"Remembering a Million Killed in Genocide"

Chavez Considers Breaking US Ties
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez says he will consider breaking diplomatic ties with the US if it fails to hand over a Cuban-born terror suspect.

Africa Union Wants Gear for Use in Darfur

'Give Africa a break'
Rwandan President Paul Kagame on Sunday urged western media to refrain from portraying Africa, the world's poorest continent, in a purely negative light, saying that such coverage affected its ability to attract foreign investment.

'Bush Distorts History While Laura Amuses the Media'
Clever theatrics seem to distract the media from asking questions. For example, when Laura Bush’s made “risqué” comments at the late April White House Correspondents’ dinner the toady press corps swooned, even more so than when her husband dressed up in a jump suit and landed on the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln on May 1, 2003.

Non Invasive Prostate Cancer Treatment Available Soon in South Africa

South Africa launches new on-line search engine
With the launch of the new search engine, www.funnel.co.za, South African internet users can get faster, more accurate and more relevant results as it only indexes domestic sites, the Funnel team has said.

Family murders 'catching'
Johannesburg - More and more people are committing family killings because they are "catching", a director for family and life centre (Famsa) said on Monday.

Behind SA's orgy of family murders
Unemployment, depression, jealousy, a patriarchal society, alcohol and drug abuse are a deadly cocktail that has claimed the lives of hundreds in South Africa - mainly women and children.

Remembering a Million Killed in Genocide
At just over 26,000 square kilometres, Rwanda is one of the smallest countries in Africa. Rwanda has the highest population density in Africa, and it's 8 million live literally face to face. That is one of the reasons the 1994 genocide in which nearly 1 million people were killed in 100 days - mostly members of the minority Tutsi community and the Hutu who were considered supporters of moderate politics - was such a horrific and troublingly intimate experience.

Excuses, Excuses: How the Right Rationalizes Racial Inequality in America
As with white America's denial of racism in labor markets, the refusal to believe that bias plays a role in policing, prosecution or incarceration is commonplace.

UN report finds
US war in Iraq yields a social “tragedy”

No Child Left Unmedicated
TeenScreen, State-Drugging and Suicide
This pharmaceutical industry backed pill-pushing scheme cons school kids into taking a survey full of loaded questions and then uses the results to convince parents that their kids need to be on dangerous mind-altering drugs that have now been linked to suicide and other violent acts in children.

Afghan leader heads for Bush showdown
Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai was last night on his way to the US, promising to confront George Bush over the growing scandal about American abuse of Afghan prisoners.

Some European countries declares war against Turkish 'Onur Air' Company

Hacker Hunters
An elite force takes on the dark side of computing

Renewable, Nontoxic Wind Power Costs Falling
Chinese island tapping into wind power

Rainforest loss shocks Brazil
Deforestation in the Amazon rainforest last year was the second worst ever, figures released by the Brazilian government have shown. Satellite photos and other data showed that ranchers, loggers and especially soy bean farmers felled more than 10,000 square miles.

Lake disappears, baffling villagers
A Russian village was left baffled on Thursday after its lake disappeared overnight.