Opinion Barry Artiste Again, as I have always said, those Countries who deride the West rarely have people dying to get into Western Countries for a better life. Usually those people from these countries die by their...
" 2008-09-02 03:18:05 - CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - President Hugo Chavez's insistence that Venezuela doesn't need U.S. help in fighting drug trafficking is raising diplomatic tensions as American officials warn of a...
How does the orange clownfish - aka Nemo from the movie "Finding Nemo" - really find its way home? "It turns out the colorful saltwater fish can sniff for leaves that fall into the sea from rainforests growing on...
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" Early next week a New York court will hear the bail application of the only woman ever to be accused of working for al Qaeda - but she is not being charged with terror offences. No - neuroscientist Dr Aafia...
An earthquake that hit Luzon region of the Philippines on July 6 (Sunday) did not deter a Christian congregation's two-day event. One of the biggest religious pilgrimages in the Philippines happen every three months of the year, the Members Church of God International's...
Starting this year Portugal will be changing its language adopting the Brazilian Portuguese version. Nowadays 210 million people speak Portuguese around the world, 180 million in Brazil and 10 million in Portugal....
" Tambacounda is the largest region in Eastern Senegal. It lies across major transit hubs linking Senegal to four of their neighboring countries; The Gambia, Guinea-Conakry, Mali and the Islamic Republic of Mauritania. The region also has an Airport which is...
"People living in Papua New Guinea (PNG)`s Wassenggela and Imonda districts on the border with Indonesia continue to go to traditional markets in Waris district in Indonesia. Antara`s monitoring in Banda Village, Waris District, on Saturday showed that Papuan New Guineans...
The Sankofa bird is an Akan symbol, representing the African adage : "Always remember the past for therein lies the future, if forgotten ...." In my family, my generation, that is...
Next time you go down with that nasty flu--hopefully not the H5N1 strain--think about the thousands of kilometers those viruses (what ever happenedto 'virii'?) have traveled to get to your system. " Viruses that originate in East and Southeast Asia migrate around the...
"A Warning From the World Health Organization (WHO)Millions of people could face poverty, disease and hunger as a result of rising temperatures and changing rainfall expected to hit poor countries the hardest, the...
The low-lying island nation of the Maldives has gathered enough support at the UN Human Rights Council to request a study on the impact of climate change on human rights. It fears that rising sea levels could swamp...
"A Papua New Guinea woman gave birth prematurely as she struggled to free herself from a hangman's noose, after villagers lynched her and her husband believing they were involved in sorcery, local media...
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Players and coaches are complaining about the grass pitch at the main stadium in Accra. It's too long and is causing problems."Ghana's vastly experienced French coach Claude LeRoy called it "the worst I have...