News headlines in 2009, page 80

Achieving ambitious Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) production targets to meet growing world demands will not suffice to feed the world, and focusing too much on churning out crops may even be damaging, experts warn.

'We knew something bad was about to happen when we saw the roadblocks being thrown up, and police everywhere. It soon came down the grapevine - the Israelis were demolishing more houses.'

Karachi-based, Trinidad-born and educated Veena Masud is a school principal who wants to see Pakistani women shine in the international sports arena.

One morning nine months ago, Kenji Hamada’s colleagues were surprised to find him in their Tokyo office slumped over his desk. They thought he was sleeping, but when he did not wake up after two hours, they realised he was dead.

J Street, the relatively new 'pro-Israel, pro-Peace' advocacy group, exceeded expectations for its inaugural conference here in Washington with over 1,500 participants attending the four-day event.

J Street, the relatively new 'pro-Israel, pro-Peace' advocacy group, exceeded expectations for its inaugural conference here in Washington with over 1,500 participants attending the four-day event.

The administration of President Barack Obama, which has vowed to improve relations with sanctions-hit Cuba, refused to break away from the traditional stand taken by successive U.S. governments and voted against a U.N. resolution calling for an end to the 47-year-old U.S. economic, commercial and financial embargo against the Caribbean island nation.

Catholic priest Marco Arana, who is also a social and environmental activist, has not yet officially decided to run in Peru's next presidential elections, but he is already facing opposition from the highest-level Catholic Church officials in the country.

The story began almost 40 years ago, but when filmmaker Joe Berlinger 'saw villagers eating canned tuna fish because the fish in their rivers were too contaminated to eat, [he] knew [he] had to do something'.

Mozambicans voted today in elections reported to have had a massive youth turnout. The polls opened at 7 am with some people lining up in long queues even hours before the voting process started.