Mediterranean crossroads.
9789963907168 Mediterranean crossroads. Ed. by Sophia Antoniadou and Anthony Pace. Pierides Foundation 2007 784 pages $80.00 Paperback DE80 Antoniadou (curator, Pierides Foundation, Athens, Greece) and Pace (Superintendent of Cultural Heritage, Malta)...

Vanishing Valletta.
9789993271536 Vanishing Valletta. Pisani, David. Midsea Books Ltd 2007 90 pages $75.00 Hardcover DG989 Most of the approximately 100 photographs by Malta native Pisani collected here are not panoramas but studies...

The Med basin creates a free-trade zone.
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] THE PARIS SUMMIT in July of 43 countries with a combined population of close to 800m people launched the Union for the Mediterranean with the promise of creating a free-trade zone by 2012. Although the initiative of French President Nicholas Sarkozy, failed to meet with...

Many African Muslims Give High Marks to U.S. Leadership; Three-quarters of Muslims in Mali, Senegal approve.
Byline: Magali Rheault and Dalia Mogahed Synopsis: Approval of U.S. leadership among Muslims living in sub-Saharan Africa is higher than approval among residents living in the Middle East North Africa (MENA) region. WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Approval of U.S. leadership among Muslims living in sub-Saharan Africa...

Global and local football; politics and Europeanization on the fringes of the EU.
9780415350174 Global and local football; politics and Europeanization on the fringes of the EU. Armstrong, Gary and Jon P. Mitchell. Routledge 2008 212 pages $150.00 Hardcover GV944 Their national teams' records...

Cost C16, improving the quality of existing urban building envelopes; facades and roofs.
9781586037376 Cost C16, improving the quality of existing urban building envelopes; facades and roofs. Ed. by Luis Braganca et al. IOS Press 2007 178 pages $69.00 Paperback Research in architectural engineering series, 1873-6033...

European Union increases recycling targets.
The European Union increased its waste management targets in June. By 2020, EU households must reuse or recycle at least 50 percent of their waste, and construction waste is required to meet a 70-percent recycling target. The general recycling targets are a first for the EU. Yet...

Malta III--research and education in the Middle East.
Known as "Malta III," the third conference in the series, Frontiers of Chemical Sciences: Research and Education in the Middle East, was held in Istanbul, Turkey, from 8-13 December 2007. This remarkable series of meetings continues to bring scientists from Middle Eastern countries and other nations together to discuss...

Italian court gives key accused 30-yr term.
HOSHIARPUR: A court of Italy has sentenced the key accused of Malta boat tragedy to 30 years' imprisonment. The chairman of Malta Boat Tragedy Probe Mission, Balwant Singh Khera, told this to TOI on Thursday. Khera, who received the copy of judgment from his Italian counsel through...

India eyes C'wealth secy-gen post.
Byline: Rashmee Roshan Lall KAMPALA: Outgoing Commonwealth secretary-general Don McKinnon has deepened interest in the three-way India vs Malta vs Malaysia race for his job by praising New Delhi for offering a candidate and "significantly increasing" its interest in the 53-member association. McKinnon told The...