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03/09/2006:

"New immigration plan criticised for brain draining Africa and the Caribbean"

New immigration plan criticised for brain draining Africa and the Caribbean
A new immigration proposal by the UK government which plans to give preference to highly skilled workers has been slammed by a black lobby organisation for “cherry picking” from developing countries in Africa and the Caribbean.

How Egyptian civilisation flowed down the Nile

Elusive Victories in Haiti
"Naje pou soti" in Haitian creole means "swim your way out." Haiti sits on an island, where rivers swell and rage after rain, few people know how to swim, and many die trying to flee the country in rickety boats. So hard experience makes the saying less theoretical and more disconcerting than Americans' "sink or swim."

New school guidelines push racist bullying out and Black History in
Prompted by its findings that 25 percent of pupils from Black and Asian backgrounds have experienced some type of racism during their school period; the new Department for Education and Skills (DFES) guidelines, will become integral to the treatment of young people in schools when racial, religious and cultural discrimination stops pupils from a positive learning experience in school.

China rejects US rights 'hypocrisy'
China has rejected US criticism of its record on human rights in an official rejoinder which says racial discrimination and crime are still rife in America.

Sudan’s SPLA, Southern militia clash, 12 soldiers killed
Militia allied to Sudan’s army killed up to 12 former southern rebel soldiers in the first clashes since the two sides signed a peace deal last year to end Africa’s longest civil war, officials said on Wednesday.

World mourns Ali Farka Toure, king of desert blues
The legendary African guitarist Ali Farka Toure has died. Toure, who pioneered his distinctive "desert blues" sound on successive albums which won him a global following as well as two Grammy Awards, died in his sleep in his native Mali. He had been suffering from bone cancer and was in his late sixties.

Iraq's Crisis of Scarred Psyches
More than 25 years after Saddam Hussein's rise to power ushered in a period of virtually uninterrupted trauma -- three wars, crippling economic sanctions and now a violent insurgency -- the psychological damage to many Iraqis is only now being assessed, psychiatrists and government officials here say.

'Crash' Peddles Racial Stereotypes but Forgets About Class
The writer says the film "Crash" tried to reveal racial complexities but wound up reinforcing stereotypes and hiding the economic forces faced by all the film's characters.

US debt is now close to $8.2 trillion
US Treasury Secretary John Snow has told Congress to raise the government's credit limit in order to avoid having some of its operations shut down. The government needs Congressional authority to borrow and the total accumulated debt is now close to its limit of $8.2 trillion (£4.7 trillion).

Psych Drugs Used To Manufacture Insanity

U.S. endorsed Iranian plans to build massive nuclear energy industry