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Last updated: 17 december, 2009 - 11:34 GMT

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      Millions in East Africa are at risk of hunger and malnutrition due to severe drought. Worst hit are Kenya, Somalia and northern Uganda. Oxfam's humanitarian director Jane Cocking explains why the lack of rainfall in November has worsened the situation.

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      Nujood is like any other schoolgirl living in the Yemeni capital Sanaa. But one thing makes her different: she was married aged nine and divorced by the age of 10. She spoke to the BBC's Owen Bennett-Jones via a translator.

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      Mike Williams witnesses the feeding of the five thousand, plus reports on trees in Amazonian shopping malls and coral-growing in Japan.

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