Top story
Small Canadian Town Bans Shark FinsUsing the concept 'Think Global, Act Local,' Coquitlam council this week banned shark fins from being possessed, traded, sold and distributed in the city. |
|
|
Share | Tweet |
Study Finds Vegan Diet Reverses Diabetes SymptomsWashington, DC - According to a report published in Diabetes Care, a journal published by the American Diabetes Association, people who ate a low-fat vegan diet, cutting out all meat and dairy, lowered their blood sugar more and lost more weight than people on a standard American Diabetes Association diet. |
|
Police rescue 160 children from child labourCuddalore, India - The police on Wednesday rescued about 160 children from a Nagappatinam bound "Cholan Express" at railway station here this afternoon. |
|
Donation to aid WFP’s operationsBrussels, Belgium - The United Nations' World Food Programme (WFP) welcomed a 105 million euro donation by the European Commission for its global operations in 2006, most especially in African countries. |
|
Bird-Flu Vaccine May Be Ready by Next YearLondon - A British company reported Wednesday it had achieved the best results ever seen on an experimental human vaccine for bird flu and said mass production might be possible by 2007. |
|
Organic farming yields more profitsMorris, Minnesota - It looks like Minnesota grain farmers could make more money by switching to organic grain crops. |
|
Heating cancer cells may be key to treating some tumours: researchersBaltimore, MD - It's a concept that's been used since the time of Hippocrates and beyond - using heat to treat what ails us. |
|
WWF and Sony sign climate saving dealTokyo, Japan - Sony will cut CO2 emissions from both operations and its product range as part of a deal struck with WWF. |
|
Soya traders agree to a moratorium on Amazon deforestation following customer pressureLondon, UK - In a statement released in Brazil, multinational soya traders have agreed to a two year moratorium on buying soya from newly deforested land in the Amazon. |
|
Nations agree to open up German Nazi archiveBerlin - A German archive containing millions of documents detailing Nazi crimes during World War Two will be opened to historians and Holocaust scholars for the first time, officials said on Wednesday. |
|
Ireland Worker Finds Ancient Psalms in BogDublin, Ireland - Irish archaeologists Tuesday heralded the discovery of an ancient book of psalms by a construction worker who spotted something while driving the shovel of his backhoe into a bog. |
|
Youth lands glider after dad blacks out at 3,000 feetPemberton, BC, Canada - It was 5 p.m. on cloudless Monday afternoon at the Pemberton Soaring Centre when the sound of a young man's voice came over the two-way radio, catching Rudy Rozsypulek's attention. |
|
First UN aid convoy carrying medicine and other essentials reaches Lebanon’s southTyre, Lebanon - The first United Nations aid convoy to the south of Lebanon arrived in the port city of Tyre today, carrying food, medicines, sanitation and hygiene supplies for the victims of the worsening violence that has gripped the country. |
|
Project offers free colon tests for poorWashington - It's the cancer with the yuck factor, that part of the anatomy lots of people would rather ignore. And too many are ignoring it possibly to death: Nearly 42 million Americans over 50 aren't getting checks for colorectal cancer, the nation's No. 2 cancer killer. |
|
House Approves Wilderness BillsWashington - The House approved a series of bills Monday to protect national forest land in the West, including the designation of new wilderness areas in three Western states. |
|
Food giants to boycott illegal Amazon soyaLondon - Leading European supermarkets, food manufacturers and fast-food chains, including McDonald's, are expected to pledge today not to use soya illegally grown in the Amazon region in response to evidence that large areas of virgin forest are being felled for the crop. |
|
PM unveils new aid for tainted blood victimsOttawa, ON - Thousands of Canadians who contracted hepatitis C from tainted blood but were excluded from earlier compensation will now be covered under a new $1.1-billion plan, Prime Minister Harper announced Tuesday. |
|
news by region:
News of a better world.
The great news network is a news site that reports only positive news stories. Positive news inspires and motivates people to do their part to make a better world. That is why we exist.
The great news network is a news site that reports only positive news stories. Positive news inspires and motivates people to do their part to make a better world. That is why we exist.
Environmental news:
Human Rights news:
Medical discoveries:
Technology news: