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Living conditions in Zimbabwe for women and children has deteriorated during the last five years, government data and a U.N. report indicated...The information indicated the mortality rate for children under age 5 rose 20 percent since 1990, the baseline year...

Thereafter, the rats were classified as control, sham, diabetic, diabetic received flaxseed oil in the diet, ovx, ovx-diabetic and ovx-diabetic received flaxseed oil in the diet. After two months, the urine and blood samples of ovx and the diabetic ovx...

Egypt says it has begun registration for the first Arabic language Internet domain. The move is part of efforts to let users of non-Latin script have better access to the Web. The new domain name will be "dot.msr" (pronounced either...

Former minister MP Peter Lilley joined RT to discuss the scandal dubbed Climategate. “A group of scientists are so loyal to each other that they’re determined to agree with each other even more than they are determined to agree with...

Kastberg said. “Faith-based organizations are often able to reach deprived and marginalized children when others can’t. They can also help create awareness amongst their congregations about children’s rights and needs,” he added...The objective of the day is to encourage all...

Video overcomes barriers of language, local content and literacy, he said, allowing users to interact more easily with the Internet. Pepper was addressing the IGF's fourth and final day at a "Preparing the Young Generations in the Digital Age: A...

D announced today. Tarek Kamel, Minister of Communications and Information Technology, Dr.. Hany Helal, Minister of Higher Education that Egypt has applied for domain registration, "Dutt Egypt," I have in the ICANN meeting on the management of Internet resources held...

Participants at this year’s four-day meeting in the coastal resort city of Sharm el-Sheikh are also slated to discuss the extension of the IGF’s initial five-year mandate beyond 2010, as well as the more traditional issues of Internet access, diversity,...

The United Nations is defending the removal of a poster criticizing China's censorship of the Web at an Internet conference. Free speech advocates from the OpenNet Initiative had placed a poster at the Internet Governance Forum decrying what they called...