This world of ours 3

As the US's population grows in excess of 300 million, the world is found to be the warmest for 12,000 years--global warming being a significant threat to the world's growing population as it threatens the water supplies of many LDCs (and I hate that acronym/term, if I have yet to voice that). And on a more local side of things, Bush signed into law a 700 mile fence along our southern border in order to combat illegal immigration, which president Calderon has likened to the Berlin wall.
1. US population reaches 300 million
2. World 'warmest for 12,000 years
3. Climate water threat to millions
4. Bush signs Mexico fence into law
5. Mexico anger over US border fence

Meanwhile, Beijing is trying to curb it's blatant (though often humorous) misuse of the English language in time for the 2008 olympics, we're using too much of the earth's 'natural capital', a recent report asserts that the UN did a terrible job in initially acknowledging the crisis in Sudan's Darfur region, a record number of US troops have died this month in Iraq, a declassified report suggests that the "war on terror" has actually fuelled global terrorism, some guy cancelled his plans to sell a Picasso painting after accidentially puncturing it with his elbow, and Apple is blaming the inherent insecurity of Windows for its virus-infected iPods.
6. Beijing stamps out poor English
7. Planet enters 'ecological debt'
8. UN 'missed' Darfur crisis signs
9. Grim month for US in Iraq
10. US press unmoved by terror report
11. Tycoon holes dream Picasso deal
12. Apple blames Microsoft for virus-infected iPods

Also: Half a million displaced northern Ugandans are expected to return home by the end of 2006, the US was called 'arrogant and stupid' on its stance on Iraq by a state department official, and allowing the regulated hunting of exotic, endangered animals is being used to aid in conservation efforts.
13. Large numbers head home in Uganda
14. US 'arrogant and stupid' in Iraq
15. Hunting 'has conservation role'

Intersecting ups, downs,
Upside-down, across and around
Remind that the bent edges of this
Story's pages
Are neither deriding or accidental.



Update:

A few more that I unintentionally left out:

16. Displaced by Darfur: Your stories
17. Darfur campaign cuts Sudan money
18. Bush's Iraq options limited
19. DR Congo children 'still armed'
20. UN ponders North Korea sanctions