Sierra Leone freezes timber export
Argentina bans petroleum export
German cities ban dirty vehicles
Kono diamond mining suspended
China taxes food grain export
China offers incentive for non-food biofuel
A fight for right to free water in South Africa
Nicaragua to nationalize oil imports
South Asia
In Short
Zanzibar bars import, production, use and sale of plastic bags
Thai zoo to show panda pornography to spark romance between pandas
Agreement to eliminate unexploded weaponry signed
European researchers to get new lines of cells from arrested embryos
China to train captive-bred Siberian tigers for wilderness
South Africa on alert after TB outbreak
Human stem cells without destroying embryo
Volcanic eruption in Ecuador kills four
Government gives in
At loggerheads
Human transit evidence of bird flu found in Indonesia
Foul play in Katrina, Rita relief operations
Papua New Guinea cabinet votes against copper mine
Gujarat NGOs demand separate environment court
New radar allows scientists to see through ice