• World hunger increases despite growth in food production (IRIN) - Even as world food production grows, hunger is on the rise in many poor countries, according to the Global Crop Prospects and Food Situation report for November, published by the Food and...
• Millions worldwide would like to switch countries: study Some 700 million people worldwide, or more than all the adults of North and South America combined, think the grass is greener on the other side of the fence and want to permanently move to another...
• 1.6 billion people will experience hunger: Never have so many people suffered from hunger This development was to be expected. The past year was marked by three global crises, all of which had negative impacts on the food situation worldwide. It started with the 2007-2008 food crisis,...
• Global hunger worsening, warns UN Targets to cut the number of hungry people in the world will not be met without greater international effort, UN food agencies have warned. The UN's annual report on global food security confirms...
• The world's longest serving leaders 1. King Bhumibol Adulyadej (Thailand): 63 years
Born: 5 December, 1927
King Bhumibol, who was in fact born in Massachusetts, USA, tops the list as the world’s longest serving current leader...
• UK, California and New York Destroy Traffic Cameras Over the course of a month, nearly one-fifth of New York City's red light camera system were taken out of service by a man and a woman who allegedly used a cherry-picker to snatch the cameras out of...
• Copyright laws threaten our online freedom If you search for Elvis Presley in Wikipedia, you will find a lot of text and a few pictures that have been cleared for distribution. But you will find no music and no film clips, due to copyright...
• G8 convenes in Italy amid dire economic forecast: The worst of the crisis in political terms is still to come (Press TV) -- Leaders of the Group of Eight (G8) industrialized nations have gathered in Italy to evaluate the global economic downturn, whose "worst" political and social effects are yet to come....
• Journalist Files Charges against WHO and UN for Bioterrorism and Intent to Commit Mass Murder Related: Swine Flu Update -- Shutting down the economy (The link between Peak Oil, biowarfare and demand destruction)Burgermeister's dossier reveals that the release of the virus was to be an...
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• Racial Discrimination at the World Bank On the morning of May 27th this year, the staff of the Legal Affairs Office of the World Bank encountered an ugly racial slur scrawled on the wall outside their department. Very shortly, however, the...
• Number of people driven from homes by conflict at all-time high The number of people internally displaced within their own countries has reached a historical high of more than 28 million, the UN's refugee agency said today, as conflicts in Pakistan's Swat valley...
• WHO Set to Announce Pandemic over Australia Swine Flu Boom (Novinite) -- The World Health Organization has said that a sharp increase in swine flu cases in Australia may push it to finally announce a flu pandemic.
It would be the first such pandemic...
• Global Corruption Poll Shows Public View of Private Sector Dims More than half of those questioned in a global poll said corruption exists in the private sector, an increase from five years ago and a signal that the financial crisis has dimmed the public’s...
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