By Jonathan Amos, Science correspondent, BBC News 19 October 2011 It is a picture that seems at first to be quite beautiful. Only as the eye lingers do you fully realise its shocking context. This image of brown pelicans smothered...
20 June 2018 (UN News) – The appeal by Secretary-General António Guterres comes in a video message for World Refugee Day, observed this Wednesday, 20 June 2018.In it, he reported that a person was displaced every two seconds during 2017....
Electricity supply to Nasiriyah drops by 50% as Euphrates river dries up By Martin Chulov in Nasiriyah, IraqA water shortage described as the most critical since the earliest days of Iraq's civilisation is threatening to leave up to 2 million...