Fri, 27 Jan 2012 19:10:02 +0100 (Reuters) - Chaudhry Mohammad Bagh leans down to touch the head of his deceased 62-year-old brother Chaudhry Mohammad Gulab, a heart patient, before his burial in Lahore on January 27, 2012. The government in Pakistan's Punjab province is scrambling to recall contaminated drugs that have killed over a 100 people in the last month, local media cited provincial health officials on Friday. Gulab's health started to deteriorate after he was prescribed a new medication by the Punjab Institute of Cardiology (PIC) on January 18, his younger brother Bagh said at his funeral. "We returned to PIC on January 25 after Gulab started coughing blood and officials asked us to return his medication and then advised we should admit him to the Mayo hospital. He died two days after being admitted," Bagh said. Officials at the Mayo hospital did not comment on the cause of Gulab's death, although his death certificate states it was due to a heart attack. Government officials have said autopsies would need to be performed before the cause of the recent deaths can be confirmed. REUTERS/Mani Rana (PAKISTAN - Tags: CRIME LAW HEALTH SOCIETY)
A man cleans the steps in front of a covered statue of Mayawati, ...
Thu, 26 Jan 2012 08:00:02 +0100 (Reuters) - A man cleans the steps in front of a covered statue of Mayawati, the chief minister of the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh, in Lucknow January 16, 2012. Although she presides over one of the most poverty-plagued states of India -- its per-capita income is just above 50 percent of the national average -- Kumari Mayawati's extraordinary personal extravagance preserves a tradition set over the centuries by a succession of rulers in the plains of the river Ganges. Picture taken January 16, 2012. To match Insight INDIA-ELECTION/ REUTERS/Adnan Abidi (INDIA - Tags: POLITICS)
Lee Yong-su, left, and Lee Ok-sun, center, South Koreans who ...
Wed, 25 Jan 2012 09:20:02 +0100 (AP) - Lee Yong-su, left, and Lee Ok-sun, center, South Koreans who were forced by the Japanese government to serve as sexual slaves during World War II, talk to South Korean Foreign Minister Kim Sung-hwan during their meeting at the Foreign Ministry in Seoul, South Korea, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012. (AP Photo/ Lee Jin-man, Pool)
Coffee beans are poured into a bag at a Nairobi Java House outlet ...
Tue, 24 Jan 2012 08:20:01 +0100 (Reuters) - Coffee beans are poured into a bag at a Nairobi Java House outlet in Nairobi January 21, 2012. Kenya's rich and new middle classes have a growing taste for coffee and ice cream. That's just one sign that African states such as Kenya are changing. Even as rich countries face slowdown, sub-Saharan African economies are expected to post nearly 6 percent average growth in 2012, according to the IMF. A study by the International Finance Corporation, part of the World Bank, has pointed to the potential of the continent's more than 1 billion people, millions of whom have moved out of subsistence agriculture and into urban jobs over the past decade. Picture taken January 21, 2012. To match Insight AFRICA/SPENDERS-INFLATION REUTERS/Noor Khamis (KENYA - Tags: BUSINESS FOOD EMPLOYMENT SOCIETY)
A man shows a basket of freshly harvested coffee beans at a ...
Tue, 24 Jan 2012 01:50:01 +0100 (Reuters) - A man shows a basket of freshly harvested coffee beans at a plantation in El Crucero, some 20km (12 miles) from the capital Managua, January 23, 2012. Coffee exports from Nicaragua dropped to 52,120 60-kg bags in December 2011, 45.7 percent less than the quantity exported in the same month in 2010, the country's export board said on Tuesday. REUTERS/Oswaldo Rivas (NICARAGUA - Tags: BUSINESS COMMODITIES EMPLOYMENT AGRICULTURE)
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