Issues & Trends

	Bank Warns of Effects of Rising Food Prices on Asia
	China expects sharp rise in energy demand BEIJING, April 23 (UPI) -- The National Energy Administration in China said the country's demand for energy is growing faster than previously reported.
	World Malaria Day: which countries are the hardest hit? Get the full data On World Malaria Day we take a look at the global figures and talk to the World Health Organisation about the importance of good quality data April 25 is World Malaria Day.
	Global switch needed on severe malaria drug: MSF (Reuters) - Up to 200,000 deaths from severe malaria could be averted each year if malarial countries were to switch to a more expensive but more effective drug, the medical charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) said Tuesday.
	Water wars? Thirsty, energy-short China stirs fear
	Has the Earth’s sixth mass extinction already arrived? Palaeontologists characterize mass extinctions as times when the Earth loses more than three-quarters of its species in a geologically short interval, as has happened only five times in the past 540 million years or so.
	Stillbirth:A silent tragedy haunts the world's poor CHICAGO, April 13 (Reuters) - More than 2.6 million pregnancies a year end in stillbirth, a tragedy which mostly hits women in poor countries and accounts for more deaths than AIDS and malaria combined, researchers said on Wednesday.
	100% Renewable Energy Indeed Possible, say Stanford U. Researchers
	Rush to Use Crops as Fuel Raises Food Prices and Hunger Fears
	Scientists find superbugs in Delhi drinking water A gene that makes bugs highly resistant to almost all known antibiotics has been found in bacteria in water supplies in New Delhi used by local people for drinking, washing and cooking, scientists said on Thursday.