Up to 30 million people are facing “a humanitarian disaster” as one of Africa’s biggest lakes shrinks, a United Nations agency warned Thursday.
Massive African lake could dry up, U.N. agency says
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Fears over cancer vaccine as schoolgirl dies
The death of a 14-year-old girl in England after she received a vaccination for Human Papilloma virus (HPV) has prompted a widespread freeze on the country’s national vaccination program. More than 1.4 million girls have received the vaccination in England since the National Health Service (NHS) started administering it in September 2008
U.S. to Iran: Prove your nuclear program is peaceful
Top U.S. officials say the underground nuclear facility that Iran revealed last week is illegal and likely intended for military purposes
It’s a girl for Jude Law
Less than two months after he acknowledged that a model he had dated was pregnant with his child, Jude Law is a father — again. A friend of the family told PEOPLE that Samantha Burke, the 24-year-old aspiring actress whom Law met while filming “Sherlock Holmes” in New York City last year, gave birth to a daughter Tuesday night.
Taliban suspected of stockpiling ‘missing’ Afghan opium
Enough Afghan opium to supply world demand for two years has effectively gone missing, with the Taliban suspected of stockpiling supplies in a bid to corner the market, the United Nations Office for Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has revealed.
Obama warns global recession makes climate change fight harder
President Obama warned Tuesday that the global economic recession could hinder the ability of countries to take necessary steps to combat climate change. “We seek sweeping but necessary change in the midst of a global recession, where every nation’s most immediate priority is reviving their economy and putting their people back to work,” Obama told a U.N
CNN Future Summit forum
A new breed of life-saving robot is being developed that take their shape and movement from snakes, and, it is hoped, will prove invaluable not only in search and rescue operations but also be a great asset to human surgery. (Full story) (CNN) — Conventions are relics.
Blaze rages in London’s Soho district
A massive fire engulfed the four-story offices of a major film company in central London on Friday, sending clouds of white smoke over the city skyline, the London fire department said. Two firefighters with minor injuries were taken to the hospital as a result of the Future Films building on Dean Street in the city’s Soho district, London ambulance services said.
What’s Driving the Bull Market in Commodities?
Eighteen months ago, when the world was awash in asset bubbles, there was perhaps no market more overheated than commodities. Prices of everything from iron ore to palm oil to corn reached dizzying heights.
Is ‘West Side Story’ Overrated?
One of the perks of being a theater critic, in those dog days of the season when you find yourself struggling to sit through the latest Chekhov revival or pretentious little comedy about tightly wound New York singles, is the Broadway-musical revival. Yes, you can complain — as I often have — about unimaginative commercial producers who keep recycling surefire classics like Gypsy or Guys and Dolls. But there’s good reason they’re recycled so often: they are surefire — unfailingly entertaining, no matter how uninspired the production, the indomitable high points of a genre that is America’s great contribution to world theater.