North Korea agrees to allow inspection of its nuclear sites, defusing a potentially explosive situation

BRITAIN'S Overseas Development Agency (ODA) has washed its hands off Kenya's forest reserves. It has unceremoniously withdrawn a L12 m grant for a forestry convention programme launched in Kenya

Animal rights activists were outraged when jallikattu, a bloody bull-fighting sport, was displayed at the Republic Day pageant in Madras. Tamil Nadu Governor M Channa Reddy reviewed a series of

IN A CLASSIC tussle between conservation and tourist revenue, anthropologist Richard Leakey was compelled to resign as chairperson of the Kenyan Wildlife Service, following a campaign unleashed

In Chiapas state of Mexico, 1994 was heralded by a peasant uprising. Though opposition to NAFTA is said to be the immediate cause for the revolt, it was more an outburst against years of suffering.

Soon after the Hazratbal shrine in Srinagar was freed of terrorists, several national dailies carried a photograph of an alleged terrorist peering out of a "detention centre" located at the Bhabha

The recent death in police firing of 15-year-old Rahimat Punya Vasave, a tribal from Surung village in Dhule district in Maharashtra, created ripples of protest all the way to the Capital. Three

Even as AIDS spreads throughout the world, Australians are determined to get their share of the profits from the use of a shrub that halts replication of HIV