Food & energy security: Commonwealth states urged to cut defence expenditure

"The Commonwealth countries of Asia should reduce the expenditure on defence and armaments and use the resources thus saved for the uplift of the poor who are the worst affected by the rise in prices of food and energy, the civil society organisations of Commonwealth states...

Mayors Will Help the UN

A group of mayors from the around the world have pledged to support the UN’s Millennium Development Goals.

Revenge of the clone

"It was 1991 and Goran Varaklic, new to Canada and fresh out of a job, decided to put his knowledge of computers to work. He turned the den of his suburban Toronto apartment into his workshop and started assembling personal computer systems that he sold at cut-rate prices...