Will genetically modified foods save a starving world?

Click your fingers as fast as you can — A child is being born with every click. Sound unbelievable? Well it's near to the truth, some forty thousand babies born every day around the globe. We live in a world where the population of our species is immense and escalating, estimated to reach 8 billion by 2015 –that's 8000 million. The resources we expend on a daily basis are, therefore, understandably colossal.

For most in the develop...

What does divorce cost men?
"For over a decade it's been clear to professionals in family welfare that the problems of men after separation are significant, and badly neglected." Says Steve Biddulph, psychologist, family therapist & author of Manhood–Raising Boys and Others. He adds, "Marriage is our most critical social building block, over a third of marriages end, and abundant research shows that the effect on men, and therefore on women and children, is especially damaging"

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Capital Punishment

Few subjects can raise such debate, but what are the arguments? Is it murder, pure revenge, or justice? Does it alleviate problems or create them?

The debate hinges on three questions: Is it a deterrent to crime? Is it cruel or unnecessary? Is it right for the state to take the life of an individual? These three questions and the champions of their conflicting perspectives will probably keep this subject always on the boil.However it’s more than just a question of whose...