(AFP) – 3/9/2010 ADDIS ABABA — Ethiopia's dwindling Jewish community, known as the Falash Mura, on Tuesday said their living conditions at home were desperate and appealed on Israel to keep its pledge to welcome them. Newly-arrived Jewish immigrants from Ethiopia pictured at Israel's Ben Gurion airport in January "We are suffering, people are dying, we have nothing. Three... 

By ALISTER DOYLE: REUTERS Published: Mar 9, 2010 19:39 Updated: Mar 9, 2010 19:39 OSLO: Farm experts plan to track down wild relatives of crops such as rice or wheat with traits that make them able to resist global warming in a project costing perhaps $50 million, a leading expert said on Tuesday. "The wild relatives of cultivated crops … are largely uncollected or conserved in gene banks,"... 

Mar 9 2010 by Steffan Rhys, South Wales Echo A UNIVERSITY student has been cleared of raping a woman in his home after a night out. John Medhane, 29, who came to Cardiff from his home in Eritrea to study biochemistry, had always maintained sex with the woman in his kitchen had been consensual. He said it was the woman who initiated it and she had “encouraged” him to the point where he... 

Lauren Gelfand | 09 Mar 2010 World Politics Review NAIROBI, Kenya — It's easy to confuse the interior of Nairobi's Habesha restaurant with a lost corner of Ethiopia. The smell of frankincense and thick, dark coffee waft through the air as the latest tunes by Teddy Afro vie to be heard over the Amharic-language patter of denizens from Addis Ababa, Lalibela, Mekele and Gonder. There's...