Link: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article7055925.ece

British diplomats have expressed serious concerns to the US State Department at least three times over Washington’s response to the latest dispute over the Falkland Islands, The Times has learnt.

Link: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article7055999.ece

The United Nations is to announce an independent review of errors made by its climate change advisory body in an attempt to restore its credibility. A team of the world’s leading scientists will investigate the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and ask why its supposedly rigorous procedures failed to detect at least three serious overstatements of the risk from global warming.

Link: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article7055645.ece

A naked Rahm Emanuel is accused of poking congressman Eric Massa in the chest because of his failure to support Mr Obama's health care bil. President Obama’s troubled and marathon effort to reform the US health industry took a bizarre twist yesterday after a Democratic congressman said he was lambasted over the issue by a naked White House chief of staff in a men’s locker room.

Link: http://wsws.org/articles/2010/mar2010/indi-m10.shtml

A tragic incident near the town of Kunda in the state of Uttar Pradesh last Thursday once again highlighted the abject poverty facing tens of millions throughout India.

Link: http://wsws.org/articles/2010/mar2010/illi-m10.shtml

A number of reports and studies have emerged over the past several weeks that highlight the deepening economic and social crisis currently gripping the state of Illinois. The state with the fifth largest economy in the US currently faces an unprecedented $12.8 billion budget deficit. Governor Pat Quinn and leading state lawmakers from both parties have repeatedly pledged to impose significant cuts to education and vital social services in order to close this gap.

Link: http://wsws.org/articles/2010/mar2010/kans-m10.shtml

On Wednesday, the Kansas City, Missouri, School District’s (KCMSD) board will vote on superintendent Dr. John Covington’s plan to close 26 of the district’s 61 schools, eliminating 700 jobs, including 285 teaching positions.

Link: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/03/201031001635169740.html

The US vice-president has condemned Israel's move to build 1,600 new housing units in occupied East Jerusalem. Joe Biden had earlier on Tuesday emphasised the close relationship between the US and Israel after meeting Binyamin Netanyahu, Israel's prime minister, in Jerusalem.

Link: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2010/03/20103105278263367.html

China's exports jumped more than 45 per cent in February from a year earlier, according to official figures, in a sign of recovering global demand. But many factories in China's southern manufacturing heartland are facing an unusual problem – a worsening labour shortage.

Link: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2010/03/201031042646747585.html

The family of a US student activist killed by an Israeli army bulldozer in Gaza is set to launch a damages case in the Haifa district court in northern Israel. Rachel Corrie, whose family is suing for $324,000, was one of several foreign activists killed in confrontations with Israel in occupied territory in the past decade.

Link: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/asia-pacific/2010/03/2010310513981448.html

Myanmar's military government has announced a new election law that bars Aung San Suu Kyi, the country's detained opposition leader, from standing in polls expected later this year.

Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8559169.stm

Doris Haddock, who walked across the US at the age of 89 to press for changes in election campaign funding, has died at her home in New Hampshire.