The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills and the Home Office stressed in their joint response to the committee that they would "place no cap on the number of genuine students coming from across the world to study here".

BBC: Foreign students to stay in migration figures

The Lib Dem superlawyer was all but purring as he read the government's response to the work of a joint parliamentary committee, which has been scrutinising a draft bill on the issue.

BBC: Cheering the changes

Russel Honore -- the colorful leader of the military's response to Hurricane Katrina -- said that the joint task force mission was nearing its end stage, barring any further destruction from Hurricane Rita.

CNN: Military's Katrina mission nears end

Environmentalists and the Department of the Interior filed a joint appeal in response to Judge Downes' ruling in 1998.

CNN: Yellowstone wolves get their day in court

The joint action by Europe's heavyweights is a response to Google's announcement in January on new privacy settings.

CNN: EU watchdogs need 'teeth' to clamp down on privacy breaches

To create a more unified response to the nursing crisis on a European level, the Joint Action on Health Workforce Planning, funded in part by the European Commission, recently launched a project to foster international cooperation.

CNN: Where have Europe's nurses gone?

The right response to lean defence budgets, argues Mr Rasmussen, is not to cut NATO's joint projects, but to have more of them.

ECONOMIST: NATO and Russia

South West Trains said it had launched a joint 10-point plan with Network Rail to tackle the drop in performance and fall in customer satisfaction in response to the survey.

BBC: Rail fare 'dissatisfaction' grows, survey suggests

The four partners, in addition to other major players in the mobile technology field, working through a joint venture currently being planned, aim to commercialize the chip in Japan and other countries as quickly as possible in response to market demands for smaller and more affordable mobile devices.

ENGADGET: Panasonic, DoCoMo, NEC and Fujitsu create IP for multi-standard LSI chip; supports LTE, GSM, W-CDMA and HSPA+