"Lawyer urged to end dispute with Mandela"

6/7: the massacre of the poor that the world ignored
The US cannot accept that the Haitian president it ousted still has support
When terror strikes western capitals, it doesn't just blast bodies and buildings, it also blasts other sites of suffering off the media map. A massacre of Iraqi children, blown up while taking sweets from US soldiers, is banished deep into the inside pages of our newspapers. The outpouring of compassion for the daily deaths of thousands from Aids in Africa is suddenly treated as a frivolous distraction.

The Bahamas Rejects the Creation of CSME, thus Compromising CARICOM’s Integration Bid

Of fading rock stars and little else
The Live 8 campaign by Bob Geldof, the narcissistic fading rock star, “to make poverty history” was naively admirable but also somewhat disturbing to watch. Here was a dynamic individual who was helping to perpetuate the stereotype of the “dark continent” as a helpless place of poverty and disease which the white musical missionaries of a new age would help to overcome.

Venezuelan cardinal: Chavez a dictator
Venezuela's highest Catholic prelate on Sunday condemned President Hugo Chavez's rule as a dictatorship and urged Venezuelans to reject it in an attack likely to strain already poor church-government ties.

New life in Africa for old PCs
Computers donated from the developed world are both fuelling and feeding an appetite for computers in Africa where a new machine could cost more than a year's wages.

Computers to Africa scheme criticised
The practice of supplying second-hand computers to Africa can prove to be an expensive mistake, according to a UK report.

Plane crash in Equatorial Guinea kills all aboard
A Russian-made plane believed carrying more than 50 passengers and crew crashed in a forest in Equatorial Guinea, killing all aboard with searchers reporting that some bodies were scattered in trees, officials said Sunday.

6/7: the massacre of the poor that the world ignored
The US cannot accept that the Haitian president it ousted still has support.

NZ government resists ban calls
The New Zealand government will not stop its cricket team from travelling to Zimbabwe despite a poll suggesting the Kiwi public would support a ban.

Pressure on Nigeria to hand over Taylor
Pressure is mounting on Nigeria to send Charles Taylor to the UN-backed tribunal where he faces charges of crimes against humanity for stoking a brutal conflict in Sierra Leone through an illicit trade in guns for diamonds.

Nigeria's Obasanjo grooming possible successors

MTV accused of destroying turtle beach
MTV is said to have caused "massive damage" to a nesting beach for leatherback sea turtles while filming its latest reality show.

Kenyan Nobel winner finds lessons in creation

Indian lawyer urged to end dispute with Mandela

Mugabe in bid to overhaul Zim Constitution

New Namibian leader issues land warning

Robust economic forecast for Mozambique

Counting Creepy Crawlies

Israel masses troops along Gaza border

Corruption threatens to leave Iraq with a 'ghost army'

VIDEO: US Apache Helicopter massacring Iraqis

Who Murdered 32 Iraqi Children? (Truth Comes Out)