• GLOBAL: Children’s rights not yet a reality (IRIN) - Children’s rights advocates are taking 20 November, the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), to highlight legal advances, but say when it comes to...
• This will not CHANGE: Lights Out - World's Poor Remain in the Dark With the flip of a switch, a light comes on or an electric toothbrush revs to power. If service is cut, either for repairs or because of a natural cause, there will most likely be much fuss about how...
• Cosmetic Industry: Up to 60 killed in tourist region for their fat (used in Italian cosmetics) FOUR people have been arrested in Peru on suspicion of killing some 60 people to sell their fat and other human tissue to Italian co-conspirators for cosmetic use in Europe.
The suspects were...
• U.N. chief: Hunger kills 17,000 kids daily Somewhere in the world, a child dies of hunger every five seconds -- even though the planet has more than enough food for all.
U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon laid out this sobering statistic as...
• The poor left to perish: Richest countries ignore Hunger Summit More than 60 world leaders will attend the World Summit on Food Security organized by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization this week. But the leaders of most of the world's leading economies...
• 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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