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Even the American luxury real estate market has suffered from the economic slump. The past wisdom that those who can afford a +$50 million are insulated from the economic ups and downs has to be revisited as several luxury homes have been knocking down...
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Costa Rica is the greenest and happiest country in the world, according to a new list that ranks nations by combining measures of their ecological footprint with the...
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Parents were banned from attending an inter-school sports day to protect pupils from kidnappers and paedophiles.
The host school said they could not prevent...
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Human Rights Watch said Friday that Zimbabwe’s armed forces have taken over diamond fields in the east and killed more than 200 people, forcing children to search...
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The candidacy of Mario Anguiano, running for governor in a state election here Sunday, says a lot about Mexican politics amid the rise of the drug cartels.
A brother...
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United States Marines moved into villages in Taliban strongholds in southern Afghanistan on Friday, meeting little resistance as they tried to win over local chiefs on...
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Very few like me have a gut feeling that BJP will come back. It was a painful experience to witness rise and fall of a substitute to family-run congress. Congress which...
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Max Blumental reports on The Daily Beast that Sarah Palin may have quit her job today because she was trying to avert a major, yet-to-be-disclosed corruption scandal....
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The African Union refused to act on an international war crimes warrant for Sudan’s president, at a summit that also yielded a deal on the powers of a new...
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The latest two-yearly study of the Australian Government’s Productivity Commission damningly reveals that indigenous children are six times more likely to suffer...
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Thirty-one teenage boys have died from complications after botched traditional circumcision rites in South Africa’s rural Eastern Cape region, officials said on...
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From Angela Merkel to Barack Obama, few have emerged unscathed from his peculiar brand of music hall humour, adolescent japes and sexist quips.
As Italy prepares to...
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The crown of the famed New York Statue of Liberty will reopen tomorrow for the first time since September 11th, 2001, and what better day than the celebration of...
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American nuns could be said to have their habits in a twist in the face of two investigations by the Vatican into whether they have come to espouse lifestyles and views...
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Days before a historic visit of the US President to Russia gambling was narrowed just to four geographical areas of a country, far away from capitals and significant...
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In Penitents Compete (Tovbekarlar Yarisiyor in Turkish), religious leaders will seek to convert at least one of the 10 atheists in each episode to their faith. Those...
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Iran’s nuclear threat was never in doubt during its presidential campaign, but the post-election resistance raised the possibility of some sort of regime change....
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Besides blocking access to food and construction to Palestinians in the Gaza Stripe - and even to a lesser degree in the West Bank - Israel also prevents Palestinians...
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For all the complaints from American right-wingers that the European Union is a nation of appeasers whom do not stand up to thuggish regimes, the EU is actually more...
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The government of Chile is suing several banks in Miami over accounts linked to former dictator Augusto Pinochet.
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President Barack Obama says the “day of reckoning has arrived” for Americans after a spree of extravagant buying, gutted regulations and little or no...
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The Federal Reserve says the recession has cut many Americans’ net worth by about 20 percent as the value of homes, stock portfolios and businesses plummet.
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The world is at a crossroads in its existence as war and a new kind of freedom are escalating between competing views of globalization and human rights. At times both...
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“All literature is longing.”
May your longing in the New Year provide you a new time and a new space and new memories that will surpass the old and be of...
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You probably don’t remember me, but I not only remember you, I know you. This morning I stopped you while you were driving your luxury SUV in our military...
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The Norwegian government’s operating profit on its direct investment in the Nordic countries offshore oil fields rose 27 percent in the third quarter to 35.6...
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Here’s something that might provide a bit of solace amid the plunging values in your retirement accounts: Warren Buffett is losing lots of money, too. So are Kirk...
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If you are wealthy, this piece is for you. A recent study has revealed that wealthier people are more than twice vulnerable to the deadliest form of skin cancer, than...
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Economic populism is back, with attacks against inequality and the “greedy rich” back in style. But at the very moment that the public is outraged over the rich...
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Republican John McCain is misreading seven-year-old comments by rival Barack Obama about “redistributive change” to argue that the Democrat’s tax...
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John McCain is pouncing on Barack Obama’s call for shifting more wealth from richer Americans to poorer ones, likening it to socialism. His remarks win applause...
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The head of the Roman Catholic Church said that the disappearance of money as banks collapsed showed that wealth meant “nothing.”
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The upcoming boom is on the wellness industry.
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A campaign watchdog group in Texas is urging prosecutors to launch a criminal investigation of Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst over his failure to disclose his vast wealth.
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A campaign watchdog group in Texas is urging prosecutors to launch a criminal investigation of Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst over his failure to disclose his vast wealth.
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He’s said to be the richest man in Texas politics, but the disclosures Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst has filed to the state Ethics Commission have only the barest...
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They say time is money. Indeed it is so, particularly if you spend all your time to acquire money. But money changes hand. So there is a continual process of exchange...
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The 2008 World Wealth Report covers 71 countries, accounts for more than 98% of the global gross national income, and 99% of world stock market capitalization. The data...
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In this Aug. 13, 2008 file photo, Texas Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst is shown with a trophy saddle in his Capitol offices in Austin, Texas. Lt. Gov. Dewhurst, criticized for failing to disclose details about his vast wealth, is voluntarily cooperating with...
