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Clarice Adhiambo was looking for the usual things when she moved. Safe streets, more space, a guest room, maybe even a view of something green. More than anything she wanted a place to call her own. Her wish-list would be familiar to first-time buyers...
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Costa Rica is the greenest and happiest country in the world, according to a new list that ranks nations by combining measures of their ecological footprint with the...
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Parents were banned from attending an inter-school sports day to protect pupils from kidnappers and paedophiles.
The host school said they could not prevent...
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Human Rights Watch said Friday that Zimbabwe’s armed forces have taken over diamond fields in the east and killed more than 200 people, forcing children to search...
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The candidacy of Mario Anguiano, running for governor in a state election here Sunday, says a lot about Mexican politics amid the rise of the drug cartels.
A brother...
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United States Marines moved into villages in Taliban strongholds in southern Afghanistan on Friday, meeting little resistance as they tried to win over local chiefs on...
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Very few like me have a gut feeling that BJP will come back. It was a painful experience to witness rise and fall of a substitute to family-run congress. Congress which...
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Max Blumental reports on The Daily Beast that Sarah Palin may have quit her job today because she was trying to avert a major, yet-to-be-disclosed corruption scandal....
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The African Union refused to act on an international war crimes warrant for Sudan’s president, at a summit that also yielded a deal on the powers of a new...
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The latest two-yearly study of the Australian Government’s Productivity Commission damningly reveals that indigenous children are six times more likely to suffer...
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Thirty-one teenage boys have died from complications after botched traditional circumcision rites in South Africa’s rural Eastern Cape region, officials said on...
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From Angela Merkel to Barack Obama, few have emerged unscathed from his peculiar brand of music hall humour, adolescent japes and sexist quips.
As Italy prepares to...
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The crown of the famed New York Statue of Liberty will reopen tomorrow for the first time since September 11th, 2001, and what better day than the celebration of...
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American nuns could be said to have their habits in a twist in the face of two investigations by the Vatican into whether they have come to espouse lifestyles and views...
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The Jackson family has decided to hold a memorial for their late son at Los Angeles’ Staple Center. Jackson died last week from what was probably a strong...
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Days before a historic visit of the US President to Russia gambling was narrowed just to four geographical areas of a country, far away from capitals and significant...
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In Penitents Compete (Tovbekarlar Yarisiyor in Turkish), religious leaders will seek to convert at least one of the 10 atheists in each episode to their faith. Those...
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Iran’s nuclear threat was never in doubt during its presidential campaign, but the post-election resistance raised the possibility of some sort of regime change....
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Besides blocking access to food and construction to Palestinians in the Gaza Stripe - and even to a lesser degree in the West Bank - Israel also prevents Palestinians...
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As many as 41 security personnel have been killed after their military helicopter fell down in Feroz Khel area, bordering the Orakzai and Khyber agencies, yesterday...
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For all the complaints from American right-wingers that the European Union is a nation of appeasers whom do not stand up to thuggish regimes, the EU is actually more...
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AP, New York
One million revelers packed into Times Square plus a ton of confetti and countless noisemakers equals a whole lot of garbage _ about 40 tons, according to the city...
made popular Jan 1 2009
Zimbabwe has declared a national emergency over a cholera epidemic and health care system collapse, and is seeking more international help to pay for food, drugs and...
made popular Dec 8 2008
AP, Geneva
The world has significantly reduced the number of people who lack access to clean drinking water, but far more work needs to be done to help the 2.5 billion people...
made popular Jul 17 2008
The people in the little town of Musiri, Tamil Nadu may have just created an opening for that ever elusive dream job. As part of an initiative to improve hygiene in the...
made popular Jul 8 2008
Vyasateja Rao has bought to our notice that 2.6 billion people lacked access to improved sanitation which represents 42% of the world’s population. Moved by this...
made popular Jun 30 2008
A new project financed by the government of Norway and the Global Environment Facility will have inmates at an African prison working towards purifying human waste and...
made popular Apr 19 2008
Dubai began constructing the world’s largest pre-stressed concrete drinking water reservoirs.
The three giant rectangular reservoirs, each with a capacity of 60...
made popular Mar 24 2008
A picture story of aid with a more permanent impact: A borhole and water tank brings for the Topassa, a tribe in South Sudan.
made popular Mar 22 2008
AP, United Nations
The United Nations proposed Wednesday that nations invest $10 billion a year in supplying clean water and sanitation for the third of the planet’s population who...
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The health of 2.6 billion people in the developing world is in jeopardy! The prime culprit is a lack of toilets. According to a new study, lack of proper sanitation...
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This is what is going to be the latest in the plan to make speed money by thieves. At the rate at which urban populations are growing there will soon be a water crisis...
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UNICEF has revealed that due to lack of clean water, thousands of children in the developing countries are suffering from various diseases.
According to UNICEF, there...
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A Sri Lankan woman washes clothes at a public water tap ahead of World Water Day in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Wednesday, March 19, 2008. This year, the World Water Day coincides with the International Year of Sanitation.
