Fidel Castro Warns of Global Nuclear War Threat

Fidel Castro made an appearance on television Monday night discussing events from around the world, after having spent years out of public view. The from Cuban leader discussed about the growing tensions More...

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News Media versus Internet Media

The Times and Sunday Times have broken ranks by announcing they will start charging for their online editions from June according to Rupert Murdoch’s News International. Users More...

Global trade sees worst fall in over 60 years

Global trade has suffered severely from the global downturn, falling by 12 per cent in 2009, the worst decline in over 60 years Pascal Lamy, the head of the World Trade Organization More...

Burberry says 1Q revenue down 4 per cent

Burberry Group Plc, the UK luxury goods company, announced that first quarter revenue dropped  More...

Argentina: The vulture funds

In 2002, Anne Krueger, First Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), floated the idea that countries can go bust, advanced her opinion about a possible More...

Putin Proposes Trade-Free Zone from Lisbon to Vladivostok

In a commentary published in Germany’s Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin proposed a stronger integration of economic ties between the European More...

Irish Gloom and Koreans on Brink of War Push Stock Markets into the Red

As if the rescue of Ireland’s collapsing economy and fears over Portugal and Spain in the debt-domino-debacle wasn’t More...

Euro collapses to record four-year low

As the European economy suffers from heavy financial burdens and Germany moved to ban naked short-selling of shares, More...

Justin Bieber Fans Threaten Selena Gomez

The celebrity teen Justin Bieber has been spotted smooching the 18-year-old Disney star Selena Gomez sparking...

Hysteria Over Thousands of Bird and Fish Deaths in Arkansas

Over 100,000 fish washed up on a river bank in Arkansas and as many as 4,000...

10-year-old Shoots Mother in the Head

A 10-year-old boy from Ohio, USA has allegedly murdered his mother by shooting her in the...

Dubai brings down the world

The Dubai government stirred up markets this week by its decision to delay the debt payments which its flagship More...

Dubai hit hard by financial crisis

Once the epicentre of global boom with skyscrapers rising into the sky like mushrooms, today Dubai resembles a hungover partygoer. Retail..

A quick solution for the housing and economic crisis

I just read an interesting letter to the editor on The Seattle Times which although rather simplistic, makes a very powerful point...

Putin Proposes Trade-Free Zone from Lisbon to Vladivostok

In a commentary published in Germany’s Sueddeutsche Zeitung, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin proposed More...

Vostok-2010 – Unprecedented War Games in Full Swing in Russia’s Far East

Over 20,000 troops, 70 combat planes as well as 30 Russian warships are taking part in the Vostok-2010 war games currently..

U.S. The Crossroads of History

America’s superpower status may be tested and found wanting if, urged on by Israel it opts for what it sees as..

South Sudan, Independence and Oil

After half a century of ferocious hostilities between the Khartoum-led North and South of Sudan that resulted in 2 million people..

Don’t Panic, Don’t Panic Just Yet

Channel 4 TV was not irresponsible when it set out a ‘what if’ scenario should the collapse of the euro in..

Trans-Pacific Partnership outside WTO and without China

The World Trade Organization (WTO) has failed. In December, the Doha Round is turning ten years old, with nothing to celebrate[i]. Formal..

The Arms Industry Will be Pleased

Of recent there have been reams of newsprint devoted to the 10th anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan; and its..