All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
TEACHERS living with HIV and Aids will benefit from a network to be formed under the auspices of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation this year.
Thoughts About K4D (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Farouk Hosni, having served for two decades as Egyptian Minister of Culture, has been nominated by his government to be the next Director General of UNESCO, and is considered to be a leading candidate. He is also know internationally as an abstract artist. One of his paintings is reproduced above. The second term of office of the current Director General, Koïchiro Matsuura, ends in October 2009.
Hindu (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Old sculptures depict cultural glory, say speakers at seminar
All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
Teaching is a noble job that people tend to under rate.
Daily Star (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
Global political developments of the past few decades as well as political discourses in general have been influenced by two major, seemingly contradictory phenomena. On one side, a discontent about the results of modernization gave rise to new religious movements in the three Abrahamic religions.
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | yesterday
Phnom Penh - Cambodia has not planted any new landmines and had warned Thai military commanders that a disputed border area was heavily infested and dangerous well before two Thai rangers were seriously wounded by mines this week, an official said Tu...
Russia News Net (Free subscription) | yesterday
MOSCOW, October 7 (RIA Novosti) -- The Baikal Pulp and Paper Plant, which recently introduced a new water treatment system, has not solved all of its problems, and has even created new ones, the natur...
Ria Novosti (Free subscription) | yesterday
The mill, which is located next to the world's largest body of fresh water, Siberia's Lake Baikal, recently switched its production process to a closed water cycle after coming under pressure over waste discharges into the lake, a UNESCO world heritage site.
Ria Novosti (Free subscription) | yesterday
MOSCOW, October 7 (RIA Novosti) - The IOC's Coordination Commission has agreed to allow changes to the transport infrastructure for the Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics as proposed by Russia's prime minister, the Games executive director said on Tuesday. "Vladimir Putin has proposed changes that will help minimize the environmental impact during the construction and operation of the Olympic transport facilities,"...
All Africa (Free subscription) | yesterday
The May/June 2008 West African School Certificate Examination [WASCE] results recently released by West African Examination Council (WAEC) make very grim reading. According to the body, out of the 1,369,142 candidates that wrote the examination only 188,442 got the mandatory 5 credits and above including English and Mathematics.
Dumbo NYC (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Presented in partnership with The Goethe-Institut New York, this event is first in a series exploring sustainable design on the urban scale. It will be moderated by MoMA Art Architecture and Design curator Andres Lepik. What: Goethe-Institut and Galapagos Art Space Present “What is Green Architecture?” When: Monday, October 6, 7:30pm Where: Galapagos Art Space, [...]
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
OAKLAND, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
All Africa (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
South Africa joined the rest of the world on Sunday to honour the role and importance of teachers in the classroom and society on World Teacher's Day.
CNN (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Most people by now will be familiar with the term 'carbon footprint' and may even have calculated it themselves, but how many are familiar with their 'water footprint'?
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
Brighton and Hove is bidding to become the first city in the world to become a Unesco 'biosphere reserve'
