8 February 2012, 1:54 am
PURDUE'S GLOBAL FOOD SECURITY CENTER HIRES MANAGER, RECEIVES GRANTS Feb. 8, 2012 Source: Purdue University news release The recently created Center for Global Food Security at Purdue University has hired a managing director and received grants totaling $10 million for work to improve crops in Africa... Read More »
7 February 2012, 1:36 pm
When the UN Secretary General announced on 2 August 2010 that a Panel of Inquiry had been established to investigate the Israeli attacks of 31 May on the Mavi Marmara and five other ships carrying humanitarian aid to the beleaguered people of Gaza there was widespread hope that international law wou... Read More »
7 February 2012, 9:31 am
Antioquia Gold Inc. announces that the Company has defined two new gold prospects with its 2011 year end drilling program.... Read More »
7 February 2012, 4:31 am
A ban on sales of alcohol and heightened securities greeted Panamanian voters Sunday as a frantic and factious three-year presidential campaign finally went to the voters.... Read More »
6 February 2012, 10:06 pm
Bogota, Feb 7 : A former militiaman was sentenced to 24 years in prison for his role in the murder of journalist Alvaro Alonso Escobar, who was gunned down a decade ago in a coastal town in northern Colombia, authorities said Monday.... Read More »
6 February 2012, 8:01 pm
One of Colombia's most-wanted former paramilitary commanders with suspected links to the cocaine trade has been captured in neighboring Venezuela, both nations said on Monday.... Read More »
6 February 2012, 4:47 pm
A Puerto Rican fisherman spent nearly three weeks adrift in the Caribbean, surviving on raw fish and trapped rainwater, before reaching the Colombian island of San Andres.... Read More »
6 February 2012, 12:37 pm
A Puerto Rican fisherman spent nearly three weeks adrift in the Caribbean, surviving on raw fish and trapped rainwater, before reaching the Colombian island of San Andres.... Read More »
6 February 2012, 11:32 am
Engineer Fernando Mauricio Castro illustrates the regional impact of mining using a map of Tolima.... Read More »
6 February 2012, 5:13 am
Chef Rafael Palomino has been on a roll, expanding a restaurant empire that now includes Fairfield's MESA, labeled a "Modern Mexican and Urban Taqueria." The eatery, which opened in October at 2320 Black Rock Turnpike, has been growing in popularity with a local crowd that enjoys tasty Mexican cuisi... Read More »