The Guardian:
Conflict study is a growing theme in schools, from tackling imaginary wars to remembering past battlesThe problems of Tottonia are intractable on the face of it: civil war, a subversive neighbour and refugee camps seething wi (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
Met Office predicting up to 50mm and warns of waters rising again as county reels from evacuations and policeman's deathFlood-damaged parts of the UK are bracing themselves for more heavy rain today after two days of downpour (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
Four bridges collapse, main roads are blocked and hundreds are evacuated as 12 inches of rain falls in Cumbria in 24 hoursA policeman swept away and killed during the devastating flooding that hit north-west England was tryi (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Society:
David Ramsden, chief executive, Children in NeedIs Children in Need still relevant?All year round, in the applications we receive, we see there is still a significant level of disadvantage among children and young people in t (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Society:
More than 1,000 people have travelled to Switzerland to end their lives. But what is it really like inside the world's first assisted suicide clinic?Ludwig Minelli is explaining the best techniques for an efficient suicide wh (Read More)
washingtonpost.com - Style:
Rose Percy has a long history with the American Red Cross. Complete with an extensive wardrobe and her own Tiffany jewelry, this 23-inch wax doll was first sold for $1,200 back in 1864 to benefit the U.S. Sanitary Commission (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Society:
Once, enlightened liberals stood up for the rights of prisoners. Now they have taken the state's shillingJournalists pray for disasters for the same reason that farmers pray for rain: they bring us a bumper crop of stories. S (Read More)
Wall Street Journal:
The FDA said it has found widespread and persistent problems with the storage and distribution of blood supplies by the American Red Cross. (Read More)
CNN:
It was late in the evening when the gunmen came, some on horseback, others on foot, to terrorize the residents of a small settlement north of Gereida in Darfur, Sudan.
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CNN:
It was late in the evening when the gunmen came, some on horseback, others on foot, to terrorize the residents of a small settlement north of Gereida in Darfur, Sudan. (Read More)
BBC News Player | World:
There needs to be a change in the way that refugees who have to flee their countries are treated, according to the International Committee of the Red Cross. (Read More)
CNN:
It was late in the evening when the gunmen came, some on horseback, others on foot, to terrorize the residents of a small settlement north of Gereida in Darfur, Sudan.
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Rest of World-World-The Times of India:
The Red Cross said on Tuesday that several armed men had abducted a French staff member in eastern Chad, close to the border with Sudan and its war-ravaged Darfur region. (Read More)
The Guardian:
British forces will be able to hold suspected Afghan insurgents for longer than official Nato guidelines permit, giving them more time to extract intelligence, the defence secretary, Bob Ainsworth, said today.He justified the (Read More)
The Guardian:
• At least 60 missing after floods and mud slides• Louisiana emergency as hurricane Ida threatensNearly 100 people have been killed by floods and mud slides in El Salvador after a weekend of heavy rains driven by hurricane Id (Read More)
guardian.co.uk Politics:
It is ironic that when Will Hutton (Comment) points out that the private sector cannot do everything, it is now regarded as controversial, almost counterintuitive.The previous, postwar consensus centred on a mixed economy whe (Read More)
The Guardian:
Halloween 2009 may see a lull in trick-or-treating as Denver health experts encourage children to stay at home so as not to spread swine fluEven the undead become ill, so vampires and zombies, along with pirates, ghosts and p (Read More)
FT.com - Arts & weekend, Magazine:
The Red Cross runs the country's biggest family-tracing organisation and has helped reunite hundreds of thousands of those separated during the second world war. (Read More)