Economic volatility in developed and emerging countries is creating a global crisis that is manifesting itself in the unbridled rise in the price of crude oil, basic foodstuff such as wheat and rice
The conquest of the territories that now compose the Philippines was undertaken by the Spanish on a kingdom-by-kingdom basis. And upon getting local royalty to accept Spanish sovereignty, the Spanish
The various data provided in the US State Department’s annual terrorism report for 2007 point toward some interesting, if not puzzling conclusions. The much publicized document, made available on April
A young graphic designer called Nicola Tommasoli died in hospital in Verona Monday afternoon, victim of a neofascist mob. After he refused to give a cigarette to a skinhead who approached him, five
The devastation caused by the 120 mph winds of Cyclone Nargis is bad enough with maybe 60,000 people killed or missing in the low-lying Irrawaddy Delta which took the main force of the storm and 12-foot
Most of us, when we look at the alleged crimes of Josef Fritzl, think to ourselves: “What a psychopath.” The British press has a different take. It sees Fritzl not as a one-off maniac, but as the product
