FOR as long as most people can remember, food has been getting cheaper and farming has been in decline. In 1974-2005 food prices on world markets fell by three-quarters in real terms. Food today is so cheap that the West is battling gluttony even as it scrapes piles of half-eaten leftovers into the bin.

Safety breaches caused radiation leak at a major nuclear reprocessing plant in the Ural mountains, the Russian government announced on October 29. The incident happened four days before the

In 1937, Ivan Papanin led an expedition that planted the Soviet flag on the North Pole. He was feted by Stalin and lionised as a Soviet hero. In early August this year, the Kremlin honoured Artur

The construction of a section of Russia's Sakhalin II oil pipeline project resumed from August 1, 2007, a few days after it was suspended after allegations that its safety link violated the approved

on august 3, 2007, India and the us declared a bilateral agreement on full civil nuclear energy cooperation after two years of tortuous negotiation. Nuclear energy propagators cheered, sensing a

Russia's natural-gas exporter oao Gazprom has announced to build a gas pipeline parallel to the Eastern Siberian oil link, which will lower the cost of supplying fuel to China and the Asia

The international body on whaling has renewed a five-year whaling quota for Eskimos for subsistence hunting in the us and Russia on May 29. The 76-nation International Whaling Commission voted by

russia has banned import of rice from India. The decision came after Russia's monitoring agencies claimed to have found a pesticide