Fuel Market OPEC Oil Photos | Bulls push oil over US$126
| Oil jumped to a new intraday record of US$126.20 a barrel at the weekend, extending gains to more than 11 per cent since the start of the month on fuel supply concerns and a rush of speculator buyin... (photo: WN/Theresa Poongan) NZ Herald
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 US help could save thousands of lives
| ONE April day in 1991, the world awoke to the news that a devastating cyclone and tidal wave had struck the coast of Bangladesh. As bodies washed ashore by the thousand and the death toll rose to 13... (photo: US Navy file/PHAN Nicholas Morton) The Australian
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 System transfers funds to radicals
| AN "underground" banking system - investigated by the US for allegedly transmitting funds for terrorist operations - is suspected of being used in Australia to channel money to extremists in Africa.... (photo: WN) The Australian
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 A third of malaria drugs in Africa are ineffective
div#related-article-links p a, div#related-article-links p a:visited { color:#06c; } | More than a third of antimalarial drugs sold in Africa have failed quality tests, r... (photo: US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention / ) The Times
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 Overlooked in the global food crisis: A problem with dirt
WASHINGTON (Map, News) - Science has provided the souped-up seeds to feed the world, through biotechnology and old-fashioned crossbreeding. Now the problem is the dirt th... (photo: WN / Bhaskar Mallick) Examiner
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 Overlooked in the global food crisis: A problem with dirt
| WASHINGTON (AP) Science has provided the souped-up seeds to feed the world, through biotechnology and old-fashioned crossbreeding. Now the problem is the dirt they're p... (photo: WN / Aruna Mirasdar) Fresno Bee
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 Nigeria Eyes More Rice Imports
| Nigeria will accelerate rice imports in a move to ease food security concerns caused by soaring global prices. The government has suspended duties on rice imports for s... (photo: WN / Rubielyn Bunag) Voa News
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 Despite price, future of Nigeria oil sector cloudy
Record oil prices should mean boom times for Nigeria's oil industry, but rising militant violence, labour unrest and years of government neglect cast a shadow over its fu... (photo: AP Photo/Clement Ntaye) Mail Guardian South Africa
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 Oil tops record $US123
| GLOBAL oil prices hit new highs overnight at over $123 ($131) a barrel, despite a large rise in US crude inventories and a stronger US dollar, which hurt precious and i... (photo: AP / Paul Sakuma) The Australian
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 $200-per-barrel oil feared as crude hits fresh record
| Record-breaking oil prices have sparked widespread international concern among consumer nations amid predictions that they could rise perhaps as high as $200 per barrel... (photo: AP / Eckehard Schulz) The Manila Times
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 $US120 oil blows budget forecast
| THE surge in world oil prices to more than $US120 a barrel threatens to make the federal Treasury's budget inflation forecast obsolete before it even goes to print. | I... (photo: Tupras) The Australian
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 53% Indian kids under 5 lack healthcare
| NEW DELHI: For a country crowing about its cracking growth rate, here is a fact that should make its head hang in shame. Over 53% children in India under ... (photo: WN / Bhaskar Mallick) The Times Of India
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 Nigeria lifts tax on rice in bid to head off food crisis
By EDWARD HARRIS - Associated Press Writer | LAGOS, Nigeria -- | Nigeria on Wednesday announced it was suspending import duties and other taxes on rice while launching a ... (photo: WN / Sweet Radoc) The State
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