Archive for January, 2010

In a bid to curb the unprecedented loss of the world&#39s species due to human activity &#8211 at a rate some experts put at 1,000 times the natural progression &#8211 the United Nations is marking 2010 as the International Year of Biodiversity, with a slew of events highlighting the vital role the phenomenon plays in [Read More]

The top United Nations official in Sudan has called on all the people of the fractured African country to pull together towards a more peaceful 2010, the last full year of the accord which ended more than two decades of one of the continent&#39s bloodiest civil wars. [Read More]