Archive for February, 2010

Brazil will have its second-best harvest in the nation’s history this year, the government said.

Dogs bark and whine behind high chain-link fences, some of them gnawing the wire so hard they bleed at the mouths while cats packed into crowded cages cower in fear if anyone approaches.

Every bit of fully synthetic plastic that’s ever been produced over the past 100 years is somewhere on our planet, a leading environmentalist, David de Rothschild, said Tuesday.

India’s upper house of parliament has passed a historic bill aimed at reserving one-third of seats for women in federal and state legislatures.

Militants attacked the office of a humanitarian organization in northwest Pakistan on Wednesday killing five people, police said.