A record-setting teen climber returns home to Nepal to a hero’s welcome
KATHMANDU, Nepal (AP) — A Sherpa teenager who became the youngest person to scale all the world’s 14 highest peaks returned home to Nepal on Monday to a hero’s welcome.
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Can Australia handle an economic downturn? Failure to reinvest in mineral wealth casts doubt
“Yes, we charge company tax and levy royalties for minerals, but we have been very generous to [resource extraction] companies,” Greg Jericho, chief economist at the Australia Institute, told This Week in Asia. “[But] we have very little to show from the sale of our natural resources.”
Nepal record-setting teen climber Nima Rinji returns home to hero’s welcome
A Sherpa teenager who became the youngest person to scale all the world’s 14 highest peaks returned home to Nepal on Monday to a hero’s welcome.
Can the Government Get People to Have More Babies?
In 1989, Japan seemed to be an unstoppable economic superpower. Its companies were overtaking competitors and gobbling up American icons like Rockefeller Center. But inside the country, the government had identified a looming, slow-motion crisis: The fertility rate had fallen to a record low. Policymakers called it the “1.57 shock,” citing the projected average number of children that women would have over their childbearing years.
Leach leads England rout of Pakistan in first Test
England go one up in three-Test series after humbling defeat for Pakistan as records tumbled in Multan.
Wildlife populations decline 73 percent over past half-century, report says
World Wildlife Fund says species like the pink river dolphins of the Amazon and forest elephants in Gabon are in sharp decline.
Over 79 million girls in sub-Saharan Africa raped, sexually assaulted: UN
UNICEF report finds more than 370 million girls worldwide have faced sexual violence before the age of 18.
Pakistan records spike in new polio cases, hampering efforts to make the country polio-free
ISLAMABAD (AP) — Pakistan has witnessed a spike in new polio cases since March, officials said Wednesday, in a troubling sign as the government seeks to eradicate the disease in the country.