• Protesters stage mass rally against Bahrain ruler 

    22/02/2011 05:00

    Thousands of supporters of Bahrain’s Shiite-led opposition demonstrate in Pearl Square in Manama calling for the government’s downfall. Tens of thousands of supporters of Bahrain’s Shiite-led opposition poured into Manama’s...

  • 50 million 'environmental refugees' by 2020, experts say 

    21/02/2011 05:00

    A boat full of illegal immigrants enters the port of the Italian island of Lampedusa escorted by a Coast Guard vessel on February 20. Fifty million "environmental refugees" will flood into the global north by 2020, fleeing cooking...

  • Quake kills 65 in New Zealand's 'darkest day' 

    21/02/2011 05:00

    A collapsed building lies over parked cars in the aftermath of the earthquake in Christchurch on February 22, 2011. A powerful earthquake killed at least 65 people in New Zealand’s second city Christchurch Tuesday, crushing...

  • As US cuts back, China aims to be top at science 

    18/02/2011 05:00

    This picture taken in 2009 shows a masked worker in a lab coat sorting silicon wafers at the manufacturing centre of solar cell maker Trina Solar in Changzhou. China has its eye on becoming the top science nation in the world,...

  • US vetoes UN resolution on Israeli settlements 

    18/02/2011 05:00

    Palestinian protestors hold a banner during a demonstration in the West Bank. The United States vetoed an Arab-sponsored UN resolution branding Israeli settlements illegal, prompting angry Palestinians to vow to re-evaluate the...

  • Singapore, French scientists discover antibodies to chikungunya virus

    18/02/2011 05:00

    A team of scientists from Singapore and France have discovered two antibodies that could neutralize several chikungunya strains, a breakthrough that may have brought scientists one step closer to developing a treatment for the disease. The two...

  • Cholera death toll in Haiti rises to 4,549

    Cholera death toll in Haiti rises to 4,549

    17/02/2011 05:00

    The cholera death toll in Haiti rose to 4,549, Haitian Health authorities said on Wednesday. Some Haitian are seen at a cholera treatment center of Medecins Sans Frontieres MSF (Doctors Without Borders) in Port-au-Prince Jan....

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