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...
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...
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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 ...
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...
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...
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...
