News headlines in September 2011, page 21

The U.N. Development Programme’s Special Unit for South-South Cooperation along with the UNDP Bureau of Development Policy and the U.N. Financing for Development Office hosted a Member States meeting Wednesday to discuss a joint programme entitled: ‘Curbing Illicit Financial Flows: Accelerating LDC Graduation in the Next Decade’.

Morocco’s offer of autonomy to Western Sahara to stave off demands for full independence is boomeranging on the kingdom with other regions now demanding similar freedom.

Eclipsed by the war in Afghanistan, growing tensions between Israel and its neighbours, and the continuing reverberations of the so-called 'Arab Spring', Iraq is inching back into the news here as a debate over the future of U.S. military forces there gathers steam.

Kakenya Ntaiya was engaged at age five and would have been married by 13 if her mother had not insisted that she attend her small village school in Enoosaen, Kenya.

With a vote on the Palestinians' status at the United Nations scheduled for next week, the Barack Obama administration has made its opposition to any upgrade of Palestinian status in the world body quite clear.

Violent clashes looked inevitable when some 1,500 desperately hungry peasants poured into this small Brazilian town. Riot police were staked out to prevent looting. It was the year 1993, and millions of people in Brazil's impoverished semiarid Northeast had been forced to the brink of starvation by three years of drought.

When a landmark world conference against racism adopted a historic political declaration in the South African port city of Durban back in 2001, the 62-page document covered virtually every conceivable act of racism, xenophobia and racial intolerance worldwide.

Gen. David Petraeus wrote in his 2006 counterinsurgency manual that the U.S. command headquarters should establish a 'narrative' for the counterinsurgency war — a simple storyline that provides a framework for understanding events, both for the population of the country in question and for international audiences.

Accumulating strains between the United States and Saudi Arabia are steadily weakening one of the world's longest lasting and most effective bilateral alliances, according to observers here.

A method to revolutionise gold mining; biofuel from used cooking oil; a container where garbage and wastewater go in and four useful products and zero waste come out: Latin American science applied to the environment.