The World Health Organisation (WHO) has raised its pandemic alert for swine flu to level five (the second highest level), warning that "all countries should immediately now activate their pandemic preparedness plans".
Ministers of finance from Africa have called upon international finance institutions to subject rich countries to the same rigor of surveillance and conditionalities for preserving microeconomic stability, which they impose on developing countries.
A new national poll suggests that President Obama is personally more popular than his policies. The CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll, indicates that 63 percent of Americans approve of how Obama is handling his duties as president. One in three questioned in the poll disapproves.
Mexico says up to 159 people may have died from swine flu, with 26 cases confirmed, as the number of countries reporting confirmed cases increased. Mexican authorities have put the nation's capital on high alert, ordered restaurants to serve only
Developed world property stocks continued their downward spiral over the first quarter of 2009, despite a surprising uptick in the performance of emerging markets, according to the latest Quarterly Global Property & REIT report from Standard & Poor’s Index Services, the world’s leading index provider.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, in his opening address, warned that the global recession could become a major humanitarian and peace crisis. The Monday session is known as the special high-level meeting of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) with the Breton Woods Institutions (BWIs),
The 2009 World Economic Forum on the Middle East will convene over 1,200 business, government and civil society leaders in Jordan from 15 to 17 May. Held under the patronage of HM King Abdullah II, discussions will focus on the theme "Implications of the Global Economic Crisis
World Health Organization increased its alert level on the deadly disease, saying containment of the outbreak wasn't feasible. WHO says the virus, which has killed more than 150 people in Mexico, is showing a "sustained ability" to pass from human to human and is able to cause community-level outbreaks.
Newspapers have rapidly adopted blogs as part of their on-line offerings. Is anyone making money from them? Guardian News and Media is one company that is.
Scientists at the Cambridge University have discovered that freshwater algae can form stable groupings in which they dance around each other, miraculously held together only by the fluid flows they create. Their research was published in the journal Physical Review Letters.
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