Russ McBee

Global Issues has published a run-down of recent statistics on global poverty. Among the startling findings: Half the world -- nearly three billion people -- live on less than two dollars a day. [...] According to UNICEF, 26,500-30,000 children die each day due to poverty. And they ''die quietly in some of the poorest villages on earth, far ...

This is outrageous: Child workers [in India], some as young as 10, have been found working in a textile factory in conditions close to slavery to produce clothes that appear destined for Gap Kids, one of the most successful arms of the high street giant. [...] The Observer discovered the children in a filthy sweatshop working on piles of ...

The Pope faced pretty much global opprobrium and condemnation for his foot-in-mouth proclamation that the Catholic-led invasion of the Americas ''had not imposed itself on the indigenous peoples'' and that the invaders ''purified'' the natives, apparently by murdering them. The Big Pointy Hat has apologized, sort of: Speaking in ...