UN calls for increased farming production to prevent reliance on food and medical aid rising from 3 million...

Half the population of Zimbabwe could soon be in need of constant aid, the UN's humanitarian chief tells the...

Why will it take at least three years for Britain to stop sending aid to China when they can afford to send three astronauts into space for a spacewalk and spend £20bn on the Olympics!?!When will China start sending aid to...

The Conservatives announce they will stop giving aid to China if they win the next general...

Wealthier nations asked to honour promises made at G8 summit and food conference to aid African...

as I write Animal Aid will be picketing somewhere in the Reading West constituency, according to their website here. They object to Salter's stance on blood sports, and well they might. He was supposed to act as the government's liaison and advice on fishing and shooting, not to go native. But he has. He has talked about "promoting shooting" when all the government wanted was to know what the shooting lobby and governing bodies and are doing and saying. I held one of these liaison roles myself, in respect of cycling, and I would not have dreamed of becoming a patron of any of the cycling organisations, although I had good relationships with them all.Well I hope Animal Aid have fun with their mascot Phileas the Pheasant (who is meant to highlight the brutality and waste of the...

Gunmen abduct two aid workers near Ethiopia's border with Somalia, an aid agency...

East African countries need $700m in emergency aid to prevent famine, says the...

First Aid is one of those things that you really want to get right the first time, but it is difficult to remember what to do in certain situations. For example, what is the first step for treating a burn? Not only that, CPR steps is also difficult to remember, so it would be handy to have something to remind us. This is exactly what the Interactive Talking First Aid Guide is designed to do. All you need to do is open it up and push the proper button for the 8 first aid categories. You will have access to 30 recordings for whatever situation you need. If following the advice of the First Aid Guide is not enough to help your situation, the Guide will also ask interactive questions that you can respond to with yes or no. A “calm, clear voice” responds to the answers. The...

The United Nations and other aid agencies begin pulling staff out of Sri Lanka's rebel-held northern...

A couple of good graphics from today's S Telegraph:1. Wind power fantasyWe've blogged the eco-wibbling windpower fantasy several times (eg see here). Today's ST article covers a new report from the Renewable Energy Foundation and is accompanied by this summary: Wind tubines are an expensive toy. Not only are they eating money and despoiling our countryside, they simply cannot provide the dependable power we must have. The politicos who have signed us up for this outrage should be strapped to turbine blades as a warning to others.2. Aid for armsAs BOM readers will know, British taxpayers are fleeced for hundreds of millions to fund aid to India (c £2bn over 8 years - the UK's biggest aid recipient). Yet super-tiger India is no longer poor poor, and pumps huge amounts of its own cash into...

Aid agencies in Zimbabwe complain of tight controls despite the lifting of a ban on food...

A plane carrying aid workers goes missing in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, UN officials...

While I wasn't here I shifted and looked after a large amount of beer and renewed my First Aid at Work 'qualification' the usual mix of a course that is designed to be passed to please employers, advice that is out of date as you are being taught it, system hacks and when you should try and bend or break the rules. Some first aid things: Suspect a stroke? Act FAST Watch Your Own Heart Attack First aid at work: your questions answered Choking 30 to 2 (going to change again soon)...

Paul Horwitz offers the following advice to entering first-year law students: "Drink the...

An aid group suspends work in Afghanistan - after 25 years - following the killing of three female aid...

A UK aid worker killed in Afghanistan is named as University of Ulster research fellow Dr Jacqueline...

US President Bush says military aircraft and naval forces will send humanitarian aid to Georgia, following its conflict with...

The United States suspends more than $20m in non-humanitarian aid to Mauritania after a military...

One of Burma's top comedians is charged with several offences, after he defied the military to give aid to cyclone...

ACTION Aid knows what’s best for Indian and London: knock down St Paul’s......

Aid agencies in Afghanistan warn that growing violence may force them out of areas previously seen as safe....

Aid agencies in Afghanistan warn that growing violence may force them out of areas previously seen as safe....

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A French aid organisation says two of its workers have been abducted in central Afghanistan....

Town and country planning can be a bemusing topic full of regulations, procedures and professional jargon (this last characterictic not being confined to planning!) so I was pleased to travel to the Senedd yesterday for the launch of Planning Aid Wales new website and AGM. The offering of support and advice to community and disadvantged groups, town and community councils and others is very important, and empowering people vital to the health of democracy. So the next time you face a major planning issue and are looking for advice and support consider Planning Aid...

Franklin Cudjoe, Executive Director of the ever growing Ghanaian free-market think-tank IMANI (one wonders if any of the G8 bozos will ever listen to people like him) has sent out the following e-mail: One More reason Why Foreign Aid stinks...Ghanaian Government blows more than $1.4m on gold medals.Only in Africa will prominence be placed on luxurious items as Presidential Jets, palaces, gold-plated cars and medallions forofficialdom at the expense of public infrastructure and open sewers thatspread disease.To think that gold medals for supposedly national heroes (when in actualfact, the economy stagnates) in a 'poor' country will cost US $ 1.5million can't be described as modest.Never mind that Ghana's Presidentcan purchase two Presidential jets under dodgy circumstances,...

Aid agencies in Somalia are considering suspending operations after two aid workers were shot dead in less than 24 hours....

The UN's envoy to Afghanistan is to set out a new plan on aid spending, amid concern millions have been wasted...

About 150 people receive aid after seeking refuge at the US embassy in the Zimbabwean capital, Harare....