The still-vague proposals suggest that they would ”promote the sustainable production, conversion, use, and trade of biofuels”, and revolve around reducing ”perverse incentives” like farm subsidies in Europe and the United States.

With the last votes cast and the candidates splitting the South Dakota and Montana primaries, the Obama campaign announced a slew of superdelegate endorsements that put him beyond the delegate threshold to claim the party nomination.

There are estimated to be about 639 million small arms and light weapons in the world today, according to the Control Arms campaign coordinated by Amnesty International, Oxfam and the London-based International Action Network on Small Arms (IANSA). These often end up in the wrong hands, contributing both to wars and violent crime, and hindering development.

It is nothing short of revolutionary then that children in some villages of Rajasthan, the largest state in the country and one of the most backward, have assumed the role of the media to tackle social and development issues which they proclaim concerns their wellbeing and future.

”As the world's most powerful state, the USA sets the standard for government behaviour globally,” but the U.S. has ”distinguished itself in recent years through its defiance of international law.”

Kul Chandra Gautam, a former assistant secretary-general and deputy executive director of the U.N. children's agency UNICEF, points out that world economic output was never more prodigious: last year it hit the 60-trillion-dollar mark.

Sebastian is a Machineri Indian from the Amazons region in Brazil, and he is in Bonn for serious business with the suits. He is here to fight biopiracy.

Speaking in Miami to the Cuban American National Foundation (CANF), previously the most hard-line and influential of the anti-Castro Cuban-American Groups, Obama promised that, if elected, he ”will immediately allow unlimited family travel and remittances to the island” by Cuban Americans to ”make their families (in Cuba) less dependent on the Castro regime.”