Washington Post: There were two Santa Maria! stories out of the Vatican this week. First, the bad news: The ultra-traditionalists of Marcel Lefebvre’s Society of St. Pius X are another step closer to being […]
WASHINGTON — Major emerging powers stood ready Friday to pledge money to bolster the International Monetary Fund’s crisis-fighting war chest, though Brazil was holding out for promises that the bloc’s voting power would increase at the global lender. Russia said Thursday that the Group of 20leading advanced and emerging economies […]
She first appeared on my radar after starring in Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood. Judd played her Tennessee Williams-type role with an elegant, uniquely Southern neurosis. Throughout the film, human frailty seeped from every pore. I gained even more respect for her after reading her biography. Getting knocked around in […]
Credit: Asia Times: By Dilip Hiro The following ingredients should go a long way to produce a political thriller. Mr M, a jihadi in an Asian state, has emerged as the mastermind of a terrorist attack in a neighboring country, which killed six Americans. After sifting through a vast cache […]
Credit: Times of India “These are the first steps,” said Rep. Pete King, chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, which oversees the Secret Service. King said the agency’s director, Mark Sullivan, took action against “the three people he believes the case was clearest against.” But King warned: “It’s certainly […]
AlJazeera: New Haven, CT – Every four years, the United States spasms with all sorts of manufactured outrage in the run-up to the election. 2012 is no exception. The latest in […]
Brussels, Belgium (CNN) — The United States is prepared for “any contingency” when it comes to dealing with North Korea, Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta told CNN. “We’re within an inch […]
Pakteahouse: Maudood A. Bhatti: I was born a Muslim. Until the second amendment was passed in Pakistan’s constitution in 1974, I remained a legal Muslim. I was very young when this […]
(Reuters) – The government will face a major test on whether it has the capacity to govern when it faces big tax and budget decisions at the end of the year, U.S. Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said on Wednesday. Before 2013, the country will be forced to deal with the […]
Source: CNN Author: Amanda Gardner It’s no secret that fast-food fare like burgers, french fries, and fried chicken tends to be high in sodium. According to a new study, however, […]
The International Monetary Fund is more optimistic about the global economy after seeing faster growth in the United States and a coordinated effort in Europe to address its debt crisis, the group said Tuesday. The global lending organization said in its latest economic report that the American economy should expand […]
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS ARAB NEWS WASHINGTON: Jim Yong Kim, an American who is president of Dartmouth College, has been chosen to be the next president of the World Bank. […]
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Rep. Walter B. Jones Jr., R-N.C., has put forth a resolution declaring that should the president use offensive military force without authorization of an act of Congress, “it is the sense of Congress” that such an act would be “an impeachable high crime and misdemeanor.” “The issue […]
David Cameron is set to raise the death in China of Briton Neil Heywood when he meets a senior Chinese Communist Party official at Downing Street on Tuesday. The prime minister will discuss trade, cultural and education links with politburo member Li Changchun. Read More…
CNN: By Mitch Horowitz, Special to CNN: Imagine the following scenario: A U.S. president is discovered to be spending his spare time taking a razor to the New Testament, cutting up and […]
The first time Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala ever had to convince Barack Obama of anything was back in 2005. At the time, Obama was an ambitious young senator from Illinois with a […]
HONG KONG — The outlook for the Chinese economy may finally be looking a little less worrisome. Data released by the authorities in Beijing on Friday painted a picture of an economy that has lost much of the breakneck speed of previous years and that still relies on government-directed stimulus, […]
Source: The Local An American comedian who spent 30 days visiting Mosques across the US is bringing his stand-up show about the trip to Germany. Aman Ali spoke to The […]
Source: BBC Afghan President Hamid Karzai says he is considering either bringing forward the 2014 date for presidential elections or speeding up the handover of security to his forces. The president told a briefing that he had been thinking about such a move for several months. He also said he […]
Jobless benefits claims were higher, the trade deficit was lower and wholesale inflation was flat, the United States government said in three economic reports on Thursday. New claims for unemployment benefits unexpectedly rose last week, the Labor Department said, hitting their highest level since January, a development that could raise […]