www.csmonitor.com Peru is the first country in the Americas to ban genetically modified foods, putting its food policy closer to that of Europe, than the United States or many of its South American neighbors.

www.telegraph.co.uk As the Netherlands prepares for the abdication of Queen Beatrix on Tuesday, here are ten surprising facts about the House of Orange-Nassau.

www.forbes.com The persona behind the drugs: On Silk Road's forums, the black market's libertarian founder tags his post with his character's signature motto: "As you wish..." In public, the pseudonymous Internet drug czar known as the Dread Pirate Roberts...

www.ynaija.com South Africa’s richest black man, Patrice Motsepe, has announced he is giving away half his wealth to improve the lives of the poor. The mining magnate said the money would be handled by the Motsepe Foundation to address education and health...

www.alternet.org 25-year-old Amy Meyer has become the first person prosecuted under Utah's "ag-gag" law after filming a slaughterhouse.

www.miamiherald.com The report, much of which is blanked out, says a Saudi family that “fled” their Sarasota home shortly before 9/11 had “many connections” to people associated with the terrorist attacks.

www.alternet.org Passive acceptance or even glorification of suffering can be adaptive when people have no choice. But why does so much religion -- particularly Catholicism -- fetishize pain?

"M-Shwari is a new banking platform that allows subscribers of Kenya’s biggest mobile network, Safaricom, to operate savings accounts, earn interest on deposits, and borrow money using their mobile phones. It expands on Kenya’s revolutionary use of sending...

"By law, when you put your money into a deposit account, your money becomes the property of the bank. You become an unsecured creditor with a claim against the bank." dandelionsalad.wordpress.com by Ellen Brown Writer, Dandelion Salad webofdebt.com April...

"Bee-harming pesticides banned in Europe. EU member states vote ushers in continent-wide suspension of neonicotinoid pesticides. Europe will enforce the world's first continent-wide ban on widely used insecticides linked to serious harm in bees, after...