And it was strange that there was no place for the ban on genetically-modified contents in Asda's own-brand products, the government's announcement of right-to-roam legislation and withdrawal of soyabean oil breast-implants, or the extension for the Northern Ireland peace process.

BBC: By BBC News Online's Giles Wilson

One of the first products, DuPont's high-oleic soyabean, which yields an oil lower in artery-clogging saturated fats, is now awaiting regulatory approval in Europe.

ECONOMIST: Sticky labels

The explosive recent growth in the cultivation of another oil seed, soyabean, has led to an onslaught on Brazil's dryland cerrado savannah, which is often disregarded as a forest, though it contains two-thirds as much carbon as the rainforest, mostly in its roots.

ECONOMIST: Seeing the wood