Food prices are causing misery and strife around the world. Radical solutions are needed. Pictures of hunger usually show passive eyes and swollen bellies. The harvest fails because of war or strife; the onset of crisis is sudden and localised. Its burden falls on those already at the margin. Today's pictures are different. A wave of food-price inflation is moving through the world, leaving riots and shaken governments in its wake. The Economist, related LiveScience

Donated by designers and artists around the globe, posters sold by the So-Cal Fire Poster Project raise funds for victims of the wildfires that devastated Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, and San Diego Counties. All proceeds will be given to the Salvation Army, for the 2007 California Wildfire fund.

A strong earthquake with a 7.0 magnitude has hit Indonesia's West Java island. reuters

JAKARTA (Reuters) - An earthquake that shook the area around the ancient royal city of Yogyakarta on Saturday killed more than 2,700. Read | CNN

As the gas price nears and sometimes exceeds $4 a gallon, the city of Los Angeles is opening more bike lanes, companies are holding cycling seminars and federal officials are pushing for tax incentives.lat