Canadian women have launched a Panties for Peace! campaign to send their panties to the Myanmar military junta, playing on the militaries superstitious fear that contact with a woman's panties will rob them of their power. http://www.pantiesforpeace.info

AL-QA'IDA in Iraq has posted a video on the internet showing the mutilated bodies of two US soldiers kidnapped last month and executed to "avenge" a 14-year-old Iraqi girl raped near Mahmudiyah, south of Baghdad.

A woman was in serious condition and was unable to speak after floating at sea for many days without food or water. "It appears she could still die or be in a critical condition. I don't know what she survived on." said one of her crewmen last night.

Tens of thousands of admirers gathered in the Ethiopian capital on Monday for the funeral of the country's most famous poet, Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin, who died in New York after a long illness. "Ethiopia today lost her greatest son,".....

Gopal Siwakoti Chintan, human rights lawyer and activist from Nepal and a close colleague of our affiliate group IRN, has been unlawfully arrested at a public rally in Kathmandu on 2nd February 2006. Chintan and dozens of others are still being detained..

The Bristol-Myers Squibb Co. has agreed to license its AIDS drug Reyataz free of charge to two Third World generic drug manufacturers.

NY Times article reporting on the 10 year struggle of Forest Ethics and a coalition of NGOs, First Nations, and corporations to save a rare coastal temperate rainforest in British Columbia.

Here is a gallery of photos that have been named among the best in the world by World Press Photo.

"It is hard to predict how the Muslim world will respond to the use of force against Iran. This may stir the whole world, and it is crucial to prevent anything like that."

McDonald's Corp. (MCD) faces at least three lawsuits claiming the fast-food giant misled the public after it acknowledged earlier this week its French fries contain milk and wheat ingredients, the Wall Street Journal Online reported on Sunday.