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File - Street Children  on the roadside footpath in Kolkata in Eastern India City.
(photo: WN / Bhaskar Mallick)
Poor diet kills 2.6 million infants a year, says survey by Save the Children
The Guardian
| Charity calls on David Cameron to host a world hunger summit in London along with 2012 Olympics A boy is weighed in India: 48% of children in the country are reported to have stunted growth. Photograph: AP | Malnutrition is the root cause of the deaths of 2.6 million children each year, and the bo...
green trees on the background of blue sky
(photo: WN / Aruna Mirasdar)
The trees of life
The Observer
| Those of us with "challenging" hair are pathetically susceptible to anything that promises a de-frizzed barnet. Plus, foodies have now discovered argan, the "finest" of vegetable oils, and health obsessives consider it to be nutritionally superior. Its time is now, and the Moroccan government plan...
An e-book supports African wildlife
The Examiner
| Good news, yours truly, Gloria Blakely has just completed my first e-book, An African Safari for Jarvis (ISBN:  978-0-9849594-0-2) and an award-winning book at that. The manuscript won a Philadelphia Writers’ Conference Aw...
Kings Of Leon Put Drama Behind, Look Forward To New Album
VH1
| 'I don't think it was as big as people thought it was,' drummer Nathan Followill says of 2011 intra-band sparring. | by James Montgomery | As anyone who's seen their documentary can surely attest: The Kings of Leon have never | Add RSS Headlines | ...
Urgent tweet in Kenya village: Help, sheep missing
LA Daily News
By Tom Odula, Associated Press WriterAssociated Press Posted:   02/15/2012 03:01:22 PM PST February 15, 2012 11:2 PM GMT Updated:   02/15/2012 03:02:45 PM PST | In this photo taken Monday, Feb. 13, 2012, Chief Francis Kariuki, left, reads a...
Malawi president Bingu wa Mutharika condemns Mugabe comparison
The Guardian
| Leader described by British high commissioner as autocratic scorns claims of dictatorship President Bingu wa Mutharika said there was no country in sub-Saharan Africa as free as Malawi. Photograph: Alexander Joe/AFP/Getty Images | At a time when de...
Sentech Tower is a 237 metres (780 ft) high TV tower in the Brixton suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is a well-known and easily identifiable landmark in the city, alongside its architectural cousin, the Hillbrow Tower.
Creative Commons / NJR ZA
S Africa's Zuma outlines economic plan
Al Jazeera
Jacob Zuma, South Africa's president, has revealed an ambitious set of infrastructure projects designed to rescue South Africa from the effects of a global recession that has ...
A Syrian man cleans while attached to his shop is a portrait of Syrian President Bashar Assad with Arabic words reading: We love you, Welders homes peace on you," in Damascus, Syria, on Thursday Sept. 15, 2011.
AP / Muzaffar Salman
AP News in Brief at 8:58 p.m. EST
WPXI
| Russian foreign minister pushes reforms in Syria as bloodshed intensifies | BEIRUT (AP) — Days after blocking a U.S.-backed peace plan at the U.N., senior Russian officials...
File - A young malaria patient near Alem Kitmama, North East of Addis-Abeba, Ethiopia.
WHO / P. Virot
Malaria death toll far higher than previously thought
The Daily Telegraph
Malaria kills more than 1.2 million people a year, nearly 50 per cent more than previously thought, and inflicts a high toll among adults and older children and not just toddlers, ...
The shape of African American geopolitics
Al Jazeera
| - In the years following the Second World War, when the United States emerges as a superpower and beacon of democratic freedom, US officials began to propagate the idea of domestic racial progress - the nation's Achilles' Heel - to a sceptical glob...
Ard ard (Surface-to-surface): The story of a graffiti revolution
Middle East Online
| Graffiti -- the art of the masses, by the masses, for the masses -- has existed since ancient times, with examples dating back to ancient Greece, the Roman Empire, and arguably to Pharaonic Egypt. Sherif Abdel-Megid, a writer who works for Egyptian...
110-Year-Old Sudan Bookshop Struggles On
Jakarta Globe
Khartoum. It’s as if the dust-caked volumes have been sitting on the shelves of Sudan Bookshop for the past half century since some of them were published. | Three weeks might pass without a single book being sold, said the shop’s general manager...
Art & Culture
Shakira looks on as she takes a question during the media briefing prior to the soccer World Cup at the Soccer City stadium in Johannesburg, South Africa, Saturday July 10, 2010
(photo: AP / Themba Hadebe)
Shakira Attacked By a Mad Sea Lion
Peace FM Online
POP star Shakira was attacked by a raging sea lion which thought her mobile phone was a FISH. The 35-year-old Hips Don't Lie singer was attempting to take a photo of the giant animal when it jumped out of the water and tried to bite her. | Her brother bravely pulled her away from "the beast", leaving them both with minor scratches. | Colombian Shak...



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