News headlines in July 2011, page 13

South African companies are being urged to use the leverage of its government’s strong political relationship with India to develop new business and investment opportunities.

A senior U.N. official Wednesday warned of a state of famine in Bakool and Lower Shabelle, two regions of southern Somalia severely affected by the drought in the Horn of Africa.

Phulo Rani Pal checks for loose dust around her open backyard kitchen. It’s time to prepare the sweets she supplies to vendors and it will not do for her products to be contaminated.

Eurozone leaders must find a solution to Greece's debt crisis or the global economy will pay the price, the European Commission president has said.

Survey your surroundings and you'll discover that coal ash - waste from coal burned to produce electricity - is more present in everyday life than you might expect. To name a few places: toothpaste, cosmetics, wallboard, cement, and agricultural and winter de-icing products.

Miguel, a 32-year-old Nicaraguan, and his wife have spent several days at a shelter for migrants in the southwest Mexican state of Oaxaca, where they fled after being robbed, extorted and threatened by corrupt municipal police and youth gang members.

The United Nations Security Council failed to reach agreement on a non-binding statement Wednesday aseerting that climate change should be recognised as an international peace and security issue.

South African companies are being urged to use the leverage of its government’s strong political relationship with India to develop new business and investment opportunities.

Many countries are facing dangerous water shortages. As world demand for food has soared, millions of farmers have drilled too many irrigation wells in efforts to expand their harvests. As a result, water tables are falling and wells are going dry in some 20 countries containing half the world's people.

When Bahraini ambassador Houda Ezra Nonoo arrived in Washington three years ago, she was greeted as the representative of a close U.S. ally with a reputation for more openness and tolerance than most Gulf nations.