Russian and British education officials agreed on Tuesday to join efforts to create a favorable environment for cooperation between universities and research labs, the Russian education and science minister said.

Dr. Ahmed Zewail, one of the three "science envoys" appointed by U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, will visit Turkey.

The Foreign Secretary (of the UK, David Miliband) spoke at the Royal Society on 12 January 2010 on the connections between diplomacy and science.

For 75-year-old American physicist Yuen-Ron Shen, life has been a series of plane rides between his American laboratory in Berkeley and China.

During the next two months, the first three science envoys will be travelling to key countries in North Africa, Europe, the Middle East, and South and Southeast Asia.

Italy and Korea inked a new deal to continue their almost decade-long cooperation in the scientific and technological fields.

New Zealand and the United States have agreed to enhance cooperation in science and technology research to improve the shared capabilities of both nations to protect against acts of terrorism and other threats to domestic and external security.

n October Lidia Brito, Mozambique's ex-science minister and a forestry researcher from the country's Eduardo Mondlane University, was appointed as head of the science policy division at UNESCO.