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• 2008-06-20: United Nations says rape is a war crime
• 2008-05-24: Children learn social skills in Web worlds
• 2008-03-22: Vietnam illegally logging Laos forests
• 2008-03-16: Paul McCartney fights for kangaroos
• 2008-02-27: Spiraling prices create world hunger crisis
• 2008-02-09: American rethink on waterboarding
• 2008-02-03: Australia to apologize to Aborigines
• 2008-01-28: Binge drinking deaths double in 15 years
• 2008-01-22: Cut-and-paste essays a problem in schools
• 2008-01-13: Divided-at-birth twins marry each other
• 2007-12-14: Malaysia crackdown on ethnic Indians
• 2007-12-08: Children cost 50 dollars a day
• 2007-12-05: Divorce is bad for the environment
• 2007-11-23: Data on 25 million Britons 'lost in post'
• 2007-11-20: NZ tells Japan's whalers to stay at home
• 2007-11-17: UN calls for death penalty abolition
• 2007-11-14: London set to ban plastic bags
• 2007-10-30: Gap Inc. launches sweatshop enquiry
• 2007-10-27: Japan’s biggest English school in trouble
• 2007-10-21: ‘Collapse of love’ in Sarkozy divorce
• 2007-10-18: Nets help cut malaria in Africa
• 2007-09-30: Rate of UK immigration rises sharply
• 2007-09-15: Models under 16 banned in London
• 2007-08-22: Top fashion model says Vogue is racist
• 2007-07-17: Nurse morale at all-time low in England
• 2007-07-08: Live Earth rocks 2 billion worldwide
• 2007-07-01: Cyber-bullying spreads in the US
• 2007-06-22: Ten Commandments for motorists
• 2007-06-07: Children into computers younger than ever
• 2007-06-04: US issues Chinese toothpaste warning
• 2007-05-29: Australian bar bans heterosexuals
• 2007-04-02: Divorce rate explosion expected in Japan
• 2007-03-27: Africans mark the end of the slave trade
• 2007-03-24: Study says alcohol more harmful than marijuana
• 2007-02-19: Rio carnival says “no” to violence
• 2007-02-07: Nations pledge to end the use of child soldiers
• 2006-11-01: Madonna defends Malawi child adoption
• 2006-03-18: Activists fight for water in Mexico - easier | harder
• 2006-03-08: UN boss not doing enough for women - easier | harder
• 2006-01-16: Whaling protester in near-miss harpooning - easier | harder
• 2006-01-11: India’s lost female generation - easier | harder
• 2006-01-04: UN suspends international trade in caviar - easier | harder
• 2005-12-28: Japanese women to have more equality - easier | harder
• 2005-12-07: Report highlights maid abuse in Singapore - easier | harder
• 2005-11-30: Paul McCartney's Beijing Olympics boycott - easier | harder
• 2005-11-24: UN: Hunger kills 6m children a year - easier | harder
• 2005-11-22: Australia's death row plea to Singapore - easier | harder
• 2005-11-21: Bullying an epidemic in the U.K. - easier | harder
• 2005-11-07: Tobacco company tests "safe cigarette" - easier | harder
• 2005-10-30: China’s death penalty reform - easier | harder
• 2005-10-23: Brazil votes on gun ban - easier | harder
• 2005-10-19: Corruption widespread in 70 countries - easier | harder
• 2005-10-13: Croatian homosexuals make a stand - easier | harder
• 2005-10-04: Movies condone drugs and unsafe sex - easier | harder
• 2005-09-27: S. Africa’s Mbeki slammed over AIDS - easier | harder
• 2005-09-24: Violence in Japan’s elementary schools - easier | harder
• 2005-09-22: Kate Moss axed over drug scandal - easier | harder
• 2005-09-16: Jennifer Lopez in anti-fur stalking - easier | harder
• 2005-08-06: 60th anniversary of Hiroshima bombing - easier | harder
• 2005-07-03: Campaign against poverty begins - easier | harder
• 2005-07-01: Spain legalizes same sex marriage - easier | harder
• 2005-06-12: World naked bike ride against oil use - easier | harder
• 2005-05-09: N. Korea nuclear weapon tests likely - easier | harder
• 2005-04-13: Japanese whaling to increase - easier | harder
• 2005-04-12: Sex education Malaysian style - easier | harder
• 2005-03-25: Designer babies row in Britain
• 2005-02-15: Gay rights for penguins
• 2005-02-14: Swaziland king buys wives BMWs
• 2005-01-28: Holocaust Remembered
• 2005-01-25: Bird Flu pandemic a possibility
• 2005-01-20: Schwarzenegger allows execution
• 2004-11-30: U.S. Gay Marriage Victory
• 2004-11-24: New UN AIDS Warning
• 2004-11-17: UK Smoking Ban
• 2004-11-10: DIY Death Pill

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