"Aristide's Ex-PM Refuses to Leave Haiti"

Find supports dinosaur theory
Two eggs with shells found inside the fossilized pelvis of a female dinosaur could provide an important clue to solving the question of whether dinosaurs evolved into birds.

Scientists Say Everyone Can Read Minds
Empathy allows us to feel the emotions of others, to identify and understand their feelings and motives and see things from their perspective. How we generate empathy remains a subject of intense debate in cognitive science.

Philippines: Execs, military dismiss junta speculations
THE military said it remains confident its ranks won't be influenced by the call of a retired general to oust President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo and install a junta government.

Workers Around World Rally on May Day

Aristide's Ex-PM Refuses to Leave Haiti
A former prime minister on a hunger strike refused to leave for medical treatment in the Dominican Republic, demanding instead his unconditional release from house arrest, the government said Monday.

Axum obelisk has returned to Ethiopia
Ethiopia's national pride, the obelisk of Axum, has finally returned home 68 years after Italian soldiers carted it off to Rome during Mussolini's invasion. The iconic monument is now being re-installed by archaeological and conservation specialists, who in the process discovered more archaeological treasures under a parking lot.

Thousands flee post-election violence in Togo
At least 16,500 refugees have already poured into Benin and Ghana from Togo following the post-election violence and chaos in the country, citing "harassment by security forces," which allegedly are blocking the exit from the capital. While the ruling party's candidate tomorrow officially will be declared the winner of the 24 April polls, the candidate of the united opposition already has declared himself President.

"Namibia, Botswana should eat its meat self," Norw. farmers
Namibia and Botswana have a considerable beef export to northern European countries such as Norway, but are met with "discriminating" hindrances, a new report shows. Also Nordic farmer organisations want to limit beef imports from Southern Africa, saying "it is unethical" to import food from such a poor region.

Chairman of West African bloc calls for unified government in Togo
The visiting chairman of a powerful West African regional bloc appealed for calm in Togo, urging the volatile nation's leaders to form a national unity government to resolve a violent presidential-succession crisis.

Guinea: The Next West African Crisis
President Conteh is dying slowly. He no longer runs the country. Guinea is now a land where everything is for a grab. An end of the regime mentality has set in. The many fractions around the president are engaged in a war over who gets what when the “chief passes away.” Meanwhile, the country is slowly descending into lawlessness, corruption and human rights abuses going on unchecked.

The Untimely Death of South Africa's Finest Daily
There are no pictures of black people, there are no black sports or sportsmen in the back pages, there is no hint of what was happening in the vast black townships, there are no bylines from black reporters. There are seven crime stories spread through the news pages, all with whites as victims.

S. Africa investigates radiation claims
The South African government said on Monday that it was awaiting the outcome of an investigation into claims that former Pelindaba nuclear workers had contracted serious diseases, possibly caused by radiation.

Togo "election fraud" violently protested
Faure Gnassingbé, the controversial candidate of the ruling party, today was declared the winner of Togo's presidential elections, held on Sunday. The announcement of the victory of Mr Gnassingbé's, the son of Togo's late dictator, today caused violent protests by the opposition, who claims the poll was rigged.

The Greediest Generation
As a baby boomer myself, I can be blunt: We boomers won't be remembered as the "Greatest Generation." Rather, we'll be scorned as the "Greediest Generation."

Google searches for quality not quantity
Now Google, whose name has become synonymous with internet searching, plans to build a database that will compare the track record and credibility of all news sources around the world, and adjust the ranking of any search results accordingly.

No checks, no questions asked:
that's how easy it is to obtain 11 postal ballots
It was frighteningly easy. Within five days I was able to obtain postal ballot papers enabling me to vote 11 times in the general election - and in county council elections on the same day. No checks, no questions asked.

Most murderous country for journalists
At least in Iraq there is armed conflict that could explain the high casualty count among members of the press. In the Philippines, on the other hand, most of the journalists killed in recent years appear to have simply incurred the ire of political warlords, gangsters and rebel groups.