We can use that desire also to shame and coax better behavior out of China’s leaders.

Even as it receives a billion pounds of free food from international donors, Sudan is growing and selling vast quantities of its own crops to other countries, capitalizing on high global food prices at a time when millions of people in its war-riddled region of Darfur barely have enough to eat.

The global financial crisis caused a rush demand for long-standig values. Gold - a conservative and scarcely profit-oriented investment of minor risk - is gaining new interest nowadays. Hitting an all-time-high of more than 1,000 USD per oz this popular for thousands of years shiny “raw material” lived up to its name.
For those who became soiled over and over by digging for it gold hardly offers any bright prospects.

One of the most remarkable of this year’s new college graduates, Beatrice Biira, credits her success to something utterly improbable: a goat —

We have so much to gain by reaching an accord, and so much to loose by failing to close a deal.

As newspapers struggle, their reach, paradoxically, is greater than ever.

The Zimbabwe case should be more than a tragedy for its own people

Robert Mugabe brazenly and brutally stole his latest re-election as president of Zimbabwe. Now Africa’s leaders, who have looked the other way for far too long, must decide what they will do.

Two girls’ stories have helped spur a movement to put an end to child marriage

Zimbabweans suffered for so many decades from white racism that the last thing they need is for Robert Mugabe’s brutality to be excused because of his skin color.

Sexual violence destroys the whole community because the stigma stays.

By Tony Blair (International Herald Tribune)
THURSDAY, JUNE 26, 2008
Scientists and political leaders are now united over the need to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But there is a danger of a yawning chasm on the size and speed of the cuts we require.