This past Saturday at its 52nd International General Conference held in Vienna, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) again called for the establishment of a...

The good news is that the freelance American journalists who went missing in Lebanon earlier this month have been found... in a Syrian jail. Yesterday, just a day after...

After two Presidential debates it’s becomingly increasingly clear there will be little discussion of U.S.-Latin American relations in the final month.How will the...

IF ANALOGIES with the Great Depression are scary for Americans, they are hardly less so for Latin Americans. Within a few years of the 1929 stockmarket crash, 16...

Yes, times are hard. We’ve bailed out AIG. Lehman went under. Banks have gone under. People are losing their homes faster than a wildfire spreads....

The present days are called ‘End Times’ in Bible. Many churches claimed that God is going to skip some of the events, which is entirely false. ...

Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva is not a happy man at the moment as the international financial crisis threatens the achievements he has overseen...

he UK government is proposing to give people more influence over the way local council budgets in England are spent - an idea that has been around for some time in...

Brazil is filing criminal charges against 81 people accused of being the biggest destroyers of the Amazon rain forest.

Due to the chasm in Brazil that exists between law on paper and “law” in practice, anyone wishing to understand how the country works in reality will need...

Four miles under the ocean’s surface off Brazil’s lush coast lie billions of barrels of recently discovered light crude — a treasure that could transform...

Last month’s deadly grenade attack in colonial-era Morelia heightened doubts for would-be travelers about the safety of travel in Mexico.

On Sept. 10, 2002, I asked 35 questions regarding war with Iraq. The war resolution passed on Oct. 16, 2002. Now today, as some of my colleagues try to reestablish...

Scientists have discovered mystery snippets of mammal DNA that have survived eons of evolution and yet have no apparent purpose. The finding reveals just how much we...

The Saudi Arabia had been asked by Afghanistan’s president Hamid Karzai to arrange talks with the ‘Taliban’ about some kind of power-sharing. The...

The Arabic-language network Al-Jazeera released a full transcript Monday of the most recent videotape from Osama bin Laden in which the head of al Qaeda said his...

The Times of India Delhi edition on Thursday, October 9, 2008 published an article on Lok Sabha Speaker Shri Somnath Chatterjee’s refusal to visit Britain because the...

IN ECONOMIC theory the winner’s curse refers to the idea that someone who places the winning bid in an auction may have paid too much. Consider, for example, bids to...

A West Florida woman has been arrested after pouring scalding hot water on her husband’s groin, says authorities.Manatee County Sheriff’s Office deputies...

Simmering tensions in Thailand boiled over into violent protest this week. The confrontation flared Oct. 7 after 8,000 demonstrators from the People’s Alliance for...