News headlines in March 2010, page 10

'We don’t want to have any part of this. We want to move out of it so we have a bit of freedom and be able to determine our own future,' says Richard Downs, an elder of the Alyawarra people of central Australia.

The contentious trade deals known as the economic partnership agreements (EPAs) will in their current form not do African countries any good as they still do not take those countries’ development needs into consideration, despite such an undertaking by the European Union (EU).

As international donors prepare to meet at the United Nations headquarters in New York to discuss ways to rebuild Haiti, after the devastating Jan. 12 earthquake, the country’s artistic community has been mobilising to make culture a key aspect of reconstruction.

Venezuelan opposition leader Oswaldo Álvarez Paz will remain in police custody in the state intelligence service (SEBIN) until his trial, a local judge ruled Wednesday, on the grounds that he was a flight risk.

Internet users in China are reporting varying degrees of censorship on Google search results after the company moved its Chinese operation out of mainland China.

HIV-positive Bupe Mwamba, 22, lies next to her newborn baby girl at the rural clinic she just gave birth in and wonders if her baby is HIV-positive too.

Even though 2009 was the fifth warmest year since 1850, and 2000-09 the warmest decade ever, according to the World Meterological Organisation, surveys show that public concern about global warming in the United States and Canada has dropped sharply in the past 18 months.

The expected arrival of 350,000 football fans in South Africa for the World Cup in June has provoked fears of increased levels of human trafficking. A new study suggests that one major obstacle to preventing this is the lack of accurate information about the extent of the problem.

The 'favelas' or shanty towns of Brazil are a uniform red ochre, the colour of unplastered brick walls. But two visual artists from the Netherlands want to paint them every colour under the sun, a facelift intended to showcase the colourful soul of these poverty-stricken neighbourhoods.

The prominent scholar who believes that Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, self-styled mastermind of the 9/11 terror attacks, should receive no trial is nonetheless advising Sen. Lindsey Graham on a proposal to the White House to create 'an overarching detainee framework', including a new approach to habeas corpus petitions and indefinite detention of 'too dangerous to free' detainees without trial.