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The head of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) yesterday urged diplomats to stop bickering about a mini package of liberalisation designed to boost global commerce and warned of serious damage to the 20-year-old institution if last-ditch talks failed. Roberto Azevêdo, the WTO's new director general, expressed disappointment at the failure to conclude negotiations aimed at salvaging something from the stalled Doha Round of trade talks, now in their 13th year. With Europe and America in talks about a transatlantic trade deal, Azevêdo believes the future of the WTO as a multilateral negotiating forum will be in severe doubt unless it can pick what one source called the "low hanging fruit" from the tortuous Doha process. Plans for a comprehensive deal including freer trade in agriculture, services and industrial goods have already been drastically pared back, with the WTO now trying to get agreement on a mini package involving food security, reducing customs red tape and better … [Read more...] about WTO head calls for unity to salvage Doha global commerce talks

Hollywood stars have been paying tribute to the wisdom and wit of their friend and colleague the film-maker Nora Ephron, the screenwriter behind When Harry Met Sally and Sleepless in Seattle, who has died at the age of 71. Billy Crystal, who starred with Meg Ryan in When Harry Met Sally, told the Huffington Post: "She was a brilliant writer and humorist. Being her Harry to Meg's Sally will always have a special place in my heart. I was very lucky to get to say her words." Ephron died on Tuesday after suffering complications from the blood disorder myelodysplasia, with which she was diagnosed six years ago. Having begun a journalistic career as a reporter at the New York Post in the 1960s, she moved into scriptwriting after working on a screenplay for All the President's Men, based on the book co-written by her then husband, Carl Bernstein. Ephron subsequently became a pioneering writer-director, battling film industry sexism in a heavily male-dominated environment. Her debut script, … [Read more...] about Nora Ephron: Hollywood colleagues pay tribute to her work

The heartbroken parents of a three-year-old boy who died of pneumonia doctors dismissed with paracetamol have shared their grief. Krishan Saujani lost his life after a "catalogue of errors" by medics at an NHShospital and a doctors' surgery. Multiple opportunities to spot his bronchial pneumonia were missed after his parents Shalin and Bhavini took him to A&E when he started vomiting, had diarrhoea and a persistent high temperature. Now his parents want to share their distress in the hope the mistreatment doesn't happen again, Leicestershire Live reports. Krishan's inquest last year heard a GP told his parents to give him paracetamol. "Krishan wasn’t well and Bhav took him to the doctors, there was nothing particularly out of the ordinary but the GP wouldn’t give us antibiotics for him and instead said to give him paracetamol," his dad said. "He got worse and on the Saturday Bhav called me at work and I came home early. "We called 111 in the early evening and … [Read more...] about Boy, 3, dies from pneumonia which doctors had dismissed with paracetamol