Trade in rhino horn fuels massive poaching surge in South Africa The Guardian | An 'insatiable' demand for horn, with poaching at a 15-year high, is stretching South Africa's abilities to protect its white rhinos, above, and critically endangered black rhinos. Photograph: Steve & Ann Toon/Robert Harding/Corbis | is witnessing a massive surge in rhino poaching, an activity bla...
Celebrities see stars when trying adoption Khaleej Times Elton John is following a long line of pop stars, Hollywood celebrities and politicians seeking to adopt a child ' and he is not the first to find his private life a problem. | Many controversial comments were made about fellow megastar Madonna's adoption of two children in Malawi. Angelina Jolie an...
Drug grower's body 'was dumped' BBC News | The body of a Vietnamese drug grower was dumped in a ditch after he died in a cannabis factory, a jury at Swansea Crown Court has heard. | The body of Kim Van Tran was found near Horeb, Carmarthenshire, in May. | Ernest John Lewis, 57, of Swansea, ...
China Open 2009 China Daily | Zhao Xianming, a narcotics control officer for Mengla county in Southwest China's Yunnan province, remembers July 25 clearly. | Around midday that Saturday, he received a call from a senior police officer of Phongsaly province, northern Laos, urgin...
Unexpected danger: Smoke may be making local soldiers, others sick The News Tribune | Spc. Carissa Gillis developed a nagging cough within days of arriving in Iraq last November. For the next nine months of her deployment, it never quite went away. | In her mind, it wasn't hard to figure out why. | Gillis, a member of the Washington...
Abdullah to call for Afghan poll boycott The Independent | The elections in Afghanistan, meant to showcase the progress made towards democracy, are in fresh disarray, sowing fear and uncertainty about the country's future. The campaign manager of Abdullah Abdullah, the challenger to President Hamid Karzai,...
A war crime whitewash The Guardian | I recently met a leading representative of the foreign ministry of Israel who acknowledged to me "off the record" that Israel had made a tremendous blunder in refusing to cooperate with the UN Commission led by Judge Richard Goldstone, which invest...
Vietnam-era defoliant is tied to more illnesses The Columbus Dispatch The federal government is still discovering ways that the Vietnam War made its veterans sick. | Walt Williams, of the West Side, was an Army gunner in Vietnam in 1965 and 1966. That was while the military was using the herbicide Agent Orange to clear...
