Global
More deaths on Syria’s ‘day of defiance’
Activists claim that up to 30 people have been killed in Syria where thousands have taken to the streets for another day of anti-government rallies, dubbed a "day of defiance"....
Commodity prices fall sharply as investors sell
Oil prices were down 10% at one stage, with US light, sweet crude ending the day below $100 a barrel....
Food prices driven up by global warming, study shows. Scientists warn that farming practices must be adapted to a warmer world and rises in global pop...
Global warming has already harmed the world's food production and has driven up food prices by as much as 20% over recent decades, new research has revealed....
businessman becomes magnet for anger and dissent
BEIRUT, Lebanon — When protests erupted in March in the forlorn Syrian border town of Dara’a, demonstrators burned the president’s portraits, then set ablaze an unlikely target: the local office of the country’s largest mobile phone company, Syriatel, whose owner sits at the nexus of anger a...
Syria’s crackdown on protesters becomes dramatically more brutal. Tanks and troops enter towns and villages for the first time as scores of peop...
The Syrian government's brutal crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrations has escalated dramatically, with tanks rolling on to the streets for the first time and troops reported to have opened fire in several towns and villages across the country....
The nutrition community mourns the death of Michael Latham
Michael Latham died on April 1, 2011 at age 82 of pneumonia which set in during hospitalization after an operation. He is survived by his two sons Miles and Mark, his wife Lani, and mourned as well by hundreds who were touched by a remarkable life dedicated to serving others and making the world a b...
Michael Latham, nutritionist who advocated breast-feeding, dies at 82
Michael Latham, a leading nutritionist and tropical public health specialist who staunchly opposed the marketing of infant formula as a replacement for breast-feeding in developing countries, died April 1 in Boston of pneumonia. He was 82....
Global stillbirths: 2.6 million a year, overlooked and often preventable
About 2.6 million babies are born dead each year, a largely ignored and silently grieved loss of life, about half of which could be prevented....
Bolivia is set to pass the world’s first laws granting all nature equal rights to humans
Bolivia is set to pass the world's first laws granting all nature equal rights to humans. The Law of Mother Earth, now agreed by politicians and grassroots social groups, redefines the country's rich mineral deposits as "blessings" and is expected to lead to radical new conservation and social measu...
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