Seven months into her pregnancy with her fourth child, Joy Szabo’s obstetrician gave her some news she didn’t want to hear: Because she’d had a previous Caesarean section, the hospital where she planned to deliver was insisting...

How to fail at BDS… How a soccer game survived a hijacking attempt By Rob Brown However well or poorly Hapoel Tel Aviv performs in the next stage of its Europa League campaign, the club at least survived a hijacking attempt when...

Hundreds of council workers rampaged through central Johannesburg yesterday in a “trash” protest marking the first day of a nationwide strike over wages and benefits by 150,000 municipal employees. Singing and chanting liberation songs from...

For those of you unfamiliar with Washington lingual, K Street is prima facie just another street in D.C. But in actuality it is the most influential street in the District. K Street is lobbying avenue. Most Washington lobbying institutions...

The plight of Syrian workers - as with Asian maids - is one of the most under-reported stories about Lebanon, a nation that that ostensibly claims it is the Paris of the Middle East. Syrian workers have always been resented by many Christian...

Lebanon is notorious for its [mis]treatment of foreign maids in the country. Every year dozens of maids kill themselves out of desperation to escape their cruel bosses in the land that prides itself on being the “Paris of the Middle...

So, Ron Gettelfinger, president of the United Auto Workers, did not get his bailout. The union boss wanted Congress to bailout two of America’s three auto makers with $15 billion of taxpayer money. Though Mr. Gettelfinger has no problem with...

I went to a meeting last night at the House of Commons about abortion rights and the up-coming amendments to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill. At the meeting I heard some very moving stories about the experience of women in Northern...

Dubai is indebted to the foreign workers who toil in pitiable conditions to further its economic might and are integral part of its prosperity. The progress of Dubai from a desert city to the most polished city of the Middle East is possible...