Latest Round-up

In a nutshell...

• UK and France annouce that they will be working together on their nuclear programmes from now on.
• Gareth Bale destroys Inter Milan over two legs and sets himself up to be one of the best left sided players in the world.
• Students in the UK could face fees of £9000 per year following the cap on fees being lifted.
• Messiah Chip developed that can help blind to see.
• WiFi likely to be banned on all planes following the explosive printer from Yemen.
• Greece has suspended all air mail following a number of suspicious packages delivered to strategic targets across Europe.
• George W Bush writes that he regrets initiating war in Iraq because they didn't find any WMDs
• Iraq: a woman is due to be executed in the next 24 hours following torture forcing her to confess to murder and a court held in a language she doesn't speak found her guilty. Sign the petition to save her here.

Poor Conditions Slow Tsunami Effort

The relief being provided to the inhabitants of the Mentawai Islands, Indonesia in the wake of Monday's tsunami has been hit by setbacks due to the weather.

An undersea earthquake of magnitude 7.7 triggered the event which has left 400 people confirmed dead and 300 still unaccounted for. The disaster occured at around 22:00 local time on 25th October, just 16 hours before the volcano Mt. Merapi erupted, leaving a suspected 30 people dead.

Aid is meant to be coming in the form of air-carried supplies but a shortage of helicopters and poor conditions are leaving the hardest hit areas still in need of vital supplies.

Haunting scenes hark back to December 2004 when a giant tsunami killed over 250,000 people.

If you would like to donate and help the victims of the tsunami, follow the link below:

http://www.aidindonesia.org.au/

Avaaz! Stand Up to the Count

This is my first post here, hopefully of many!

There's an organisation called Avaaz that give you the voice to change the World. They are an online petitions site and they write to governments and politicians about global issues. They need you and everyone you know to sign these petitions. There's no catch, it's easy, free and rewarding. They've certainly been busy, writing to World leaders on issues no less that 25 million times in 3 years. They work hard to get things done, the least you can do is put your name down.

Click the link below to sign up. You only need to do it once and it's really quick. Then all you do is enter your email address on the petitions you want to support. Please do it!
http://www.avaaz.org/

Here's a list of some of the big things that Avaaz have achieved:

• Save our seas: Britain comitted to doubling the size of protected ocean
• Elephants: the UN comitted to protecting African Elephants from extinction
• Rainforests: a public outcry in Brazil prevented much of the Amazon Rainforests from being felled for profit
• Haiti: Avaaz members donated $1,300,000 worth of aid in the wake of the devastating earthquake
• Tibetan friends: 1.5million signatures persuaded the Chinese government to resume talks with the Dalai Lama
• These amongst 25,000,000 other actions so far mean that your voice will be heard

Need any more convincing? Just visit their site and read their highlights section:
https://secure.avaaz.org/en/highlights/

Thanks for reading,

Craig