Society

Poor education fuelling Roma woes: EU officials - 09/28/2009

BRUSSELS - Poor education among Roma children is likely to lock them into a spiral of unemployment, poverty and ill health and widen the gap between majority communities, senior EU officials said...

S.Africa fires up the 'braai' grills for heritage holiday - 09/23/2009

SOWETO, Justine Gerardy - At sunset, the densely aromatic smoke hangs over the rows of meat -- steaks, chops, thick sausages, chicken legs -- spitting into coals as Xoli Khubeka readies her tongs....

US woman impregnanted with wrong embryo - 09/22/2009

WASHINGTON - A woman from the northern US state of Ohio who learned she was pregnant with another couple's embryo that was implanted by mistake has decided to give the baby to its biological...

Italian priest shot dead in Manaus - 09/20/2009

RIO DE JANEIRO - Brazilian police on Saturday found the body of Italian priest Ruggero Rucoletto, who was shot in the head, at a parish where he lived in the suburbs of Manaus. Authorities have...

US inmate wins reprieve after botched execution - 09/19/2009

CHICAGO - A death row inmate who was the first to have survived an attempted lethal injection in the United States was granted a reprieve Friday by a federal judge. Romell Broom's lawyer hopes to...

Biggest ever heroin haul at Britain's Heathrow Airport - 09/18/2009

LONDON- British and South African authorities have made a record heroin seizure following on operation at London's Heathrow Airport and raids in both countries, officials said Thursday....

Pakistan minister vows to revise blasphemy law - 09/18/2009

WASHINGTON - Pakistan's minister for minority affairs promised Thursday to work to amend blasphemy laws used to target non-Muslims and said he was ready to die fighting. Shahbaz Bhatti visited...

Borlaug, father of Green Revolution, dies at 95 - 09/14/2009

WASHINGTON, Andrew Beatty - Norman Borlaug, a Nobel Prize winning scientist whose work on disease-resistant wheat is credited with saving hundreds of millions of lives, has died at the age of 95....

Dutch u-turn on soft drugs tolerance - 09/14/2009

THE HAGUE, Alix Rijckaert - Alarmed by the side effects of its tolerant approach to soft drugs, the Dutch government announced plans this week to limit drug tourism by reserving hundreds of...

In US, some students buy -- not try -- to excel at school - 09/13/2009

WASHINGTON, Karin Zeitvogel - President Barack Obama may have hammered home a message of noses-to-the-grindstone as the secret to success at school in his speech to US students this week, but some...
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