Europe's Deadly Borders: An Inside Look at EU's Shameful Immigration Policy
Along the frontiers between Spain and Morocco, Greece and Turkey and Hungary and Serbia, the EU is deploying brutal methods to keep out undesired refugees. Many risk everything for a future in Europe and their odysseys too often end in death.
Green dots and lines document the course of the border on wall monitors in the situation room of Fortress Europe, on the 23rd floor of a skyscraper in Warsaw. Klaus Rösler, 59, a German police officer and 40-year civil service veteran, is in command. He uses terms like "storm on the borders," "risk regions" and "overcoming crises." Rösler is the director of the operations division at the European border agency, Frontex, and he makes it sound as though his agency is defending Europe against an enemy.
Shark cull programme to be halted by Western Australia
Environmental agency finds lack of proof the programme reduced attacks on people
Western Australia will halt a shark cull introduced after seven fatalities in three years as the state’s environmental agency said there was a lack of proof the programme reduced attacks.
The state will stop catching and killing sharks using baited hooks on drum lines, Premier Colin Barnett said in a radio interview today.
Authorities will retain the option of destroying “rogue” sharks threatening beachgoers, he said. “I know people will now probably be outraged again but my job as premier is primarily and first to look after the public safety of beachgoers, particularly over summer school holiday periods,” Mr Barnett said in the interview.
The Rastafarians' flawed African 'promised land'
Forty years ago Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia was overthrown. It was a blow for all Rastafarians, who revere him as a god - and for those Rastafarians who had emigrated to Ethiopia, life suddenly got more difficult.
In 1948 Emperor Haile Selassie gave 500 acres (200 hectares) of land at Shashamene, 150 miles (225km) south of Addis Ababa, to black people from the West who had supported him in his struggles with Mussolini's Italy.
The first settlers to arrive were African-American Jews, but they soon moved on to Liberia or Israel. After them, in 1963, came a dozen Rastafarians, and the numbers swelled after Selassie made an emotional visit to Jamaica three years later.
Reshma Saujani created Girls Who Code to help girls get computer savvy
Growing up, Reshma Saujani was terrified of math and science. Now she makes sure other girls don't miss out on opportunities because of similar fears.
NEW YORK — In 2010 while campaigning unsuccessfully for a seat in Congress from New York State, Reshma Saujani visited a lot of schools. That gave her a chance to observe the gender gap in technology education. At one school she saw dozens of boys in a robotics classroom, as well as a lone girl in a makeshift computer lab.
“I really saw the technology divide, up close and personal,” says Ms. Saujani, a former deputy public advocate for New York City. Galvanized by a newfound drive to increase opportunities for girls in computer science, she went to work to find a solution.
Two years later Saujani founded Girls Who Code. Its mission is to inspire and educate girls while equipping them with the computing skills they need to pursue 21st-century careers.
China puts four on trial for railway station knife attack
September 12, 2014 -- Updated 0625 GMT
Four people went on trial Friday accused of plotting a knife attack that killed 31 people at a railway station in the southern Chinese city of Kunming.
A court in the city said in an online statement the accused led a terrorist group that planned and executed the attack, which wounded 141 people on March 1.
The names of the four suspects suggested they were Uyghur, a mainly Muslim ethnic group from Xinjiang, northwest China. Authorities had blamed terrorists from the region for the attack.
How Chinese babies and Mid-East pizza tip US markets
US milk and butter prices have reached record levels in recent months. A confluence of global factors, from droughts in New Zealand to a growing demand for pizza in the Middle East, are costing US dairy devotees.
This year in the US, milk futures leapt 26% and butter prices 62%. The rising cost of milk can affect thousands of products, including yoghurt, ice cream and even cheeseburgers.
The cause of the price surge is far from straightforward, however. The world is currently engaged in a delicate dairy dance, with the whims of one nation causing significant changes for all the others.
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