China, as we have reported recently, is making serious commitments to stemming the environmental damage being caused by their explosive industial revolution. One of the biggest ecological projects taking place in China is that of Dongtan
Concerns over immigration and security have prompted the US government to erect more than 1,000km of fencing along the Mexican border.
But the contentious plan which cuts through private property in some areas has sparked anger among some US homeowners and farmers.
Al Jazeera's Nick Spicer reports from Brownsville, Texas, along the Mexican border.
The United Kingdom is officially a grey nation. The number of pensioners exceeds the number of children under 16 for the first time, figures published yesterday show.
A decade ago, unmarried Arab women like Ms. Fathi, working outside their home countries, were rare. But just as young men from poor Arab nations flocked to the oil-rich Persian Gulf states for jobs, more young women are doing so, sociologists say, though no official statistics are kept on how many.
The first detailed digital soil map of sub-Saharan Africa is to be created.
The £12m ($17.5m) project will offer farmers in 42 countries a "soil health diagnosis" and advice on crop yields.