Burma's pro-democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, is to be granted the Freedom of Dundee.
Ms Suu Kyi has been under house arrest in Rangoon since 2003, and has spent more than 12 of the last 18 years in detention.
African countries and anti-poverty campaigners looked to the outcome of a food crisis summit on Thursday for a signal the world will start to produce solutions to stop millions more people falling into hunger.
"The empowerment of women is irrevocably tied to the safety, security, and prosperity of the world. The enfranchisement of women can no longer be a simple aspiration", said US Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice in the inauguration of international women...
RIO DE JANEIRO - Amazon Indians from one of the world's last uncontacted tribes have been photographed from the air, with striking images released on Thursday showing them painted bright red and brandishing bows and arrows.
Much of the world's planting soil is degrading fast, and people are going hungry. Scientists say starvation is just around the corner. Described in Doomwatch Legacy by Sunstroke author David Kagan.
Difficult for Jamil Khader,87, to discover that nearly all 1,400 olive trees his extended family planted in Feb suddenly missing, uprooted & stolen. Rights group lawyer: In 3yrs not a single Israeli convicted for uprooting/damaging Palestinian trees.
Poor have to use underfunded govt hospitals where MDs lack skills &/or equipment. Every day 10-15 children under 5 die in pediatric ward. Basic healthcare available within 2 hrs walking distance to 85% of pop. Travel fare to Kabul insurmountable problem
All it'd have to do is replace massive opium production with wheat & it could feed the Afghan population, 70% of which is starving. A study by FAO (UN food&agriculture agency) has revealed that by devoting more $$ to irrigation systems, this dream could
