Sensex edges up as Reliance gains Gulf News | Mumbai (Reuters) Indian shares nudged 0.3 per cent higher yesterday, with Reliance Industries leading the gains, helped by small gains in Asia. | The 30-share BSE Index closed 0.27 per cent or 45.79 points higher to finish at 17,098.33, with 18 of its components gaining. | Investors remain cautiou...
EU demands more rights progress from Morocco Middle East Online GRANADA - EU president Herman Van Rompuy called on Morocco during a summit Sunday to make progress in respecting human rights. | Referring to a dispute over the Western Sahara region, Van Rompuy said during the EU-Morocco summit that the European Union supported UN efforts "for a just, lasting and m...
Mass tree-felling in Kano worries stakeholders Business Day Online As kerosene scarcity persists | Mass tree-felling in Kano State in recent times with its grave consequences on the environment and safety of residents is raising serious concerns among government and residents. | This human activity, which according ...
Even sub-Sahara pips South Asia The Times Of India NEW DELHI: East Asia and the Pacific are pulling ahead of South Asia on most indicators of gender equality such as health, adult literacy and economic participation. The divergence has become so magnified that today South Asia ranks close to or lower...
Revolutionary Invention Allows Planting Without Irrigation redOrbit Posted on: Monday, 8 March 2010, 08:00 CST | STEENBERGEN, The Netherlands and SACRAMENTO, California, March 8, 2010 /PRNewswire/ -- The Groasis waterboxx invented by science award winning Dutch innovator Pieter Hoff is about to change the course of h...
Running to save lives The Star | One man joins the race of a lifestime to raise funds for Malaysian Aids Foundation. | UNFORGIVING heat, scorching sand, biting cold, blisters and painkillers. And, that's just the first day of the Des Sables marathon. Dubbed the "toughest footrace ...
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UN: Cocaine being traded for arms in West Africa The Guardian | RUKMINI CALLIMACHI | Associated Press Writer= DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Cocaine shipped to West Africa by Latin American drug cartels is now being traded for arms, the U.N.'s drug ...
UN: Cocaine being traded for arms in West Africa The News & Observer | DAKAR, Senegal -- Cocaine shipped to West Africa by Latin American drug cartels is now being traded for arms, the U.N.'s drug czar said Monday - an exchange of contraband that is...
Sahara Becomes Desert of Terrorism Pravda RU | Senegal's president Abdoulaye Wade urged African leaders and the West to join forces in the fight against al-Qaeda's North African branch, saying it has to be done to prevent the...
Desert by JMG Le Clézio The Guardian | Giles Foden welcomes the appearance of a postwar French classic | Despite having published more than 40 books, JMG Le Clézio remains an enigma for most English-speaking readers. Published in France in 1980, Desert was singled out by the Swedish Ac...
Tinariwen - UCLA Live @ Royce Hall, Los Angeles (PHOTOS) The Examiner | Tinariwen - Live @ UCLA Royce Hall, Los Angeles. 2010 Scott Dudelson | Located on the UCLA campus, Royce Hall has been playing host to live music since the 1930's (and immortalized in the 1970's on Neil Young's Harvest album which featu...
Sahara, Jaypee in fray for IPL teams DNA India | Mumbai: The Cricket Centre has been wearing a quiet look lately. There have been no long cavalcades, no big security entourage nor large crowds. It has been business unusual at the office of the Board of Control for Cricket in India these days. | T...
China defends growing links with Africa Business Report | China rejected foreign concerns over its growing energy links with Africa on Sunday, saying it benefits African nations by bringing badly needed trade and infrastructure development. | "I have noticed that in the international community there are some who do not want to see the development of Sino-African relations and always make an issue of Chi...
