The downward trend is likely to continue as a mortgage famine makes it harder for people to move. Howard Archer, chief economist at Global Insight, says: "We expect prices to fall by 12 per cent in both 2008 and 2009 before gradually flattening out during 2010.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/money/city/2008/07/02/mortgage-famine-squeezes-market-89520-20628559/

Ethiopians braced for new famine

News | www.telegraph.co.uk | Jun 28, 2008

Last year, the rains were good. Teagistu Gansamo filled the fertile earth of her half-acre plot with maize and bean seeds and, for months afterwards, she and her five children ate well.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/ethiopia/2211661/Ethiopians-braced-for-new-famine.html

Aid pledge to Ethiopia's starving

News | www.channel4.com | Jun 10, 2008

The Government has pledged an extra £10 million in aid to Ethiopia in response to the worsening humanitarian situation there. The Government has pledged an extra £10 million in aid to Ethiopia in response to the worsening humanitarian situation there.

http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/world/aid+pledge+to+ethiopias+starving/2279287?intcmp=rss_news_itnnews

Child, seven, 'died of starvation'

News | uk.news.yahoo.com | May 21, 2008

A seven-year-old girl allegedly neglected by her parents died of starvation, it has been claimed.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/pressass/20080521/tuk-child-seven-died-of-starvation-6323e80.html

Extraordinary final odyssey ends for Ireland's finest woman writer

News | books.guardian.co.uk | May 11, 2008

Tributes have been paid to the Irish author and journalist Nuala O'Faolain, who died at the age of 68 following a battle with cancer. By Vanessa Thorpe

http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,,2279362,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=fromtheobserver

Report says N.Korea heading towards famine

News | uk.reuters.com | Apr 30, 2008

SEOUL (Reuters) - Soaring global food prices and reluctant donors are pushing North Korea back towards famine, which could see the secretive government turn even more repressive to keep control, a paper

http://uk.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUKSEO2661420080430?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews

Food crisis warnings issued

News | www.itn.co.uk | Apr 14, 2008

Hundreds of thousands of people face hunger and starvation as the cost of food rises, the World Bank has warned.

http://www.itn.co.uk/news/8f9a8da1b4e7d820630f3f3b15614bf0.html

Malnutrition causing a third of child deaths

News | www.newscientist.com | Jan 17, 2008

A third of child deaths occur for want of simple vitamins and minerals and a daily fill of breast milk. That's the stark message from five studies of childhood and maternal malnutrition published this week in The Lancet.

http://www.newscientist.com/channel/health/mg19726393.100-malnutrition-causing-a-third-of-child-deaths.html

Always a price but also a cost

News | business.timesonline.co.uk | Aug 10, 2007

These are difficult times for central bankers. They are charged with preventing systemic failure. They cannot allow jitters in financial markets to sour into a wholesale panic that could bring down a large financial institution or a line of lesser dominoes.

http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/markets/article2231366.ece