A baby elephant thought to have died in its mother's womb was born alive this morning at Taronga Zoo.

What a mess. Now not so much a case of the dog wagging the tail as the Pup tailing the WAG. Other than that excruciating pun, the most unfortunate thing about Michael Clarke's mercy dash to the arms of a damsel distressed by being photographed undressed is that, rather than merely another tawdry made-for-magazine melodrama, this sordid story now has a legitimate place in the sports pages.

ELAHE AMANI – Women News Network – WNN Today on a daily basis, personal memoirs of ongoing encounters of government crackdown and resistance in Iran are being written in print and in cyberspace by countless Iranian civil rights activists, scholars and women human rights defenders. In the process of finding a new transitional global identity, Iran state [...]

Able to quickly reach a well-developed network of women throughout the country, an alternative banking system performs while the Haitian economy is in shambles Peggy Simpson – Women News Network – WNN in partnership with the WMC – Women’s Media Center A micro-credit program and banking system for more than 200,000 women in Haiti has come to the [...]

PATRICK K. WROKPOH in Liberia – Women News Network – WNN In partnership with Panos London Illuminating Voices. Monrovia: On the outskirts of Monrovia, the Liberian capital, in the town of Jah Tondo, I recently saw for myself the real impact of climate change in a tropical developing country. Jah Tondo is in the lower Western Cluster region [...]