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05.09.2008 Aid has to be increased by $18 billion a year between now and 2010 if donors are to meet their Millennium Development Goal pledges, according to a UN report launched by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
+ UN report highlights lack of access to essential medicines

05.09.2008 The six-month prison sentences imposed on four Iranian cyber-feminists for "publishing information against the government" are an outrage, says a media freedom group.

06.09.2008 'Lawnmower' design turbines are more robust and larger than the conventional windmill type.
From: The Guardian

05.09.2008 Asbestos, now banned in the EU, kills up to 4,000 people a year in the UK alone. In this exclusive New Statesman report, Ed Howker reveals how the industry hid the truth for decades and why the death toll will certainly continue to rise.

04.09.2008 With the end of the Cold War, the United Nations seemed poised to preside over a new and stable world order. Since then, events in the Balkans, in Rwanda and elsewhere have shown how vain these hopes were. How did the UN become so ineffectual, and can it ever recover, asks Carne Ross.

Four chances this month to visit the cash-strapped, rarely open, atmospheric museum of migration at 19 Princelet Street. The first is on Sunday. On the same day, in the evening, a new series begins on TV, Earth: The Climate Wars.

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