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COPENHAGEN, Denmark, Jan. 4, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- It's every web designer's best-kept secret: creating a stylish, efficient website isn't all that tough. And now it's not only easy, but free, thanks to HTML.net (http://www.html.net), the premier online destination for accessing tutorials on HTML and Cascading Style Sheets (CSS). With tutorials available in 11 languages, HTML.net reaches out to a wide audience, delivering all the essentials for understanding how to create a site within...

COPENHAGEN, December 9, 2010 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- - ZP1846, a Novel GLP-2 Agonist, Continues to Advance in Clinical Development Under Licensing Agreement Zealand Pharma A/S (NASDAQ OMX: ZEAL) ("Zealand Pharma" or "the Company"), a biopharmaceutical company dedicated to the discovery and development of innovative peptide drugs that recently listed on NASDAQ OMX, today announces the receipt of a EUR 500,000 (DKK 3.73 million*) milestone payment as part of its license...

"Compromise" and "hope" were the words being used to describe the ongoing UN climate talks in Cancun, Mexico, as negotiators have reported genuine progress entering the final week of the conference.According to Arthur Max of the Associated Press, "More countries are expected this week to pledge specific actions to limit carbon emissions over the next decade," and according to BBC News Environmental Correspondent Richard Black, the second week of the talks amongst...

NEW YORK, Nov. 29, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- See video from Denmark at: http://www.thenewsmarket.com/Releases/StoryDetailPage.aspx?GUID=2230c221-e876-4435-a7a0-62c5dfaf5b20 On every year four Sundays before Christmas night Denmark lights the big Christmas tree in the city of Copenhagen in the center of Copenhagen, right in front of the city hall. It's a tradition Denmark did it for 95 years now, a lot of Copenhageners and a lot of tourists will gather around us to see the tree get lit by Santa...

Despite record-setting, sweltering heat waves and hundreds of brutal forest fires last summer, Russians remain skeptical about man-made climate change, the AFP news agency reported on Saturday.Although President Dmitry Medvedev has acknowledged that the planet is warming, Russians remain cynical and suspicious about the idea, and experts see no significant movement in the nation's position ahead of the latest U.N. climate conference in Cancun.During the U.N.'s the last major climate...

Fuel cells could create a breakthrough for electric cars, because refuelling them is fast and easy, just like your traditional gas guzzler. But there's an obstacle. Current fuel cells need platinum in order to work. And that's expensive.Now chemists from Copenhagen, Potsdam and Hanau have taken the first step towards producing fuel cells using very little of the precious metal.Testing problemsolverAt the University of Copenhagen Matthias Arenz has specialized in testing the catalysts that do...

COPENHAGEN, November 4, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- - Lars Larsen was Previously VP Finance at Carlsberg Group Milestone Systems, the open platform company in IP video management software, announces the hiring of a new Chief Financial Officer, Lars Larsen. He will be responsible for the finance and human resource operations of the international organization. "Lars Larsen has a very strong profile that is clearly reflected in his previous positions at Carlsberg and Novo Nordisk,...

Christian, Jewish and Muslim Abrahamic faith leaders concur as Rabbi Warren Stone shared: "Now is time for world leaders to act boldly to alleviate the challenges of climate change and help create a more sustainable world economy as we approach the World Economic Summit in Seoul, Korea and the UN Cancun Climate talks both in November following a failure in Copenhagen to take significant action. The United Nations and world leadership have failed to act to alleviate the ongoing dangers of...

2010 has been an "exceptional" year for weather disasters with the highest number of weather-related events since records began being kept, German reinsurance company Munich Re said Thursday. "This year really has been a year of weather records," Peter Hoeppe, an expert from Munich Re's Geo Risks Research department, told AFP. "The first nine months of the year have seen the highest number of weather-related events since Munich Re started keeping records," he added. Hoeppe said the continuing...

Faculty of Life Sciences at the University of Copenhagen shows that the parasitic disease, commonly known as snail fever, or schistosomiasis, almost eats its way into women's reproductive organs. Today researchers from all over the world are gathering in Copenhagen to find out what can be done to halt the disease which is affecting millions of women in Africa. Six hundred million people in, for example, Africa live with the daily risk of being infected with the parasitic disease...