Mar 18 2007
The North American bison, Bison bison, is one of the largest wild cattle in the world. The species disappeared from the wild in the eighteenth century after extensive hunting for its meat and skin. The bison were once a key part of North...
Mar 18 2007
The besieged president of Zimbabwe is now gripped by fears of a coup. Amid growing social unrest Mugabe claimed last Friday that there was ‘an insidious dimension where ambitious leaders have been cutting deals with the British and...
Mar 17 2007
Britain’s ambassador to the UN on Saturday asked the UN to brief the Security Council on the chaotic political and economic situations in Zimbabwe. Ambassador Emyr Jones Parry asked for a ‘humanitarian briefing’ on the attacks...
Mar 17 2007
The menace of drug trafficking in the Caribbean region has spread its tentacles across the countries of the region. This multi-million dollar business has assumed such proportions as to threaten the governments and ruin political stability in some of...
Mar 17 2007
The waves of protests set off by the suspension and arrest of Pakistan’s chief justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry have grown into protracted anti-government rallies in Pakistan. President Pervez Musharraf removed Chaudhry after an open letter...
Mar 16 2007
In a gruesome incident in the tribal areas in Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province a woman and two men were brutally stoned and shot to death. Hundreds of tribesmen watched the executions carried out by the pro-Taliban Lashkar-i-Islam group...
Mar 16 2007
China has called for an international treaty convention for peaceful utilization of outer space. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao urged the countries of the world, especially those having an active space programme, on Friday to adopt and sign an...
Mar 16 2007
The cash-strapped state of Zimbabwe has to find ways to earn money to fund its basic needs. The country has the world’s fastest-shrinking economy as the result of a failed land redistribution program in which farms owned by the whites were...
Mar 16 2007
The venezuelan president Hugo Chavez said on Wednesday that his disparaging and caustic comments on George Bush are ‘nothing personal’ and his opposition to Bush was due to ‘deep ethical, political, historic and geopolitical’...
Mar 16 2007
Morgan Tsvangirai, the Zimbabwean opposition leader who sustained injuries in the police excesses last Sunday when he was arrested with a number of his supporters continues his campaign against president Robert Mugabe. A bruised Tsvangirai said...