Headlines February 23

Speed Cameras to begin operating in Brussels March 1
Unmanned speed cameras will be brought into use along some of Greater Brussels' busiest main roads from 1 March. The cameras have already been in place for some time, but have not yet been used to trap speeding motorists. READ ON

MPA decapitates major European file-sharing server
Swiss police arrested the site's operator at home while Belgian police seized the site's servers located at an Internet hosting center in Zaventem, Brussels. The MPA authorities have closed down all of the major eDonkey servers in the United States and, with this action, Europe. READ ON

EU pushes plans for institute to halt 'brain drain'
Governments are increasingly concerned that slippage in research and academic standards is holding back innovation needed for the European economy to compete with those of the United States and emerging powers such as China and India.The need for academic improvement is underscored by an EU report that said the 25 current EU nations won 19 percent of Nobel Prizes from 1995 to 2004 compared with 73 percent from 1901 to 1950. READ ON