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China has faced a lot of criticism about its new high-speed rail service, especially after a train derailed in July 2010, killing 40 and injuring 192. But a new World Bank study found that the ...
Are you happy? While this may sound like a frivolous question, in the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan, and increasingly around the world, happiness is serious business. Last month for the first time ever, the United ...
In two very different parts of the world, pro-democracy election victories gave activists hope that peaceful political transitions and the acceptance of opposition candidates into military parliaments are a very real possibility. On March 25 ...
What completely preventable disease can kill someone in a matter of hours through dehydration and is caused by contaminated water and food? The answer? Cholera. And it’ is ravaging the Caribbean nation of Haiti as ...
In Fast Company magazine this month, Irin Carmon wrote about 32 year-old Nehemias Navas-Perez, a landscaper from New York who sends a couple of hundred dollars to his family in Guatemala every month. Remittances, she ...
After Vladimir Putin won Russia’s presidential election earlier this month, ripples of disappointment spread throughout Russia and the rest of the world. Given the rockiness of the relationship between the U.S. and Russia ...
Only three months after accepting the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, Liberian President Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is being criticized for remarks she made about gay acts at a time when the country is considering strengthening punishments ...
In this interconnected world, what happens in one country has a ripple effect throughout the global system. U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton understands that, which is why she convened a global business ...
Egypt has accused American groups of financing chaos in Egypt after the fall of President Hosni Mubarak’s regime last year. Cabinet Minister Faiza Abu El-Naga said in testimony in October that Washington was to ...
It appears that Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin is trying to buy votes in the upcoming presidential elections in three weeks. This week, Putin promised to increase the wages of teachers and doctors and improve ...
After Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced at an anniversary ceremony to mark the Islamic Revolution (February 11) that he would unveil “major nuclear accomplishments”, the United States and the European Union are left hoping that ...
Could French First Lady Carla Bruni-Sarkozy have brought down the head of The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria? That’s what some media reports are suggesting. On Tuesday, Dr. Kazatchkine, who was ...
Election violence has been a fact of life in Kenya, while those who incite it have never paid the price for their crimes. Until now. The International Criminal Court announced this week that it would ...
Even after Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin blamed the United States for inciting riots in Russia last month, Russia and the US have agreed to send a joint team to inspect foreign stations, installations and ...
The World Bank warned this week that global economic growth may tumble and urged developing countries to prepare for economic risks. The twice-yearly Global Economic Prospects report said that sovereign debt problems in the Eurozone ...
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