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The Brazilian government has said it will employ heat-seeking radar in a last-ditch attempt to save the country's remaining groups of isolated Indians.

Papua became part of Indonesia in 1969 after a controversial and very limited vote. Ever since there have been calls from some Papuans for independence and for decades a low-level armed resistance has been rumbling on, largely unnoticed by the outside.

Mobile phone use has exploded in the last seven years, according to a U.N report. The number of global subscriptions quadrupled from around 1billion in 2002 to 4.1billion at the end of last year.

Leap in capacity will allow cheap internet access and knowledge at speed of light

BBC News embarks on a unique project telling the story of international trade by tracking a shipping container around the world for a year.

Yesterday, at its headquarters in Paris, Unesco unveiled its first comprehensive and online database of the world's endangered tongues. According to its team of specialists, there are around 2,500 languages at risk, including more than 500 considered "critically endangered" and 199 which have fewer than 10 native speakers.

In this three-part series, the BBC's Diplomatic Correspondent Jonathan Marcus explores the fundamental shifts in the global system since the end of the Cold War. PODCASTS

The WTO has been the focus of much of the campaigning against globalisation. Mike Moore and John Madelely put forward their contrasting views on the organisation's role in advancing development and the possibility of a new trade round, while Adrian Wood argues the case for a development round.

One pioneering scheme in Bangladesh has become famous for its "telephone ladies".

This bus, like many others, has been transformed into a mobile internet centre, and it travels around Tunisia teaching students of all ages how to log on, surf the net, and obtain information electronically that can help them in their studies and in finding jobs.

The biggest ship on the world's waters is delivering record amounts of goods to Europe this Christmas, all the way from China, reflecting the country's rise as the world?s new manufacturing hub.