2 April 2013 Last updated at 08:45 GMT
North Korea 'to restart Yongbyon nuclear reactor'
North Korea says it will restart all facilities at its main Yongbyon nuclear complex, including a reactor mothballed in 2007.
In a statement, it said the move would bolster North Korea's nuclear forces "in quality and quantity".
The move is the latest in a series of measures by Pyongyang in the wake of its third nuclear test in February.
It has been angered by the resultant UN sanctions and joint US-South Korea annual military drills.
In recent weeks the communist state has issued a series of threats against both South Korean and US targets, to which the US has responded with high-profile movements of advanced aircraft and warships around the Korean peninsula.
Timeline: Korean tensions
- 12 Dec: North Korea fires three-stage rocket, in move condemned by UN as banned test of long-range missile technology
- 12 Feb: North Korea conducts an underground nuclear test, its third after tests in 2006 and 2009
- 11 Mar: US-South Korea annual joint military drills begin
- 19 Mar: US flies B-52 nuclear-capable bombers over Korean peninsula, following several North Korean threats
- 27 Mar: North Korea cuts military hotline with South
- 28 Mar: US flies B-2 stealth bombers over Korean peninsula
- 30 Mar: North Korea says it is entering a "state of war" with South Korea
- 2 Apr: North Korea says it is restarting mothballed Yongbyon reactor
MI6 'arranged Cold War killing' of Congo prime minister
Claims over Patrice Lumumba's 1961 assassination made by Labour peer in letter to London Review of Books
Congo's first democratically elected prime minister was abducted and killed in a cold war operation run by British intelligence, according to remarks said to have been made by the woman who was leading the MI6 station in the central African country at the time.
A Labour peer has claimed that Baroness Park of Monmouth admitted to him a few months before she died in March 2010 that she arranged Patrice Lumumba's killing in 1961 because of fears he would ally the newly democratic country with the Soviet Union.
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Most Serbs in Kosovo favor cooperation
Kosovar Serbs are divided. Those living in the north of the country refuse to recognize the government in Pristina. But they only constitute a third of the Serbs in Kosovo - and the others are keen to integrate.
Sometimes openly, sometimes less so, the Serbian government in Belgrade supports the Serbs of northern Kosovo. However, Serbs living in other parts of Kosovo feel utterly neglected by Belgrade. They complain that the Serbian government is focused solely on their compatriots in the north. Elsewhere, Kosovar Serbs are working with the government in Pristina, trying to establish a place for themselves within their independent country.
Tribe faces push for men's rights
April 2, 2013
Amrit Dhillon
The one and only place in India where the birth of a baby girl is greeted with ecstasy is Meghalaya, where the mother's family, waiting in the corridor of the maternity ward, break into laughter, hugs and clap their hands for joy.
''When a boy is born, the reaction is very different, subdued - 'Oh, OK, fine, whatever God gives us must be accepted,'' says Merle Gilford, a nurse at Nazareth Hospital in Shillong, the capital of Meghalaya, a picturesque state of wooded hills and mists in the north-east.
This irrelevant and outdated tradition is destroying our men.Keith Pariat, president of the Syngkhong Rympei Thymmai (SRT)
A 'like' for linguistics: Can social media save Mexico's unwritten languages?
Many indigenous languages alive in Mexico today don't have formal written systems, but a growing number of computer-savvy young people want to Facebook and tweet in their native tongue.
The trick is that, until recently, no formal writing system existed to represent the sounds and tones of eastern Chatino, an indigenous language spoken by 20 small communities in rural southern Oaxaca. Ms. Cruz, a doctoral candidate in linguistics at the University of Texas at Austin, had a hand in creating the alphabet she now uses to post messages on Facebook.
Social media have become a crucial bridge between the academics, activists, and young people who want to preserve the more than 360 variants of indigenous languages alive in Mexico today and the communities who actively use them.
Air Pollution Linked to 1.2 Million Premature Deaths in China
By EDWARD WONG
Published: April 1, 2013
BEIJING — Outdoor air pollution contributed to 1.2 million premature deaths in China in 2010, nearly 40 percent of the global total, according to a new summary of data from a scientific study on leading causes of death worldwide.
Figured another way, the researchers said, China’s toll from pollution was the loss of 25 million healthy years of life from the population.
The data on which the analysis is based was first presented in the ambitious 2010 Global Burden of Disease Study, which was published in December in The Lancet, a British medical journal. The authors decided to break out numbers for specific countries and present the findings at international conferences. The China statistics were offered at a forum in Beijing on Sunday.
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