President of Turkmenistan, Saparmurat Niyazov, dies after 21 years of oppressive rule.
Turkmenistan contains the world's fourth-largest reserves of natural gas.
Time: Your wife chaired a press conference about the bad treatment of women in Afghanistan. What about Saudi Arabia? Do you approve on the way women are treated there?
Blair: I'm not going to get into the business of attacking the Saudi system.
British army personnel conducted what they called "the choir", sometimes for the "enjoyment and pleasure" of visitors, by hitting and kicking Iraqi prisoners to elicit a range of groans and screams.
China's coal-rich Shanxi province is one of the most polluted areas on earth. "We used to lie on our backs and watch the stars," said one resident. They are not so visible nowadays.
This is our problem too. Localised pollution affects the whole world. We all breath the same air.
This is a global awareness PSA sensationalising the excessive, all-consuming nature of the human being. This cute and naïve Earth stands no chance against such an insatiable parasite.
