It said people were at no greater risk in Toronto than in many other regions of the world.Canada is the only country outside Asia where people have died of Sars, with 140 cases and 21 deaths. Most of the cases have been infected in Toronto hospitals or by family members Mike Ryan of the WHO defended the original decision. “WHO has to take decisions for global public health in 191 member states, not just for one.”. British scientists have edged ahead in the global race to detect the most elusive substance in the universe, using what are believed to be the world’s most sensitive instruments.

We’ve not detected wimps yet but we are getting closer.”The project, funded by the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council, is constantly improving the sensitivity of its instruments, which are already up to 1,000 times more sensitive than early prototypes. They will be improved another thousand-fold over the next five years, said Professor Nigel Smith of the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory in Oxfordshire. “We’ve seen nothing with greater sensitivity anywhere else in the world.”Scientists hope that a wimp penetrating the xenon gas-filled detectors will collide with an atomic nucleus, causing it to emit a tiny flash of light Professor Spooner compares it to playing billiards. “You don’t actually see the wimp, or cue ball itself, but you see the recoil of the billiard ball as it hits,” he said.By putting the detectors deep underground, the scientists are increasing the possibility of seeing a collision with a wimp “It’s like looking for a needle in a haystack.

What we are trying to do is get rid of the hay to give us a better chance of detecting the needles,” Professor Spooner said. “It’s quite possible that they don’t exist but all the evidence points in the direction of them existing.”Several teams, notably in the US, France and Italy, are also chasing wimps using underground detectors. “At the moment, we’re just in the lead in terms of sensitivity,” Professor Spooner said. “The Italian team has already made a claim to have found a wimp but other scientists have since shown that this could not have been possible with the sensitivity of the Italian detectors.”. A streamlined Channel 4 announced yesterday that it had turned a £28m annual loss into a profit of £16.5m after laying off staff and scaling down its film production unit. Unlike its terrestrial rivals, it maintained its share of total viewing, at 10 per cent.But Mr Thompson said the station needed to be more creative in its programme making.

If we do all of those [we will] be Britain’s bravest and most original broadcaster.”The turnaround in profitability at the station is partly due to job cuts that will continue to the end of this year and will see staffing levels reduced by 25 per cent, from 1,200 to 900.Mr Thompson took the “difficult decision” to restructure FilmFour Ltd, the station’s film production unit, leading to the loss of 53 posts and incurring exceptional costs of £11.2m. He said the unit had been making films that Channel 4 would not want to buy.E4, the station’s pay-TV entertainment channel, drew large numbers of viewers aged between 18 and 34 and was expected to break even by next year, he said.The Channel 4 accounts revealed that the station paid more than £18m to companies linked to one of its board members, Peter Bazalgette, the chairman of Endemol UK, which makes Big Brother. Other Bazalgette-related programmes on the channel included Pet Rescue and Diet Tips for Girls. The report said Mr Bazalgette had no role in the commissioning.The accounts also disclosed that David Brook, the director of strategy, left with a compensation package of £568,000. Mr Brook, who resigned last October, had been on a contract with a year’s notice..