News headlines in July 2011, page 6

María José Aceituno, who works at a public relations firm in the Guatemalan capital, has two children and says she is not having any more, in order to safeguard the financial position and security of her family. 'I would rather have two happy children than 10 who are dissatisfied,' she said.

The Norwegian right wing extremist Anders Behring Breivik, who killed at least 76 people in two terrorist attacks Jul. 22 Oslo and Utoya, is a member of a network of more than 10,000 neo-fascist groups spread across North America and Western and Northern Europe.

The use of information technology in energy planning can contribute not only to developing renewable energy sources but also to moving towards a green economy.

The content of your recent report on the Channel 4 video screened in Capitol Hill is disappointing. Your reporter uncritically endorsed the line purveyed by the organisers of the event without so much as a passing reference to the counter views advanced by my office at the screening of this video in New York or an effort to contact the Sri Lankan authorities. Not very professional!

'Our American family will only be as strong as our Latino community,' U.S. President Barack Obama said in his address at the National Council of La Raza's annual conference in Washington on Monday.

Indian and Pakistani officials have held discussions in New Delhi, the Indian capital, that will lay the groundwork for formal peace talks set for Wednesday.

As African Union and NATO leaders push for a political solution to the Libyan crisis, many of the thousands of refugees and migrants stranded on the Libyan- Tunisian border say their plight continues to fall on deaf ears.

Following a major rally involving tens of thousands of protesters calling for electoral reforms in Malaysia, someone set up a Facebook page calling for Prime Minister Najib Razak to step down. Within ten days, the number of people who said they 'like' the page crossed 200,000.

Down by the old harbour in Reykjavik, a small group of volunteers in pale blue T-shirts can be seen handing out leaflets that say 'Meet us don’t eat us'. Beneath the slogan is a picture of a whale, followed by 'Whales are being killed to feed tourists. Don’t let your visit leave a bad taste in your mouth.'

The decision was expected, yet it shook the world’s nuclear establishment. On May 29, some two and a half months after disaster struck at Japan’s Fukushima- Daiichi nuclear complex, Germany’s right-wing government of Angela Merkel announced that Germany is exiting from the nuclear era.