‘World’ Archives
Half way there – clearing the World of landmines »
It has been reported that significant progress has been made in removing land mines around the world, but the hidden devices killed more than 1,260 people last year, the International Campaign to Ban Land mines said Thursday. Land mines have been cleared from 3,200 square kilometers (1,236 square miles) in 90 countries — an area twice the [...]
Fair Play to Cadbury as More Countries Go Fairtrade »
Cadbury has announced that its Dairy Milk chocolate brand will be sold under the Fairtrade logo in New Zealand and Australia by next Easter. The move follows British Cadbury's ensuring that all Dairy Milk in Britain and Ireland is sold under the Fairtrade logo by the end of the 2009 summer, which is now in process. The move to Fairtrade produce [...]
More Accurate Weather Reports Forecast »
A research breakthrough by engineers at Queen's University Belfast's Institute of Electronics, Communications and Information Technology (ECIT) may lead to more accurate global weather forecasts and a better understanding of climate change. The engineers have developed a high performance electronic device, a dual polarized Frequency Selective [...]
‘Dead’ Baby Comes Back To Life »
A baby born won 16 weeks premature was declared dead by doctors at a state-run hospital in Asuncion, capital of Paraguay, only to wake up hours later. Dr. Ernesto Weber, head of pediatric care, has said that the baby weighed just 500 grams at birth, had practically no respiratory reflexes and staff could not detect a heartbeat, causing them [...]
Costa Rica the ‘happiest’ country in the »
Costa Rica has topped the 2009 Happy Planet Index to earn the title of the 'happiest' nation. Unlike traditional development indices, such as Gross Domestic Product (GDP), the Happy Planet Index takes sustainability into account - looking at life expectancy along with a country's ecological footprint. Evaluating human well-being along with [...]
US and Russia agree nuclear arms cuts in Moscow »
US President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev have come to an initial agreement on nuclear power - an issue which has divided the nations since the Cold War. The agreement sees a reduction in the number of nuclear warheads in Russian and US strategic arsenals to between 1,500 and 1,675 in a period of seven years and the number [...]
Painting the countryside blue »
Large blues were officially declared extinct in Britain thirty years ago, but the beautiful large blue butterfly has made an astonishing return. Around 20,000 will be flitting through the countryside this summer as a result of reintroduction efforts, scientists say. It is one of the world’s most threatened species – and one of the most [...]
War in Sri Lanka is over »
The government of Sri Lanka today declared an end to the 25 year old Sri Lankan civil war after the army took control of the entire island and killed the leader of the Tamil Tigers, Velupillai Prabhakaran. According to the Sri Lankan army the chief of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE), was shot dead while trying to flee the war zone [...]
Earth Day celebrated by one billion »
From CNN... More than one billion people celebrated Earth Day Wednesday. Since its creation by United States senator Gaylord Nelson in 1970, Earth Day's reach has spread around the world and is now marked in about 175 countries. Earth Day Network, the organizers of Earth Day, are launching the "Green Generation" campaign. The [...]
Conficker worm fails to strike on April fools day »
From BBC News The chaos predicted by some as the Conficker worm updates itself have so far failed to materialise. There had been concerns that the worm could trigger poisoned machines to access personal files, send spam, clog networks or crash sites. Many of the infected machines are based in Asia where there have been no reports of [...]
