• Product Code: 01-03M

Oil is a key strategic resource for all industrialised countries, accounting for about 40% of primary energy use and 95% of all transport consumption.

• Product Code: 10-02M

The enlargement of the EU to 25 countries is a hugely ambitious experiment in international cooperation.

• Product Code: 09-02M

Most life ultimately depends upon the soil. Yet the Earth's fragile covering of soil is fast being degraded.

• Product Code: 08-02M

The United States likes to think of itself as the leader of the free world, fighting for liberty and democracy everywhere.

• Product Code: 07-02M

Air traffic has grown rapidly for the last 50 years. Though sales dipped after 9/11, the general trend is strongly upwards, with both passenger and freight traffic expected to double by 2015.

• Product Code: 06-02M

In the mid-1970s, there were less than 5 million refugees and internally displaced people worldwide.

• Product Code: 05-02M

The United States is determined to unseat Saddam Hussein, whom it sees as the key player in an 'axis of evil' which sponsors terrorism and threatens stability of the world.

• Product Code: 04-02M

Modern society is heavily engaged with drugs of various kinds. Almost everyone drinks alcohol and coffee; a quarter of adults smoke cigarettes; there is a growing dependence on prescription drugs.

• Product Code: 03-02M

The evidence for global warming, perhaps triggered by human activity, seems to be accumulating against a background of changing weather patterns across the globe.

• Product Code: 02-02M

Global sea catches quadrupled between 1950 and 1990 but now appear to have reached a plateau. Indeed, for many important food species, catches are declining because of overfishing.