"Secret study into GM food"

Anger in Kenya after white rancher
charged with murder escapes justice
NAIROBI : Anger erupted in Kenya, a day after the government dropped murder charges against a famous white rancher, as riot police battled human rights activists in the capital.

Masai on the 'murder trail'
Narok, Kenya - Masai leaders have vowed to invade a ranch run by the grandson of one of Kenya's first white settlers to press for his re-arrest and prosecution over the killing of a Masai game-park warden.

'Drought not cause of famine'
Another impending famine hovers a dark cloud over Southern Africa.
Experts dispute that drought is not the major cause of perennial starvation but the sturbborness of bad policies of the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

Germany 'blocks' Blair's Africa plan
Tony Blair's plans to tackle poverty in Africa are being 'blocked' by Germany and Italy, with both countries refusing to increase aid packages ahead of the vital G8 talks, The Observer can reveal.

Revealed: health fears over secret study into GM food
Rats fed GM corn due for sale in Britain developed abnormalities in blood and kidneys
Rats fed on a diet rich in genetically modified corn developed abnormalities to internal organs and changes to their blood, raising fears that human health could be affected by eating GM food.

How the technology works, and what it promises
What is it?
Genetically modified (GM) food is produced from plants or animals that have had their genetic material altered by scientists. Scientists are able to extract genes from organisms with desirable properties - such as a particular colour or resistance to a disease - and transfer them to another organism.

Blinded in a land of illusions
Two Americans with personal agendas wreak havoc while trying to do good.
Philip Caputo's devastating new novel, Acts of Faith, will be to the era of the Iraq war what Graham Greene's novel The Quiet American became to the Vietnam era: a parable about American excursions abroad and the dangers of missionary zeal, a Conradian tale about idealism run amok, capitalistic greed sold as paternalistic benevolence, ignorance disguised as compassion.

Africa needs more than European platitudes

Ghana Sitting On A Ticking Time Bomb
The entire nation is sitting on a potential economic and social time bomb as one of the most devastating locust infestations in recent memory spreads rapidly south towards Ghana.

The politics of stalemate: Year of living dangerously

US Silenced Information on Terrorism Supplied by Cuba
President Fidel Castro denounced that the US kept silent about information supplied by Cuba in September 1998 on terrorist attacks financed from Florida, whose methods were later repeated in detail in the 9/11, 2001 terrorist attacks.

With Kurds' success in Iraq,
some Iranian Kurds itching to resume fight in their homeland

Taysir Alluni: A reporter behind bars
Taysir Alluni could never have suspected that the 9/11 attacks and the US war against Afghanistan in its hunt for al-Qaida and Taliban leaders would dramatically change his life.

Angels of Death
During World War II, a high-ranking Nazi physician, Dr. Josef Mengele, rose to infamy for carrying out evil, sadistic experiments on prisoners of the Nazis. In 1943, Mengele was stationed at Auschwitz-Birkenau -- concentration camps where numerous Poles, homosexuals, Soviets, Jews, and Roma met horrible and untimely deaths.

Israeli doctors experimented on children
A leading Israeli doctor and medical ethicist has called for the prosecution of doctors responsible for thousands of unauthorised and often illegal experiments on small children and geriatric and psychiatric patients in Israeli hospitals.

Red, White, and Without a Clue
In the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks, America naively asked in its stunned stupor, "Why do they hate us?" In consoling us, our fearless leaders appealed to our collective sense of superiority and self-righteousness by explaining that the Muslim world (a.k.a. "they") hate us because of what we stand for: freedom, democracy, Mom, baseball, and apple pie. Comforted, we patted ourselves on our collective back for being so gosh-darn wonderful and condemned the savage heathens who wanted nothing less than to destroy all that is right and good in the world -- us.
Thanks to a recent confluence of events involving our interaction with the Muslim world, it is clear that "they" do hate us for what we stand for. Unfortunately, what we stand for is not freedom, democracy, nor any other high-minded ideal. Rather, we stand for arrogance, barbarism, and violence.

Peer Review: French Military Looks at US Performance in Iraq
Le Monde's military correspondent Laurent Zecchini reports on a French study of the performance of the US military in Iraq. Not only were US forces completely unprepared for insurgent war but applied the tactics of "massive reconnoitering" borrowed from Sherman’s March to the Sea. Unlike the British, US forces don't make the slightest attempt to respect the locals. The French analysts think that prevailing Protestant beliefs in predestination may have only increased the mayhem and bloodletting.

Everybody heard him cry out and thought it was funny
In U.S. Report, Brutal Details of 2 Afghan Inmates' Deaths
Even as the young Afghan man was dying before them, his American jailers continued to torment him.

PIRATES REPRISE

TKO by axis of evil
Iran's Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi visits Iraq for the best part of a week, confers with Iraq's new government in Baghdad's Green Zone while suicide bombers wreak havoc outside, then travels to Najaf for an audience with Ayatollah Ali Sistani, Iraq's supreme Shiite leader (who has always declined to meet with U.S. officials), and caps things off with a joint Iran-Iraq pledge to respect each other's sovereignty and independence, and reject any link between Islam and terrorism.