Growing world population will cause a "perfect storm" of food, energy and water shortages by 2030, the UK government chief scientist has warned. By 2030 the demand for resources will create a crisis with dire consequences, Prof John Beddington said. Demand for food and energy will jump 50% by 2030 and for fresh water by 30%, as the population tops 8.3 billion, he told a conference in London. Clima
Page last updated at 07:02 GMT, Wednesday, 4 March 2009 Japan's opposition leader Ichiro Ozawa, whose party is favourite to win elections this year, has dismissed calls for his resignation. Mr Ozawa was speaking the day after a close aide, Takanori Okubo, was arrested in a donations scandal. Mr Ozawa said neither he nor his aide had done anything wrong. The opposition has been widely tipped to win
Page last updated at 09:34 GMT, Sunday, 1 February 2009 A senior family planning official in China has noted an alarming rise in the number of babies with birth defects, a Chinese media report says. Jiang Fan, from China's National Population and Family Planning Commission, said environmental pollution was a cause of the increase. The coal-mining heartland of Shanxi province had the biggest proble
Page last updated at 16:05 GMT, Wednesday, 10 December 2008 The former president of Finland, Martti Ahtisaari, called for greater efforts to resolve the Middle East conflict, as he accepted the Nobel Peace Prize. Mr Ahtisaari won the prize for his efforts to resolve conflicts around the world over the past 30 years. At the ceremony in Norway, he called on US President-elect Barack Obama to give "h
A television documentary team has pieced together details surrounding the case of a 16-year-old girl, executed two years ago in Iran. On 15 August, 2004, Atefah Sahaaleh was hanged in a public square in the Iranian city of Neka. Her death sentence was imposed for "crimes against chastity". The state-run newspaper accused her of adultery and described her as 22 years old. But she was not married -
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