The DuPont Company will eliminate 1,500 agriculture jobs and cut output of herbicides and pesticides in a plan to increase spending on genetically modified seeds, the company said yesterday.	Shell made the offer after months of pressure by Russia?’s environmental regulators, who threatened to freeze work on the project by revoking critical operating permits.	Hewlett-Packard?’s longtime chief financial officer, Robert P. Wayman, will give up the post this month and his seat on the company?’s board in March.
NEW DELHI (Reuters) - Seven thousand fewer girls are born in India each day than the global average would suggest, largely because female fetuses are aborted after sex determination tests, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said on Tuesday.	LONDON (Reuters) - To mark next year's bicentenary of the slave trade being abolished across the British Empire, London is to open its first gallery dedicated to the trade.	MINSK (Reuters) - A jailed Belarussian opposition activist has ended a 53-day hunger strike aimed at rallying opposition to President Alexander Lukashenko, his wife said on Tuesday, declaring that he sounded in good spirits.