The Afghan War's Heavy Toll on Children
Again today, reports coming out of Afghanistan indicate more dead children. Three were killed and seven injured when western troops fired artillery shells at a civilian house in western Afghanistan.
Global Realignment: How Bush Inspired a New World Order
The series of unfortunate and costly decisions made during the two terms of the Bush administration, combined with economic decline at home, might devastate the US's world standing much sooner than most analysts predict.
India's UPA Government Views on Health, Safety and Environment Exposed
In a recent world conference on 'Health, Safety and Environment' held at Seoul, (South Korea) the representatives of the government of India saw that various countries in the world have a documented policy of this important subject.
British Chancellor Backtracks on Claim that Economic Crisis is Worst for 60 Years
British Chancellor Alistair Darling took to the airwaves to 'clarify' his comments in a newspaper interview, saying that he was referring to global economic conditions rather than those in Britain.
Empty Rhetoric
The Sydney Morning Herald made its assessment of the Beijing Olympics under the headline 'China misses games opportunity.' It trotted out the usual criticisms with a new one thrown in – 'too much organization' and 'robbing the events of a lively audience' because some events had empty seats.
Aerosol Sprays and Global Warming
The aerosol spray can has a storied history in the United States. First invented in the 1920s by U.S. Department of Agriculture scientists to pressurize insect spray, American soldiers eventually used the technology to help ward off Malaria in the South Pacific during World War II.
