SAPPORO, Japan - Between surging oil prices, food inflation and a credit crunch that's depressed global growth, leaders from the Group of Eight economic powers face the gravest combination of economic woes in at least a decade when they gather next week.
AS the issue of child abuse rages in the country, over 15,000 children have been identified as abandoned and stigmatized as "witches" in Akwa Ibom and Cross River states.
"The business of recruiting teenage girls as domestic help in rich and middle-class homes is booming despite our efforts to put a stop to it", Bello Ahmed, head of the Kano office of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Traffic in Persons (NAPTIP),
The Guardian of Friday, July 4, 2008, reports in its lead story that the group that calls itself The Patriots has condemned President Umaru Yar'Adua for declaring war on the militants of the Niger Delta. Mr. Ladi Williams, the general secretary of The Pat
The scandal of trafficking young boys from Africa to Europe with the lure of fame and fortune as a football star is to be targeted in a new clampdown, The Independent has learnt. The move will throw a spotlight on the recruitment practices of clubs in Eng
Nuclear weapons? No way. But there are plenty of items on Iran's shopping list the United States is more than happy to supply: cigarettes, brassieres and more.
Liquid containing traces of unenriched uranium leaked Tuesday at a nuclear site in southern France, and some of the solution ran into two rivers, France's nuclear safety agency said.
China's ambassador to France has warned French President Nicolas Sarkozy against meeting with Tibet's exiled spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama.Ambassador Kong Quan told reporters Tuesday that a meeting during the Dalai Lama's visit to France next month
LA PAZ, Bolivia (AP) -- Police say at least 46 people were killed when a truck carrying farmers plunged 650 feet (200 meters) into a ravine in Bolivia's southern Andes Col. Julio Sepcel says about 60 people were aboard the truck when it went off a cliff
An infuriating puzzle that has baffled countless people over more than two decades, the Rubik's Cube is the newest toy for the highly intelligent octopus as scientists try to solve an amazing puzzle.
