Venezuela's oil politics

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