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WORLD / NEWS Tue Mar 18, 2008 @ 8:14am neoform

CNN -- While the Dalai Lama is the spiritual leader of Tibet, many younger Tibetans do not follow him on a crucial question -- whether Tibet should have genuine autonomy or independence from China. The young activists who have organized "Free Tibet" marches arou.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Mon Oct 15, 2007 @ 1:50pm neoform

Google Associated Press -- A Vatican official suspended after being caught on hidden camera making advances to a young man says he is not gay and was only pretending to be gay as part of his work. In an interview published Sunday, Monsignor Tommaso Stenico told La Repubblica dai.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Tue Nov 7, 2006 @ 2:55pm mrmdc

Reuters -- Nearly two-thirds of young Indian men expect the woman they marry to be a virgin, but nearly half have had sex with prostitutes, according to a poll... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Wed Feb 6, 2008 @ 8:13am neoform

CNN -- Seven doctors and pharmacists went on trial Wednesday for the deaths of more than 100 young people who died of a brain-destroying disease after being treated with tainted human growth hormones. Hundreds of family members packed the courtroom where the def.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Tue Nov 27, 2007 @ 8:15am neoform

CNN -- Newey is the head of Thailand's Youth Venture program, located in Bangkok. Youth Venture, a global organization and partner of Ashoka, is dedicated to supporting and encouraging Ventures that benefit society, proposed and run by young people across Thaila.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Fri Nov 23, 2007 @ 8:31am neoform

BBC News -- Authorities in Brazil are investigating reports that a young woman was left in a police cell with some 20 men for a month and repeatedly sexually abused. The governor of the state of Para, where the reported case took place, has promised a full inquiry.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Wed Sep 26, 2007 @ 12:56am neoform

Reuters -- Sept 24 (Reuters) - To many she is a traitor, a coward and a parasite. But 17-year-old Israeli "draft dodger" Saar Vardi says if more people thought like her, the Middle East would be a more peaceful place. Vardi is part of a growing group of young Is.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Tue Sep 18, 2007 @ 8:14am neoform

CNN -- Newey Kraiwatnutsorn is the director of the Youth Venture program, an NGO based in Bangkok, Thailand. Youth Venture is an organization that seeks to empower Thai youth. To this end it works with young people from the area to support their business venture.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Wed Aug 8, 2007 @ 8:14am neoform

CNN -- Belgian police have confirmed to CNN that a young girl spotted in Belgium last week was not missing Madeleine McCann after conducting DNA tests on a straw and bottle used by the girl. The British four-year-old disappeared from a holiday apartment in the P.. Read More

WORLD / OPINION Tue Jul 3, 2007 @ 4:51pm neoform

Guardian Unlimited -- David Cameron is facing a battle for the soul of the Conservative party as young Tories urge him to be ruthless and promote young modernisers, while traditionalists are calling for a brake on modernisation. An expected reshuffle of his shadow cabinet t.. Read More

WORLD / OPINION Thu Jun 14, 2007 @ 4:49pm neoform

FOX News -- The most talked about confrontation in Tehran these days began normally enough. A young woman walking down the street with a headscarf (sliding a little too far down?) hiding only half her hair was accosted by the morality police, called a slut and told t.. Read More

WORLD / OPINION Tue Jun 12, 2007 @ 12:56pm neoform

Guardian Unlimited -- Plans for every young person in Britain to enrol in a national volunteering scheme that could become compulsory are at the centre of a government report into improving social cohesion. The possibility of mandatory community service is put forward today.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Thu May 10, 2007 @ 9:18am neoform

Guardian Unlimited -- Hundreds of projects providing vital help to Britain's hidden army of young carers are under threat because the £334m government grants that fund them are due to end within months, charities warn. Schemes offering support such as counsellors and after.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Sun Apr 29, 2007 @ 9:26pm neoform

BBC News -- Two women have been detained in Italy over the killing of a young commuter who was stabbed in the eye with an umbrella tip at Rome's main station. Vanessa Russo, 22, died from wounds suffered in the stabbing at Termini station on Thursday morning. T.. Read More

WORLD / OPINION Wed Apr 18, 2007 @ 2:10pm neoform

Guardian Unlimited -- Government attempts to persuade thousands of young people to stay away from drugs have failed and done nothing to curb the soaring popularity of illegal substances, a devastating report will warn this week. The number of young people using cocaine and.. Read More

WORLD / NEWS Tue Feb 13, 2007 @ 3:50pm mrmdc

BBC News -- Hardline Hindu groups in India have threatened to take action against young couples who make public shows of affection on Valentine's Day. The occasion of 14 February has become increasingly popular among young people in many Indian cities and towns... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Mon Feb 5, 2007 @ 4:49pm mrmdc

Guardian Unlimited -- Three men who used an internet chatroom to hatch a "harrowing" plot to rape two young schoolgirls were jailed today... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Thu Feb 1, 2007 @ 10:30am neoform

BBC News -- Mtondia, a small village in Kilifi district on the Kenyan coast is now considered a cursed village as so many of its young girls are either pregnant or have children... Read More

WORLD / OPINION Mon Jan 29, 2007 @ 11:07am neoform

Daily Mail -- The doctrine of multi-culturalism has alienated an entire generation of young Muslims and made them increasingly radical, a report has found... Read More

WORLD / NEWS Thu Jan 25, 2007 @ 12:48pm neoform

CNN -- At an age when most children might be preparing for their first day of school, Srey, 6, already has undergone trauma that is almost unspeakable... Read More