• Police Report 50% More Women Drunks , U.K.

Police say the number of women arrested for being drunk and disorderly has risen by more than 50% in the past five years, it emerged yesterday. Reports of 5,891 females were…

• Cry for Food, Justice, and Freedom Marks Labor Day , Philippines

More than 1,500 members of Makabayan picketed the regional offices of the National Labor Relations Commission and Department of Agrarian Reform in the City of San Fernando in…

• Young Christians Attend Islamic Boarding School , Indonesia

Christian theology students in Indonesia are attending a course at a Muslim boarding school to learn more about Islam and pluralism. Abdul Moqsith Ghazali Hari, coordinator of the…

• Students Learn from Each Other , U.S.

They started out as strangers, just members of different religious groups. But after two days, they became friends who found they had a lot in common. It was a pleasant discovery for…

• Putting Pollution on Grocery Bills , Int'l

Cod caught off Norway is shipped to China to be turned into filets, then shipped back to Norway for sale. Argentine lemons fill supermarket shelves on the Spanish Citrus Coast as…

• Fining Parents Have Not Cut School Truancy Rates , U.K.

The Government's policy of fining and prosecuting the parents of persistent truants has failed to reduce the number of pupils skipping lessons, research by the Liberal Democrats has…

• Country to Import Rice to Cushion Food Crisis , Nigeria

Nigeria announced Tuesday it would import 500,000 tons of rice to cushion the effect of the global rise in food prices. The decision was taken after an emergency meeting between the...

• Islamic Food Fund Proposed , Kuwait

Kuwait proposed yesterday the creation of a fund to provide basic foods to poor people in Islamic countries and pledged to donate $100 million. "Kuwait ... is offering an initiative…