France gets tangled up in a fierce border dispute between Cambodia and Thailand.
Environmental activists celebrate as Japan cuts short this year's whale hunt.
And with the Cricket World Cup under way, we report from Pakistan on the passions involved.
Scientists and environmental groups have slammed the International Whaling Commission's plan to end a global ban on commercial whaling, as the Commission convened behind closed doors in Morocco on Monday.
Peter Bethune (photo), an anti-whaling activist of the US-based Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, has gone on trial in Japan, pleading guilty to four charges including trespassing after he boarded a ship of the Japanese whaling fleet in February.
The International Whaling Commission on Thursday unveiled a compromise proposal under which Japan, Iceland and Norway, who are currently violating a whaling moratorium, could resume commercial whaling under drastically reduced quotas.
Japan is to seek a resumption in commercial whaling, Hirotaka Akamatsu, Japanese Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries Minister, has announced ahead of a meeting with the International Whaling Commission later this year.
A collision between an anti-whaling speed boat and a security ship that's protecting a Japanese whaling fleet has added fresh fuel to a long-running debate. It's brought the spotlight onto the practices of both the whalers as well as some of their worst critics, a group called 'Sea Shepherd'. It's also unleashed a diplomatic row between Japan, Australia and New Zealand.
In this week's edition: new tensions in Kashmir, with grenade attacks in the city of Srinagar. Meanwhile, the whaling dispute flares up again, after a collision between a Japanese whaling ship and a protest boat. Also in this edition : South Korean scientists make significant progress with the cloning of dogs.
The annual meeting of the International Whaling Commission in Chile could lift a 12-year ban on commercial whaling. Environmental groups warn of the consequences of such a decision, which is supported by Iceland, Japan and Norway.
