Via digg, from an article of the same title from BBCNews.com:

The Netherlands is the rich nation which does the most to improve lives in developing countries, a Center for Global Development (CGD) report says.

The UK is 12th in the annual Commitment to Development Index of the world's 21 richest nations and Japan ranked last...

The CGD's measures a broad number of factors for the index, rather than merely the amount of aid countries provide.

It also examines several policy areas - such as trade investment migration and environment - while aid is measured not only in terms of quantity but as a share of its income and the quality of aid given...

Meanwhile, despite the US giving the largest amount of aid that donation was the smallest in relation to the size of its economy.

From an AP story of the same title:

The minister of a church that dismissed a female Sunday School teacher after adopting what it called a literal interpretation of the Bible says a woman can perform any job _ outside of the church.

The First Baptist Church dismissed Mary Lambert on Aug. 9 with a letter explaining that the church had adopted an interpretation that prohibits women from teaching men. She had taught there for 54 years.

The letter quoted the first epistle to Timothy: "I do not permit a woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she must be silent."

The Rev. Timothy LaBouf, who also serves on the Watertown City Council, issued a statement saying his stance against women teaching men in Sunday school would not affect his decisions as a city leader in Watertown, where all five members of the council are men but the city manager who runs the city's day-to-day operations is a woman.

"I believe that a woman can perform any job and fulfill any responsibility that she desires to" outside of the church, LaBouf wrote Saturday.

This, IMO, is a major weakness of the traditional view of "women's roles" commonly held by members of the church of Christ and others. The Rev. has spelled it out. Apparently, in his opinion, there are two distinct sets of rules governing how Christians should interact with one another: one set that governs "secular" or "outside the church" activities and another that governs "spiritual" or "inside the church" activities. This duality is not something that I see supported in scripture. If you hold the extremely restrictive view of the role of women (as, admittedly, you might reasonably do based on a certain interpretation of passages like the one quoted above..I don't pretend that the case is a slam dunk for either extreme), then IMO you must apply the same principle to other interactions between Christian men and women "outside the church" if you are to maintain consistency (as some do). On the other hand, if you are unwilling to apply those same principles "outside the church," maybe you should ask yourself why and re-examine your view of what should go on "inside the church." Or at least justify why Biblical principles regarding the role of women apply only "inside the church."

Via the August 4-11 issue of The Week, from an AP article of the same title by by Beth Rucker:

A gubernatorial and U.S. Senate candidate felt so strongly about giving voters a "None of the Above" choice that he made it his middle name.

Now, David "None of the Above" Gatchell is challenging the State Election Commission in court to get his middle name on the Nov. 7 ballot.

Gatchell, a software developer from Franklin, ran as an independent in the 2002 governor's race on the platform that Tennessee election ballots should include a "None of the Above" choice for voters who don't care for any of the candidates.

The issue was so important to him that he decided to change his middle name in August from Leroy to None of the Above...

Tennessee election officials approved his petition to be on the ballot as an independent in both races, but in April the State Election Commission voted 5-0 to exclude his middle name from the ballot.

A state law passed after Byron (Low Tax) Looper ran for state Senate in 1998 says if four or more members of the election commission vote that a candidate's name or part of the name is confusing or misleading, they may either omit the confusing or misleading portion of the name or require further information about the candidate be included on the ballot.

Looper, who had his legal name changed to include (Low Tax), is now in prison for murdering his opponent, Sen. Tommy Burks on Oct. 19, 1998.

Gatchell is suing the election commission to have None of the Above included on the ballot.

Another AP story by Erik Schelzig reported:

A man running for governor and the U.S. Senate does not have the right to use his middle name, "None of the Above," on the November ballot, a court ruled Friday...

Gatchell, who changed his middle name from Leroy, said he planned to appeal.

He argues that a number of state gubernatorial candidates — such as Walt "Combat" Ward and Carl "Twofeathers" Whitaker — have been allowed to include their nicknames on ballots, and that his middle name has been widely reported by news media and is known across the Internet.