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Britain will become a net importer of wheat for the first time in a decade this year because of bad weather, the National Farmers' Union has said. The prolonged cold weather is expected to impact this autumn's harvest The average yield fell from 7.8 tonnes a hectare to 6.7 tonnes last summer. Looking ahead to the 2013 harvest, farmers had only managed to get three quarters of the planned wheat planted this year, so the UK was already 25% down on potential production.

"Typhoon Roke brought evacuation orders, downpours and fears of floods to southern Japan today as it began to traverse the country on a course towards the crippled Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear plant." "More than 1 million people in Nagoya city in central Japan have been advised to evacuate because of Roke, Kyodo News reported." "Roke, due in Fukushima prefecture in 48 hours, may hinder work to control leakage of water into the basements of the Dai- Ichi reactor buildings, which contained 102 million liters of radioactive water as of Sept. 13, according to Tokyo Electric estimates."

Simple, summarized article of factors affecting access to safe drinking water

Credit: Reuters/Aly Song Migrant workers make their way to Shanghai railway station, the meeting point where an online employment agency arranged to pick them up to their new jobs, in Shanghai February 26, 2013. The average monthly wage of migrant workers grew 11.8 percent in 2012 from the previous year to 2,290 yuan ($370).

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The vast majority of Afghanistan's population professes to be followers of Islam. Over 1400 years ago, Islam demanded that men and women be equal before God, and gave them various rights such the right to inheritance, the right to vote, the right to work, and even choose their own partners in marriage.

This article shows how Australia is trying its best to aid the Women's Right department and introduce financial aids, safety, violence prevention and granting more space on the parliamentary seats to be granted more say in decision making. It is noteworthy how they are doing this because they know that in order for a country to reach it's full potential, it has to maximize the use of human resources in the country. 

NAGPUR: Women in India, despite given the right to property, find it hard to get a share in property. The ignorance of right based perspective or the unthinkable disobedience of gender inequality is the most difficult challenge in front of the persons working in the judicial system, said human right analyst and lawyer Asim Sarode on Friday.

Reassessing Canada's aid to Haiti

Unsafe water for Palesinians

"At least 13 deaths and 72 illnesses have been linked to a listeria outbreak from Colorado cantaloupes, health officials say, in the deadliest food outbreak in more than a decade. Three other deaths may also be related to the tainted fruit, which are linked to a farm in Holly and have been recalled."

Around the world, women make peace in their homes and communities on a daily basis. But when it comes to negotiating and signing peace deals on a national or international level they are almost universally shut out, according to a report that calls for a more balanced approach to resolving conflict.

The Argentinean government is currently investigating 11 projects to be part of the country's new renewable energy initiative. Four projects have already been approved by the government and are awaiting financial aid in order to begin taking form. One of these projects comes from China's Sky Solar Holdings. The other projects are likely to be approved in the coming months and will help the country reach its 2013 renewable energy goals effectively.

US Defence Secretary Leon Panetta has decided to lift the military's ban on women serving in combat, a move that could open thousands of frontline warfighting jobs to female service members, a senior US defence official said.

"New Delhi: India is likely to become the world's largest beef (buffalo meat) exporter by 2013 as there is consistent demand from price sensitive importers, primarily in Southeast Asia, Middle East and Africa, USDA has said."

"It was Donald Trump's long-held dream. To build the best links golf course in the world in Scotland... After initial opposition to the project from environmental groups, Trump now has a green problem of his own, in the shape of an offshore wind farm."

The largest volcanoes on our planet may take as little as a few hundred years to form and erupt. These "supervolcanoes" were thought to exist for as much as 200,000 years before releasing their vast underground pools of molten rock. Researchers reporting in Plos One have sampled the rock at the supervolcano site of Long Valley in California.