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World population 10B by 22nd Century

By the end of this year the world's seven billionth citizen will be born.

Bored UCLA Student Joins Libyan Rebels

Bummed out by the end of summer vacation? Want to take the awesomest road trip evar? Not really bothered by the idea of conflict tourism or turning someone else’s struggle for freedom into your bar-stool anecdote? Dude: you need to join the Libyan revolution!

Noam Chomsky: 'As long they get the backing of dictators, it doesn't matter to western governments what Arab populations think' – video

Today Noam Chomsky! Tomorrow, the World!

Islamists at the Heart of the Libyan Rebellion

  Rebel militiamen, many of them former prisoners of Muammar Gaddafi, have an iron grip on Tripoli, but wonder who will hold long-term power in Libya.

Obama's worst nightmare

What would be the mother of all nightmares for Barack Obama before next year’s presidential election? A nuclear-armed Iran. President Obama has declared he will not allow Iran to develop a nuclear-weapons capability. But his options are limited.

Thousands of Chinese revolt against state authority

In southwest China, in the early hours of Friday, August 12th, thousands of people were engaged in violent confrontations with the police. As the state news agency Xinhua reported, the protests began in the Qianxi district in Guizhou Province on Thursday evening. Ac …

BBC News - The mystery of Sri Lanka's 'grease devils'

A few nights ago Tuan Mohamed Saleh Nona Faris heard a rustling outside her house and saw a shadow move. "He looked like a gorilla, he was completely covered in black from top to toe.

WikiLeaks blames Guardian journalist for release of 251,000 unredacted U.S. cables

WikiLeaks on Thursday blamed a journalist from the British newspaper The Guardian for the release of hundreds of thousands of unredacted U.S.

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