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Hundreds of protesters rallied yesterday behind three women petitioning the Namibian government to end the practice of forced sterilization of HIV-positive patients.
Not many people have heard of Fort Chipewyan, Alberta, nor the Athabaskan Tar Sands. Not these days, anyway, with the Deepwater Horizon disaster spewing oil into the Gulf of Mexico. But in Fort Chipewyan, the ongoing effects of bitumen oil extraction continue as the top news of the day.
Don’t be afraid of getting dirty—it might just make you healthier, less stressed and smarter.
Possession of “indecent material” and a letter from former San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown critical of Mugabe led to a raid on gay rights organization.
The so-called “Catfish Wars,” pitting U.S. catfish farmers against Asian producers since 2002, is heating up.
Some groups fear the law will affect Maori and indigenous groups harder and possibly take the country down California’s path.
According to a recent poll, men are more likely to tell lies than women, and mothers are more likely to be lied to.
South Africa’s state-owned and fickle electrical grid is likely to come under intense pressure during the June 11-July 11 World Cup soccer tournament, as hundreds of thousands of fans pour into the country during the dead of the Southern Hemisphere winter.
Yosemite National Park, the gemstone of John Muir’s “Range of Light” in California’s Sierra Nevada, has agreed to a $4.4 million solar panel installation at its El Portal entrance.
A Turkish court this week sentenced the former editor of the only Kurdish-language daily to 166 years in prison, convicting him of spreading propaganda for the terrorist organization PKK (the Kurdistan Workers’ Party).