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In developing nations, where improvements in health care and sanitation are seeing death rates fall, birth rates still remain relatively high. This is leading to rapidly rising populations. In fact, 97 out of every 100 new people on the planet are currently born in developing countries.

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).

Scientists have identified thousands of sites in the Arctic where methane that has been stored for many millennia is bubbling into the atmosphere. The methane has been trapped by ice, but is able to escape as the ice melts. Writing in the journal Nature Geoscience, the researchers say this ancient gas could have a significant impact on climate change.

"This is both hopeful and sad. When girls are discarded, because they are not the preferred offspring it not only is a tragedy for the girls themselves but the society at large. Where will the young men go when they are grown and there are not enough women? Bless those who preserve these young ladies who hold India's future." - a comment for the video

Germany has pledged to take in 5,000 refugees from Syria. But they still haven't arrived. Human rights organizations complain that the EU's refugee policy is marked by a lack of solidarity.

Now there are 1 million child refugees from Syria. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-23803308

Some facts about the refugees and where they stay. Worth a look. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-23801200

Asia is in the grip of a diabetes epidemic. In human and financial terms, the burden is huge and it is hitting the poor especially hard. Often thought of as a disease of the rich, experts say the unabating rise may be fuelled as much by food scarcity and insecurity as it is by excess. Changing lifestyles, rapid urbanisation and cheap calories in the form of processed foods are putting more and more people at risk of developing Type-2 diabetes. There are now 382 million people worldwide living with diabetes, according to new figures from the International Diabetes Federation (IDF). More than half are in Asia and the Western Pacific, where 90-95% of cases are classed as Type-2.