Essay: Answering hunger with hope – the impact of the global food crisis on children
CLARE STEELE, CEO of Compassion Australia, says we must act now to tackle the “devastating” impacts of the global food crisis…
UK brain-damaged boy at centre of hospital legal battle dies
London, UKReuters A 12-year-old British boy with brain damage at the centre of a legal battle over whether to continue his life support system died on Saturday after a hospital ended treatment, his family said. The parents of Archie Battersbee made unsuccessful appeals at Britain’s highest courts and the European Court of Human Rights against […]
Wow!: Solar power opens the door to banking for rural Indians
MOUSHUMI BASU, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, reports how, in remote areas suffering frequent power cuts, solar panel systems help keep banks running as they curb climate-warming emissions…
“Shameful” delay in cabinet formation causing Lebanon’s decay, top Christian cleric says
Beirut, LebanonReuters Lebanon’s top Christian cleric said on Sunday it is “shameful” that politicians have yet to form a new cabinet nearly three months after elections, blaming their chronic feuding for the country’s “decay”. Many Lebanese see the long-entrenched governing elite as hamstrung by corruption and dysfunction, and blame it for pushing Lebanon into a […]