Despite heavy rain over several previous days, the skies cleared sufficiently early Wednesday (October 22) morning over Sriharikota to enable a textbook launch of India’s historic and first mission to the Moon.

The US Federal Reserve and the European Central Bank (ECB) lowered interest rates while the markets were in free-fall Wednesday morning, panicked by the continued financial crisis and its repercussions on the general economy.

By forbidding American companies to do business in Cuba, the US economic blockade caused the Caribbean nation’s economy a loss estimated at $300 million in 2007.

People in Dhaka, the capital of Bangladesh, prefer to commute in three-wheeled autorickshaws, taxis and buses that run on compressed natural gas (CNG), in their bid to slow down global warming.

On July 16, 1945, 35 miles east of the dusty town of Socorro in Southeast New Mexico, the first atomic weapon was tested. The weapon would, within the month, be credited with ending the Second World War.

Today fully one-sixth of the world’s human population lacks access to clean drinking water, and more than two million people—mostly kids—die each year from water-borne diseases.

As John McCain travels the country screaming about taxes, socialism, terrorism, and anything else that occurs to him, more than 1.5 million people have logged onto the Obama campaign's new Web site, TaxCutFacts.org, to find out how much they would save in tax relief under the Obama plan.

At the first presidential debate, Jim Lehrer asked the two candidates where they would need to cut back their campaign promises, given the financial crisis. John McCain took the opportunity to say he would do what Republicans always do, feed the military and starve social programs.

As unemployment grows and trillions are lost in the stock market and the bank “recapitalization,” John McCain is throwing out one liners to make it appear that he is against what he and his party have been doing since the beginning of the 1980s.

What will be impact of the Wall Street bankruptcies, bailouts and blunders on working people in this country and worldwide? What's the solution to the crisis?

Since losing power in the Senate in 2006, Republicans, with the help of Sen. John McCain, have instigated a record 94 filibusters in order to grind the legislative process to a halt and protect George W. Bush's agenda.

In the past weeks, Cuba has suffered some of the worst infrastructure damage in its history due to hurricanes Gustav and Ike. More than 320,000 houses and other structures have been destroyed or damaged and the United Nations estimates losses of between $3 and 4 billion.

The credit crunch is limiting college access for some students in the United States by making it more difficult for them or their parents to obtain student loans to finance the steep cost of a four-year education.

The 25th annual World Food Day, marked on 16 October, was an occasion whose arrival and passing received little media attention or governmental fanfare. Evidently, much of the world media and governments are consumed with an economic crisis of epic proportions.

Iraqis this week resisted Bush administration demands to hurriedly pass a status of forces agreement, or SOFA, and even took affront to the administration's hostile and threatening tone on the matter.

The federal government pressed on with its startling splurge of taxpayers’ money last week with a range of one-off payments to boost spending and revive a stalling economy.

Voting rights groups demanded a criminal investigation this week into whether or not New Mexico's Bernalillo County Clerk's Office released confidential voter information to Republican Party operatives in violation of state privacy laws.

A funny little book titled Oh Yeah by a journalist named Edward Angly became a national bestseller in 1931. It was a compilation of a few hundred statements from 1929 to 1931 by President Hoover and others explaining variously that the Depression wasn't so bad or that it was over or that pretty much nothing could be done about it.

In chapter 7 of David W. Moore's new book, The Opinion Makers, the author tries to look ahead at the future of polling. He begins with a discussion of the how the polls blew it with regard to their predictions of the outcome of New Hampshire primary held in January 2008.

The G7 finance ministers and central bank governors adopted a "plan of action" to deal with the worldwide financial crisis that started in the United States. It calls for each country to "raise capital from public as well as private sources" to help major financial institutions improve their equity-capital ratio.