Palash Ghosh

Last year, Sri Lanka suffered an unprecedented shortage of coconuts, a long-time staple for the tropical island nation.

Bush is scheduled to tour through Ethiopia, Tanzania and Zambia, where he is planning to raise awareness about AIDS, cervical and breast cancers.

BBC said it received about 4,700 complains about Clarkson, who is believed to earn about £1 million ($1.57-million) annually.

It is believed that hundreds, perhaps thousands, of women in Afghanistan are languishing in jails over so-called ‘moral crimes.’

This trip represented the highest official U.S. visit to Burma in more than fifty years.

BBC said it received about 4,700 complains about Clarkson.

Reportedly, there are now about 10,000 homeless people on the streets of the capital Budapest alone.

The strike by up to two million public sector workers in Great Britain has raised emotions on both sides of the issue, but perhaps no one has had as extreme a reaction to the work stoppage as Jeremy Clarkson, the Top Gear presenter.

The father was beaten, and then all members of the family (including all three daughters) had acid poured on them.

“Of course it’s the final word. Pakistan is not attending,” a spokesman for the Pakistani foreign ministry said.

About 5.38-million people in the country are HIV-positive, or 10.6 percent of population.

These newly defined poor will now qualify to receive subsidies.

Between 1990 and 2010, the rate of poverty rate on the continent plunged from 48.4 percent to 31.4 percent; while the rate of indigence (extreme poverty) dropped from 22.6 percent to 12.3 percent.

No one else should ever wear a baseball cap; it serves no purpose, neither practical nor aesthetic.

Public sector unions object to having their members work longer to earn their pensions, while paying more into the programs themselves.

The two countries have already significantly downgraded diplomatic and financial ties.

Svetlana had fallen in love with Brajesh Singh, an Indian Communist in Moscow. She eventually became his common-law wife in 1964

The salary cap would save more than £1-billion by the 2014-15, Osborne claimed.

Increasing the size of the rescue fund is considered imperative given the shaky finances of Italy and Spain.

George Harrison was, to many observers, the most ‘intriguing’ and ‘interesting’ Beatle since he seemed to have no comfortable ‘place’ in the group.

The women collected semen from the brutalized men for some mysterious reasons.

Syria’s membership in the League was also suspended.

Reflecting the country’s demographics of Africans and East Indians, Guyanese politics typically break down according to racial lines.

Kabila is widely expected to win another five-year term

An astounding 90 percent of unmarried young Japanese women said the single life suits them better than marriage.

“The euro area crisis remains the key risk to the world economy,” OECD stated.

Belgium and Hungary were downgraded late in the week, fueling more fire to the already credit-sensitive region.

The numbers for Malta are 21.1 percent for women are obese (second highest in Europe) and 24.7 percent for men (the highest for the continent).

Jordan, the dominant athlete of my lifetime, a global icon, and widely regarded as the greatest basketball player in history, is now fat.