Jailing crooked executives and strengthening laws against corporate wrongdoing are needed to restore Americans’ confidence in big business.
Millions of children’s lives are being lost or blighted because pledges to take action to curb the spread of malaria have not been kept, either by heads of state in poor countries or by wealthy donor states,
a leading economist has claimed.
MORE weapons, not fewer, were needed to fight crime and political instability in South Africa and Africa, Defence Minister Mosiuoa Lekota told a meeting of church leaders in Durban on Friday, the SABC reported.
Breast-fed babies are twice as likely to develop asthma in later life as those not brought up on their mother’s milk, according to what was described as ”startling” new research in New Zealand reported on Friday.
Zimbabwe’s opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) lost a court appeal on Thursday demanding a computerised list of all Zimbabweans who had been registered to vote in March’s disputed presidential elections.
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe’s successor will not be named until 2006, the state-run Sunday Mail said in an apparent bid to quash speculation the 78-year-old longtime leader could be replaced.
A top US arms control official said on Thursday North Korea was an evil regime which had repeatedly ignored US warnings to stop proliferating weapons of mass destruction.
The head of a Commonwealth committee that suspended Zimbabwe in March, Australian Prime Minister John Howard, warned on Tuesday that Commonwealth countries may impose sanctions on Zimbabwe.
Southern African countries plan to step up their campaign to win international support for allowing some sales of raw ivory, despite a ban aimed at protecting endangered elephants.
US President George Bush promised on Monday to pursue executive lawbreakers and restore trust in corporate America but was forced to defend his own record as a Texan oil executive.