Investors in farmland are targeting countries with weak laws, buying arable land on the cheap and failing to deliver on promises of jobs and investments, according to the draft of a report by the World Bank.

“Investor interest is focused on countries with weak land governance,” the draft said. Although deals promised jobs and infrastructure, “investors failed to follow through on their investments plans, in some cases after inflicting serious damage on the local resource base”.

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Not 2000m into the women’s 5000m final, the race for the World Junior Championship had already narrowed to a final clash between two of the most decorated Junior athletes at the championships, Genzege Dibaba of Ethiopia and Mercy Cherono of Kenya.

Between them, the pair has won the last three World Cross Country Championships junior races (Dibaba in 2008 and 2009, Cherono in 2010), and the last two 3000m titles (Cherono, the first athlete ever to repeat in that race).

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Kosovo’s unilateral declaration of independence from Serbia in February 2008 did not violate international law, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) said today as the United Nations court released its advisory opinion on the issue.

The ICJ, also known as the World Court, was asked by the General Assembly to give its opinion – which is non-binding – on the legality of the independence declaration by the Provisional Institutions of Self-Government (PISG) of Kosovo.

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BBC – Presenter Simon Reeve visits an emergency feeding centre in Ethiopia, where he meets severely malnourished children who are victims of ongoing food shortages.

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