World hunger can end in our lifetime: UN Sydney Morning Herald - The world could wipe out hunger in coming decades and make images of "children with swollen bellies a thing of history", the new head of the United Nations food aid agency says. Josette Sheeran, former undersecretary for economic affairs at the US State Department, took the helm this month at the World Food Program (WFP), the world's biggest aid agency with a budget of $US3 billion ($A3.59 billion). She said in an interview that the world now has a historic opportunity to stop starvation. Read Full Article  (April 19th, 2007)
	Offshore wind farm looking for direction Canada Dot Com - PRINCE RUPERT -- An offshore wind farm development in the Hecate Strait is diving into new waters and looking for direction. The NaiKun Wind Energy Group, the company proposing a wind farm in the shallow waters northeast of the Queen Charlotte Islands, is the first company in Canada to have officially entered into the environmental assessment process for an offshore wind farm. Archie Riddell, project assessment director of the provincial environmental assessment office, said NaiKun has submitted its draft terms of reference and now it is the public's turn to comment. Read Full Article (April 19th, 2007)

	African growth 'rests on fragile base' Business Day - NEW YORK - African economies are expected to grow 5,8% this year, short of the 7% needed to reduce poverty, and are built on a fragile foundation of oil and commodity exports, the latest United Nations Economic Commission for Africa report says. The report, which was released yesterday, calls for greater diversity in African economies to reduce vulnerability to oil and commodity price shocks.  Read Full Article (April 7th, 2007) Fiji's military faces showdown as support for strike grows NZ Herald - Fiji's military regime is facing a growing revolt by the country's unions, with thousands more workers voting to support a strike in defiance of warnings they will be sacked. The Public Employees Union (PEU), representing almost 5000 blue-collar public servants, has voted to back a strike planned by the country's largest union, the Public Service Association (PSA). Read Full Article (March 23rd, 2007) House may delay 'comfort women' resolution for Abe Japan Times - BEIJING (Kyodo) A vote on a U.S. House of Representatives resolution seeking an apology from Japan for forcing women into sexual servitude during the war will probably take place only in May to avoid marring Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's U.S. visit this month, the head of a panel weighing the motion said. Read Full Article (April 7th, 2007)
	How a tiny frog is a deadly portent of what awaits an overheating planet Scotsman - ALASTAIR DALTON - It is being pushed to the brink of extinction because the puddles in which it splashes for moisture are drying out. But the plight of the tiny harlequin frog has even more disturbing implications. Scientists believe the demise of the critically-endangered amphibian, as its bathing pools dry up from higher temperatures and reduced rainfall, will be followed by trees drying - hitting the "livelihoods" of the frogs human neighbours in the Costa Rican rainforest. Read Full Article (April 7th, 2007)
	Putting Somalia back together Business Day - ETHIOPIA'S invasion of Somalia on December 28 last year reopened a decade-and-a-half-long war for Somalia in the already volatile Horn of Africa. The result of the invasion has been medium-intensity warfare involving Ethiopian and Somali Transitional Federal Government (TFG) forces on one side, and Islamist militant umbrella group the Union of Islamic Courts (UIC) and allied militias on the other. Ethiopia's justification for the invasion was that the UIC posed a direct threat to its own borders; hence it had the right to protect its sovereignty and interests. Read Full Article