar in 2006, but seizures of illegal caviar between 2000 and 2005 totaled just 12 tonnes...