“Medical device maker Medtronic Inc. says it paid nearly $800,000 over the past three years to a former Army surgeon accused of fabricating a study that reported positive results for one of the company’s key spine products.”

The Wall Street Journal reports on the latest development in the case of Timothy R. Kuklo.

“Today you find cell phone towers in almost every part of Africa. We have never been able to establish weather monitoring on that scale, until now.”

Former UN chief Kofi Annan, now at the Global Humanitarian Forum, announces a plan to put automatic weather stations on phone masts in Africa (BBC).

“We see these subsidies as worthwhile for society, because biogas is a secure supply, and it’s utilizing resources that would have a negative impact on water quality and the climate.”

Jens Bo Holm-Nielsen, of Aalborg University in Denmark, comments on subsidies that are driving up numbers of biogas plants in Europe (Wall Street Journal).