The British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has said airports in Britain are to install full-body scanners to check passengers before flights. The move comes as security is tightened globally. This report from Jane Moore.
Gordon Brown said the authorities were responding to a new kind of threat and more measures would be introduced in British airports to tighten security. However, he said no one could be 100% certain that the new technology would work. He said the body scanners had already been ordered by the British airports authority. A spokesman for BAA said they'd be introduced to London's Heathrow Airport as soon as possible.
The French Health Ministry is selling off doses of swine flu vaccine which it believes the country no longer needs. Last year, France bought 94 million doses of the vaccine for a population of 63 million people. Since then, European medical authorities have published advice, suggesting that a single dose of vaccine may be enough to protect people against swine flu.
Hundreds of workers in northern China are trying to contain an oil leak that’s spilled 150,000 liters of diesel into a major tributary of the Yellow River. According to state media reports, the leak was caused by a construction accident on a state-owned fuel pipeline that’s built into the Wei River.
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A Chinese province has ordered a halt to the production of fireworks after nine people were killed in an explosion at a factory on Friday. Investigators in Shanxi province said the factory was over-crowded and staff hadn't had proper safety training. State media said the police and the safety officials had been ordered to overhaul all fireworks factories in the province.