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Number of researchers rising globally but women still in minority  UN report
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Number of researchers rising globally but women still in minority – UN report
23 November 2009 – Although the number of researchers working in developing countries over the last five years has increased by 50 per cent, women only occupy a very small percentage of these position... (photo: WN / Eteh)
Chelsea's Didier Drogba
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 Goal 
Ballon d'Or: Didier Drogba Profile
The powerhouse has little hope of ending Africa's barren run... | Join Goal.com for a look at yet another Ballon d'Or nominee, or click here for a full list of candidates, given here ordered by surnam... (photo: AP / Alastair Grant)
In demand: Ethiopia's farmlands  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 
In demand: Ethiopia's farmlands
| BAKO, Ethiopia | "Why Attractive?" reads one glossy poster with photos of green fields and a map outlining swaths of the country available at bargain-basement prices. "Vast, fertile, irrigable land ... (photo: WN / Eteh)
Africa   Ethiopia   Farming   Health   Photos  
 Sudanese children protest in front of the French embassy in Khartoum, Sudan cg1  Independent online 
 Sudan punished children for rebel raid - UN
| Khartoum - Sudan sentenced six children to death for taking part in a Darfur rebel attack on Khartoum but has since promised not to execute them, a top United Nations official said on Sunday. | A Su... (photo: AP / Abd Raouf)
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Backdrop by Cooling towers of a power plant a man carry bricks, in Xiahuayuan county in north China's Hebei province, Friday, Nov. 30, 2007. China has said it will refuse to sign any climate-change treaty that would slow the pace of their own development, ahead of a major U.N. gathering to discuss a successor treaty to the Kyoto Protocol, an agreement on greenhouse gases that expires in 2012 Deccan Chronicle
As Copenhagen is near, hopes high
As Copenhagen is near, hopes high | There are high expectations worldwide of a positive outcome at the Copenhagen summit on climate change in early December despite seemi... (photo: AP / Oded Balilty)

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 POLLUTION: Two workers walk home from a Copsa Mica, Romania vulcanizing plant. The tall structures in the back are cooling towers The Times
Copenhagen will fail - and quite right too
| Exactly a fortnight from today, the United Nations climate change conference opens in Copenhagen. Its purpose is (or was) clear: to agree a successor to the Kyoto Proto... (photo: UN file)

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Ace cricketer and Canon's brand ambassador Sachin Tendulkar gives autograph on bat as Kensaku Konishi, President, CEO, Canon India looks on, at the launch of new Canon camera in Kolkata on Tuesday  in Eastern India City, June 02, 2009  ----WN/BHASKAR MALLICK The Examiner
Sachin Tendulkar's best innings - 140 versus Kenya, 1999 World Cup
| In terms of opposition, Kenya may seem to be one of the weaker ones around . However, it was the enormity of context that made the century so special for the side that ... (photo: WN / Bhaskar Mallick)
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Niger President Mamadou Tandja speaks to journalists at the presidential residence in Niamey, Niger Friday, July 31, 2009. In a bid to stay in power past his legal two-term limit, Niger's president has morphed from democrat to dictator in the space of several months, imposing rule by decree and dismantling key institutions that were supposed to ensure it didn't happen. The struggle culminates in a referendum Tuesday that could replace the last thing in his way _ the constitution _ with a new one that would allow him to stay at the helm with unprecedented power. Al Jazeera
Niger protest for president to quit
| Thousands of protesters took to the streets of Niger's capital, Niamey, calling for the resignation of President Mamadou Tandja. | Brandishing placards such as "Ta... (photo: AP / Rebecca Blackwell)
Niger   Photos   President   Protest   Resignation  
Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula Da Silva, right, speaks to Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez, center, as Libya's President Moammar Gadhafi looks at them during the official photo at the Africa and South America Summit, ASA, in Porlamar, Margarita Island, Venezuela, Saturday, Sept. 26, 2009. Wtop
Ugandans upset over praise for former dictator
| KAMPALA, Uganda (AP) - Ugandan officials say they are offended that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has praised former dictator Idi Amin. | Officials including Preside... (photo: AP / Ariana Cubillos)
Including   Kampala   Photos   President   Uganda  
ETHIOPIA: THE BLACK HORSE RIDER UNLEASHED! Modern Ghana
Ethiopia: The Black Horse Rider Unleashed!
In 1983-1985, Ethiopia was among the many countries, not just in Africa but other parts of the world, which was terribly wounded by the struck of the World Food Problem. ... (photo: WN / Eteh)
Africa   Children   Ethiopia   Food   Photos  
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