Poverty 'is world's worst threat'

BBC NEWS | Science/Nature: "The leader of Catholics in England and Wales, Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, says the biggest challenge confronting the world is not terrorism but poverty.

"The greatest scandal and scourge of humankind is, in fact, dire poverty and the misery and exploitation that accompanies and exacerbates it. That is the real scandal... there is a genuine recognition that this is the big issue for our times."