After the failure in Copenhagen, we heard plenty of talk about how people were going to take action and have this back on track soon. By “soon” they apparently meant 2011 or beyond. Obviously it’s not much of a priority for anyone, including the U…
Five people were killed and more than 50 injured in heavy exchange of fire between Islamic insurgents and security forces in the Somali capital, officials said.
Nearly a decade after a spectacular Concorde crash in Paris, the French are bringing several people to trial over the accident that led to the demise of an engineering icon
In an interview Sunday, New York Times economist Paul Krugman hammered conservative talk show host Glenn Beck for spreading blatantly false information about the Democrats’ health care bill — and put the blame squarely on Fox News CEO Roger Ailes.”…
There is concern that our continued efforts in Afghanistan are being undermined by widespread corruption within the administration of President Hamid Karzai. What few people are talking about is the o…
A court in northern Vietnam has sentenced four men to death for trafficking heroin. Presiding Judge Luong Van Hien said four other defendants received life prison sentences at the People's Court of Th…
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico (Reuters) – Suspected drug hitmen burst into a high school birthday party and killed 14 people in Ciudad Juarez on Sunday, the latest massacre in one of the world’s deadliest cities.
Barring a miracle, it’s almost a certainty that the jobs picture in November is going to be just about as shitty as it is now, and that’s the bullish view.And taking the longer view, a shitty jobs picture 11 months from now will mean that we will ha…
Abu Dhabi, Feb 1 (IANS) The Abu Dhabi International Airport saw a 7.3-percent growth in passenger traffic in 2009, with 9.7 million people using the facility, WAM news agency reported.
One of the problems with building a movement on a base of populist rage is that it tends to attract rage-a-holics who would rather die than compromise on anything at all, the kind of people who will just as easily turn their rage on each other when …