Key Iran Talks Are Set
Senior diplomats from six world powers trying to convince Iran to curb its nuclear ambitions will meet next week in Germany for their first meeting since US President Barack Obama took office, a German official said yesterday. Political directors from the UN Security Council permanent members – Britain, China, France, Russia and the United States [...]
US Refuses To Rule Out Iran Attack
The White House has refused to rule out the use of military force to put pressure on Iran to suspend its nuclear programme. Robert Gibbs, a White House spokesman, said Barack Obama, the new US president, was keeping open “all his options” in dealing with Tehran, despite signalling that he was prepared to engage in [...]
Educating Children At Home
Parents who educate their children at home could be using it to cover up abuse, neglect and forced marriage, the Children’s Minister has claimed. Baroness Delyth Morgan said home schooling could be masking a range of evils including sexual exploitation and domestic servitude. Her controversial comments immediately provoked fury from home schooling groups who branded [...]
Truth Shall Prevail
Have you ever thought of knowing something about holodomor beyond your wildest imaginations– alone? Or, have you dreamed of unearthing facts which has been withheld for quite a countless period of time? Well, what others may think and believe of what really transpired in the Soviet famine during the early days of 1932 – 1933 [...]
Taliban Fill Security Left By NATO
The Taliban are everywhere the soldiers are not, the saying goes in the southern part of the country. And that is a lot of places. For starters, there is the 550 miles of border with Pakistan, where the Taliban’s busiest infiltration routes lie. “We’re not there,” said Brigadier General John Nicholson, the deputy commander of [...]
Choosing A Change Of Environment
We are more aware of some of the options that may be available to us. Choosing a change of environment, building a new house maybe or an area for development is an important decision. It’s a good idea to take a step-by-step approach developing alternatives, evaluating those alternatives for the best fit and making a [...]
CO2, To Fuel Technology In 2009
Carbon Sciences, Inc. (CABN), the developer of a new technology to transform carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions into gasoline and other fuels, expects to unveil a functional prototype of the technology in the first quarter of this year. The prototype is expected to transform a stream of CO2 gas into a liquid fuel that is combustible [...]
Photo Hunt #147
A pose at the beginning of snowfall in Kameido, Tokyo
The Economic Outlook
The world faces its worst recession since the Second World War, with the UK on course to be bottom of the international growth league among the major advanced economies, according to the latest forecasts from the International Monetary Fund. The British economy will shrink by 2.8 per cent this year, says the IMF, with dire [...]
keep looking »