In museum-rich Paris, the Dapper Museum is amongst the least spectacular. It has an unremarkable fa

Hub of illicit drug trade: Criminal networks in Africa are setting up fake pharmaceutical companies as a front to trade in substances used to make street methamphetamines, a psychostimulant, the International Narcotics Control Board

mauritius Outsourcing agriculture Soaring food prices and lack of land have forced Mauritius, a food-importing country, to launch an ambitious initiative. The island nation is growing its food in other African countries where land remains fallow and labour cheap.

A decline in sun-dimming airborne dust has caused a fast warming of the tropical North Atlantic in recent decades, according to a study that might help predict hurricanes on the other side of the ocean.

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Wheat disease spreading from Africa to Asia through air

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First findings of major research point to potential of revolutionary solar energy plan

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The world's population will hit seven billion early in 2012 and top nine billion in 2050, with the vast majority of the increase coming in the developing countries of Asia and Africa, according to a new UN estimate, The Associated Press reported from the United Nations, New York.