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Published on Tuesday, 10 March 2009 18:00 | | 
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Picking up the themes outlined by Foreign and Commonwealth Office minister Lord Malloch Brown, Gareth Thomas, minister of state at the Department for International Development, delves into the nitty-gritty of UK government policy on trying to prevent violent conflict in Afghanistan...
As all of you I’m sure will accept, conflict and poverty are inextricably linked, and unless we continue to seek to put in place effective conflict prevention strategies we’re not going to make the type of progress that we want towards achieving our goals on poverty.
Published on Sunday, 08 March 2009 18:00 | |
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A hedge fund trader parks his new Porsche in front of the office to show it off to his colleagues. As he's getting out of the car a lorry zooms past too close to the kerb. It rips off the door and speeds away. The distraught man grabs his mobile and calls the police. They arrive minutes later. Before the officer can ask any questions, however, the man starts screaming hysterically:
'My Porsche, my beautiful silver Porsche!’ the hedge fund trader rants. ‘ It's ruined. Even if I send it to the most skilled panel beaters in the world, it'll never be the same again!'
Published on Saturday, 07 March 2009 18:00 | | |
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So says recently elected Maldives president, Mohamed Nasheed, as he takes active steps to rehome his people before rising seas threaten to engulf the islands.
With scientists estimating that sea levels will rise worldwide by up to 60 centimeters by the end of this century as a result of climate instability caused by rising carbon dioxide levels and melting ice sheets in Greenland, the forward thinking President is considering buying land in Australia, India and Sri Lanka to create a new homeland for his people before it’s too late.
Published on Friday, 06 March 2009 18:00 | |
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‘The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.’ Ekhart Tolle shares some ideas on how we can free ourselves from unhappiness by living in the present moment
Published on Thursday, 05 March 2009 18:00 | | |
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Our Sun may look like this one day? The Helix Nebula is one of the brightest and closest examples of a planetary nebula, a gas cload created at the end of the life of a Sun-like star.
Published on Thursday, 05 March 2009 06:04 | | |
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In many hospitals, animals have become an important part of the healthcare service, helping patients to experience dramatic improvements in their symptoms.
Experts have found that the comfort and friendship provided by animals helps lower cholesterol and blood pressure levels, and is particularly effective in stroke rehabilitation. There have been cases where the first words spoken by a patient on a stroke ward was during a visit by a pet dog, taken into the hospital by the charity, Pets As Therapy.
Published on Thursday, 05 March 2009 04:47 | | |
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Lord Malloch Brown, the UK Minister for Africa,
Asia and the United Nations, talks about how the changing nature of violent conflict in different parts of the world poses new challenges to government.
Thank you and congratulations on having organised the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Conflict Issues, and to ministry for peace for providing its secretariat. I am somebody who doesn’t have ambitions in British government beyond my present job, but if I did, I’d like to be the First Minister for Peace [laughter and applause].