Award goes to 23 year old for child soldier tale

"A brutal but surprisingly poetic novel about an African child soldier has won this year's John Llewellyn Rhys prize. Beasts of No Nation is a first novel by Uzodinma Iweala who, at 23 years old, is one of the youngest winners of the prize for young writers, which has an...

Plan to bury Gorgon's greenhouse gas too risky

"Plan to bury Gorgon's greenhouse gas too risky 23 Nov 2006 A senior WWF scientist today raised serious concerns about Senator Ian Campbell's announcement of $60 million to support the Gorgon development's plan to bury vast quantities of greenhouse gases from Western...