Several correspondents were concerned at the implications for the UK science budget of the move to open access, in which the costs of publication will generally be met by authors through up-front article processing charges (APCs), rather than from subscriptions paid by readers or libraries.
A correspondent posed this concern to UN Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres and COP 18 President His Excellency Mr. Abdullah Bin Hamad Al-Attiyah at a press briefing yesterday.
The veteran war correspondent Marie Colvin was concerned that the pay wall used by her newspaper would limit readers' access to her accounts of the rampant violence in Syria.
Here is the first paragraph: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration's aim of landing a man on Mars in the next decade is likely to be deferred until at least the late 1980s The report, from a Guardian correspondent in Washington, concerns a policy document produced by the Task Group of Space, set up by then US president Richard Nixon to advise him.
However, there are fears of further turbulence ahead for Thailand, our correspondent says, and concerns of how the influential military might react.
BBC World Service economic correspondent Andrew Walker says concerns about banks were a central element in the eurozone financial crisis and in some countries, their weakness remains a factor holding back economic growth.
The report, published on the Institute for Science and International Security website, notes that some of this research, conducted in 2008-09, is of "particular concern", our correspondent says.
Of course, these are not questions to concern war correspondents such as the Sun's Dan Wootton, who is keen to have a good crisis, and will take whatever risks with his personal safety are necessary to bring back the story to a public too coddled by its delusions to realise what is at stake.
The arrest of the correspondents was "of deep concern" to Washington, White House spokesman Jay Carney said.
The growing numbers of foreign Islamist fighters from Europe means there are common concerns, our correspondent says, but it is not clear how far the West is prepared to make common cause with a regime it holds responsible for the Syrian civil war.
