Landmines are a dangerous legacy of war that continue to claim victims - often children - long after the conflict is over. The United Nations Development Programme, in partnership with Cranfield University in the UK, has developed training materials on ways to deal with landmine threats.

The ruthlessness of the September attacks against the United States has alerted the world to the potential of nuclear terrorism, making it "far more likely" that terrorists could target nuclear facilities, nuclear material and radioactive sources worldwide, the chief of the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency said Thursday.

Consider one particularly vulnerable link in our food chain: the modern meat processing plant. In comparison to a bioterrorism target like a water treatment plant, meat processing plants have virtually no security, and their workforces are wide open to infiltration.

Sierra Leone's transport and communications minister was arrested with his wife Thursday on accusations of diamond smuggling in the war-ruined West African nation, officials said.

The NBI is the hope for real development in Nile Basin countries (NBCs). The 10 countries of the Nile Basin include 6 of the 10 poorest nations of the world. But, is the NBI taking the right way to development? Most probably it is, in view of the sensitive political issues it has to address.