One Brain at a Time, part 2: Are medical missions doing more harm than good?

Most Tanzanians are farmers who live on less than $1 a day, and amid this poverty, tuberculosis, malaria and AIDS claim tens of thousands of lives a year. To reach villagers, Haydom Lutheran Hospital sends medical teams into the sun-baked African bush where they counsel patients and provide vaccinations. A doctor at the Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston saw this outreach program ...

Winemaking with wings

Amadeus would kill for a good glass of Cabernet Franc. Actually, he often does. That's why the Harris Hawk is one of the most effective -- and in the bird community, feared -- employees at Featherstone Estate Winery.[...]

THE OPEN 2010: Live coverage of day two from St Andrews

It's day three of The Open at St Andrews, with South Africa's Louis Oosthuizen five shots clear of the field. We'll bring you rolling coverage of all the latest news, scores and pictures from the Old Course.

Football matters: for some, this World Cup changes everything

A couple of weeks ago in the New Statesman (5 July edition), Stefan Szymanski argued that the football World Cup benefited only Fifa. His main contention was that the tournament would not be economically successful in a country desperately in need of funds for projects more life-enhancing than the construction of showpiece stadiums.

Gassing of geese viewed by some as ghastly

About 200 Canada geese were euthanized in a two-week period this summer at various locations in New Hampshire and many residents have reacted with outrage to the rounding up and gassing of the birds.