en-us http://www.newsique.com/world/ Get Informed. Choose Your News. http://www.newsique.com/world/ban_the_standby_button_say_torie/ Television sets and other domestic appliances will be fitted with special devices to switch off standby power as part of a radical plan to cut wasteful use of electricity, a special Conservative report will recommend this week. In an attempt to burnish opinion world 2007-09-11 11:09:29 http://www.newsique.com/world/ban_the_standby_button_say_torie/ Guardian Unlimited http://observer.guardian.co.uk/politics/story/0,,2165438,00.html http://www.newsique.com/sources/guardian/ 92 Interesting [7] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/world/ban_the_standby_button_say_torie/#comments http://www.newsique.com/world/disabled_soldiers_pay-out_victor/ The government bowed last night to the outcry over its 'insulting' compensation plans for a young paratrooper horrifically injured in Afghanistan. The Ministry of Defence has signalled for the first time that it will review the case of 23-year-old Lanc opinion world 2007-09-08 13:48:59 http://www.newsique.com/world/disabled_soldiers_pay-out_victor/ Guardian Unlimited http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2160832,00.html http://www.newsique.com/sources/guardian/ 92 Interesting [7] 90 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/world/disabled_soldiers_pay-out_victor/#comments http://www.newsique.com/world/the_drug_trade_-_whos_using_whos/ Well, we can officially call ourselves Toker Nation now. According to the 2007 World Drug Report by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime, Canada has the dubious honour of leading the industrialized world in marijuana use, at least when calculated as a percent opinion world 2007-07-11 09:35:25 http://www.newsique.com/world/the_drug_trade_-_whos_using_whos/ CBC http://www.cbc.ca/news/background/drugs/users.html http://www.newsique.com/sources/cbc/ 98 Interesting [10] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/world/the_drug_trade_-_whos_using_whos/#comments http://www.newsique.com/world/looters_target_flood_victims/ Residents who have suffered the worst of June's extraordinary rains and floods are on alert for potential looting in areas where homes have been left empty and cars abandoned. South Yorkshire police said extra-high-visibility patrols had been brought i opinion world 2007-07-03 16:51:39 http://www.newsique.com/world/looters_target_flood_victims/ Guardian Unlimited http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2115713,00.html http://www.newsique.com/sources/guardian/ 92 Shocking [6] 90 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/world/looters_target_flood_victims/#comments http://www.newsique.com/world/beavis_and_butthead_in_london_ji/ Police and securocrats know that there aren't enough real terrorists in the world, which is why they have to keep manufacturing them. This is because citizens tire of being watched by cameras, frisked and x-rayed, having their belongings searched, giving opinion world 2007-06-30 12:37:45 http://www.newsique.com/world/beavis_and_butthead_in_london_ji/ The Register http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/29/more_fear_biscuits_please/ http://www.newsique.com/sources/the_register/ 89 Interesting [8] 60 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/world/beavis_and_butthead_in_london_ji/#comments http://www.newsique.com/world/dangers_of_made_in_china/ The Thomas the Tank Engine toy trains painted with poisonous lead paint are the latest bad imports to come from China, but they are far from the only ones. In recent months, consumers in the U.S. and around the world have been bombarded with tainted fo opinion world 2007-06-21 16:37:20 http://www.newsique.com/world/dangers_of_made_in_china/ Denver Post http://www.denverpost.com/ci_6188024 http://www.newsique.com/sources/denverpost/ 88 Insightful [5] neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/world/dangers_of_made_in_china/#comments http://www.newsique.com/world/ghost_cities_of_2100/ For 900 years, Moenjodaro, a city in what is now Pakistan, was the urban hub of a thriving civilization, the New York or London of its day. Around 1700 B.C., residents suddenly abandoned the Indus Valley city, and it was lost in the sands of time until ar opinion world 2007-06-16 11:23:34 http://www.newsique.com/world/ghost_cities_of_2100/ Forbes http://www.forbes.com/2007/06/11/ghost-cities-future-biz-cx_21cities_ee_0611ghostcities.html?partner=rediff http://www.newsique.com/sources/forbes/ 94 Interesting [8] 60 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/world/ghost_cities_of_2100/#comments http://www.newsique.com/world/is_bill_gates_trying_to_hijack_a/ Corporate foundations that have pledged millions believe that genetically altered crops will rescue Africa from endemic shortfalls in food production. Are they creating a 'green revolution' or hijacking the food supply? Genetically altered crops will r opinion world 2007-06-04 16:58:43 http://www.newsique.com/world/is_bill_gates_trying_to_hijack_a/ Alter Net http://www.alternet.org/environment/52785/ http://www.newsique.com/sources/alternet/ 86 Interesting [10] 65 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/world/is_bill_gates_trying_to_hijack_a/#comments http://www.newsique.com/world/brown_sets_out_plan_for_tough_ne/ Hardline anti-terror laws are to be proposed by Gordon Brown - including an extension of the 28-day limit on detention without charge - as the Chancellor sends a powerful signal that he will take a harder line on terrorism than Tony Blair. In an intens opinion world 2007-06-04 10:01:03 http://www.newsique.com/world/brown_sets_out_plan_for_tough_ne/ Guardian Unlimited http://observer.guardian.co.uk/politics/story/0,,2094352,00.html http://www.newsique.com/sources/guardian/ 92 Important [13] 90 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/world/brown_sets_out_plan_for_tough_ne/#comments http://www.newsique.com/world/un_in_rift_over_zimbabwe/ A major rift between the West and Africa was exposed at the United Nations this weekend as Zimbabwe was controversially elected as head of the UN's main environment body. Diplomats from the European Union and the US had strongly objected to a country t opinion world 2007-05-13 00:27:46 http://www.newsique.com/world/un_in_rift_over_zimbabwe/ Guardian Unlimited http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,2078488,00.html http://www.newsique.com/sources/guardian/ 92 Interesting [3] neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/world/un_in_rift_over_zimbabwe/#comments http://www.newsique.com/world/anti-us_uproar_sweeps_italy/ The U.S. government has proposed to make Vicenza, Italy, the largest U.S. military site in Europe, but the people of Vicenza, and all of Italy, have sworn it will never happen. The U.S. government has proposed to make Vicenza, Italy, the largest US mil opinion world 2007-05-08 12:19:07 http://www.newsique.com/world/anti-us_uproar_sweeps_italy/ Alter Net http://www.alternet.org/audits/51576/ http://www.newsique.com/sources/alternet/ 86 Important [12] 90 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/world/anti-us_uproar_sweeps_italy/#comments http://www.newsique.com/world/the_new_land_rush/ Nations are racing to plant flags and claim the "new world" of islands and sea routes that are emerging as Arctic ice melts. Recent news reports state that global warming and the shrinking Arctic icecaps are opening new sea lanes and making barren isla opinion world 2007-05-07 12:15:04 http://www.newsique.com/world/the_new_land_rush/ Alter Net http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/51418/ http://www.newsique.com/sources/alternet/ 86 Interesting [8] 80 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/world/the_new_land_rush/#comments http://www.newsique.com/world/climate_change_why_we_cant_wait/ The country's leading climatologist gives us the five necessary steps we need to take to prevent catastrophic climate change. This is an adaptation of a talk delivered February 26 at the National Press Club. Comments relating to policy are Dr. Hansen's opinion world 2007-04-21 22:41:13 http://www.newsique.com/world/climate_change_why_we_cant_wait/ Alter Net http://www.alternet.org/envirohealth/50795/ http://www.newsique.com/sources/alternet/ 86 Interesting [4] neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/world/climate_change_why_we_cant_wait/#comments http://www.newsique.com/world/russia_turns_on_putin/ There were pensioners clutching single roses, students wearing jeans and a young man weaving through Moscow's anarchic traffic on a chopper bike. Ranged against them were 9,000 riot police wielding truncheons and the might of the Russian state. And yet opinion world 2007-04-18 14:10:09 http://www.newsique.com/world/russia_turns_on_putin/ Guardian Unlimited http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,2057413,00.html http://www.newsique.com/sources/guardian/ 92 Interesting [4] neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/world/russia_turns_on_putin/#comments http://www.newsique.com/world/could_peace_finally_be_at_hand_i/ Irene Martin and Neil Stone have lived worlds apart, though not far from each other, through decades of Protestant vs. Catholic strife. Martin, a 69-year-old retiree, lives in a Protestant working-class area of northwest Belfast. Stone, 46, is from the opinion world 2007-03-20 00:43:48 http://www.newsique.com/world/could_peace_finally_be_at_hand_i/ USA Today http://rssfeeds.usatoday.com/~r/usatoday-NewsTopStories/~3/102963318/2007-03-19-cover-northern-ireland_N.htm http://www.newsique.com/sources/usatoday/ 91 Amazing [12] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 1 http://www.newsique.com/world/could_peace_finally_be_at_hand_i/#comments http://www.newsique.com/world/home_office_eyeing_prisoner_rele/ Home Office officials are considering a plan for the early release of 2,500 prisoners in an attempt to ease overcrowding in Britain's jails. Whitehall sources last night confirmed the existence of the scheme, but said there were no present plans to act opinion world 2007-03-19 08:41:37 http://www.newsique.com/world/home_office_eyeing_prisoner_rele/ Guardian Unlimited http://observer.guardian.co.uk/politics/story/0,,2036738,00.html http://www.newsique.com/sources/guardian/ 92 Interesting [4] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/world/home_office_eyeing_prisoner_rele/#comments http://www.newsique.com/world/whos_that_masked_man_--_a_japan/ Don't look now, but that masked man could soon be a Japanese governor. A professional wrestler who kept his trademark mask on during several years as a member of the local assembly has just thrown his hat into the ring and declared his candidacy for go opinion world 2007-03-18 13:15:38 http://www.newsique.com/world/whos_that_masked_man_--_a_japan/ Yahoo News http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070318/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_japan_wrestler http://www.newsique.com/sources/yahoo_news/ 93 Interesting [4] 100 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/world/whos_that_masked_man_--_a_japan/#comments http://www.newsique.com/world/womens_day_in_a_dream_for_some_a/ Qamar laughed bitterly at the idea of International Women's Day, as if it were a cruel joke. As a woman encouraged by relatives to marry her stalker who was 20 years her senior, had three other wives and now beats her regularly Qamar found it preposter opinion world 2007-03-08 08:22:38 http://www.newsique.com/world/womens_day_in_a_dream_for_some_a/ ABC News http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=2933634&CMP=OTC-RSSFeeds0312 http://www.newsique.com/sources/abc_news/ 91 Insightful [5] 80 neoform http://www.newsique.com/profiles/neoform/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/world/womens_day_in_a_dream_for_some_a/#comments http://www.newsique.com/world/visitor_is_just_a_blast_from_the/ Dick Cheney has arrived in Sydney, as popular as the traffic snarls he brings, as palatable as the gulag at Guantanamo he helped create. We are told he's here to show appreciation for Australia's support in the invasion and occupation of Iraq. He is an od opinion world 2007-02-23 10:04:25 http://www.newsique.com/world/visitor_is_just_a_blast_from_the/ Sydney Morning Herald http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/02/22/1171733947878.html http://www.newsique.com/sources/smh/ 91 Insightful [5] 100 mrmdc http://www.newsique.com/profiles/mrmdc/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/world/visitor_is_just_a_blast_from_the/#comments http://www.newsique.com/world/childrens_foreheads_slashed_in_m/ The 6-year-old boy screamed and shook his head to avoid the razor blade. But his father held him firmly as Hajj Khodor parted the boy's black hair and sliced his forehead three times with the blade. opinion world 2007-01-31 16:49:39 http://www.newsique.com/world/childrens_foreheads_slashed_in_m/ CNN http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/01/30/ashoura.children.ap/index.html http://www.newsique.com/sources/cnn/ 94 Interesting [8] 100 mrmdc http://www.newsique.com/profiles/mrmdc/ 0 http://www.newsique.com/world/childrens_foreheads_slashed_in_m/#comments