The run on rice is threatening to disrupt world food supplies as much as banks’ lack of confidence in each other has seen global credit markets dry up. China, Egypt, Vietnam and India, representing more than a third of global rice exports,...

Hundreds of thousands of seal pups will be clubbed to death in Canada over the next few days despite protests. The legalised annual slaughter in the Gulf of St Lawrence and around Newfoundland has this year been set by the Canadian government at...

Here is a basic shift that has occurred in the news business: Because of the Internet, you, the reader, no longer have buy information in pre-fabricated packages like “newspapers.” You can just go online and individually select the articles you want...