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 Articles - Africa |  |
| [23-08-2007] | Mixed reactions in Africa’s anti-graft fight | | | Anti-corruption campaigns are increasingly geared towards silencing leaders' political opponents, say accused... |
| [23-08-2007] | Botswana’s lake that came back to life | | | Only animals had not written off Lake Ngami, an inland lake in north-west Botswana famous for the birds that breed on its shores... |
| [26-04-2007] | Malawi warns Western tobacco dealers | | | Malawi's president warns foreign tobacco merchants he will expell them if they continue to offer low prices... |
| [26-04-2007] | Malawian pastors want Veep released | | | Malawian Vice President Cassim Chilumpha has won the sympathy of the clergy who are demanding his unconditional release from house arrest... |
| [22-04-2007] | Madonna in Malawi for David reunion | | | The queen of pop returns to Malawi to meet her adopted son's father and check aid work she is involved in... |
| Articles - Americas | |
| [09-09-2008] | Global starvation ignored by American policy elites | | | A new report from The World Bank admits that in 2005 over three billion people live on less that $2.50 a day and about 44% of these people survive on less than $1.25. |
| [03-08-2008] | War on Terror: Tyranny in the Dock | | | The arrest of Radovan Karadzic, and the recent European and Middle Eastern tour of Presidential candidate Barack Obama may present an opportunity for a dramatic and progressive shift of America's 'War on Terror'. |
| [27-05-2008] | Reform synagogues 'adopt' US soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan | | | The Union of Reform Judaism announced its opposition to the war in Iraq, but has encouraged its members to reach out and 'adopt' US soldiers. Touched by the gifts and letters of support, the soldiers sometimes reach back. |
| [27-05-2008] | A snowy transmission: Public access television threatened | | | Public access TV, long the home of quirky, community-based programming, is struggling in the wake of efforts by cable companies to reduce funding for training and production for citizen producers. |
| [27-05-2008] | We Shall Overcome: Trying to keep protests fresh and relevant | | | As the Iraq War turns five, anti-war protesters struggle to grab the public's attention. |
| Articles - Asia-Pacific | |
| [24-12-2007] | What is the best way to learn Chinese? | | | As China rises on the global business stage, more people want to learn the language. The question is, which version? |
| [23-08-2007] | Sleeping Beauty: Colonial architecture in Laos | | | More than 50 years after the French, the tranquil capital Vientiane boasts refurbished colonial buildings, formerly the
playgrounds of the elite... |
| [02-08-2007] | Government strike threatens Fiji | | | Fiji union leader arrested as mass civil service strike looms.. |
| [13-03-2007] | Beijing break: Seeing in the Lunar New Year | | | The celebrations on New Year's Eve in the West may now be a memory, but in China they're just beginning... |
| [21-09-2006] | Vanuatu beef for the organic market | | | Vanuatu has been producing some of the world's best beef for years, but now it is trying to take a cut of the organic market... |
| Articles - Europe | |
| [29-09-2008] | Stones Ronnie Wood in biggest ever UK divorce? | | | Reports are flying that the wife of the Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood is consulting divorce lawyers in what could be one of the biggest UK divorces ever... |
| [22-09-2008] | Divorce lawyers are a girl's best friend when it comes to pets | | | A couple’s animals could become the next battleground in expensive divorce cases after a British court ordered a banker to pay £50,000 a year in maintenance for his ex-wife's horses. |
| [09-09-2008] | UK credit crisis rattles '15 million workers', survey says | | | Workology.com (http://www.Workology.com), the professional social networking site, has unveiled the results of the first national survey of workplace and employee attitudes since the credit crunch hit. |
| [03-09-2008] | Law Society warns over UK’s new shared equity scheme | | | Homebuyers seeking to purchase property under the Government’s new shared equity initiative risk losing out if the property market picks up, warns the Law Society. |
| [29-08-2008] | Lowest divorce rate for 26 years due to 'uncertainty' | | | Divorce figures for England and Wales have fallen to their lowest rate for 26 years because marriage has become such an unattractive option, a top UK divorce lawyer says... |
| Articles - Film | |
| [27-05-2008] | Ten years later, ‘The Big Lebowski’ still abides | | | The Coen brothers just won four Academy Awards for "No Country for Old Men," but longtime fans are busy celebrating another landmark in the filmmakers' career: the 10-year anniversary of "The Big Lebowski," a film that has achieved cult status among devotees. |
| [27-05-2008] | Recent 'chick flicks' are not just for girls | | | More and more guys are becoming fans of so-called “chick flicks.” Recent studies show men enjoy them almost as much as women, and their enjoyment is higher if the movies involved are presented as fantasy rather than based on facts.
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| [09-03-2008] | Can catgirls save the troubled US anime industry? | | |
Drastic declines in DVD sales - from $550 million to $350 million in 4 years - mean trouble for the US anime industry. |
| [08-03-2008] | While they were out, striking writers kept writing | | |
The 100-day writers' strike provided just the free time and creative stimulation writers needed to resurrect back burner projects and develop new material, but it isn't destined for your TV. |
| [23-08-2007] | UK film industry must change to survive | | | UK movie production must change or die as more and more films fail to make enough to realise their costs... |
| Articles - Health | |
| [06-10-2008] | Spreading the word on flu jabs! | | | West country company vows to make communication easier and cheaper for UK doctors' surgeries... |
| [27-05-2008] | Women who pluck too much turn to eyebrow transplants | | | Some over-tweezed. Others simply want a bushier brow. Across the country, women (and some men) are discovering a new solution to their eyebrow woes: transplants. |
| [27-05-2008] | 'Belly casts,' the new rage to memorialize your pregnancy | | | Thousands of pregnant women are making plaster belly casts to have keepsake sculptures of their expecting bodies. Some use them as art; others want to remember that very special time in their lives. |
| [27-05-2008] | "The Biggest Loser" spawns weight loss competitions around US | | | Inspired by a popular reality television show, company employees, gyms, even entire towns are holding weight loss competitions of their own. |
| [27-05-2008] | Hey kids, wash your teeth off with soap | | | More Americans are tossing toothpaste aside for a mouth-cleansing throw back: soap. Entrepreneurs are adding flavors so it doesn't taste so much like, uh, soap. But some dental experts aren't convinced that soap is best for that clean, fresh feeling. |
| Articles - Lifestyle | |
| [27-05-2008] | Knit one, purl two: Guys, too, are now tending to their knitting | | | A growing number of men across the country are picking up an unlikely hobby - knitting - and changing the face of the knitting world in the process. |
| [27-05-2008] | Parenting from the left side of the brain | | | Scientist parents don't necessarily check their analytical minds at the nursery door. Some of them look on the common problems of parenting as an intellectual puzzle that needs to be solved. |
| [27-05-2008] | Micro-farming comes of age: How to grow crops in your kitchen | | | Micro greens, once the domain of haute cuisine, are now ready to grow in kitchens everywhere. |
| [27-05-2008] | Home cooking hits the back burner, but food culture heats up | | | While books about food are flying off the shelves and cooking shows are hot, people are increasingly relying on their microwaves to make dinner. Cooking is becoming more recreational and less a necessity. |
| [27-05-2008] | The latest in newly discovered species: Pay for it, name it | | | Want your name in the record books? Can’t find a gift for that special someone? Now you can name a species and help fund the not-so-sexy science of taxonomy. |
| Articles - Mid-East | |
| [20-11-2007] | Iraq: Importing the perfect date | | | What has Iraq got that the US doesn’t? The world’s most coveted dates. Two men are fighting to export them... |
| [21-03-2007] | Iraq’s refugees followed out by their liberators | | | First the purge, then the surge, now the urge - to withdraw… |
| [29-01-2007] | Iraq crisis has made two million refugees | | | UN appeals for £30m in emergency aid as Iraqi refugee crisis escalates. Syria and Jordan struggle to cope as thousands enter... |
| [21-12-2006] | Journalist deaths reach record high in 2006 | | | Violence in Iraq claimed the lives of 32 journalists in 2006, the deadliest year for media workers in a single country ever... |
| [04-08-2006] | Sleepless in Beirut: A resident's perspective | | | A journalist and resident of burning Beirut gives her account of life in the previously promising metropolis-turned-warzone as the bombs rain down... |
| Articles - Music | |
| [27-05-2008] | Vinyl is back, at least when it comes to phonograph records | | | Record shops are dying out and CD purchases are dwindling, but the love for old-fashioned records is still alive - and the market is thriving. |
| [11-03-2008] | Leonard Cohen announces world tour | | | Immediately following his induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, Leonard Cohen announced his world tour... |
| [24-12-2007] | Raising hell in the sun: Goths go on cruises | | | Members of a subculture known more for doom and gloom and pale faces challenge stereotypes (and have a great time) on
an annual tropical outing called GothCruise... |
| [02-11-2007] | Led Zeppelin guitarist fractures finger | | | The Ahmet Ertegun Tribute Concert is moved to December after Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page hurts hand... |
| [31-10-2007] | Indian-born singer set to take UK charts by storm | | | Singer/songwriter Shayan Italia and his debut self-titled album are tipped to feature big in 2008... |
| Articles - Opinion | |
| [11-08-2008] | After Glasgow East – Labour needs to keep the Heid | | | It wasn't an earthquake. It wasn't a seismic shift. It was a by election - and by elections are like that. So what should Labour learn from it? |
| [27-05-2008] | Cuba supports press freedom | | | Cuban and South American journalists have gathered to honor the 50th anniversary of the death of the last journalist killed in Cuba. |
| [08-05-2008] | European firms have double standards in foreign dealings | | | Major European firms are the main culprits of bribery and corruption abroad... |
| [07-05-2007] | Side-effects of private education | | | Public boarding schools are some of the best schools in Britain, but as a system to grow up in, they cannot be reduced to numbers and tables... |
| [13-04-2007] | Eating disorders plague British universities | | | The size zero debate rages on, yet the details are as slim as the models. Just who are these 'young girls' who are susceptible to eating problems, and what lies behind their disordered eating? |
| Articles - South Asia | |
| [29-11-2007] | Pakistan: Third time is never the charm | | | A descendant of Pakistan's ruling elite questions the chaos in his homeland as the country moves shakily towards democracy... |
| [20-11-2007] | Saving the children: The dark side of handmade rugs | | | A nonprofit group is fighting to get children out of rug factories in South Asia... |
| [09-10-2005] | Death toll from Pakistan quake soars | | | As many as 50,000 people have been killed and up to 42,000 injured in the devastating earthquake that rocked Pakistan, officials say... |
| [21-07-2005] | Terror base in UK not here, says Pakistan | | | Pakistan President Pervez Musharraf has said that there was no credible intelligence tying the London bombers to his country... |
| [14-04-2005] | Children buried alive in Hindu ritual | | | Over 80 people in the South Indian state of Tamil Nadu face jail for burying their own children alive in a gruesome religious ritual… |
| Articles - Sports | |
| [23-05-2008] | Presswire buys 'Kick Off', forms Videowire | | | British media group Presswire has acquired the football TV news show ‘Kick Off’, launching its new multimedia arm, Videowire... |
| [11-04-2008] | Premier League lacks wheelchair spacing | | | Disabled facilities in the Premiership are not as bad as reported, the Premier League says... |
| [09-04-2008] | Football: Referee Respect | | | Respect the ref. Those are the words booming out of the Premier League... |
| [02-04-2008] | Manchester United overwhelm Roma | | | Manchester United's Cristiano Ronaldo put in a performance against one of Europe's big boys to finally silence the critics. |
| [08-03-2008] | Bowling pushes beyond its blue-collar roots | | |
Cristal champagne, go-go dancers and VIP rooms are only some of the amenities available to patrons of the new premiere bowling centers that are popping up. |
| Articles - Technology | |
| [04-09-2008] | SecPoint provides Wi-Fi security with the Penetrator | | | Danish IT security enterprise SecPoint (www.secpoint.com (http://www.secpoint.com)) has made life miserable for hackers all over the world, winning an award for its pioneering Penetrator... |
| [14-07-2008] | UK’s first dedicated BlackBerry Centre opens | | | Scancom (www.scancom.co.uk (http://www.scancom.co.uk)) are an Orange business specialist partner and BlackBerry® Alliance Member, and are proud to launch the first dedicated BlackBerry store in the UK.
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| [27-05-2008] | Book tours go virtual to grab readers | | | In an effort to get more Americans reading again, authors are taking their book tours to the big screen and online. By being able to appear to audiences without actually going anywhere, the authors and the people making the appearances hope to be able to spread the word faster. |
| [27-05-2008] | Amateur photography goes 3-D | | | A growing number of amateur photographers are discovering the art of 3-D anaglyphs, creating online communities of geeked-out grown-ups who can't stop posting pictures. |
| [27-05-2008] | 'Crazy Blind Date': A Web site plays matchmaker in a new and different way | | | A new dating Web site has been luring adventurous singles away from the other sites by daring them to hook up with a complete stranger. |
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