AMSTERDAM, Netherlands - The global food crisis will only worsen because of climate change, the U.N. climate chief said Friday, urging leaders of the world's richest countries meeting in Japan next week to set goals to reduce carbon emissions within the next dozen years.
Global WARNING:
There is NO SHORTAGE, no food shortage, no oil shortage, no shortage.
Republican John McCain, who has made support for President Bush's troop buildup in Iraq the centerpiece of his presidential campaign, is getting from help from a veterans group that's launching a national TV ad campaign next week.
THE Pope will spend his first three days in Australia unwinding at a semi-rural retreat run by conservative Catholic organisation Opus Dei where television is banned but guests are permitted to bring their own radios.
Newly declassified Defence and Prime Minister's office files show that the US was strongly pushing then prime minister Harold Holt's government in the 1960s to allow tests of two of the deadliest chemical weapons ever developed - VX and GB, better known as Sarin nerve gas.
What is happiness, and how can we all get some?
Buddhist monk, photographer and author Matthieu Ricard has devoted his life to these questions, and his answer is influenced by his faith as well as by his scientific turn of mind: We can train our minds in habits of happiness. Interwoven with his talk are stunning photographs of the Himalayas and of his spiritual community.
I agree that psychiatric drugs, like just about ALL drugs and vaccines, are dangerous, frequently lethal, especially in combination, and have no place in the treatment of chronic disease, often, in fact, causing it. I agree that political solutions are essential to solve the problems which the so-called "illness care" industry has profited so tragically and hugely from for so long.