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overty Facts and Stats 1. Half the world — nearly three billion people — live on less than two dollars a day. 2. The GDP (Gross Domestic Product) of the poorest 48 nations (i.e. a quarter of the world's countries) is less than the wealth of the world's three richest people combined. 3. Nearly a billion people entered the 21st century unable to read a book or sign their names. 4. Less than one per cent of what the world spent every year on weapons was needed to put every child into school by the year 2000 and yet it didn't happen. 5. 51 percent of the world's 100 hundred wealthiest bodies are corporations. 6. The wealthiest nation on Earth has the widest gap between rich and poor of any industrialized nation. 7. The poorer the country, the more likely it is that debt repayments are being extracted directly from people who neither contracted the loans nor received any of the money. 8. 20% of the population in the developed nations, consume 86% of the world's goods. 9. The top fifth of the world's people in the richest countries enjoy 82% of the expanding export trade and 68% of foreign direct investment — the bottom fifth, barely more than 1%. 10. In 1960, the 20% of the world's people in the richest countries had 30 times the income of the poorest 20% — in 1997, 74 times as muc

So Google has been dominant, Yahoo has been fairly ok, MSN…well….you know It seems that everybody has been struggling to keep up with Google, the objective has become “Keep your current audience”, not even compete with Google, so what happens when Google controls 66% World Wide Search Share against 20% Yahoo! and a mere 8% MSN / Live search?

Number of people living with HIV According to estimates from the UNAIDS/WHO AIDS Epidemic Update (November 2006), around 37.2 million adults and 2.3 million children were living with HIV at the end of 2006.

Dutch DJ Armin van Buuren will peform an extended set at Metro City on 8 June 2007.

Mozilla says that we have to finally move on from HTTP and move toward a 3D browsing. “Once upon a time, your browser was just text and images,” said Snyder. “Now, it’s incredibly rich and it has Java, ActiveX, and Ajax. Client-side applications are executing in your browser. It’s already so far away from text and images. In 10 years, it will be more about this first-person avatar-based 3-D experience.”

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The NHS in England could save more than £300m a year by being more efficient when prescribing drugs, the government spending watchdog says.

Since Sony made changes in its management staff, the discussions on their future console (probably called PlayStation 4, most likely) started as well, despite of the fact that the latest release was launched a bit less than a month ago.

Presenting Saro Salemi, it is necessary to note special musicality of the singer, first of all. And it is not casual: always he was surrounded with music, since children’s years, since family.

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The quake measured magnitude 6.1 and struck not far from the northern city of Luang Prabang, the US Geological Survey reported. Buildings swayed in both the Thai and Vietnamese capitals. People reportedly fled shopping centres and buildings were evacuated in Bangkok.

The Earth is caught in the middle of an intergalactic war between two races of robots,the heroic Autobots and the evil Decepticons, which are able to change into a variety of objects, including cars, trucks, planes and other technological creations

The Apple iPhone is a widescreen iPod that features touch screen controls that allow you to enjoy all your content, including audiobooks, music, TV shows, and movies. It features an amazing 3.5-inch widescreen display, and allows you to sync content from your iTunes library on your PC or Mac, making that content also accessible with just the touch of a finger. iPhone users will be able to scroll through songs, artists, albums, and playlists with just a flick of a finger. One cool new feature of this function is the display of album artwork - you can now use Cover Flow to browse your music library by album artwork for the first time on an iPod.

Planning for your future involves more than saving in a 401(k). Consider insurance to provide for your health care needs. NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- It's no surprise that healthcare costs are soaring. The cost of a nursing home today is about $71,000 annually, or about $200 a day. The cost for assisted living is about $32,000 a year or $88 dollars a day. And home care price tags are up about 13 percent. The average hourly rate for home health aides is about $25, according to a survey by Genworth Financial. In today's top tips, we'll tell you what you need to know about long term care insurance.

Australians could face fines if they don't protect their properties against the predicted increased threat of bushfires, says an expert in light of the latest UN climate change report.

It appears unlikely that an Arab hijacker crashed American Airlines Flight 77 into the Pentagon — evidence witheld from the public is needed to determine what really happened.

HOUSTON - The Expedition 14 crew continued work this week on scientific experiments and increased the bandwidth on the International Space Station's computer network. Commander Michael Lopez-Alegria and Flight Engineer Suni Williams spent time working with experiments that may hold the key to several aspects of long-duration space flight as NASA looks forward to missions back to the moon and on to Mars or other destinations.

Although world population continues to grow, in the last couple decades the rate at which it has grown has begun to steadily slow. The U.S. Census Bureau gives the following estimates for world population growth over the last 50 years

Using objects that might clutter the basement of any optics-loving physicist, Mary Masterman built a home-made Raman spectra system. This achievement won the 17-year-old from Westmoore High School in Oklahoma City the top prize at the Intel Science Talent Search on March 13.

If you have looked into solar energy as a method for heating your home, panels are usually the first things that come up. There are, however, other unique methods. The Solar Heating Aspect You Have Never Heard of Before The power of the sun is immense. The energy in one day of sunlight is more than the world needs

Ferry Corsten "Create your own path, be yourself, and strive to make a difference" is Ferry Corsten's philosophy and so far it has always proved the born and bred Rotterdammer right. Having worked in the music industry for over 17 years, Dutch Ferry Corsten has earned the respect from fellow Dance Music Producers, DJs and fans all over the world for his commitment to bringing quality music through his signature electronic dance music productions and numerous DJ sets worldwide. Since his first single release in 1989, Ferry has produced innumerable dance singles (under countless aliases), remixes and 8 artist albums to date. Dedicated to his craft, he is a master at engineering and producing all of his singles, artist albums and compilations. David Guetta David Guetta - the pioneer of French house with Up & Way, a garage-style track with vocals by Robert Owens released in 1992 - really made a name for himself in the mid-90s as one of the key catalysts of Parisian nightlife by promoting evenings at such renowned Paris hot spots as Folies Pigalle, Queen, Bataclan, Palace and Les Bains, where he invited DJ legends like Little Louie Vega, David Morales, DJ Pierre and Roger Sanchez to join him on the turntables. In 2001, however, he went back to his first love: making music.