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New York hunger levels 'rising'
13 months agoMore than 1.3 million people in New York do not have enough food, anti-poverty campaigners claim.
China douses coal fire – at last
13 months agoBlaze consumed more than 12.4 million tonnes over the 50 years it burned
Ministers under fire over data loss
13 months agoThe government is coming under fire over the loss of two discs containing the personal data of 25 million people.
Overly-broad copyright law has made USA a "nation of infringers" [del.icio.us]
13 months agoHow many copyright violations does an average user commit in a single day? John Tehranian, a law professor at the University of Utah, calculates in a new paper that he rings up $12.45 million in liability (PDF) over the course of an average day.
UN slashes AIDS estimates in latest report
13 months agoLowers estimate of how many people are infected to 33 million from nearly 40 million