News headlines in 2009, page 62

Critics of carbon trading, a strategy meant to combat global warming, say the buying and selling of carbon credits is being exploited.

The persistent drought affecting some 90 percent of Argentine territory has slain cattle in the hundreds of thousands and caused forest fires, drastic restrictions on water use and local disputes over water.

Andrea C. was eight years old when two unidentified women took her from her home in a neighbourhood on the north side of the Mexican capital, in September 2005. Four years later, she is still missing.

Lawrence Amos travelled from the Arctic at the top of the world to the tropical middle to recite in a soft voice the ongoing destruction of his home by climate change.

'We fast a long time,' says Gaza graduate Mona Ismail, 23. 'Only to break our fast on a piece of onion.'

Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen is known for his brash and earthy vocabulary even when, as he did in early April, he talks about himself. 'I am neither a gangster nor a gentleman, but a real man,' the politician who has led his country for 25 years said in a fit of rage.

Other than to movie aficionados, the refurbishing of an old cinema hall is no cause for great excitement.

More and more indigenous women in Paraguay are overcoming sexist resistance in their communities and emerging as leaders within and outside of their villages, fighting for the rights of their people and against discrimination.

As militant attacks in Pakistan continue unabated, there are increasing calls for the government to rethink its strategy—and look deep within.

The Anti-Homosexuality Bill under consideration in Uganda was sparked by a conference in Kampala earlier this year at which fundamentalist Christians from the U.S. identified homosexuality as a threat to 'family values'.