At rubbish dumps in Maseru, children as young as 3 pick through waste products thrown away by Maseru's garment industry. They are often collecting offcuts from jeans to burn for cooking.

As many as 300,000 children have been used as soldiers around the globe with about 120,000 of these fighting in the numerous ragged and bitter battles across the African continent. For the Lord's Resistance Army led by Kony- a "messiah'.....

Israel in its present configuration and location "is just not working out." Its behavior isn't suited to Palestine - a bad choice, in hindsight, for a Jewish homeland. Better to "offer the new Israeli government the states of Colorado, Oklahoma....

The French film industry has been branded racist after it banned black actors from dubbing white stars in Gallic versions of English-language movies. An investigation revealed that casting directors regularly expelled black applicants in the belief....

At least 11 Palestinians, including one child, have been killed after Israeli forces struck a mosque during prayers in the town of Beit Lahiya, north of Jabaliya in the Gaza Strip.

From early morning, the barrage continues. There are sporadic strikes throughout the day and we can hear the jets as they roar in before unloading their rockets and bombs.

"Nobody dares to step out of the house," says an anguished Palestinian mother in the bombed-out Gaza Strip. The life of Abu Anas Al-Banna, his wife and their ten children has been confined to the walls of their small house in Gaza city.

Ever since Hamas triumphed in the Palestinian elections nearly three years ago, the story in Israel has been that a full-scale ground invasion of the Gaza Strip was imminent. But even when public pressure mounted for a decisive blow against Hamas....

As the Israeli military launched an "all out war" with Hamas in the Gaza strip, as casualties mounted to 400 dead and another 1450 wounded, as tanks and troops massed in the area just outside the wall that imprisons the people of Gaza, as preparations....

Lie #1: Israel is only targeting legitimate military sites and is seeking to protect innocent lives. Israel never targets civilians.....