• Tonnes of deadly toxic waste, which killed 10 people and made thousands ill in Ivory Coast were recently shipped out of the country in sealed containers, bound for a treatment plant in France.

• who, in its recent report, has noted that many deaths caused by TB in developing countries are due to wrong or late diagnosis and has thus called for industry investment in better and cheaper TB testing methods.

• The International Oil Pollution Compensation Fund has assured the Philippines government to compensate about 3,000 to 4,000 fisherfolk of the country, who suffered economic losses due to the M/T Solar 1 oil spill at the Guimaras Strait off the coast of the Guimaras island.

• California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger recently said that his state will work with New York and other eastern states of the US to create a market that will cut emissions linked to global warming.