U.N. Raises Concerns as Global Food Prices Jump | UNITED NATIONS -- With memories still fresh of food riots set off by spiking prices just two years ago, agricultural experts on Friday cast a wary eye on the steep rise in the cost of wheat prompted... (photo: WN / Rubielyn Bunag)Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
UN to hold crisis talks on food prices as riots hit Mozambique | After violence in Africa and protests in Egypt, Serbia and Pakistan, the UN are to urge action on the rising cost of food Resident queue for bread in the streets of Mozambique's capital, Maputo. Pho... (photo: WN / Ahmed Deeb)The Guardian
Russian wildfires kill 5 | Five people have been killed and 400 houses set ablaze in the latest wave of the forest fires plaguing Russia, the Emergencies Ministry said Friday. | Fires blazed across much of European Russia in ... (photo: AP)CBC BlazeForestPhotosRussiaWildfires
Over 13,000 embraced Islam in Dubai The emirate of Dubai is seeing waves of conversion to Islam over the last 14 years, particularly during the holy month of Ramadan, according to a top official here. | Hud... (photo: WN / Renzelle Mae Abasolo)Khaleej Times DubaiIslamPhotosRamadanWikipedia: Islam
Stop the War Talk | The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is in Washington, purportedly to be part of the Obama administration’s relaunch of peace negotiations. But the urgen... (photo: AP / J. Scott Applewhite)The New York Times IranIsraelPhotosWarWikipedia: IranIsrael relations
