World Headlines 14.08.00
Created | Updated Jun 21, 2003
A fisherman's tale of greed and folly
World fish stocks are seriously depleted. More and more vessels are chasing fewer and fewer fish, and prices are soaring. Attempts to control overfishing and save the industry from collapse have failed for 30 years.
- Is this really a problem or an excuse to raise prices?
- Can the individual do anything to help the situation?
US and Britain resume Iraq raids
American and British aircraft renewed their bombing of Iraq at the weekend after a six-week lull - killing two people and hitting a railway station and food distribution centre, according to Baghdad
- Is this legal?
- Is there nothing to counter the power of the US milatry?
Lost atom bomb back to haunt Clinton
President Clinton's dilemma over whether to press ahead with a $60bn (£40bn) missile defence system intensified yesterday with claims that the US covered up the loss of a nuclear bomb near an airbase that would form part of the shield
- How on earth can they lose nuclear weapons?
- How much safer would the world be in the $60bn went to debt relief instead?
South Africa slow to curb spiralling child sex abuse
The South African government is expected to reject public clamour for a paedophile register in new sex offence legislation aimed at curbing some of the highest rates of child abuse in the world.
- Why so high in South Africa?
- Would the register really help anyway?
