With broadband internet demand soaring over the past year attention has turned to companies that own network infrastructure with Easynet and

With broadband internet demand soaring over the past year, attention has turned to companies that own network infrastructure, with Easynet and Be Internet recently taken over.Fibernet is a niche player that specialises in providing network services to corporate customers and internet service providers. Mobile players such as O2 and Virgin Mobile have been snapped up while the likes of Kingston Communications and Cable & Wireless have been the subject of private equity interest. Shares in the telecoms player rose more than 30 per cent in frenetic trading. The approach is the latest in a string of UK telecoms deals over the past two years in both the fixed and mobile telecoms markets. British diplomats expressed frustration with France, which would be expected to lead a multinational force in southern Lebanon. The Foreign minister, Kim Howells, said: " What we need is a bit more diplomatic work, , and a bit less posturing.". Fibernet is the latest UK telecoms company to attract interest from a large foreign bidder, revealing yesterday that an unnamed suitor, possibly Global Crossing or AT&T, has approached the company. Dramatising the difficulties, the French President, Jacques Chirac, publicly warned the US against allowing the initiative to fail, suggesting it would be "immoral".

Ominously, he said that in such a circumstance France would table a resolution on its own. Price list Wolf £105 Wild yak £21,000 Argali (wild sheep) £5,000 Blue sheep £1,300 Red deer £3,140. A draft UN ceasefire resolution on Lebanon was unravelling last night as the two co-sponsors, France and the United States, bickered over several key provisions, notably the timing of an Israeli withdrawal. In many parts of Tibet and Qinghai, nomads have disarmed illegal hunters.

Last month, security officials and delegates to the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Flora and Faunamet in Beijing and revealed that global illicit wildlife trade was now worth more than £6bn a year, making it the world's third-biggest source of criminal earnings after drugs and illegal arms trading. But forestry officials and wildlife conservationists said that hunting did not mean widescale slaughter and the focus of the auction was on conserving rare species. The licences will be auctioned on Sunday in Chengdu, capital of the south-western province of Sichuan. "The auction will help the administration ascertain the market price of wildlife resources, and the legalisation of hunting licences will help curb illegal hunts," said the official.

There are just 1,500 pandas left, most of them in nature reserves in south-western China Anyone killing one faces jail. The State Forestry Administration has imposed strict limits on the species and quantity of wildlife to be hunted and the hunting area. It is strictly controlled, leading to difficulties in areas such as the south-western Yunnan province, where people say wild elephants rampage over their crops and even kill, but locals are forbidden from hunting them. The rules are particularly strict when it comes to rare species such as the country's national symbol, the giant panda. A guide will ensure that no breeding females are killed, and the emphasis will be on hunting older prey. Gun laws in China mean only foreigners can bid for the licences.