"New Fossil Links Up Human Evolution"

How to Quicken African Integration, By AU Customs Chiefs
To fast-tract economic integration in Africa, regional economic communities and the African Union (AU) have been advised to strengthen cooperation to implement the existing customs programmes.

Hispanics to Catch up to African Americans in Internet Use

African women battle for equality
But perhaps the most inhibiting factor is that women in Africa continue to be denied an education, often the only ticket out of poverty. Disparities between girls and boys start in primary school and the differences widen up through the entire educational system.

Zimbabwe: E-Secure Merges Operations With South African Company

African Illegal Immigrants Describe Trips
EL FRAILE, Canary Islands -- Masse Diop says he kept his eyes closed and tried to sleep during his perilous four days at sea, crammed against the side of an aging fishing boat with 25 other African migrants who hoped the wind and sea would bring them to the promised land of Europe - and not a watery grave.

African Union condemns Chad rebel attack

Hague referral for African pair
The top court in the Central African Republic has referred former President Felix-Ange Patasse to the International Criminal Court in The Hague. Mr Patasse was referred, along with the vice-president of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Jean-Pierre Bemba, on charges of rape and murder.

African Protests "We Toil Like Negroes" Billboard
Russian supervising bodies are working to trace the authors of an advertising billboard, after a complaint from an African student. The billboard carried the slogan “We toil like negroes”.

African Union nations must speak up at WTO: US

Proof joins a lengthening list of murdered rappers
Eminem's sidekick was killed after being shot in the head after a dispute in a Detroit club in the early hours of Tuesday morning
The rapper Proof felt obligated to "the streets," friends said, so he stayed close to the world where he grew up to give back what he owed -- and he paid with his life.

Military Plays Up Role of Zarqawi
The U.S. military is conducting a propaganda campaign to magnify the role of the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, according to internal military documents and officers familiar with the program. The effort has raised his profile in a way that some military intelligence officials believe may have overstated his importance and helped the Bush administration tie the war to the organization responsible for the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks.

Leak reveals official story of London bombings
Al-Qaeda not linked, says government
The official inquiry into the 7 July London bombings will say the attack was planned on a shoestring budget from information on the internet, that there was no 'fifth-bomber' and no direct support from al-Qaeda, although two of the bombers had visited Pakistan.

The Al Qaeda Myth
The role of the alleged "Al Qaeda mastermind in Iraq," Abu Musab Al Zarqawi, we are now told, was cynically misrepresented and exaggerated by the U.S. military's propaganda units in an effort to discredit and divide the Iraqi insurgency and to provide a retrospective justification for the Iraq war by suggesting a link between Iraq and 9/11.

Islamic mob stones Playboy's first office in Indonesia

EASTER ISLAND MOAI RETURNS HOME

New Fossil Links Up Human Evolution

How Godfather was betrayed by his need for clean pants

La Coca: An Indigenous Perspective

Resistance: the Remedy for Fear

Cough Up

CEO pay in US continues its relentless climb in 2005

Cubans' mission to Bolivia irks opposition

Ecuador proposes plan to reform immigration laws

Democracy in Haiti

Venezuela Says U.S. Preparing For Invasion

When is Killing Arab Civilians Considered a Massacre?

Stop Bush Before he Attacks Iran

Indian Support Helps Peru's Humala Advance

Poisoning Our Children

'Honor Crimes'