President John Agyekum Kufuor of Ghana yesterday called for fair and predictable market system to aid Africa’s green revolution. He said there should be equity in the value chain to assist ‘our farmers’ to look ahead with some...

A study of the survival rates of premature babies has provided a vital boost to pro-choice campaigners, ahead of one of the most significant parliamentary debates on abortion for a generation. As the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill returns to...

Construction of a controversial dingo fence around resort areas on Fraser Island, one of Australia’s leading tourist destinations, is to continue despite objections from Aboriginal traditional owners. The 6ft-high fence is intended to protect...

Ask Josephine Gonzalez how many children a family should have and the stick-figured 31-year-old mother answers without hesitation. “I only wanted three,” she says, trying to soothe the naked baby boy who tugs at her ragged dress. But...

‘Not tonight, Joséphine.’ Napoleon Bonaparte’s lacklustre response to the bedtime blandishments of his wife is being repeated every evening in bedrooms across the country. Men are simply going off sex, according to the UK’s...

Australia’s fourth largest bank, Westpac, announced a 10 percent rise in interim cash net profit on Thursday and assured the market it was well positioned to ride out current market volatility. Westpac said cash net profit was 1.84 billion...

Slovenian Foreign Minister Dimitrij Rupel is criticizing Lithuania for blocking a deal to start new partnership talks between the European Union and Russia. Rupel said during a foreign ministers meeting in Luxembourg Tuesday that there is no point to...

South African President Thabo Mbeki’s failure to criticise neighbouring Zimbabwe leader Robert Mugabe has weakened his international stature, analysts said. Once hailed as a leader focused on Africa’s democratic and economic revival,...

Pro-choice campaigners mark 40 years of legal abortion in Britain next week, but say their hard-won right is under pressure from pro-life activists trying to lower the 24-week limit for the termination of pregnancy. Passionate debate over the ethics of...

A top Taliban leader in Pakistan with links to al-Qaeda has ordered his followers to stop attacking Pakistani forces in the country’s troubled northwest region as he negotiates a deal with the new government to end months of political violence,...