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Breaking News Fri, 16 May 2008
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Animal   Conservationists   Mammals   Photos   Species  
 London Evening Standard 
Warning as species drop by third
16.05.08 | Populations of animal, bird and fish species have dropped by almost a third since 1970, conservationists have warned. | The Living Planet Index, which tracks the fortunes of more than 1,400... (photo: WN / Guillaume Poulet-Mathis)
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Climate   Environment   Photos   Poverty   Science  
 The Independent 
Johann Hari: Are there just too many people in the world?
| This is a column I don't want to write. Its subject is ugly; it makes me instinctively recoil. I have chastised people who bring it up at environmentalist meetings. The people who talk about it obse... (photo: WN / Imran Nissar)
A Thai family waits after buying a sack of rice at a government-owned shopping center in Bangkok, Thailand Thursday, May 1, 2008.  Business Day 
Opec experience warns against Asian rice cartel 
UNTIL recently, the next oil - the critical resource growing ever scarcer and prompting desperate behaviour to ensure supplies - was water. Turns out, it's rice. | That's at least what some Asian lead... (photo: (AP Photo/Apichart Weerawong) / )
Asia   Food   OPEC   Photos   Water  
 A Parsi couple on their wedding day. The man in the centre is Dastur MN Dhalla, who was the High Priest of the Parsis of Karachi, Pakistan, between 1909 and 1956. (om1)  Asia Times 
Parsis may be silenced by success
| By Sudha Ramachandran | BANGALORE - The clock is ticking for one of India's most prosperous communities, the Parsis. Always small, the Parsi population is diminishing at an alarming rate, prompting ... (photo: PD File)
Culture   India   Photos   Population   Society  
Top Stories
 An Indonesian Muslim student  holds a sign during an anti-AIDS demonstration in Jakarta.(nu1) The Guardian
'People do stupid things - that's what spreads HIV'
| Western governments are spending mind-boggling sums treating HIV-positive patients in the developing world. But would they save more lives by concentrating on preventio... (photo: AP)
Disease   HIV   Health   Photos   Society  
Secretary-General Chairs First UN Global Food Crisis Task Force Meeting Turkish Press
UN food task force meets for first time
| UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon speaks during an April 2008 meeting. A UN special task force on the world food crisis sweeping the globe met for the first time on Mond... (photo: UN / Mark Garten)
Hunger   Photos   Poverty   Slideshow   UN   World  
** FILE ** An unidentified child carrying AN empty plate of food stands outside their house at the Ruga area of Abuja, Nigeria, in this July 17, 2006 file picture. The Star
Higher food prices trend to go on into 2009
| Kuwait Finance House, in its Global Agriculture Report, says it expects the rise in food prices to continue and the fight to feed people and livestock to intensify. We ... (photo: AP / George Osodi, file)
Finance   Food   Kuwait   Photos   Prices  
Working in the rice paddy /ntf1 Hong Kong Standard
Neighbors may feel hunger pain of ruined rice fields
Cyclone Nargis devastated Burma's main rice- growing region, and may threaten exports meant to ease shortages in Sri Lanka and Bangladesh, the UN food agency warned. | //... (photo: Creative Commons / Flickr)
Agriculture   Burma   Food   Hunger   Photos  
McDonald Fast Food Restaurant The News Tribune
China, India poised to alter global food equation
BEIJING - Nothing about the lunch rush at a McDonald's in China would feel out of place in America: Students huddled around video games and fries; a computer salesman sca... (photo: WN / theresa)
China   Food   Market   McDonald   Photos  
 Agriculture -farmers- farming -farmland - ricefield (mj1) wnhires Dawn
Soft credit to farmers for better crops
| By Nasir Jamal | LAHORE: Never mind the deteriorating macroeconomic stability, which is perhaps the only thing that is worrying the country’s finance managers and most ... (photo: WN)
Agriculture   Crops   Economy   Food   Photos  
Veiled Palestinian women participate in a demonstration calling for reconciliation between Fatah and Hamas factions, in Gaza City, Wednesday, March 26, 2008. The Arab country of Yemen hosted reconciliation talks this week between Hamas and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas' Fatah movement. However, those talks unraveled amid fresh recriminations between the Palestinian rivals. (AP Photo/Hatem Moussa) The Guardian
Is this the worst place on earth to be a woman?
It is early morning in Al-Hudaydah, a small city in the northwest of Yemen, and Aminah, my translator, is going about the awkward business of eating breakfast. We have co... (photo: AP / Hatem Moussa)
Arab World   Photos   Saudi Arabia   Woman   Yemen  
 Street Children - Poverty - Afghanistan/ntf1 Khaleej Times
Rising prices heap pressure on Afghanistan's destitute
| KABUL - Shamsuddin, his wife and their three children sit cross-legged on the floor around the cloth that Afghans traditionally eat off and use bread to pick from a sin... (photo: Public Domain)
Afghanistan   Food   Photos   Poverty   Prices  
Bread - Wheat bread - Wheat - Agriculture - Food The Times Of India
What is eating into Indian food basket?
|       The most powerful person on this planet seems to have got it wrong once again. By assigning the cause of global food price crisis to India, George ... (photo: WN / Sweet Radoc)
Food   India   Inflation   Photos   US  
Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen The Australian
Giant island may go it alone
| GREENLAND may soon need a new anthem after taking its first tentative steps towards becoming an independent state. | Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen went to... (photo: AP / Haraz N. Ghanbari)
Danish   Europe   Greenland   Island   Photos  
Rice The State
Nigeria lifts tax on rice in bid to head off food crisis
By EDWARD HARRIS - Associated Press Writer | LAGOS, Nigeria -- | Nigeria on Wednesday announced it was suspending import duties and other taxes on rice while launching a ... (photo: WN / Sweet Radoc)
Africa   Food   Nigeria   Photos   Tax  
Immigration Refugees
- Gypsy camps destroyed as Italian intolerance flares
- Sex slavery on high
- Immigration agents raid bakery, detain 18 people
- 'Zim crisis, xenophobia linked'
 UNMIK police interviewing possible vistims of human trafficking in Kosovo capital city of Pristina.  ula1
Sex slavery on high
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- Burmese junta claims initial relief phase is over
- London by night
- Historians, Not History, Will Judge The U.S.-Iraqi War
- Rain deepens Myanmar misery; casualty jumps
U.S. Marines with 3rd Platoon, Golf Company, Battalion Landing Team, 2nd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment search Iraqi civilians passing by their observation post in Haqlaniyah, Iraq, during a mission to find insurgents, improvised explosive devices and weapons caches Dec. 15, 2006.
Historians, Not History, Will Judge The U.S.-Iraqi War
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Globalisation Sociology
- Sex slavery on high
- Social inclusion swindle
- Hymn to freedom
- It takes a village to fathom our world
 UNMIK police interviewing possible vistims of human trafficking in Kosovo capital city of Pristina.  ula1
Sex slavery on high
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- Moving times in Ukraine
- Growing apace in Africa
- Parents can play an important role in encouraging exercise
- You go, girls! Activity has many benefits
Iranian Jewish people are seen in a Synagogue preparing to cast their votes, during Iran's parliamentary election in Tehran, Iran, Friday March. 14, 2008. Conservatives and allies of hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stood to keep their hold on parliament as Iranians voted Friday in elections in which reformists were barred from running.
What's a democratic vote worth in theocratic Iran?
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Ecology Environment
- Hymn to freedom
- Alien threat to truffle delicacy
- Fruit Fly Diversity Is in the Details
- Senate C'ttee Expresses Concern Over Revenue Loss
Kangaroos (sl1)
Kangaroo cull on Defence land to go ahead
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- Doubts over fuel excise cuts for climate and economy
- Los Angeles mayor's long-range water conservation plan f
- Students study effect of climate change on plants
- Restrictions, recycling in Los Angeles water plan
Wildlife (sl1)
Wildlife numbers plummet globally: WWF
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